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by nxobject 3mo ago
The "curb cut effect", right? I'm sure there's a human-friendly interface to MCPs myself. I think we're reinventing application scripting that way.
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by nxobject 3mo ago
i.e., welcome to Constitutional law, where divining the effect of a amendment written in 19th century prose lives and dies on jurisprudential philosophy, rather than decided case law. (Is that what you mean by the “(and common law?)” pare
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by nxobject 3mo ago
Fascinating to think about the logistics with avoiding ROM – model compatiblity must've been a PITA! I'm even thinking about how to identify models – I know there's a pre-Gestalt Toolbox routine that doesn't need any Too
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by nxobject 3mo ago
Yes, OP started the sentence with that. But, you do make me wonder if floating-point imprecision would eventually lead to material issues...
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by nxobject 3mo ago
I would give my left leg to learn how the permissions system worked – do end users (and PHBs) get to edit the rules directly? I fully expect some HR ass to go: can_view(Person) :- didPITAOnlineTraining(Person), ...
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by nxobject 3mo ago
> Also...these things tend to have fuckin terrible documentation. Good luck figuring any of this out. And you can't google it and your AI is just as lost as you I convinced my boss to hire an intern for the summer to do this. They s
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by nxobject 3mo ago
I can't wait for the development postmortem ;) Any hunches on why the iBook might not be working? I've been having hell with PRAM watch batteries recently.
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by nxobject 3mo ago
> I do not like the R language at all myself, but to be fair there are reasons it is widely used in higher ed. In the same boat... from a PL perspective, yikes (especially the macro mechanism that somehow never seemed to be planned, but
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by nxobject 3mo ago
Even though I've dealt with this, I'm genuinely appreciative of requirements: out of many stipulations, packages that monkeypatch are prohibited (I have a few ones that add diagnostics to advance analyses), online API access nee
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by nxobject 3mo ago
The other half is: "What combination of packages and task views do I actually need to not reinvent the wheel for this particular type of analysis?"
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by nxobject 4mo ago
Gloriously boring WordPress, too.
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by nxobject 4mo ago
I get it – in my (limited) opinion, there's a lot that's quirkily (but avoidably) named about ggplot and the surrounding R ecosystem in general.
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by nxobject 4mo ago
I suspect for consistency with ggplot - the same reason why ‘aes’ is shorthand and everyone forgets that it stands for “aesthetic”. https://ggplot2.tidyverse.org/reference/labs.html
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by nxobject 4mo ago
> That's the real problem! That healthcare costs are a goldmine for Big Pharma instead of being a cheap and widely available service. I thought we were railing against Big Hospital/Big Insurance here? They'd love a cheap
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by nxobject 4mo ago
FWIW, Tesco just divested from all of the Lotuses… now it’s the awkwardly named Lotus’s.
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by nxobject 4mo ago
> Curing cancer is one of the only things I’d take a pay cut to do. Send an email to this head-and-neck oncologist's lab. I saw a talk he gave at a Chicago-area national lab on open-source models for identifying malignancies in scan
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by nxobject 4mo ago
Which is why I pause when they say they're not looking for investor money – in medicine you'd at least have to phrase things in terms of "what already exists, and what's our contribution"? From that lens, I'm n
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by nxobject 4mo ago
At this point the Accessbility preference panes are just crammed full with tweaks and tools – good if you need them, bad for discovery!
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by nxobject 4mo ago
Does that make you the first in a long tradition of GPU developers going to blockbuster app devs to say "hey, you should be doing this instead?" PS – I am looking through the NuBus cards that I have... did you work for SuperMac or
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by nxobject 4mo ago
> And Anthropic seems to be leaving OpenAI behind so there might be only 1 in the near future. Well, in domains like SWE where Anthropic's putting in the effort. I don't they'll make the claims that OpenAI makes about how
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by nxobject 4mo ago
Well, you know, you go into your Smalltalk-80 workstation for a hack sesh, and an all-nighter later you end up with an implementatkon of Swing...
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by nxobject 4mo ago
To put the mad profit that Xerox got from laser printers into context: Alan Kay estimated it alone paid off everything that Xerox had invested in PARC, and then a lot, lot more. (I think PARC in the 70s cost less than $10 mil annually.)
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by nxobject 4mo ago
What a choice: heatstroke, or chronic respiratory disease?
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by nxobject 4mo ago
> The comments that this rather expensive endeavour should just be about getting a head count are also amusing to me. The data collected was such an important baseline of common understanding, and this will not be a good thing for its fu
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by nxobject 4mo ago
They're decentralized enough as well that some of their local offices have hilarious online presences. For example, Portland... https://www.instagram.com/corpsofengineers_portland/
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by nxobject 4mo ago
For some reason, Java has the same feeling. Professionally I do both embedded and statistical computing, and Java's been nearly anathema to this. But every 5 years I patch a hobby project I did once in college, and it comes right back
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by nxobject 4mo ago
> Who could have known that people wanted quality AND affordability? Did the old 11" MacBook Air not teach the Wintel brands anything?
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by nxobject 4mo ago
> But I think we will swing back to using GUIs when we find a performant way of making them, I don't know what it is yet but surely someone is working on this. I might be missing something here, but wouldn't any UI toolkit that
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by nxobject 4mo ago
> So I guess my question is: what do you see as the reasons why you'd pick a particular school of micro control flow as a microcode engine implementer? For a comprehensive answer, a good vintage introductory digital design textbook

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