mwigdahl

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by mwigdahl 4y ago
Another voice for replacing shoes regularly. Don't try to stretch their lifetime out too far -- you'll pay for it in pain and injury.
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by mwigdahl 4y ago
Without the capacity for powerful spam blocking email is a bad technology, or at least an unusable one. DeFi seems to pride itself on _not_ blocking its equivalent of spam.
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by mwigdahl 4y ago
Halperin's debut novel _The Truth Machine_ also has people living "documented lives", with always-on video and audio recording, as a primary plot element.
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by mwigdahl 4y ago
It also prompts to make an account (and won't respond to the demo submit request) after what, 3 tries on the demo? This not really enough to determine whether it has the horsepower to do anything significant. Requiring signup to do e
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by mwigdahl 4y ago
Just train another AI model to do it then! I'm not joking -- Stable Diffusion generates some pretty grotesque and low quality faces, but there are add-on models that can identify and greatly improve the faces as part of the processing
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by mwigdahl 4y ago
Butterick sneakily asserts over and over that Copilot is simply retrieving code from Github ("Copilot's whizzy code-retrieval methods", "Copilot is merely a convenient alternative interface to a large corpus of open-sour
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by mwigdahl 4y ago
Agreed, another vote here from painful experience to avoid MERGE in SQL Server like the plague.
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by mwigdahl 4y ago
This is cynical as heck, but a good read. Do you have any plans to publish the larger document?
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by mwigdahl 4y ago
In my parser game _Aotearoa_ ( https://ifdb.org/viewgame?id=lrbpmlpsknsgvgem ) I worked really hard to provide player affordances such as an in-game interactive tutorial, exhaustive noun and verb synonyms, plus keyword highli
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by mwigdahl 4y ago
This wasn't always the case -- there was a considerable amount of resistance to the idea that choice-based games were equivalent to parser IF in the community as recently as 10 years ago. There were a few related factors that led to th
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by mwigdahl 4y ago
A story an old coworker of mine often told was about the CEO at a previous company he had worked for. This guy was apparently pretty scummy in general, but one time he got threatened with a lawsuit for sexually propositioning his secretary
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by mwigdahl 4y ago
Absolutely! I snapped a router bit off by being a bit too aggressive in the engineering shop at university. I'm still thankful it didn't injure any of the several other people in the room; it could have been very damaging coming
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by mwigdahl 4y ago
This is a really good point. Bad management/strategy leads to all sorts of corporate dysfunction, and many times that shows through in either unwillingness or inability to pay market-level salaries for good developers who have options
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by mwigdahl 4y ago
Bomb 20 in the movie _Dark Star_... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjGRySVyTDk
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by mwigdahl 4y ago
Let's be very careful with attributing children's medical conditions to parental failure. This is the same line of thinking that brought us "refrigerator mothers", piling on loads of undeserved and unjust guilt on blame
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by mwigdahl 4y ago
Same here, this would be very useful to me both directly and in conversations with my executive management.
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by mwigdahl 4y ago
I'm really sorry to hear that your company's good work is coming to an end. I wish you all the best in your future career and I hope you are able to find new ways to help address the needs of this community of people.
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by mwigdahl 4y ago
Similar story -- back when I worked at a physical engineering company, one of their cost-cutting methods when things got tight was to cut down the amount of time they ran the A/C during the day. This applied to all floors of the build
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by mwigdahl 4y ago
After reading The Last Psychiatrist's _Sadly, Porn_ I'd say that it's the performative nature of social media. In the social media environment you're reading projected images -- performances designed to appeal to the in
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by mwigdahl 4y ago
It's a well-known effect, first documented by the _Freakonomics_ guys: https://freakonomics.com/2013/10/what-makes-people-do-what-t...
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by mwigdahl 4y ago
This is exactly correct. I suspect the next move is going to be to give the original Kanner syndrome autism a new name, as the terms "autism" and "autistic" are increasingly appropriated into a social identity group rat
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by mwigdahl 4y ago
This is exactly the redefinition and recentering process that infuriates me as the parent of a severely autistic child. The "autism" that people are self-advocating against ending and which dominates media discourse is a world of
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by mwigdahl 4y ago
I've used the Ultorg beta for some experimental data UIs in house. It's still early days, but the tech is sound and the ability to construct multiple different views into the same set of data is very useful. Performance is pretty
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by mwigdahl 5y ago
_Diaspora_ and _Permutation City_ are both excellent. If you don't want to commit to a full novel, his short story collections are all fantastic as well.
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by mwigdahl 5y ago
It's rejecting academic _credentials_ as a proxy for programming competence. Say what you will about it, Leetcode requires you to demonstrate actual capability, and it's used precisely because a CS degree in and of itself does no
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by mwigdahl 5y ago
While I don't doubt that bullying is tolerated in a lot of schools in the US, my son was recently physically bullied and the administration was very quick in setting up opportunities for natural intervention (doing so in a way that did
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by mwigdahl 5y ago
How about https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf ? Right in the introduction: "What is needed is an electronic payment system based on cryptographic proof instead of trust, allowing any two willing parties to transact directly
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by mwigdahl 5y ago
Mine are SHIRT, WOMEN, BLACK, PUDGY. I like that order as it hits most of the high-frequency letters up front to enable the odd early snipe.
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by mwigdahl 5y ago
Interestingly, the site itself is built with Gatsby, which scooted into their negative/unpopular quadrant this year and is ranked in their "C" tier.
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by mwigdahl 5y ago
It's sure the best world for recruiters.

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