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by perrygeo 1y ago
I'm very skeptical of plastics research at this point. Remember the "we have a plastic spoon worth of microplastics in our brains!" hype cycle. Turns out their methods were highly flawed and "not a suitable analysis meth
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by perrygeo 1y ago
counter-point: having to constantly track git status in your head, and needing to type commands to remind yourself, is a far bigger distraction. Optimize to avoid context switching, not for a few ms latency. FWIW, I switched from zsh defaul
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by perrygeo 1y ago
Let's say you're developing a python package that relies on a native shared library. If you distribute it as a pre-compiled wheel, you're locking your users into the exact version and compilation flags, options, etc that yo
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by perrygeo 1y ago
Hurl is awesome. A while back I ported a small web service from Python to Rust. Having rigorous tests of the public API is amazing; a language-independent integration test! I was able to swap it out with no changes to the public API or webs
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by perrygeo 1y ago
> For someone to cross from Alaska to the southern part of the continent, they would have to sail over 2000km without access to anything but deep ocean and floating ice. Not exactly. The leading explanation is the "Kelp Highway&quo
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by perrygeo 1y ago
That's amazing and terrible at the same time. I love it.
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by perrygeo 1y ago
Running a debugger on test failure is a ridiculously effective workflow. Instead of getting a wall of text, you drop right into the call stack where the failure/error happened. `pytest --pdb` in python, worth its weight in shiny rocks
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by perrygeo 1y ago
> Getting answers to those question is learning, regardless of where the answer comes from. Sort of. The process of working through the question is what drives learning. If you just receive the answer with zero effort, you are explicit
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by perrygeo 1y ago
True but you're missing the part where your salvation lies in a named technique: daith piercing. You believed in that. And it worked. The placebo effect is still an empirically measured effect. Vitally, it requires the consent of the o
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by perrygeo 1y ago
Everything I've read in the last 5 months says otherwise. Probably best described by the Apple ML group's paper call The Illusion of Thinking. It empirically works, but the explanation could just be that making the stochastic parr
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by perrygeo 1y ago
I respect all three authors deeply but this is my first time reading Tellman's take. His idea that "simplicity is not intrinsic ... Simplicity is a fitness between software and our expectations" has a very nice ring to it. Co
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by perrygeo 1y ago
> Large language models (LLMs) are powerful but static; they lack mechanisms to adapt their weights in response to new tasks The learning and inference process are entirely separate, which is very confusing to people familiar with tradit
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by perrygeo 1y ago
Think of the millions of years of evolution as knowledge discovered by non-human species. When we extinct an under-studied species, we don't know what we're losing. It's like burning the Alexandria library without any curiosi
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by perrygeo 1y ago
LLMs drive the value of code to zero. It's not zero yet, but it's dropping quickly. When anyone can take an idea and re-create it from scratch in seconds, the original code artifact is irrelevant. So increasingly, the quality of t
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by perrygeo 1y ago
This is really the next frontier of medicine, thanks for sharing! This is the missing link between mind and body that's lacking in modern medicine. I've heard the phenomenon called "Neuroplastic Pain" and this general te
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by perrygeo 1y ago
Take care Brian. I hope you've found a place where you can speak your mind.
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by perrygeo 1y ago
As a young kid, I loved the Beach Boys, mostly associated it with cars and surfboards and silly love songs. It hits different a few decades later, especially that song. "Maybe if we think and wish and hope and pray, it might come true&
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by perrygeo 1y ago
There's a real biological basis for our reluctance to engage with large groups. Dunbar pins the number at 150 and claims its limited by our brain's computational capacity. Below 150, humans seem to comfortable monitoring our relat
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by perrygeo 1y ago
We're already seeing plenty of real impacts on ecosystems (skeletal dissolution, slower coral growth). On top of that, acidification has "momentum" - even if we stopped emitting carbon today (hah) the oceans would continue dr
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by perrygeo 1y ago
I have an issue with attributing any problems to "screen time" in general. It seems like there are real observable differences based on what it is we're doing with the screen. Personally, I use computers for work, for reading
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by perrygeo 1y ago
Given how long it's been around, the promising results, and how many people have been using it for "biohacking" for decades, it was at first a little surprising to hear how little double-blind clinical research exists. Then y
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by perrygeo 1y ago
Yes. I've also considered buying a car with the hood welded shut. But I'd rather learn how to change my oil. Some of us don't find value in consuming technology passively without first understanding it.
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by perrygeo 1y ago
For Clojure and Java apps, check out Zonky ( https://github.com/zonkyio/embedded-postgres ). It provides a similar experience on the JVM, but instead of containers or WASM, you're running an embedded native binary.
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by perrygeo 1y ago
I've been trying to get a reasonable Linux-based audio setup on my desktop. Linux audio is a confusing disaster and I'd basically given up on Ubuntu, having run through so many debugging steps I had no idea how my system even got
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by perrygeo 1y ago
HTML and Javascript (the vanilla kind, written right into <script> tags like a caveman) is still one of best ways to experiment with UIs. It's not sustainable or maintainable but why do you need those qualities in demo software?
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by perrygeo 1y ago
Such an important point, I've seen and suspected the end of ZIRP being a much much greater influence on white collar work than we suspect. AI is going to take all the negative press but the flow of capital is ultimately what determines
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by perrygeo 1y ago
Take this paper with a grain of salt. They compare global gridded datasets with on-the-ground population surveys from dam construction projects . Gridded datasets do indeed underestimate population in these areas compared to global grids.
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by perrygeo 1y ago
I'm wondering if this statement might be definitionally self-evident. In other words, the entire reason we write software is that it has value to ourselves and other humans - so we have to be involved in its specification. Computers do
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by perrygeo 1y ago
Agreed, GNU Radio exists in this weird no-mans land where it works on low-level concepts wired up with high-level guis. Do not want. I want to playing with CubicSDR to zoom around the spectrum, then if I I need to do anything fancy with the
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by perrygeo 1y ago
Have you seen the studies that project the hockey stick graph of resource extraction required to continue that scaling? Have you seen the studies that show the orders of magnitude increase in mining required? Have you accounted for the fact

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