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by reedf1 11mo ago
This is a far more negative comment than the linked article for those who wish to read it.
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by reedf1 11mo ago
What you actually need in most business cases is a 100% auditable, explainable and deterministic workflow. While AI is strictly deterministic - it is technically chaotic. Introducing this in large customer pipelines or in intensive data app
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by reedf1 1y ago
honestly I find any idiosyncratic style refreshing in AI slop world
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by reedf1 1y ago
I'm busy the next few days but I could clear an afternoon to check this out. I live nearby.
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by reedf1 1y ago
I feel a bit bad it was interpreted that way. Some fun context, I was trying to find a scanned copy of the first 'correct' book on optics (written by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn_al-Haytham ). Possibly th
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by reedf1 1y ago
It's much simpler to babysit a service than to manage a relatively higher risk thing like generating, rotating and communicating public keys between all of the nodes in the network.
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by reedf1 1y ago
It's a fine name! I had marginalia on the mind - I am reading The Name of the Rose.
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by reedf1 1y ago
Took me too long to realize this wasn't a tool to search for marginalia in scanned manuscripts.
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by reedf1 1y ago
I will hire on the spot any candidate with 1000+ hours in factorio.
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by reedf1 1y ago
I mean this is certainly an effect, but largely outdated reasoning. Every tech company you can think of copied verbatim a Google-style interview process out of complete reflex without understanding largely why. Now you discover that your ca
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by reedf1 1y ago
My total guess is that "The wind, a pole and the Dragon" is some kind of idiom that means something like "Starts strong and then fizzles out".
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by reedf1 1y ago
Sounds like the field needs to acknowledge the weakness of prescriptivism similar to software engineering with design patterns. The need for diagnostic criteria is understandable - but it definitely should be up to the discretion of the doc
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by reedf1 1y ago
Lost technology is an enduring theme because for much of human history it was very easy to "lose". The main narrative of the last 2000 years is one of a fallen great civilization. Only in the past 100 years or so do we have large
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by reedf1 1y ago
Weirdly my background is physics and CS and I am recently discovering a love of EE. I don't think it's as easy to pare these subjects apart as history suggests. Modern bleeding-edge solutions require a "full-stack" under
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by reedf1 1y ago
I think this is quite a naive reading of it - it is very very sharp criticism with several arguments made, written through a very polite veneer.
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by reedf1 1y ago
And your first comment is shitting on those trying to understand instead of applying your own analysis? Sorry for showing an interest I guess. Hopefully the irony of you own analysis of "English-speakers" isn't lost on you.
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by reedf1 1y ago
This probably has a philosophical underpinning in Animism, almost everything is anthropomorphized and given a "soul", personality. This has the affect of humanizing the most utilitarian parts of day-to-day life, commuting, a tax o
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by reedf1 1y ago
To me the obvious "cure" for your sore-throat in this story was doing nothing . This has surprising efficacy. Antibiotics are serious drugs. They are inordinately useful, but they also have side-effects. Antibiotics can wheel you
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by reedf1 1y ago
Blocking high-speed rail in the name of conservation makes me want to bash my head against a wall. Guess we'll buy 10000 diesel trucks to move goods north-south instead. Car-world isn't good for conservation, rail is. It's mi
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by reedf1 1y ago
My understanding is that SSDs are in the sub-watt territory when idle. So ironically the act of deleting the email instead of keeping the drive in steady-state will likely use significantly more power.
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by reedf1 1y ago
Given that this is at the middle/low-end of a consumer gaming setups - it seems particularly realistic that many people can run this out of the box on their home PC - or with an upgrade for a few hundred bucks. This doesn't requir
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by reedf1 1y ago
It's funny actually, I totally get that Office Space and Dilbert are pisstakes of office culture, but it has never really worked on me because I'm actively envious of their work arrangements. I work in an open plan office where, e
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by reedf1 1y ago
I do feel like gen x was the last generation to be given any significant autonomy in the workplace. I'm a millennial and I feel like I've always been 10 years away from autonomy. It seems the tide recedes as I go out.
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by reedf1 1y ago
To be clear - I disagree with both the implementation and the idea of verification. I believe one is criminal and the other is misguided.
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by reedf1 1y ago
Phishing for material for sextortion has never been more trivial. The implementation of this is going to lead to mass fraud. Walk into parliament, ask who is willing to go to jail in defense of the act if and when the first lot of randy p
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by reedf1 1y ago
Chesterton's Fence always bothered me as an argument unto itself. Without providing (or attempting to a provide) a test for the destruction of the fence along with the argument, you are performing a bit of a rhetorical sleight of hand.
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by reedf1 1y ago
Mike Woodward - I'm looking forward to your AI Summary/Posting Bot post.
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by reedf1 1y ago
I had honestly not considered that the author might have been talking about the visual aesthetic of the dunder methods themselves. Honestly that has me a bit stumped; all I can say is that if you don't like underscores, don't pi
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by reedf1 1y ago
> Python has done a good job of hiding its legacy ugliness (such as __init__, __new__, and similar aberrations), swettening its syntax to accomodate developers with good taste. What exactly is the problem with __init__ or __new__? @datac
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by reedf1 1y ago
> The framework difference comes from people believing in short-term gains (like revenue, abusing the novelty factor, etc.) vs those trying to reasonably minimize harm. OK - so your framework is "harm minimization". This is kin

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