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by seadan83 2y ago
The 'postulating' a bunch of axioms is how Math is taught.. Eventually you go on to prove those axioms in higher math. Whether there are more fundamental axioms is always a bit of a question.
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by seadan83 2y ago
Why Otel compared to prometheus+syslog+(favorite way to do request tagging, eg: MDC in slf4j)+grep? Syslog is kinda a pain, but it's an hour of work and log aggregation is set up. Is the difference the pain of doing simple things with
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by seadan83 2y ago
I agree with most of your points. Though with respect lasting change, where is your impression coming from that the gains are in the last 10 to 15 years? Or even that is a widespread belief? According to reporting at the guardian [1], FBs D
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by seadan83 2y ago
Expert beginner problem. If you can count a grain of sand, and measure the distance of one centimeter, then surely you can measure the exact length of a coastline and count the exact number grains of sand! (The length and number of grains g
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by seadan83 2y ago
Human vision works this way. To fix the latency problem (actual event hff happening vs signal transmitted to your brain) human vision is constantly predicting what you should see, your brain tells you that is what you saw (the prediction),
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by seadan83 2y ago
How do you distinguish partisans from actual knowledge? The Steve Bannon philosophy of flood the zone with shit so it all looks the same seems to have killed public discourse IMO. It is easy to label everyone as partisans. To your questions
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by seadan83 2y ago
What are more examples of duckspeak and is it context dependent?
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by seadan83 2y ago
> bikepacking movement was always more parallel to touring, rather than a superset. I might have mixed up the subset/superset terms. Bikepacking is a subset of touring. All bikepacking is also touring.
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by seadan83 2y ago
Touring is from French. Means to go around and about. "Tour" is short for "Tour a velo", which is to travel on a bike. It encompasses short & long trips. Touring vs bikepacking being distinct I think is an anglicism,
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by seadan83 2y ago
'Touring' is a superset, it just means to go around and about on a bike. It comes from French. It's very old. Touring encompasses many different trip types. All bikepacking is touring. Not all touring is bikepacking.
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by seadan83 2y ago
Apparently bike-touring was called bikepacking by the old timers in the 70s. Somewhere along the way it turned into touring. Then got misappropriated to mean road vs dirt. Bikepacking is any kind of bike riding where you've got your &q
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by seadan83 2y ago
FWIW - Trans-Am is the bike packing equivalent of the RAAM (unsupported vs supported): https://bikepacking.com/event/trans-am-bike-nonstop-2024/
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by seadan83 2y ago
Memories are very much subject to confirmation bias and sampling bias. Basing knowledge on personal experience is not solid epistemology. Further, the "I was alive and remember all of the media landscape at a time 50 years ago" is
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by seadan83 2y ago
> The model can contain complex information. Okay. > There is already evidence it can form a model of the world. Perhaps. > So why not something like steps to get from A to B. Why not - because a model and algorithm are different.
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by seadan83 2y ago
Religion too. Those that are told a prophecy is to come, have a lot of incentive to fulfill that prophecy. Human belief systems are strange and interesting because (IMO) of the entanglement of beliefs with identity
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by seadan83 2y ago
LLMs create models, not algorithms. An algorithm is a rote sequence if steps to accomplish a task. The following is an algorithm: - plug in input to model - say yes if result is positive, else say no LLMs use models, the model is not an alg
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by seadan83 2y ago
What if financial affairs were broadened to be everything, not just portfolio management? Eg: paying bills, credit cards, cash balance in check vs savings vs brokerage.
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by seadan83 2y ago
It does. I believe that window is greater than 4 hours. Pity in the meantime since anyone that does not drill in will be mislead
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by seadan83 2y ago
I recommend to edit your post with an "update" so others don't have to dig to find this clarifying comment
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by seadan83 2y ago
Government contractors are working on behalf of the government. Ergo, not civilian. What sources have you checked for (1)? A counter example I would put forward is a police officer. They are not a civilian, nor are they military. What are t
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by seadan83 2y ago
It's not a big deal usually to revert a commit. Sometimes nobody has no idea it was a commit done in some other code repo in some other distant team. It's a problem of visibility; it just turns out the cause was a commit somewhere
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by seadan83 2y ago
The bashing wasn't quite pointless. Musk is an example of the exact management style that is the opposite of what is being advocated for in the article. Musk is notorious for being an asshole to his employees. That you got so distract
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by seadan83 2y ago
What are those dynamics specifically? How often do winning teams actually share those dynamics? Which dynamics are more important? Which dynamics are required but not necessary to win (ie: which dynamics are required to not fail, but not su
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by seadan83 2y ago
I'm sincerely skeptical of values. "Customers first", except when we are making money off of them. It's in part observing the actual action, and not just the talk. It's funny how guidelines becomes the rubric for a
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by seadan83 2y ago
Maybe some things feel more prevalent. I'd say this is largely confirmation and/or sampling bias. Nobody knows without actually doing the sociology that there are these tendencies. To the extent that we have anecdata, we don'
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by seadan83 2y ago
I feel this. The zero-sum pendulum of time is a bitch. I wonder, are you under 35? This story reminds me of my experience. When I was younger, all the problems could be solved - all at once. I'd throw time at just about everything - cl
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by seadan83 2y ago
> My bet is that your friend can't really afford a car but is well off enough to try Second reaction - jeez - what a garbage assumption to make. Paraphrasing you: "oh, they must just spend too much to have any money. Bad life c
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by seadan83 2y ago
Same, but you're only proving the point that our sampling bias is of people being poor when graduating from college. Were you picturing a nice car that is driven around a lot? She was driving from Western NC to volunteer for manual lab
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by seadan83 2y ago
Yeah, not the issue. The issue is she has no extra money. This person is both frugal and broke.
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by seadan83 2y ago
> My bet is that your friend can't really afford a car but is well off enough to try It's an old beat up car with 150k miles that was given to them. She goes to Western North Carolina University. There are no buses, there are n

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