shermantanktop

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by shermantanktop 2mo ago
I just did this - i took notes by hand during a meeting, but also took the AI summary and compared the two. I did miss one item. My hand notes were far better though.
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by shermantanktop 2mo ago
Dissing Biscoff cookies in the opening paragraph? Not sure I can read the rest...
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by shermantanktop 2mo ago
Interesting. Summarizing: pineapples contain a compound which breaks up collagen. No proof it does that to the human body, or floaters specifically. But if it did, I’ve got terrible collagen and so I won’t be eating pineapple everyday, rega
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by shermantanktop 2mo ago
Often preceded by the waning of the passion and self sacrifice that enables things to happen without money. It’s sad when it’s asymmetric - founders lose their idealism and sell out while early employees fail to notice the game has changed.
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by shermantanktop 2mo ago
To paraphrase Homer: the cause of, and solution to, a problem! In this case police misconduct. It does make me wonder whether electronic evidence of police behavior will materially impact actual behavior over time. But given that the norma
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by shermantanktop 2mo ago
Interesting. This is from personal experience? Has anyone else eaten pineapple and had a similar experience?
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by shermantanktop 2mo ago
The inverse incentive is what's in place today: a platform actively harming the users who signed up for it, in pursuit of ad dollars. The incentive is to extract maximum revenue while disregarding the real-world effects of actions, in
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by shermantanktop 2mo ago
They don’t cut the visible scope. They cut the monitoring, failover, automated patching, test coverage, deployment improvements, documentation, etc.
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by shermantanktop 3mo ago
I’m sadly twitchy when I hear “Pareto” - having endured numerous middle managers suggesting they can deliver 80% of the scope in 20% of the time (unrelated to the frontier topic here). Do that at each level of an org and the nonsense multip
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by shermantanktop 3mo ago
Chesterton’s login?
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by shermantanktop 3mo ago
Probably because non-type-nerds would not be amazed. They also wouldn’t switch between six different monospace fonts, or talk at length about how fonts generate feelings. I’m glad there are people obsessed with fonts. But writing for peop
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by shermantanktop 3mo ago
“meaning” emerges from a mental process. That mental process can consume things which were built to convey meaning (e.g. a novel) or were not (a waterfall). Just because an AI bot says things that are meaningful, that doesn’t mean you need
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by shermantanktop 3mo ago
Okay, here’s one I’m working through. When the workload consists of compound elements in multiple domains, agents work best when they see that as a flat surface of detailed resources. Traditional APIs work best when they hide the implemen
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by shermantanktop 3mo ago
I keep encountering mistakes by people who are convinced that agentic interactions are nothing new, that all the decades of hard-won lessons about service API design are 100% relevant and nothing more is needed, that agents can be relegated
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by shermantanktop 3mo ago
"You're absolutely white!" Being sycophantic to a racist means being as racist as the filters allow.
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by shermantanktop 3mo ago
I actually agree. I should have said “just a habit.” Calling heroin a “habit” is putting it in a class which includes doodling, tapping your foot, talking a particular route to work, or putting your jacket on the same way every time. In ot
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by shermantanktop 3mo ago
Is the “best” cyberpunk game the game that is most like Blade Runner?
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by shermantanktop 3mo ago
I’ve got similar concerns about skill rot, but I also have chronic RSI and some hand arthritis. LLM assistance plus modern voice models are a godsend but it’s not the same as typing every character. But I can’t really type every character
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by shermantanktop 3mo ago
So many movies about Hollywood...usually populated with a self-insert writer or director.
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by shermantanktop 3mo ago
When I start a habit it feels like a one-way trip to a new life. If I break it, even once, I realize it’s not, it’s just a thing that I can do or not do. Now starting that habit again feels much less consequential.
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by shermantanktop 3mo ago
Taking heroin may be called “a habit” but it’s not a habit. It’s an addiction with physical and neurological elements.
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by shermantanktop 3mo ago
I know this is the American in me but: what the heck do you do for 3 hours? Especially at a place that doesn’t serve 5 courses. If you’re hanging with old friends, maybe, but even then the conversation can slow down after a while.
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by shermantanktop 3mo ago
Maybe not, but decades from now those same homes will be held onto by 80 year-olds. If this is a problem that solves itself, it would have solved itself already.
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by shermantanktop 3mo ago
I think you are saying "an NGO probably has an agenda." Ok, sure, they are not robots with no opinions, and if you read even the first few sentences of that report you can see the opinion. But if you are suggesting that this NG
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by shermantanktop 3mo ago
I bet your prediction, whatever it is, will be accurate!
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by shermantanktop 3mo ago
Right, it's a map with a scale of 1:1. A map with a scale of 100:1 is perfectly useful for navigation. It's just no good for specifying the terrain you want to build with any precision.
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by shermantanktop 3mo ago
Execs will often hand-wave away complexity as being irrelevant detail. And sometimes it is - especially if an urgent directional decision is needed. The key skill - which is rare - is knowing exactly how much analysis to do. Formal methods
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by shermantanktop 3mo ago
The most expensive dollar is the one you don't have. Not everyone has a flexible budget. From my (limited) experience, construction costs can tend to rise with the local real estate market. Those construction workers also have a mort
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by shermantanktop 3mo ago
Sure, but not all compromises are equal. Creating a product and touting how secure it is while some jackass manager continually cuts the budget for security fixes? It’s self-defeating to throw up your hands and say “oh, we had to compromis
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by shermantanktop 3mo ago
I’m in Seattle, live nearby, and have a raccoon family living my yard. I’m boggled the world knows about him, but they do.

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