mwigdahl

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by mwigdahl 9mo ago
It was the "growth of Linux on the desktop" that broke my suspension of disbelief. If there was going to be any year where Linux made strong gains it should have been 2025 with the forced retirement of the "forever OS"
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by mwigdahl 9mo ago
Thanks, I did not go to the source document here so your quote and translation is appreciated!
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by mwigdahl 9mo ago
I'm confused where the assertion about the constitution is coming from. There have been at least 5 years of lower court decisions in Japan stating that lack of same sex marriage is unconstitutional. See the below article noting that
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by mwigdahl 10mo ago
Yeah, the legal framework (Taft-Hartley) in the US is pretty explicit about banning general strikes and solidarity strikes. A union can organize within a single industry but not beyond that.
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by mwigdahl 10mo ago
"Play a game of sorts" doesn't sound either systematic or predictive. Are they referring both parents to clinicians to check if the prediction from their "game" was correct, or just using it for water cooler fodder
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by mwigdahl 10mo ago
True. The question is whether that's relevant to the trajectory described or not.
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by mwigdahl 10mo ago
Scooted!
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by mwigdahl 10mo ago
But that would mean doing less, and that's by default bad. We must take action! Think of the children! I tried at my workplace to get them to stop mandatory rotation when that research came out. My request was shot down without any
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by mwigdahl 10mo ago
Mars has larger deposits of water and volatiles, which help with early space expansion. You can start with a single Moon base but generally it isn't worth the mission control investment once you start to build out Mars.
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by mwigdahl 11mo ago
Same.
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by mwigdahl 11mo ago
I wonder if that difference in mentality is a large part of the pro- vs anti-AI debate. To me the AI is a very smart tool, not a very dumb co-worker. When I use the tool, my goal is for _me_ to learn from _its_ mistakes, so I can get bette
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by mwigdahl 11mo ago
Wasn’t Sapir-Whorf pretty much debunked? Is there a difference in what is being claimed here or is it resurrecting it under a different name?
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by mwigdahl 1y ago
My company is paying for Claude Max for me and a dozen other developers. The others are using the API. If their API usage cost hits a level where it's cheaper to move them to Max, they're moved to Max. There's no hard manda
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by mwigdahl 1y ago
Why would it be any more "hell" than the kind of science practiced by natural philosophers? You can still do science on things you don't fully understand.
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by mwigdahl 1y ago
Incredible, such a clear labor of love! Thank you for sharing it with the world!
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by mwigdahl 1y ago
Interesting article, thanks!
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by mwigdahl 1y ago
If it's a scam, who's profiting? The pills are dirt cheap, generic, and over the counter.
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by mwigdahl 1y ago
This is solely my own anecdote, but I used to get bad seasonal depression every winter. I tried a number of interventions short of medication; none moved the needle very much. I started supplementing with vitamin D probably 8 years ago an
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by mwigdahl 1y ago
The advice on this is all over the map and that's a big problem in the space. Reputable medical sources have recommendations almost two orders of magnitude off from each other at times. This article, for example: https://ww
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by mwigdahl 1y ago
I take 5000 IU per day year round and have not had any issues. Research suggests you can dose 10x that without major problems, although personally I wouldn't go higher than I am already. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F
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by mwigdahl 1y ago
What are you basing that on? Haiku 4.5 just came out and beats Sonnet 4 at a third the cost. GPT-5 and GPT-5-codex are significantly cheaper than the o-series full models from OpenAI, but outperform them. I won't get into whether the
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by mwigdahl 1y ago
Yeesh, that's bad. Nothing ever repeats and it looks like it makes sure to use every number in each sequence of 10 before resetting in the next section. Towards the end it starts grouping evens and odds together in big clumps as well
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by mwigdahl 1y ago
Years ago when I worked for an engineering consulting company we had to work with a similarly complex, opaque Excel spreadsheet from General Electric modeling the operation of a nuclear power plant in exacting detail. Same deal there -- the
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by mwigdahl 1y ago
Seconded!
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by mwigdahl 1y ago
> Could you expand on your criticism? Sure! The study focused on experienced devs working in complex codebases they already knew thoroughly. This was and is the worst case for using AI tooling from a cold start, _particularly_ AI tooli
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by mwigdahl 1y ago
That's a gross overgeneralization of the content of the actual study paired with a bizarre analogy. You do you, but I disagree completely.
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by mwigdahl 1y ago
The B stands for "Baby". Baby Dragon Hatchling is their model name.
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by mwigdahl 1y ago
Speaking as someone who has had a lot of experience talking with doctors in poorly-understood clinical situations over the years, most doctors display a need to establish informational authority over their patients. So if the "dumb guy
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by mwigdahl 1y ago
Tau Beta Pi is an engineering honor society with no Illuminati-style secret agenda. The only silliness associated with it is any concern over the "initiation rites and rituals".
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by mwigdahl 1y ago
Thank you for the thoughtful response. I really appreciate the willingness to discuss what you've seen in your experience. I think your observations are pretty much exactly correct in terms of where agents do best. I'd qualify

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