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by steve_adams_86 2mo ago
I encounter this regularly and it still feels weird. That sense that you did something better in a few days than you would have in a month 5 years ago. It's like buying a table saw for wood working. One crazy thing I think about often
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by steve_adams_86 2mo ago
That's worth pointing out, definitely. I'm aware that perhaps most people on earth wouldn't think this is a weird position to hold; it's largely my critique of him from a subjective point of view. There are massive popul
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by steve_adams_86 2mo ago
I’ve wondered at times if this is partially due to cultural changes. We’re less interested in prosocial traits and how we fit into social hierarchies/personal duties and more interested in personal happiness or gratification. I’m not s
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by steve_adams_86 2mo ago
I'm going to firmly disagree and insist that no one should ever be a slave, and they are not meant to be slaves, regardless of their intellectual capacity or whether they were shown a good formula for life. Human society is in a fail
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by steve_adams_86 2mo ago
> 11. “Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.” That's a poor way of framing his beliefs about this. The correct framing is more like “Virtue and being a Good Human Being is the me
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by steve_adams_86 2mo ago
We need to distinguish between "many people are born into slavery" and "many people are meant to be slaves by their inborn nature". The former is true, the latter is not, even in the example you've given. Also, he w
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by steve_adams_86 2mo ago
He thought some humans were slaves by nature and women were naturally inferior to men. edit: whoa, I didn't realize how racist this guy was. He could be classified as a eugenicist I suppose. He also believed in spontaneous generation (
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by steve_adams_86 2mo ago
I totally understand the sentiment, and I generally agree. Something so strange I'm noticing is how AI-pilled regular people are becoming. My sister-in-law is a totally non-technical person, but everything is chatgpt this, chatgpt that
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by steve_adams_86 2mo ago
My understanding is that these catastrophic events typically leave the victim unconscious before they have much time to suffer. I'm not an expert so I'm prepared to be wrong. I hope that was the case for her. I'm aware it cou
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by steve_adams_86 2mo ago
It's better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all, but, god damn does it still hurt to move through that loss. I'm glad it was fast and painless for her and her family.
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by steve_adams_86 2mo ago
I use Apple Music too. I recently noticed it randomly playing videos, though. I can't hide the overlay despite the checkbox being unchecked for "keep video playback on top of all other windows". Apparently the only way to dis
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by steve_adams_86 2mo ago
Has Spotify improved since 10 years ago? I know it has podcasts now, but... I don't know, it feels like it has only shifted uncomfortable for the longest time, and it worked as well as it needed to quite a long time ago. Whenever I rev
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by steve_adams_86 2mo ago
This makes me think about the bizarre UI regressions in macOS in the last few years. I’ve got this giant, beautiful display and somehow it becomes less rather than more useful over time due to the software it’s presenting.
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by steve_adams_86 2mo ago
Yes, it was meant constructively and for exactly this reason. I interpreted what they wrote as what they meant, then realized it was a mistake that I could have easily made too.
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by steve_adams_86 2mo ago
You can use skills or harnesses to have them validate their json (using plain old JSON validation or schemas) and they seem to have a very high success rate with that gate in place. It's slightly more tokens, but it's reliable
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by steve_adams_86 2mo ago
It's so strange in that I recognize that I'm in the ocean and by all means, this is pretty incredible, even when it's not. It's so strange and amazing to be anything at all. And yet the homonculus presses me forward and
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by steve_adams_86 2mo ago
You made me do a double take with "providence". I think the word you wanted is "provenance", which comes from latin "provenire" (pro -> forth, venire -> come). English has too many similar words. Unless y
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by steve_adams_86 2mo ago
In my experience, inbreeding doesn't seem to bother fish very much. Certainly you don't want it to happen too much, but I have several species of fish that have inbred and they look fantastic. I'm sure if I continued this lin
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by steve_adams_86 2mo ago
Haha, yeah — I'm actually relieved when it does this (and I can see it actually follow through). Not long ago it would simply guess all the time.
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by steve_adams_86 2mo ago
This sounds awesome enough to see if they're hiring, and they are, but unfortunately only in certain areas with an expectation to be in-office with some regularity. Bummer. Exciting to see this team together, though. This is a tool tha
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by steve_adams_86 2mo ago
Yes, the organization I work for studies this phenomenon extensively. We measure pH, temperature, oxygen, flow, and many other factors related to ocean health, and over time, climate change. Hypoxia (and acidification) are emerging concerns
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by steve_adams_86 2mo ago
I’ll have to look into that. My reading on wolf populations in the past has consistently indicated that imbalances regularly point back to human interference, but I’ve read a lot less about European wolves and more about those in western Ca
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by steve_adams_86 2mo ago
One of the many holes in DHH's claim about wolves, sheep, and gypsies is that wolves are not the sort of low-dimensional archetype he uses to support his narrative. If you're very literal like me, you take that to mean wolves, the
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by steve_adams_86 2mo ago
> my own experience is that coding agents have made my work harder, because the scope of projects I can take on has increased Likewise. I find the types of problems I need to tackle and the challenges they represent are actually quite ex
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by steve_adams_86 2mo ago
Is the recruiter activity you see very… Human? I’m getting a lot of emails but when I do my research, it all appears to be bots. I don’t trust any of it and I don’t respond.
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by steve_adams_86 2mo ago
I agree that starting with DWC is the right call. Finding a balance with fish is a bit of an art and a very slow process. It's harder still when you don't know what that balance should be, how intricate the systems really are, how
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by steve_adams_86 2mo ago
This must not be weighted very heavily on the benchmark because if it was, Opus would bomb every test (half kidding)
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by steve_adams_86 2mo ago
You could say the same about publishing offline. We can always do it simply because we enjoy it and one or two others might find some enjoyment or utility in it as well. It doesn't have to matter, it doesn't have to influence anyo
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by steve_adams_86 2mo ago
I felt like that at your age. Now 40 and realizing my energy was wasted worrying when there's so much more potential left. I believe I'd feel similar at 50. There's a lot of living left to do.
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by steve_adams_86 2mo ago
"The Rees algebra is an algebra over Z[t^−1]" Such a small sentence and yet it means very little to me. I understand some constituent pieces, but I don't understand what Z is here other than a 'ring' and I don'

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