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by munificent 3mo ago
> It's fascinating how "profitable but low margins" equates to "struggling" to so many. A high revenue but low margin business is a lost opportunity to invest that same revenue in a different area with better m
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by munificent 3mo ago
When I had kids, I made a deliberate choice to focus on hobbies that were more amenable to interruption. I mostly put aside music and any physical artform that required getting out and putting stuff away each session. Instead, I did a lot m
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by munificent 3mo ago
By that same logic, you could compare a room full of 7-year-olds to a room full of teenagers and claim that the school system gives people sexual libidos. It's true that adolescents are very behaviorally different from younger kids, bu
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by munificent 3mo ago
This is a really good article. Not to take away from its insight, but I think the author is very close to restating some of the central points of "The Pragmatic Programmer", especially around YAGNI and KISS.
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by munificent 3mo ago
> the whole speech is taking Matt Damon’s character down a peg. That's the entire point . That's why the speech ends with "your move, chief". Sean (Williams' character) is deliberately being confrontational be
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by munificent 3mo ago
> AI is orthogonal to human connection. No two things are truly orthogonal when you have to spend time to use either of them. An hour conversing with ChatGPT is an hour of your life unavailable for talking to a human.
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by munificent 3mo ago
It's not really about AI, data centers, water consumption, or energy. Those are real issues. But I don't think that's what gets people so riled up. Imagine if every AI company was a small local business run by middle class fo
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by munificent 3mo ago
> The keyboard gave everyone a "bicycle of the mind", now everyone can visually express themselves if they try. Right, everyone can. So now your film-making vision is simply one infinitesimally small slice of the pie that e
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by munificent 4mo ago
There's no reasonable definition of "hard-coded" that fits how LLMs are made. The whole idea behind "hard-coded" and original symbolic AI was that a skilled human deliberately wrote explicit code to define a program
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by munificent 4mo ago
As an ex-game dev, I always found it a little annoying that they used "AI" for what was essentially just hard-coded logic. It's a hard problem because "AI" has been a term since the 50s but has been used to describe
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by munificent 4mo ago
There is no average Steam user. People are not vectors of real-valued numbers, and "mean person" is not a coherent concept. Does the average person have half a penis and half a vagina? Is their skin a tan-ish mocha brown? Do they
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by munificent 4mo ago
Agreed. I don't think this is a granularity problem, it's a fragmentation problem. Users are selecting two data points: start time and duration. The fact that those two points have different granularity is what leads to fragment
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by munificent 4mo ago
It's scary in both directions. If you let it give out tons of false positives, then patients are trained to ignore it when it cries wolf. If you dial it back so that it gives out fewer positives, then now it starts giving out false neg
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by munificent 4mo ago
> worse IMO is the "four way intersection with no signs or circle or anything" where you just kind of hope no one comes fast and hits you Agreed, totally. That's what this street used to be before they converted it. I h
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by munificent 4mo ago
You're welcome! :D
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by munificent 4mo ago
Mine was converted to a greenway pretty recently, so it may be that drivers just have old habits from before when those intersections didn't have any stop signs.
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by munificent 4mo ago
I went in the other direction. 8 years at EA and now at Google working on open source. Everything is so easy when your entire source repo is a paltry few hundred megs and you can build everything from source in a few minutes. It feels lik
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by munificent 4mo ago
It's more complex than that. I live in Seattle near a street that has these traffic circles. The design is: * There is a round obstruction in the middle of the intersection like a roundabout. * The street going north-south through the
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by munificent 4mo ago
I really like your article. It does a good job of explaining not just the technical differences but the way those affect the surrounding development culture.
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by munificent 4mo ago
C++ is the same way and is why while everyone hates 95% of it, no one can agree on a strictly superior language.
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by munificent 4mo ago
What supporting evidence would be compelling to you?
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by munificent 4mo ago
The primary goal of authoritarianism is consolidation of power among a small number of elites. Anything that can reduce that power is an enemy. The essential weakness that the powerful elites have is that they are, by definition, outnumbere
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by munificent 4mo ago
> Nearly two decades after that first introduction, a therapist would speculate that my interest in computers could stem from how it was a rare point of stability in a life where I ended up leaving my home and my friends every few years
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by munificent 4mo ago
It's a thing that clicked for me several years ago and that I think about all the time now. Our software engineer mindset tends to immediately put us in "criticize" mode and with social media comment threads, there's a t
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by munificent 4mo ago
At least now there is a blog post that you can link to and say "Sorry, but I don't run npm install locally because of the risk of phishing attacks."
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by munificent 4mo ago
<3
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by munificent 4mo ago
If you want to go out of your way to interpret things as uncharitably as possible, you'll find yourself missing out on a lot of potential wisdom. Obviously, it's relevant if the language itself forces the user to worry about some
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by munificent 4mo ago
> Do you think those tender feelings towards Google track some strain of values which Google still carries? I suspect that it's largely just that brand reputation tends to be very sticky in the minds of people. It's the same
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by munificent 4mo ago
It may only be 1%, but that small fraction of users are also probably the people who sure as hell don't need even one more tiny thing going wrong in their life. If you're using a decade old phone to sign up for a utility, you&#x
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by munificent 4mo ago
Median specifically avoids outliers at both ends of the continuum like that.

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