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by sevensor 2y ago
Yes, that’s me. What else is in aspirin?
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by sevensor 2y ago
We don’t have traditional defined-benefit pensions, or not outside of the public sector.
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by sevensor 2y ago
News to me, what else do they put in it?
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by sevensor 2y ago
From the US (where we have problems of our own, believe me), the UK, and especially England, look like a powerful case for federalism. As far as I can tell, the entire country is run by and for rich Londoners, with no countervailing local p
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by sevensor 2y ago
Notebook looks good, much less expensive than Rhodia or Yu-Sari for 300 sheets of A5, assuming paper quality is as advertised. Priced in dollars although I’m not sure if they actually ship to to the us.
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by sevensor 2y ago
Sounds accidental, but might be interesting to be able to see the workpiece as if stationary, while it’s turning at 1800rpm. Everything looks smooth under ordinary lighting.
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by sevensor 2y ago
> you have to put a lot of work in to learn how to get good results out of these systems That certainly punctures the hype. What are LLMs good for, if the best you can hope for is to spend years learning to prompt it for unreliable resul
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by sevensor 2y ago
> Jupyter Notebooks Well said. My favorite is the notebook that can only get into the state of interest by executing the cells out of order, and skipping the ones with syntax errors. Jupyter is fine for messing around with data, but savi
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by sevensor 2y ago
What I missed here was the importance of keeping careful notes as you go. What exactly happened when we constructed that weird input and commented out line 353? What hypotheses are we entertaining? Can we rule out any of them based on our
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by sevensor 2y ago
Are there people with those skills today? They seem to be in terribly short supply. I’ve seen more than one company spin its wheels for ages because nobody could clearly express an operational vision.
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by sevensor 2y ago
I’m not clear on how this solves the problem. Counterfeits can be hard to detect. Counterfeit food, toiletries, and electronics can poison you or start a fire. And my redress is a generous return policy?
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by sevensor 2y ago
Considering how hard it is to avoid dodgy counterfeit merchandise in certain product categories, that seems like an apt description.
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by sevensor 2y ago
My house, not too far from Three Mile Island, was built between its commissioning and the incident with reactor 2. As a result, its builders installed the most insane heating system known to man: resistive heating in the ceiling. Crank it a
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by sevensor 2y ago
Markdown is an attempt to codify formatting conventions that were already long in use for newsgroups and email. It’s meant to be human readable first and only incidentally convertible to actual markup. If semantics are a mess and nobody can
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by sevensor 2y ago
I can’t believe he did that in an enclosed space. “It’s like having a bonfire in the room” indeed.
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by sevensor 2y ago
This is a huge selling point, and it will really differentiate the orgs that adopt it from those who don’t. Eventually the whole organization will become as inscrutable as the agents that operate it. From the executive point of view this is
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by sevensor 2y ago
Wow, great article.
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by sevensor 2y ago
I want to take a second to appreciate how classy this post is. Doubling down on negative opinions is easier and all too common.
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by sevensor 2y ago
I started using sway seven years ago, and even then I had very few issues. Granted I use integrated Intel graphics and I mostly just want to arrange terminal emulators, but still, on that happy path, it hasn’t been a problem.
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by sevensor 2y ago
You’ve been able to run an x server within sway from very early days, it’s just not managing windows any more. X11 forwarding over ssh still works.
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by sevensor 2y ago
Very language dependent. Long build times mean you may need a debugger. Debugging prints make you think harder in advance and can actually force you to structure your code with greater clarity. The fact that you have to understand what they
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by sevensor 2y ago
Current grad students sometimes ask why I never publish. Mostly laziness, to be sure. But also, if I’m going to spend months polishing up a paper, why on earth would I subject it to the academic publishing fiasco when I’m not an academic?
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by sevensor 2y ago
> I think we who are already in tech have this gleeful fantasy that new tools impair newcomers in a way that will somehow serve us, the incumbents, in some way. Well put. There’s a similar phenomenon in industrial maintenance. The “grey
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by sevensor 2y ago
> it’s basically not publishable as research I was surprised he said this, since it sounds like he’s doing sensitivity analysis, which has been a thing for longer than I’ve been alive.
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by sevensor 2y ago
It’s quite remarkable that the whole stack works as well as it does. I’m using a terminal emulator, which is running a shell, which launches an ssh connection, which opens a remote shell, which I use to attach a tmux session where another s
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by sevensor 2y ago
Is there anything you can’t fix with JB weld? The stuff is amazing.
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by sevensor 2y ago
Eventually our understanding of the term will evolve to match its use, which is my point with the Doctor anecdote. Don’t try to fight the evolution of language; you may as well stand with Canute by the sea, yelling at the tide. No more did
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by sevensor 2y ago
As someone who holds degrees in Real Engineering, I don’t care what computer programmers call themselves. I agree that most of the time, Software Engineer is an aspirational title, but you could say that about a fair number of electrical en
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by sevensor 2y ago
From what I’ve seen, my colleagues using vscode are hampered in ways they don’t recognize because they have no concept of how good things could be. Working with multiple remotes, they’re often completely unaware of which one they’re connect
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by sevensor 2y ago
I can understand why you’d merge frustrations about terminal emulators, terminal multiplexers, shells, tui programs, and cli programs. After all, they’re in the same place and they have to work together. What’s quite amazing is that we can

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