smitty1e

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by smitty1e 2y ago
> Building the understanding required to push jet engine capabilities forward takes time, effort, and expense. This occurs in a broader cultural context. A society that dreams, enjoys science fiction, rewards hard study of advanced topic
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by smitty1e 2y ago
In the Glorious Future, is it going to be impossible to use proprietary software without an internet connection? That is, does every piece of hardware we own become (vehicles, appliances, computers, accessories, &c) a spyware vector?
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by smitty1e 2y ago
> Even Python, however, still limits the use of functions. It does not allow partial application https://docs.python.org/3/library/functools.html#partial-obj...
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by smitty1e 2y ago
In the meeting, "We should..." has me saying: "Don't 'should' me" internally.
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by smitty1e 2y ago
> Until we fundamentally change how we value "We" value precisely nothing in the plural. You value various objects. I value various objects. It is possible to aggregate the things that you or I value. I submit that saying we va
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by smitty1e 2y ago
That would have been a two part function: - a transparent government making data and policy algorithms readily available - an independent media doing unbiased analysis How things arrived instead at a mess of propaganda is left as an exercis
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by smitty1e 2y ago
As I said; > The voters can weigh in next year at the mid-terms. But the Bidenistas haven't even dealt with last November, to speak of the actual past.
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by smitty1e 2y ago
The US Government is an ugly baby discovering the reality of Stein's Law[1]. Is DOGE optimal? Very obviously not. The Tea Parties failed to trigger reform. Trump may also fail; it's way too early to tell, and the foes get a "
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by smitty1e 2y ago
The sad news about chemotherapy is that it blows away good tissue with the bad. Which may or may not be an admonishment to embrace cancer.
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by smitty1e 2y ago
The reads like some AI broth broken out by Brosidon, King of the Brocean.
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by smitty1e 2y ago
Rule of seven also would seem applicable: https://www.brainbok.com/guide/pm-study-notes/rule-of-seven-... Look at which way the numbers went under the previous regime.
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Why You Shouldn't Worry about AI Taking Jobs(richardhanania.com)
12 points by smitty1e 2y ago|5 comments
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by smitty1e 2y ago
TFA is the linked article that was posted to HN.
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by smitty1e 2y ago
> Reflections. > Home Blog > 08 Feb, 2025 > The puzzle. The puzzle seems to have something to do with AI, if my surmise is correct.
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by smitty1e 2y ago
This gets at the heart of The Famous Article: my pet project vs. corporate-grade stuff. The individual vs. the group. Where I agree with the author is the need to keep individual tinkering possible. However, generalizing anyone's idios
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by smitty1e 2y ago
> I'm incredibly depressed and disillusioned to see fellow software engineers drinking the Kool-aid so deeply while they dismantle the US federal government. Please point to a single component of the US federal government in its fou
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by smitty1e 2y ago
> DynamoDB is a good database (IFF your workload lines up with what it's offering) "The correct tool for the job." Seeing a document database used for tabular purposes gives me a sad.
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by smitty1e 2y ago
"Nah, we'll rise again like some mythical bird," said a voice in Arizona.
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by smitty1e 2y ago
> More saying-nothing going on here. The Tower of Babel: who can understand it? Let us go ahead and assign you the "W". Best wishes, and the last word is yours.
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by smitty1e 2y ago
It's interesting that when one tries to encourage a stepping back from the problem to consider larger patterns, that effort at abstraction gets carpet-bombed in the (im)moderation.
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by smitty1e 2y ago
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by smitty1e 2y ago
I guess that I'd be closer to your position if the last eight years of...however you characterize it...hadn't gone down.
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by smitty1e 2y ago
That's an excellent going-in position. Given sufficient complexity and overlap, frictions arise. Hence all of the allegations and lawsuits and appeals and so forth. The voters are the ultimate judge, and typically end up with a governm
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by smitty1e 2y ago
I gather that I'm further right than much of the HN crowd, having been on the edge of the Tea Party movement &c. The presence of the Citrus Caesar and the billionaire boys is due to substantial, ongoing problems. The U.S. Governmen
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The Most Active Volcano in the Northeast Pacific Is Preparing to Erupt(sciencealert.com)
9 points by smitty1e 2y ago|1 comments
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by smitty1e 2y ago
After the experience of being sold out by Vindman the first time around, wanting to know that the staff isn't going to sandbag him seems natural for Trump. Also natural are these breathless takes from the media. So it goes.
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by smitty1e 2y ago
> Could AI be a con? Two points: AI seems like a great device for "the Bobs" offloading unaffordable employees. More generally, cold fusion, quantum computing, block chain, and AI seems to form a hype meta-cycle to hoover up in
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by smitty1e 2y ago
The Clippy resurrection seemed gratuitous.
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by smitty1e 2y ago
The last guy who traditionally "knew everything" was Erasmus. The shame is not in outsourcing the skill to, e.g. make a pencil[1]; rather, the shame is not retaining one's major skill. In IT, that is actually thinking . [1]
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by smitty1e 2y ago
I just updated "GrandPrix Race Manager" for $25 from the vendor. It's an annual cost for my local derby thing. No idea how many copies they sell, but it's on version 24, so they must be doing OK-ish. Stand-alone Python a

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