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by schwartzworld 1y ago
In America there used to be a 90% marginal tax rate the wealthiest members had to pay. They used their influence to do away with it. I’m just saying, I know where the money is. One man’s “right” to own a billion dollars doesn’t outweigh pro
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by schwartzworld 1y ago
> It’s easy to find talk, for example from people who think universal healthcare should be applied differently to people who live an unhealthy lifestyle. Brought to you by the same people who oppose healthy free school lunches.
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by schwartzworld 1y ago
It saves a lot of work and therefore money. But there’s another layer to consider for many people. Someone getting benefits who doesn’t deserve it is less important than someone who needs help not getting it. You can’t scam a system that’s
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by schwartzworld 1y ago
This is even worse. I'd call it Angular syndrome.
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by schwartzworld 1y ago
Or a magic Jack. Cheap as hell
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by schwartzworld 1y ago
If you’re in the US just get a magic jack
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by schwartzworld 1y ago
The problem with verbosity isn’t writing the boilerplate. It’s adding to the mental overhead of reading it
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by schwartzworld 1y ago
When has anybody ever been charged for cooking a chicken?
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by schwartzworld 1y ago
The best human poker players are able to calculate pot odds in their heads. Much of gambling is understanding when the risk of any given bet is actually worth it. Reading people and playing the other players is less important than understan
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by schwartzworld 1y ago
React won’t topple for a while, because of none of the alternatives are different enough. React solved a real problem many developers faced by giving them a state management system with a rendering engine, whereas you were likely to make su
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by schwartzworld 1y ago
> I’ve set a race pace at work that I can’t reasonably retract from without raising eyebrows Why do this to yourself? Do you get paid more if you work faster?
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by schwartzworld 1y ago
I often say that “nit” comments on prs are bad. It’s either important enough to make a linter rule, or not important enough to mention.
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by schwartzworld 1y ago
> But if you write a comprehensive test suite for a problem, you've effectively done the hard development work to solve the problem in the first place. How did the AI help? By making you not write the implementation? Also, the AI wr
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by schwartzworld 1y ago
> incredibly impressive and completely unreliable. There have been methods of protecting against this since before AI, and they still apply. LLMs work great with test driven development, for example. I would say that high-level knowledge
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by schwartzworld 1y ago
I'd love to see those references. Particularly the line "But that's not as bad as people who'll get in trouble with medical or legal issues". I'm pretty sure that there are plenty of intelligent people with leg
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by schwartzworld 1y ago
Maybe, or maybe adhd is the term for what happens when you take somebody who is best at learning on their own and force them to sit in a classroom and listen to boring shit all day.
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by schwartzworld 1y ago
If the art is wholly ai, I agree with you, you are no artist. Similarly, if you outsourced 100% of the creative act to hired help, I would say the same. But most people can’t do everything. How would you view art where the artist relies on
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by schwartzworld 1y ago
This is a great way of describing it. I recently read an interview with Herbie Hancock where he basically blamed “YouTube rabbit holes” for his not producing a new album in 15 years.
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by schwartzworld 1y ago
ADHD and autodidactism seem to go hand in hand.
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by schwartzworld 1y ago
Interested is the wrong word. Motivated is a better one, with interest being a subcategory of motivation. The kind of intrinsic practice is even easier today than it was back then because we carry powerful computers in our pocket. If, like
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by schwartzworld 1y ago
I actually make a lot of sample based music, and it’s as much an art as you make it. Downloading a couple of loops from splice and layering them is lame, actually chopping and repurposing samples is not. I never said Suno wasn’t “art”. The
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by schwartzworld 1y ago
> learning suno is no different than learning guitar It most definitely is different and you’ve proven it with your own post. Guitar takes a long time to get to a place where you can produce the sounds you hear in your head. Suno gives y
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by schwartzworld 1y ago
Reminds me of the urban legend that KFC couldn't legally call itself Kentucky Fried Chicken because they were using genetically modified hens that had no heads, hence the name change to just initials.
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by schwartzworld 1y ago
Sounds like a reasonable assumption given the length and danger of the trip. I’d assume the first colonists to sail across the Atlantic operated under a similar set of assumptions.
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by schwartzworld 1y ago
Or whatever man. The post I responded to said they wanted a robot that could do 80% of human tasks. It's easy to start naming things that a human can't do, but actually think about the tasks humans perform on a day to day basis an
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by schwartzworld 1y ago
They called us latchkey kids and it was amazing.
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by schwartzworld 1y ago
OP mentioned a standard of being able to do 80% of human activities. You might need human legs to climb stairs, but then again, if you work in a building with elevators, that might be a pretty simple tradeoff to make. > Or operate existi
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by schwartzworld 1y ago
> If you can have one robot do multiple tasks at 80% of the capability of a special-purpose robot What does them being humanoid have to do with this? There are other form factors that could get to 80% but might be simpler to implement.
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by schwartzworld 1y ago
The museum of science here in Boston got a lot less interactive and a lot more screens after Covid. I get that it’s cheaper to develop new exhibits when they are all digital, but my kids aren’t even interested in it. They want to get their
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by schwartzworld 1y ago
Not only does it cycle through a ton of keys, but wind instruments like the sax require unique fingerings and embouchure changes in each key. It’s not nearly as hard on a guitar.

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