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by scott_w 1y ago
100% this. I bought his book, got through maybe 5 pages and realised it was self-aggrandising bullshit. I’ve never picked it back up. His rant about avocado on toast only cemented my view that he never starts with why he’s wrong every time
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by scott_w 1y ago
There’s no straw man in the question. You’re being asked to substantiate your belief by showing where the people who would be responsible for “good slashing” demonstrated their ability to do some “good slashing” elsewhere.
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by scott_w 1y ago
Same here. I don't know if the linked title changed but it's now: > Optimizing ClickHouse for Intel's ultra-high core count processors Which is pretty unambiguous.
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by scott_w 1y ago
It’s a common problem. Time trialling uses Age Adjusted Time for events which uses a flat time reduction based on age. One guy pointed out the absurdity that he’s still extremely fast in his 50s, so his AAT end up impossibly fast, winning h
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by scott_w 1y ago
You’re not running down Helvellyn, it’s more the cumulative downhill that qualifies a “downhill” marathon. Remember this is 1500 feet drop over the course of 26 miles, so you’ll get the benefit of gravity without the downsides of steep drop
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by scott_w 1y ago
No worries, it happens to us all. I was mostly venting at the shocking underinvestment of my local public transport infrastructure and seeing it degrade over the last 20 years!
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by scott_w 1y ago
I generally agree but I'll caveat that subway at its worst can be far worse with trains going missing. "Metro apologises" is a running joke around the north east of England for how bad its service became in the past 15 years.
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by scott_w 1y ago
> Prioritising cars actually makes things worse for drivers. I 100% agree. I live in Newcastle, a city that is fairly car centric, but we have a Metro line and have had pushes to increase bus and bicycle transport (though Labour are gene
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by scott_w 1y ago
Simply untrue in many places. My next-door neighbour rides his bike with his daughter to school then rides to work at the nearby hospital (up a gnarly bank, too). I see many kids walking to school all year round. Kids are more than capable
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by scott_w 1y ago
It makes no difference, I’ve seen people pushback even when that lane doesn’t remove a regular road lane!
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by scott_w 1y ago
Those get even more unhinged pushback! Read any comments section on an article with a bike lane being put in, even if that bike lane takes no lanes from the road!
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by scott_w 1y ago
I'm not making a claim one way or another. I merely quoted the article in response to this claim by OP: > Calling someone a complainer is corporate-speak for “they noticed the fire before leadership did.” Just so I'm being crys
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by scott_w 1y ago
From the article: > Complaining is not a character flaw; it is a response shaped by context, past experiences, and unmet needs such as recognition, belonging, or agency. When leaders interpret complaint only as negativity, they risk sile
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by scott_w 1y ago
> It's so obviously bikeshedding I think you just answered your own question ;-)
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by scott_w 1y ago
> Isn’t 996 paid more than 955? Not necessarily. On-call is not the same either, there’s pay for being available then there’s pay for being called, so they’re not comparable at all. > especially if you’re not in a life-critical indust
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by scott_w 1y ago
On-call is different because it’s usually paid. Lots of businesses outside of tech do on-call and it’s not controversial at all.
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by scott_w 1y ago
He didn't say "contradiction," he said "kafkaesque," meaning "characteristic or reminiscent of the oppressive or nightmarish qualities of Franz Kafka's fictional world" (according to Google).
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by scott_w 1y ago
While reading I was musing one way to handle text could be to use a linked list format as storage? To make it work like that, you’d need the editor to work on a block concept and I don’t think document editors work like that? Spreadsheets m
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by scott_w 1y ago
> Did I, or did I not, have the option to fast, or not to fast? It looks like you had an option but it’s not possible to truly know whether you had an option. I’m not in your head so I can’t know. If, under the same circumstances and s
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by scott_w 1y ago
Yes, poor performance could be one. Breach of contract is another, for example, doing something counter to your job. This is different from gross misconduct, as gross misconduct doesn't have to be enumerated in your contract. For examp
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by scott_w 1y ago
> I'm saying they're going to update the contracts to match the labor laws. No they're not. This ruling makes no difference to the legal, employment or contractual landscape of the UK. Reading the ruling, it was resolved i
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by scott_w 1y ago
> HR and legal across the UK are probably updating their company procedures right now to include every imaginable reason they might want to fire someone. No, they aren't because that's not how contracts or the law work in the U
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by scott_w 1y ago
> No, it's not just that—even if the company's policies said so, they still might have been found to have unlawfully dismissed her... The sections you quoted don't support this statement. The quoted statements highlight co
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by scott_w 1y ago
Clearly, yes, because the employer sacked someone and found out that they aren't allowed to...
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by scott_w 1y ago
> Some animals show choices They said animals show choices , they did not claim to prove animals made a choice. The point is that you also cannot prove you made a choice, only that you do things that show you may have made a choic
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by scott_w 1y ago
> Why must a concept be empirical and objective? Because otherwise it's your word against mine and, since we both probably have different definitions of consciousness, it's hard to have a meaningful debate about whether bats, c
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by scott_w 1y ago
> The LLM objective is whatever they are trained to do, whether it's completing text, obeying instructions, coding, etc. That’s not an objective of the LLM, it’s an objective of the human creating, training and using it. The LLM is
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by scott_w 1y ago
That’s not really an objective of the LLM otherwise we’d say Dijktra’s Algorithm has an objective. It doesn’t in the sense that a human has the objective to find the shortest path. The tools have a purpose but that’s imbued by humans, not i
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by scott_w 1y ago
We absolutely do not "pick words that are statistically likely to get us what we want." We use words to try to articulate (to varying levels of success) a message that we want to communicate. The words, tone, speed, pitch, etc. al
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by scott_w 1y ago
I disagree with the article’s thesis completely. Humans are the ones that spread the bullshit, the LLM just outputs text. Humans are the necessary component to turn that text from “output” into “bullshit.” The machine can’t do it alone.

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