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by sebastos 3y ago
That is the general idea, but now you've just descended to the next level of the iceberg. While it's true that sensor fusion is a Good Idea in lots of contexts, the whole paradigm rests on a fundamental assumption that you can mod
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by sebastos 3y ago
This article was designed to create the vague innuendo of a cabal without going to the trouble to substantiate anything of the sort. The four people mentioned are merely public figures that happen to have some past ties, and therefore have
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by sebastos 3y ago
Very well put. This is the clearest way of looking at it in my view. I’ll pile on to say that you also have the variable of how the non-scientist public gleans information from the academics. Academia used to be a more insular cadre of peop
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by sebastos 3y ago
I'll bite: > The action item that falls out is the same in both cases: drive capture to keep the “right people” running things. This rings true, and seems an insightful point. But I lost the plot in the following: > The result is
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by sebastos 3y ago
My mechanical engineering curriculum included courses that touched on the most substantive points of what we're apparently calling "Design Thinking". I won't speak for whatever bastardizations of IDEO's process are
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by sebastos 3y ago
Great comment, I have been looking at doing something like this in my own case. You target a single customer / stakeholder, and suddenly stopping the world is less damaging because you're only stopping / slowing development f
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by sebastos 3y ago
Is it the case that "rewrites fail" only applies when you have an active available system with state though? I don't know that I've ever seen this disclaimer before. I'm very curious if this is the biggest reason be
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by sebastos 3y ago
I get exactly what you mean, and I've felt the same thing: this pervasive stormcloud over my head as I wonder "is EVERYthing doomed to an eternal september?!" However, I think this depressing outlook is an artifact of how muc
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by sebastos 3y ago
Me too :<
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by sebastos 3y ago
You use the word "profit" like it's something that only evil capitalist robber barons can do, but we should all want everybody to be profitable. That's what it is to have an economy. Yes, fatcat wall street stockholders
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by sebastos 3y ago
>a sizable number of them are due to the limits of human visual spectrum input But how do you know that? You don't really. The lion's share could well be from just not being consistently careful in the right ways, or reckless h
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by sebastos 3y ago
People have dug into a weird trench insisting LIDAR is absolutely necessary because Tesla (but really by association Elon Musk) are trying to do it without. The reality is that with or without LIDAR, the entire problem space is very far fro
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by sebastos 3y ago
I personally find that some soft version of this idea rings very true. It feels like there's a big segment of the population that has inherited this assumption that they would hate living outside of the largest population centers. Of c
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by sebastos 3y ago
Like many of you, I often get nerd-sniped into thinking about what it would take to create a perfect, frictionless medium for decentralized communication. All of the usual hits, like IPFS, paid posts via micro-transactions, etc. often make
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by sebastos 3y ago
The whole comment, even. Notice the use of a noun with -y as an adjective: ambush-y.
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by sebastos 4y ago
For C++, the #include's kind-of-sort-of tell the story of what needs to be included in the build, and morally, it seems wrong that you should have to repeat that information anywhere. I recently watched a talk from cppcon from the peop
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by sebastos 4y ago
The vscode bazel plugin is basically completely abandoned. There's an issue that has been open for 3 years asking to add intellisense support for C++. Seems completely ludicrous to put in the massive effort it took to build Bazel and t
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by sebastos 4y ago
Who makes the code that powers the APIs?! Who writes the OS-level libraries? What about people that write software for automotive, IoT, robotics, machinery? Is it your understanding that python notebooks never need to call out to OS-level l
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by sebastos 4y ago
So when you introduce or change a dependency to your project that affects what your dev environment must look like, how do you tie that change in with the main changes and make it available and consistent across all of your devs? Email them
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by sebastos 4y ago
Same here. By the end, I was just reflexively moving back to the bottom right hand quarter, doing my 3 point turn, and then taking the circuit back to the destination.
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by sebastos 4y ago
If there was some way to wager my own money that this blog post will age poorly, I would. One of my hobby horses is pointing out people that bend themselves in knots predicting that Uber will fail tomorrow (still waiting!) because they, per
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by sebastos 4y ago
Governments, businesses and politicians do though..
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by sebastos 4y ago
Maybe we're getting into semantics, but you're listing the names of full software products or outward-facing open-source projects. The world is rarely coordinating to refactor responsibilities between different software products,
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by sebastos 4y ago
On the contrary, I assume making decentralized database products is very hard. And I don't doubt that authorization is a whole can of worms. My point is not that they're easy, but that they're the type of problems you are mos
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by sebastos 4y ago
It's _A_ truth, but it's a truth that is inextricably intertwined with a certain context. If your software components are services running in the backend of a large web service company, then their purpose is likely to mutate as ti
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by sebastos 4y ago
This is what I'm getting at though. If you work inside a MANGA company or something, then I imagine your life is probably dominated by navigating a huge byzantine ecosystem of services with uptime demands and tons of legacy code. Presu
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by sebastos 4y ago
And no pesky scope implied by the name! Now, each of the components can grow in a truly unconstrained manner, enveloping whatever random features were slightly more convenient to add there instead of in a new component. Amazing!
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by sebastos 4y ago
Author used to build authorization microservices, and now works at a company making a database product. Once again, somebody who works on some web service bs assumes that that's as hard as the world gets. If all of your software compon
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by sebastos 4y ago
Er, Ian Malcolm, the character who was introduced so that he could arrogantly predict that the park would collapse, only to get his satisfying come-uppance when... he turns out to be completely correct?
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by sebastos 4y ago
I can definitely second that making use of sane default project structure to reduce even more boilerplate would be an extremely attractive feature. Reducing some of the incomprehensibly large amount of incidentally complex C++ project build

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