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by pegasus 4mo ago
Sure, and that's laudable, both for Canada and for your family. But most other countries don't have such a professional certification program, and since a ton of brilliant creators of software never had one, should we declare the
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by pegasus 4mo ago
Godspeed!
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by pegasus 4mo ago
By "franksystems" do you mean those cathedrals which will outlast most buildings we're putting up today? We could go even farther back in history: how about the Pantheon, still the largest unreinforced concrete dome ever mad
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by pegasus 4mo ago
So unless you're licensed in Canada, you're not an engineer? That's a very silly notion...
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by pegasus 5mo ago
Is this so unusual for Ferrari and do we need to blame it on Jony Ive? Ferrari's been selling an SUV since 2024, after all...
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by pegasus 5mo ago
People use Replit to build websites too, and some of them might scratch enough of a need to make money this way. So what? Is this what I should be mightily impressed with? That some random dude vibe coded some slopware which he was able to
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by pegasus 5mo ago
Possibly yes when it comes to air pressure, but the learning curve will be steeper. But not when it comes to the generated vibrations, and my bet is the latter are more important.
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by pegasus 5mo ago
What are these "others" shipping, slopware? Agents are not a "magical software factory", they are a tool with a lot of limitations, but which can speed up development in a sustainable way, when used wisely. And that in
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by pegasus 5mo ago
Why would taking the more open, minimalist, configurable and ultimately diligent route means you won't be working on anything else?? Not to mention that pi has other advantages over Claude and Codex, read up on it. Also, improvements t
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by pegasus 5mo ago
Use a box didgeridoo instead, it's much quiter than a full-size one.
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by pegasus 5mo ago
Try bamboo straws, they work very well and are as green as it gets.
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by pegasus 5mo ago
Circular breathing is easiest to accomplish on the didgeridoo. This is because of several reasons: optimal back-pressure (hits the sweet spot between lack of resistance on a flute and too much of it on an oboe, for example), loose embouchur
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by pegasus 5mo ago
GP was stating that they don't believe this would happen (I don't either), but also to make the point that it's a falsifiable view. (At least in theory. In practice, there probably won't even be enough historical text t
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by pegasus 5mo ago
The fundamental paradigm shift is the categorical distinction. And what would constitute many new words for you? It introduced a bunch of concepts and terms which we take for granted today, including "derivative", "integr
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by pegasus 5mo ago
It's super easy with ChatGPT, for example. See my other reply in this thread, I've included the responses there.
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by pegasus 5mo ago
Since maybe half a year ago, the best way to search stuff like that, by a huge margin, are frontier models like ChatGPT or Gemini. Here's what they found, the TLDR is that lead is much less likely to be essential (in extremely minute
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by pegasus 5mo ago
It all falls into one overarching category: style over substance, quantity over quality. Em-dashes are a simple way to sound important, same for generic throat-clearing phrases like “It’s important to note that…” plus they puff up the text
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by pegasus 5mo ago
I think that gets us closer to the right way of thinking about it. Somehow existence and consciousness are the same "thing", or two opposing aspects of the same "thing", where "thing" stands for something for
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by pegasus 5mo ago
By taking the blue pill, in other words?
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by pegasus 5mo ago
Why "alas"?
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by pegasus 5mo ago
That's a point well-taken, both non-obvious and relevant, but I'm still triggered by what I can only describe as dishonesty in the phrase quoted by GP. How can one "not understand" how other developers who clearly run (a
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by pegasus 5mo ago
That's true, but what GP is saying is that when you're pulling out, you are traversing the part of the space overwhelmingly more likely to contain passing pedestrians and vehicles with full visibility. And then some parking spots
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by pegasus 5mo ago
They are not invalidating this claim, and cannot, unless we'd actually try it out for a few generations. Which we shouldn't and won't. LLMs are quite good at simulating life and living intelligence (in the short term), but th
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by pegasus 5mo ago
And you don't have to read the critique.
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by pegasus 5mo ago
Knowing what she's seen at that age, I'm pretty sure I'd have flashbacks as well. This wasn't the old internet, and it's not like the new internet is free of such content. I really don't think that we have a w
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by pegasus 5mo ago
> Large-scale exposure caused no discernible degree of trauma. How do we know this? All I've seen so far is anecdata. As my own anecdata, an ex of mine felt she had been traumatized by watching horror movies at a very young age. Ma
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by pegasus 5mo ago
It shows that exposure doesn't always cause trauma (which I don't think anyone claimed), not that it can't.
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by pegasus 5mo ago
They did a 180 on their relationship with the EU, which was the context GP was discussing. Maybe not 180 but definitely over 90, let's say, unlocking billions in funds. Funny that you picked the one major issue that didn't see a b
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by pegasus 5mo ago
For the mac there's TextSniper which does just that.
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by pegasus 5mo ago
That sounds brutal. I guess we're talking full-on panic attacks at this point. I would have liked to find out more about the mechanism behind these attacks. You hint at it being work-related, even though the attacks didn't happen

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