ratmeadow

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by ratmeadow 6mo ago
> optimal Nash equilibrium where both offer and demand are balanced This roughly translates to "optimal utopian society which cannot be criticised in any way" right? Right??
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by ratmeadow 6mo ago
But the free market! How could it be possible that the free market does not result in utopian society??? There MUST be a mistake
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by ratmeadow 6mo ago
> No one has ever made a purchasing decision based on how good your code is. Another perspective: if the quality of your code has no bearing on the quality of the product, then your code/produce clearly isn't doing much useful,
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by ratmeadow 6mo ago
Yeah I also keep thinking this. I don't see LLMs reliably producing code that is up to my standards. Granted I have high standards because I do take pride in producing high quality code (in all manner of metrics). A lot of the time the
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by ratmeadow 6mo ago
I think your argument is predicated on LLM coding tools providing significant benefit when used effectively. Personally I still think the answer is "not really" if you're doing any kind of interesting work that's not mos
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by ratmeadow 6mo ago
Let's raise energy independence by doubling down on oil, a resource we know will be exhausted sometime soon! This is basically the opposite of what any kind of reasonable long term thinking would argue for.
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by ratmeadow 6mo ago
> mapping of specific nerves to intensity of feeling on the CNS would imply complex hardcoding of something which is much easier to solve with "this place important, have more nerves" Not saying your answer is right or wrong, b
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by ratmeadow 7mo ago
Half-serious reason: because with each C++ version, we seem to get less and less what we want and more and more inefficiency. In terms of language design and compiler implementation. Are we even at feature-completeness for C++20 on major co
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by ratmeadow 7mo ago
Since forever, I've been pretty stubborn with managing my tech/digital stuff myself, even if it's kind of a pain, and this kind of shit reinforces that belief. Other entities, especially big companies, cannot be trusted with
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by ratmeadow 7mo ago
Ah true. In niche cases one technology can be better than the other, sure. I was more talking about people who buy a disposable film camera and think they're Ansel Adams... (For the record, I think the same about people who buy old poi
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by ratmeadow 7mo ago
I don't even think you're necessarily wrong overall, but damn does the photographer in me want to strongly disagree with this: > But phone software is so advanced now that it takes real talent and skill to replicate the perceiv
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by ratmeadow 7mo ago
Same! For me this has had the unfortunate side effect of ruining non-art photo-taking. Someone shows me a regular phone photo and the photographer part of my brain is thinking "why did you even take this...?" Yes I'm a terrib
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by ratmeadow 7mo ago
I used to take a lot of photos and then cull them afterwards before editing. It worked, although I was often loving shooting and dreading editing, because before doing any actual editing, I'd have 200 photos to sift through. After a l
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by ratmeadow 7mo ago
On the point of film, I agree, although I won't say it's necessarily a bad thing overall. Just a bit silly when people try to claim film is somehow "superior" or whatever. Film is absolutely a cultural experience for man
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by ratmeadow 7mo ago
Ahh maybe I am the one who is misunderstanding... I'm by no means an expert on this (and it is quite complex)
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by ratmeadow 7mo ago
Can you walk through why you think the random outer loop would interfere? If the inner loop's behaviour is predictable no matter the outer loop, then because the branch predictor is keyed by instruction address, it can be predicted. On
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by ratmeadow 7mo ago
I think I see what you mean in terms of everyone having life difficulties. But I disagree because of cases where bad childhood environment causes/exacerbates significant issues with kids' wellbeing, such as mental health disorders
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by ratmeadow 7mo ago
Messing up your kid's life is a temporary bump? Plenty of dysfunctional/traumatised families out there, just look around...
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by ratmeadow 7mo ago
Out of curiosity, can you elaborate on the size and nature of the "small chunks"? I'm very curious for examples!
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by ratmeadow 7mo ago
Depending on your standards, seems like a potential indicator of companies to avoid? Personally I still believe that despite AI being moderately useful and getting better over time, it's mostly only feasible for boilerplate work. I do
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by ratmeadow 7mo ago
Haha I'm imagining DJing with CDs and the thought is hilarious! Could really up the skill ceiling and bring DJing to the next level
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by ratmeadow 7mo ago
Bonus points: reviews are not taken seriously in the legitimate sense, but a facade of seriousness consisting of picky complaints is put forth to reinforce hierarchy and gatekeeping
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by ratmeadow 7mo ago
With the trend of computing devices getting more baseline capable but the functionality/usability not improving at the same rate, I do wonder what the endgame will look like. Will we have a reversion to more efficient, durable designs?
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by ratmeadow 7mo ago
Yes that's my point with the "if"! And in general I largely agree with you. The parent comment basically argued vinyl is superior because when artists used vinyl the resulting music was creatively better (because of whatever
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by ratmeadow 7mo ago
With this logic you can argue the best audio medium is dirt because if you made good music with dirt, the music must have been so incredible to have counteracted the flaws of dirt as a medium. Ignore the fact that dirt cannot be used as a m
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by ratmeadow 7mo ago
What annoys me the most is that the industry collectively decided that 3.5mm jacks are obselete, removing the option of using wired headphones, for no(?) good reason. We could at least agree that wired and wireless each have their own pros
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by ratmeadow 7mo ago
Ah yes, because economics and resource allocation are already perfectly optimal and balanced, and it is against the physical laws of the universe to raise quality of life via any other methodology
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by ratmeadow 7mo ago
This is super cool, I want one now
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by ratmeadow 7mo ago
For contrast specifically, you can get much of that effect with a red filter. Just removing the majority blue/green components already changes the lighting massively. Can add a polarising filter too for an even more extreme effect on t
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by ratmeadow 7mo ago
There are likely biological pros and cons between innate and adaptive, such that using the innate response for everything is not desirable. The innate response is less targeted, less effective, and causes potentially damaging effects like i

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