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by oriel 2y ago
A habit I picked up from the format of one person preaching to a meeting room. Take notes, or barring that use fingers or verbal cues (or other memory palace tricks) to keyword myself to remember the multitude of things I want to bringup or
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by oriel 2y ago
Is a modern book written by a pre-modern person, modern at heart, but classical in content? Whats the new term then? Post-modern? Cutting Edge?
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by oriel 2y ago
I'd doubly emphasize this. Technology changes rapidly regardless of bubbles, its better to learn how to pick up skills quickly and grok (deeply understand) them. I found these two courses to be really good foundations for kicking off i
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by oriel 2y ago
At the risk of a tangent, the real problem with services like 23andMe isnt just that it has your (irrevokable) DNA or traits in it, its that they now have the DNA and traits of your entire extended family up and down the tree(s) to a signif
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by oriel 2y ago
Another one bites the dust. Added to the list, paid account canceled, data deleted, account deleted. Its becoming easier and easier to step back from a service and consider if its essential (its not, as a rule), and remove it WHEN it become
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by oriel 2y ago
There's a concept that captured me, called Gruen transfer[1]. > the Gruen transfer is the moment when consumers enter a shopping mall or store and, surrounded by an intentionally confusing layout, lose track of their original inten
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by oriel 2y ago
> I was equally surprised to learn that the food industry was already moving toward using fewer phthalate plasticizers already. More recent sampling efforts have actually found fewer or sometimes no phthalates at all in tubing, whereas d
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by oriel 2y ago
Schoolhouse Rock for Coders?
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by oriel 2y ago
Off by default, means On by Default When They Change Their Mind [tomorrow, next week, next month, etc]. Antitrust yesterday already.
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by oriel 2y ago
I did this two years ago and had a similar experience. This was on a custom desktop PC. Windows doesnt play well with dual boot, so I had to literally detach the SATA cable to keep it from eating my GRUB bootloader partition. I switched to
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by oriel 2y ago
Unfortunately pithy response (in abstract, not specific to this case) boils down to: Because they fired the people who how the system worked.
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by oriel 2y ago
Probably the originally intended Agile [1] These days its been devolved into micromanagement musical chairs of pain. The kind that promotes what it professes to prevent and provide. [1] https://agilemanifesto.org/
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by oriel 2y ago
Ive been subscribed to Spotify for a very long time. There was a point, years back, where I learned they used listening data to do emotional profiling of listeners for ad-based manipulation. It felt like a threat to never let premium lapse,
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by oriel 2y ago
Together with breaking the addictive aspects of sugar, I found going on keto to be really effective for resetting my perception of sweetness. To this day there are a number of food items i love that are "not sweet" but satisfy the
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by oriel 2y ago
Rails effectively muddied the waters of what is possible with Ruby, leading to its neglect (in awareness at least). Rails has become synonymous with run-for-the-hills in tech (from what ive seen). Personally having worked with Rails, it was
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by oriel 2y ago
I've been using godot with chatgpt as a side project to see how much I can coax a game out of it, with minimal effort. Its a manual form of systems like this but definitely shows how generative tools enable independent devs or small te
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by oriel 2y ago
This comment is the product. Most recently I experienced it with the slack LLM announcement with a lack of real opt-out. I've long since moved to federated services and minimized my footprint on centralized for-profit services and site
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by oriel 2y ago
I'm still building my understanding in this space, but so far I've seen its value when using chains and graphs of agents. The overall system suggests degrees of freedom in search that might not have been available. This is by havi
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by oriel 3y ago
I've been learning Godot (4.2), and leveraging chatgpt to try and elicit as much of my idea in generated code as possible. After about 4 months of work, I'm closing in on a working v1, hoping to do an open beta in the next few mon
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by oriel 3y ago
I picked up godot 4 to try out a game idea, and have been running with it for a few months while leveraging chatgpt to get over the skills hurdle, https://www.reddit.com/r/boomballs/
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by oriel 3y ago
Ive had a side project going for a few years to modularize this exact type of middleware for the browser's WebExtension (and WebAPI) capabilities. https://github.com/1ps0/elos-connect https://elos-edu.n
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by oriel 3y ago
Ive found that I work this way often enough in the professional world, the problem for me is when management/leadership decides to average the devs' treatment and i get micromanaged despite delivering early and at or beyond scope&
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by oriel 3y ago
http only site, also very editorial/opinion style writing. https://archive.ph/NtXft > [Assembly Theory] is a neat and simple model for the combinatorial generation of innovation in rule-based abstract "worlds&q
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by oriel 3y ago
This reminds me of the gandalf challenge. Early on I had beaten the final challenge by role playing a 10yo gatekeeping his treehouse and got the AI to spell out the password by putting the answer as the first letter of each word in its res
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by oriel 3y ago
Not related to the LK-99 claims. This is a paper following on the "twistronics" magic angle (1.1 degree) research, exploiting the emergent moiré pattern and adding layers to build a "platform" for future development.
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by oriel 3y ago
This reminds me of a sabbatical project i ran with during the pandemic. ended up sputtering out due to lack of time and motivation, but i did end up pushing out an initial alpha for some friends https://elos-edu.notion.site/
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by oriel 3y ago
Really it is encouraging for advancement areas like this. Reminds me of the "revolutionary battery checklist": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28025930 edit: removed the paste of the checklist because of spam
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by oriel 3y ago
I'm curious why the complete exclusion of Credit Unions?
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by oriel 3y ago
> because the lead manager is now a prompt-engineer This is actually one of my bigger short-term concerns, where someone who doesnt have any real understanding or good intuition is given the illusion of competence, while only creating mo
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by oriel 3y ago
Thank you for this, I wasn't aware. I'm not a fan of villainification of specific people, but if someone is stomping on a well-loved and established creative universe, then its nice to know who is guilty, so we can advocate for ch

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