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by scott_w 1y ago
> For me, "exceptional" just means "different", but you seem to be suggesting that people use it in the sense of "better", or something like that. I’ve already explained why this is the only real definition
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by scott_w 1y ago
Everything you said just made my point for me.
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> If so, then as the wise man says: "well, there‘s your problem!" Of course, I wouldn't defend this! To be clear, it's not possible to know how every AI Agent works, I just go off what I've seen when a company pr
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by scott_w 1y ago
So let me be more direct. The part I'm not confident I'm correct in is this: > AI Agents, instead, directly access the database However, I don't think I'd be too far off the mark given many systems work like this (ana
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by scott_w 1y ago
> I think I can see what you're getting at: every animal is arguably exceptional in its own way, and picking out the ways in which humans are exceptional as being more significant than others is stacking the deck in favour of findin
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by scott_w 1y ago
And yet if we didn't do this, HN would be almost completely silent because 99% of commenters have a clue what they're talking about most of the time and nobody would ever have a chance to learn.
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by scott_w 1y ago
> measuring an outcome As opposed to a trait. Let's take writing: most humans for most of human history simply couldn't read or write. At some point, we educated humans to be able to read and write. Now, you're correct in
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by scott_w 1y ago
You'd have to reindex the metadata (roles access), which may be substantial if you have a complex enough schema with enough users/roles.
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by scott_w 1y ago
> I don't understand why you think tracking user access rights would be infeasible and would not scale. Allow me to try to inject my understanding of how these agents work vs regular applications. A regular SaaS will have an API end
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by scott_w 1y ago
> the paper challenging human exceptionalism is dependent on this whole network of scientific and technological development which is as far as we know unique to humans I addressed this in my earlier point: that's measuring an outcom
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by scott_w 1y ago
I have a number of issues with your statement. Firstly, most humans who ever lived didn't do those things. Are they not exceptional? Are they lesser in some form? Did human exceptionalism only start when we invented computers or scienc
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by scott_w 1y ago
I never said anything about piracy. Plenty of teenagers knew how to rip CDs onto their MP3 players, or had a friend who could do it for them.
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by scott_w 1y ago
> Everything is raised actively by individuals. They could have done the same thing through async modes of communication. Because this doesn’t happen in the real world. People forget to mention things, they get their heads stuck in rabbi
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by scott_w 1y ago
Responded here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44825777
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by scott_w 1y ago
I couldn’t take my PlayStation to school.
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by scott_w 1y ago
So after it became relevant?
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by scott_w 1y ago
I also owned one but I had to look for it. It certainly wasn’t “widely supported.”
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by scott_w 1y ago
So you’d say that a format that most consumers couldn’t use (because only a few devices could play it) is “widely supported?”
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by scott_w 1y ago
Pre-Spotify, MP3 players would usually only ship with MP3 support (thus the name), so people would only rip to MP3. Ask any millennial and most of them will never have heard of Ogg.
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by scott_w 1y ago
> Are you really saying that patents are preventing people from writing the next great video codec? Yes, that’s exactly what people are saying. People are also saying that companies aren’t writing video codecs. In both cases, they can be
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by scott_w 1y ago
Unfortunately the UK has demonstrated that it’s quite possible to go after a lot of adult material even beyond our borders.
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by scott_w 1y ago
> Case in point, the same UK politicians who try to burry the Muslim grooming gangs story where kids got harmed Please don’t spread lies to make your point. The current Prime Minister was the DPP who oversaw the prosecution of the Rochda
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by scott_w 1y ago
It could but the fact I see conversations on Slack and hear in stand up “person X is already helping me with this” suggests otherwise.
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by scott_w 1y ago
If stand up takes an hour, there’s some real issues there. I have the occasional one take longer but they generally last 5-10 minutes. Anything that needs discussion is taken to separate calls.
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by scott_w 1y ago
And that’s fine, just say so and who’s helping you unblock it and move on. The stand up is to make sure nothing gets missed because the conversation that needed to be had didn’t happen.
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by scott_w 1y ago
> If you have a blocker and you wait until the daily to say it, you have a bigger problem. Blockers should be notified right away and most team do this over slack or other messaging platforms they use. They should but it doesn’t always h
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by scott_w 1y ago
I like the suggestion to look at the system status. One thing I’d suggest you try is to switch from people-centric to work-centric standup. Instead of going person by person, pick your rightmost “in progress” column and get an update on tha
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by scott_w 1y ago
I don’t think it’s quite as bad, though? It’s using a known compression library that (from reading other comments) has seen use and testing. The rest of PNG would remain unchanged, as the decompression format is a plugin. I know it needs to
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by scott_w 1y ago
Or do what I do and drive an MPV, which are bloody excellent for getting my TT bike in with its excessively angled aero bars!
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by scott_w 1y ago
Exactly, because my car can do that. You can put your shopping in the flatbed but you wouldn’t claim you were “using” the flatbed or “hauling” a pint of milk and a load of bread… I meant, you could, but I’d laugh in your face.

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