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by smokel 3y ago
Thanks for pointing this out. My problem with the article is that it presupposes (incorrectly in my view) that "who to engage" with is an average person who conforms to fairly primitive statistics. This approach is common in many
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by smokel 3y ago
This is pretty cringeworthy IMHO. Using "research shows" arguments to tell that smiling helps seems a bit out of touch with reality. There's probably a lot of good advice here, but I'd like to add that people have diffe
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by smokel 3y ago
I agree that bad documentation is a serious problem in many cases. So much so that your suggestion to write the documentation after the fact can become quite impossible. If there is only one thing that juniors should learn about writing do
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by smokel 3y ago
I agree that a bad implementation may lead to poor performance. However, this is irrespective of the architecture. The effects of an architecture are more noticeable in the context of maintainability, scalability, and extensibility. Or pe
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by smokel 3y ago
Laggy menus typically have little or nothing to do with microservice architectures.
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by smokel 3y ago
You might want to read up on Jevons Paradox [1]. Also, be warned that the term "accelerationism" is being used by different parties, with quite opposing intentions. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_p
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by smokel 3y ago
It goes back to at least 1933. This was the first hit on Google: https://renevanmaarsseveen.nl/14273/niksen-iets-wat-nederlan...
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by smokel 3y ago
If you are into this sort of thing, you may have already found this game: https://gandalf.lakera.ai/
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by smokel 3y ago
Thanks for the link. Might this be related to the concept of "quality" as brought up by Robert Pirsig in "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" (1974)? I don't think the "thing" is completely ungrasp
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by smokel 3y ago
I agree with the sentiment in the article, but I don't think there is much actionable advice to be taken from it. Understanding what "simple" and "clean" is, requires years of experience. A junior might get caught
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by smokel 3y ago
One productive way to think about the question what art is, is to consider the concept of "Family resemblance" [1]. The fun thing with art is that people started making anti-art [2], which is now, of course, also considered art.
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by smokel 3y ago
This does indeed sound silly. If people were to use proper arguments to select technology, we wouldn't be in this mess in the first place. Unfortunately, most of us are more susceptible towards aesthetics, novelty, and admiration of
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by smokel 3y ago
The Atari 400 would be connected to a separate CRT monitor.
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by smokel 3y ago
This book seems to focus on large language models, for which RLHF is sometimes a useful addition. To learn more about RL, most people would advise the Sutton and Barto book, available at: http://incompleteideas.net/book&#x2F
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by smokel 3y ago
Have a look at newspapers from 100 years ago [1]. Look at pamphlets from the 16th century [2]. It has been way worse. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ripley%27s_Believe_It_or_Not ! [2] https://en.wikipedi
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by smokel 3y ago
Is it possible that these prolific geniuses had smart people working for (or with) them, while taking most credit? I could imagine that in 300 years time people think that Elon Musk single-handedly invented the Turing machine, at the age of
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by smokel 3y ago
Also, relevant in this context is the artist Tehching Hsieh, who voluntarily lived in a ca g e for one year. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tehching_Hsieh
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by smokel 3y ago
There have been quite a few of these in the past. Some of the 2018 problems (e.g. day 21 [1]) required quite a lot of reverse engineering of programs in a custom instruction set. [1] https://adventofcode.com/2018/day&#
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by smokel 3y ago
Dynamic typing comes to mind ;)
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by smokel 3y ago
The field is called "compiler design". Consider taking a course [1] or buying a book? A somewhat more playful approach might be to complete the 2019 edition of Advent of Code [2], where you'll learn some preliminaries while
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by smokel 3y ago
I remember playing with Deluxe Paint II on PC when I was a kid. Somehow it was not the same version that I saw people use on the Commodore Amiga. I also read somewhere in a magazine that there was Deluxe Paint Animation, but I did not hav
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by smokel 3y ago
After the rain comes sun. After the sun comes rain again. (Underwater Love, Smoke City, 1995)
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by smokel 3y ago
One nice implementation of an infinite canvas is Kinopio [1]. Not affiliated, just a fan. [1] https://kinopio.club/
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by smokel 3y ago
In many cases remote desktop is a great solution. However, a hardware based KVM can be preferable for several reasons. Security: remote desktop requires the machines to be on the same network. Performance and compatibility: hardware accele
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by smokel 3y ago
> When an opensource application like GIMP, Blender, or even Manuksript for a lesser known example, are started, it's mainly because proponents of opensource want to use such application but dislike closed source. Just for the recor
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by smokel 3y ago
I am sure some of you here will enjoy the etymology of the word serendipity. Apparently the word was inspired by the fairy tale "The Three Princes of Serendip" [1], the latter being the Persian name of Sri Lanka. In the story, th
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by smokel 3y ago
Hm, I should not have used the word "drivel", that may have been a bit too harsh. A thing with Deleuze is that I still see very little value in some of his ideas. The idea of a "rhizome" for instance (which might be rel
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by smokel 3y ago
Note that I was implying that there is no merit to "making money" by itself.
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by smokel 3y ago
Many contemporary artists are good at associative thought but pretty bad at rational thought. Several popular French philosophers say a lot , so there will always be some interesting hook for people to catch on. The rational thinker will g
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by smokel 3y ago
The moral basis would be that most extremely rich people are not rich by merit, but by having good connections, luck, narcissistic personality disorders, or a head start in life. Consider a random thing that you are grateful for, trace do

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