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by parasubvert 5mo ago
The hardware yes. Bambu's software, not quite. If you want to flash it with 3rd party firmware & use 3rd party slicers, have at it. If you want to use Bambu's software against their TOS, OK you wouldn't be alone in tha
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by parasubvert 5mo ago
The AI people do not need you.
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by parasubvert 5mo ago
Generally speaking, that's incorrect. That's like saying "I don't like cars, and don't see the value in cars, therefore the market for cars is fraudulent". In AI, buyers are getting what they want. The deman
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by parasubvert 5mo ago
Well it is 'post-capitalism' rather than 'anti-capitalism' or 'non-capitalism' the same way 'post-punk' relates to 'punk'. Human capital is something of a conceptual misnomer as the knowle
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by parasubvert 5mo ago
WI-Fi Aware exists and is a standard
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by parasubvert 6mo ago
I think the evidence that AI is better at knowledge work without a human in the loop... is very limited. Humans with many agents will be more productive, but the tendency has been for these models is to regress to the mean when it comes to
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by parasubvert 6mo ago
None of modern society and economics was put together accidentally, IMO. It was purposeful, a mix of success & failures, serendipitous, and filled with mixed motives... but that's not quite the same as an accident. A mix of polit
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by parasubvert 6mo ago
Peter Drucker identified this phenomenon as the rise of knowledge work as "the means of production" in the 1950s and 1960s. Management (of people, tasks, responsibilities, and disciplines) and knowledge work were the two sides t
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by parasubvert 6mo ago
It learned it from humans....
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by parasubvert 6mo ago
Cool project. I had thought that months aren't quite a human construct, they correspond roughly to lunar cycles. Weeks were a way to carve the month up into the four lunar phases per cycle. Seconds, minutes, hours, etc. are, as you s
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by parasubvert 7mo ago
That's what we call a "non sequitur" in critical thinking class.
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by parasubvert 7mo ago
Possibly, though generally speaking you don't have to look hard to find people with conscience and ethics in companies, they're abundant.
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by parasubvert 7mo ago
Companies are made of humans who do.
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by parasubvert 7mo ago
> It is unsurprising that an LLM performs better than random! That's the whole point. It does not imply emergence. By definition, it is emergent behavior when it exhibits the ability to synthesize solutions to problems that it wasn&
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by parasubvert 7mo ago
Someone actually mathed out infinite monkeys at infinite typewriters, and it turns out, it is a great example of how misleading probabilities are when dealing with infinity: "Even if every proton in the observable universe (which is es
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by parasubvert 7mo ago
I'm all for skeptical inquiry, but "burning all credibility" is an overreaction. We are definitely seeing very unexpected levels of performance in frontier models.
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by parasubvert 7mo ago
Humans can't do calculations either, by your definition. Only computers can.
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by parasubvert 7mo ago
Mathematics and language really aren't fundamentally separated from one another. By your definition, humans can't perform calculation either. Only a calculator can.
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by parasubvert 7mo ago
I think you are vastly underestimating the emergent behaviours in frontier foundational models and should never say never. Remember, the basis of these models is unsupervised training, which, at sufficient scale, gives it the ability to to
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by parasubvert 7mo ago
That's never been true. At minimum, as it's missing the most important variable: quantity of people. 1 person working for a year vs. 12 people working for a month could cost the same and have dramatically different results.
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by parasubvert 7mo ago
Sure, I was being loose with my terminology, you are right to correct this. the point was in a 40 hour work week, it's reasonable for 15% of it to spent in coordination meetings, while 85% is directly related to progress. Usually the
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by parasubvert 7mo ago
It varies on company culture and business model. Your situation sounds like R&D shops and how they often manage things. R&D usually is budget constrained at the company or division level (% of revenue) and you can only ask for it
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by parasubvert 7mo ago
You can build things with purpose with loose coupling but this requires deliberate organizational design and product architecture decisions...
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by parasubvert 7mo ago
Lots of people are overpaid and underworked too. Or in bullshit jobs, or both.
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by parasubvert 7mo ago
I completely am in favor of date-bound delivery. However the point of the weekly cadence is that the business does care about adjusting scope and priority towards hitting that deadline on May 23, so that they know what they're going to
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by parasubvert 7mo ago
there should be only 3 regular meetings in an agile engineering team - weekly iteration planning (1-2 hours max) - daily standup (15 mins max) - weekly demo & retro (1-2 hours max) literally everything else is work off the kanban board
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by parasubvert 7mo ago
that's really what agile was supposed to be. at least in the places where I saw it was successful. every week, something is delivered, and is demoable, with approved tests from the business. That thing represents the most important
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by parasubvert 7mo ago
IMO (also 30 years in the biz), it's rarely the date, that's #2. it's the budget. They'll forgive you if you're slightly late, they'll hate you forever if you ask for more money. Agile works really well if you
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by parasubvert 7mo ago
This is a frustrating (bullshit?) blog post because it starts out poorly, gets really good, and ends on a whimper. It has no advice to offer other than than "leave me alone, I'm doing things". High performing collaborativ
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by parasubvert 7mo ago
> corporations will do everything possible to maximise short term profit at any cost. Is there a CEO caring for long term? Either he will be convinced to change or kicked out. While public companies are more likely to be short term focus

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