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by slotrans 3y ago
death before trailing commas
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by slotrans 3y ago
In which Scott demonstrates that he has no idea how "strength" works, or frankly what it even is. His quality has been sliding the last couple years, which happens to coincide with his announced commitment to AI Doom Ideology. May
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by slotrans 3y ago
(None of the below is meant to diminish the work done by the author/poster.) > This means that when companies aggregate production data into their data warehouse, the underlying data is always stale. This is intentional and desirabl
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by slotrans 3y ago
Folks reading the comments on this one might be able to solve this old mystery: https://superuser.com/questions/78862/what-is-the-old-aix-rs...
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by slotrans 3y ago
Just as food for thought, the two big problems I see with every single Salesforce deployment are: 1. Excessive customization. Ever seen a Lead record with fewer than 300 custom fields? I haven't! I have no idea what you do about this f
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by slotrans 3y ago
I was with it right up until this statement: > Centrally updatable: Sometimes best practice or corporate policy changes over time. You can update what LowCost or SecurityPolicy means later on, in one place, and that change will reapply t
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by slotrans 3y ago
Interesting. I have experienced "devs changed something and it broke reporting" more times than I count. Typically the reason boils down to 1) they don't care, 2) their management doesn't care. That has always felt like
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by slotrans 3y ago
This person is essentially correct.
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by slotrans 3y ago
> 1) For-profit entities (particularly, publicly-traded / with "fiduciary responsibility" to shareholders) Then why is laser eye surgery so efficient? Answer: it's not covered by insurance, so there's an actual m
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by slotrans 3y ago
> I have a hypothesis: this pattern is so common for the simple reason that Java doesn’t have first-class functions. Exactly correct. See also "Execution in The Kingdom of Nouns"
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by slotrans 3y ago
Most of these EVs are just bad cars. I went to the big local auto show in the spring and sat in a ton of cars, including a bunch of the new EVs. They all have Tesla envy. Giant touchscreens. No buttons. Interior and exterior design that&#x2
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by slotrans 3y ago
If I believed "super intelligence" was possible, and this was all OpenAI had to offer, I'd be very worried indeed. Luckily it isn't possible.
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by slotrans 3y ago
> as we’re all quite aware that AI will play an increasing role in our lives (in & out of the office) I am not aware of that! I am definitely inside the tech echo chamber but I do not use ChatGPT, will not do so, don't care abou
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by slotrans 3y ago
> The alternative is that police come into a scenario potentially unequipped to handle an actual violent situation. Police are now trained to treat EVERY situation as potentially violent, no matter how innocuous or factually safe. They a
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by slotrans 3y ago
It may be "ungenerous" but it's accurate . Unlike the output of LLMs.
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by slotrans 3y ago
is the audio mixing as good as Discord's? IMO this is the killer feature, despite being subtle and something no one talks about. The audio mixing in Zoom and Meet is atrocious by comparison: the instant a second person starts talking t
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by slotrans 3y ago
I simply do not understand this entire line of thinking. LLMs aren't useful. They don't solve problems. They don't substitute for real software. They don't threaten our jobs. They are absolutely irrelevant to my life. Wh
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by slotrans 3y ago
AGI isn't real and never will be. It's a waste of time to fear magic.
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by slotrans 3y ago
Absolutely the wrong interpretation of this decision. Read the June 1 "Money Stuff" instead.
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by slotrans 3y ago
> but poor benighted souls like me just wonder why their $2500 computer isn't doing what they're telling it to. This is the essence of 99% of my frustration with computers (smartphones especially) anymore. I find myself literal
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by slotrans 3y ago
Those places don't have free speech. They never have.
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by slotrans 3y ago
Buy high-quality merino/nylon socks (Smartwool, Darn Tough, etc) and you will not have this problem. I have pairs that have lasted 10 years and are still going strong. Yes, they're expensive compared to the usual cotton stuff. It&
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by slotrans 3y ago
I'm not. It is not a useful thing.
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by slotrans 3y ago
Yeah. We figured this relational stuff out 40+ years ago, but the 23 year old devs are acting like it was born yesterday and they're inventing it from first principles. As the saying goes: read a book.
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by slotrans 4y ago
Current employer spends a lot on BigQuery. This change is a ~100% price increase for us. As a direct result, we are drawing up plans to abandon BigQuery, and then GCP entirely. What an own-goal for GCP. Not even Oracle has treated me this b
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by slotrans 4y ago
tl;dr: It's a massive price increase.
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by slotrans 4y ago
This isn't true when your software runs on thousands or millions of users' machines. It's common for consumer software to use 10, 100, or even 1000 times as much memory as is needed. If that forces every user to buy $200 of
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by slotrans 4y ago
"Databases are usually locked down to a few team members..." Not true in my experience. True at very large / very mature companies, but at any <5-year-old company the DB will be widely accessible, perhaps universally so. C
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by slotrans 4y ago
Because developers are lazy, and our employers don't care. There are programs out there that are RAM-efficient. Every single one was written by someone that DOES care and ISN'T lazy.
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by slotrans 4y ago
Oh and one thing I forgot to address above: > In my experience, you want to decouple the task-level orchestration mechanism from the nature of the data itself. No, that's a fantasy. The data is EVERYTHING. There is no abstract, plat

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