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by o_nate 2y ago
My problem isn't falling asleep, it's staying asleep. Restlessness at night has become more noticeable as I've gotten older. Cutting down on caffeine, especially later in the day, seems to have helped some. I now have one cup
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by o_nate 2y ago
As someone who has written programs professionally his whole career, I find the idea that any programmer holds an entire non-trivial program in their head to be laughable. Good software design means writing programs in such a way that you a
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by o_nate 2y ago
Another key difference is that music and athletics are physical activities where reaction times have to be faster than the time required for conscious thought. If your hands aren't already moving to do the right thing before you have t
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Homebound: The Long-Term Rise in Time Spent at Home Among U.S. Adults(sociologicalscience.com)
160 points by o_nate 2y ago|211 comments
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by o_nate 2y ago
I think the author meant something different than how you read it. It sounds like you might agree. He is saying that if you have to mock a lot of dependencies then that is a red flag. Code that is easy to test (without writing a ton of mock
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by o_nate 2y ago
I assume the piece of technology that is missing is a reliable way to combine generative AI features like ChatGPT Voice Mode with the existing voice assistant features of Alexa.
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by o_nate 2y ago
That's definitely true in my case. The only reason I pay for Amazon music is so I can use it on Alexa.
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by o_nate 2y ago
I ask Alexa to remove things from my shopping list all the time. It always asks you to confirm, but then it does remove it. Sounds like maybe you're talking about the Amazon shopping cart, not the generic shopping list feature?
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by o_nate 2y ago
I also incline to the view that experience is fundamental, but I'm not really sure that you mean by the term "information system". Who is deciding what counts as information? In everyday usage we usually speak of something co
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by o_nate 2y ago
I think that learning some basic by-hand computation skills is useful. The question is where do you draw the line. The current practice seems to be to stop at long-division. To me this seems a reasonable place to stop. There are hand method
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by o_nate 2y ago
I would argue that the question as posed is about understanding correlation, not about understanding causation. You don't need to know anything about causation to correctly answer the question.
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by o_nate 2y ago
Alan Turing's paper in which he first lays out the idea of the Turing Test for AI is surprisingly prescient in many particulars. But one thing that stands out is when he is considering various arguments for why computers might not be a
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by o_nate 2y ago
I'm curious about these "stupid" questions that are hard to find answers to on the net but an LLM can answer. Could you give an example?
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by o_nate 2y ago
I agree this is a great pattern and one I try to use in all my code. I believe it is often known as the "Functional Core, Imperative Shell" pattern.
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by o_nate 2y ago
Microsoft could build a safe, approved low-level way of calling async from sync, maybe with a slight performance penalty, but if they did that, everyone with old crufty legacy code would drop that in and forget about upgrading to async, and
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by o_nate 2y ago
It's a good article. It seems like the author hedges his bets a little bit on the title question. At the end he allows that someday there could be a combination of LLMs, support scaffolding, and prompt engineering that will be able to
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by o_nate 2y ago
No, it just means that during the period after you stop working at the old job but before you can start working at the new job, you are paid only your base. This can be a significant reduction in total comp in industries such as finance.
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by o_nate 3y ago
Here's a fairly intuitive 16-bit encoding: Use 9-bits to store positions of either blanks or Xs, depending on which there are more of. 1 extra bit to indicate which case it is. Then you have at most 6 remaining cells, so 6 more bits to
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by o_nate 3y ago
I was going to mention fencing. Thats a sport where there's a massive amount of judgment required from refs which is fairly opaque to non-specialists.
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by o_nate 3y ago
No, totally, I'm with you. Better safe than sorry. I just thought it was funny.
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by o_nate 3y ago
Once I was flying with my wife. She was in the window seat and she noticed that one of the plastic panels on the wall had come loose. She called the flight attendant over and told them. Long story short, they held the flight at the gate unt
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by o_nate 3y ago
William James - Principles of Psychology
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by o_nate 3y ago
The DNA and ashes are not going to the moon - they are going into orbit around the sun. Two missions, same rocket.
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by o_nate 3y ago
The DNA and cremated ashes are not being put on the moon, they are going to be put in orbit around the sun. Its a separate mission but they both hitched a ride on the same rocket.
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by o_nate 3y ago
Also, the fact that ChatGPT at least in its current iteration is more helpful for less knowledgeable users may have something to do with why OpenAI almost didn't release it. The elite engineers didn't get how revolutionary it woul
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by o_nate 3y ago
Mark Seemann's book "Code That Fits in Your Head" has many practical ideas about how to manage code complexity with examples.
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by o_nate 3y ago
Seems like a good opening for a service that could validate your age for a low cost and provide a token good for logging on to adults-only sites.
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by o_nate 3y ago
Agree with this. Even if it only opens that first door, that's a pretty darned important door.
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by o_nate 3y ago
There are many instrumentalists whom I follow on social media (Instagram, Twitter, Youtube). I imagine that most people interested in instrumental music do the same.
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by o_nate 3y ago
I guess the market will reach an equilibrium. Over time, if workers prefer WFH, they will demand a premium to work in person, so employers will end up paying.

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