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by sublinear 2mo ago
Asthma is so common that this is not only easy to test, but has been. That's what the article was about. Anyway, by your own line of thinking, wouldn't sensitive lungs be an advantage? The incentive to find cleaner air is also bre
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by sublinear 2mo ago
I don't think I'll ever understand this perspective. To my ears, all the AI hype and profoundly ignorant economic fantasies sound exactly like the bidet hype of the 2010s. You can't have a revolution based entirely on not hav
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by sublinear 2mo ago
I'm not sure how serious you are with this comment, but I'll give you another perspective. You don't know what other roles that try-hard "rower" has outside of your imagined scenario. There's nothing even stopp
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by sublinear 2mo ago
Nope. Everyone has their strengths and should avoid some types of work. AI doesn't change this. Many consultants and entrepreneurs are too shameless to do that. AI only amplifies their dysfunction. What most businesses are doing instea
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by sublinear 2mo ago
Refusing to show the process is more of a generational culture difference than an indicator of how much effort actually went into the work. The younger audience is the majority. They want to see effortless cool. They want their hero to be o
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by sublinear 2mo ago
I think you attribute way too much to the developers. Corporate offices are not small.
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by sublinear 2mo ago
When I made this comment, I was thinking of edit distance embedding (like everyone else in this reply chain) while you're thinking of BK-trees. We're just talking past each other. I agree that a tree is the historical solution. I
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by sublinear 2mo ago
You choose to have that perspective and be subject to that locus of control. Where do you really draw the line? How do you feel about money? How do you feel about eating to stay alive? Ultimately, this is not a philosophy debate. If you&#x2
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by sublinear 2mo ago
> Computers have consolidated... Yes! Thank you for making this distinction. The problem is that some people's perceptions have not kept up, not that screens are inherently bad. Not all screen time is equal, and everyone chooses how
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by sublinear 2mo ago
How do you feel about other hot button issues like LLMs, privacy policies, Flock cameras, etc.? By your reasoning, developers "make" those things too. My point is just to make sure we're pointing the blame at the business whe
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by sublinear 2mo ago
Fallback states are generally a ton of work that don't benefit the direction that the PM or broader business would want to go anyway. It's a pet peeve of mine that we often say "devs" when we really mean "the busine
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by sublinear 2mo ago
?? No. I'm saying that since height is genetic, being too tall or too short for BMI happens in clusters. There are also specific activities that select for tallness or shortness (basketball, horse racing, pilots, etc.) concentrating at
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by sublinear 2mo ago
What do you mean by "look it up" if not measure the closest dictionary word by edit distance? I think you'll find the broader idea of word vectorization to be remarkably similar to what text transformers do. https:/&#x2
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by sublinear 2mo ago
I find this perceived timeline fascinating. As a computer nerd millennial, I have a passing familiarity with it while also living in a parallel universe. None of this manifesto resonates with me at all. The web became more important to me i
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by sublinear 2mo ago
A significant portion of the population didn't need journalists feeding them a negative opinion. More people alive today are educated in computer science than ever before. The same is true of epistemology, linguistics, and broader phil
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by sublinear 2mo ago
This is your honest recommendation? You might want to re-read how this thread started. The issue isn't anyone's ability to reverse engineer a glucose meter nor their "self motivation" to do so. The issue is how outdated
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by sublinear 2mo ago
I've used Xdrip before, and it's device support is not that great either. I'm not arguing against the idea. I'm being realistic about what devs and users can do about this situation. If you're lucky enough to find s
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by sublinear 2mo ago
It's like 25% of the men in my family. I am but a mere 6'1". What do?
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by sublinear 2mo ago
Could you maybe arrange some hints for yourself in the surrounding landscaping? I have done similar in the past with what I call "taking mental snapshots", but it's always easier if there are things you can change to simplify
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by sublinear 2mo ago
Which ones? The most humble meters come free in a kit, since you're really buying the test strips, and they all have onboard memory and an optional app. It's extremely unlikely the owners of those meters would even be able to use
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by sublinear 2mo ago
> Your stuff was in boxes on shelves... Have you ever heard of an SLA? This "used to be" story about software has never been true. If you can't meet the agreement, then or now, you're done. Software has always been a
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by sublinear 2mo ago
And what happened when they failed out of "software engineering"?
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by sublinear 2mo ago
The irony of BMI is that people with plenty of muscle mass are more likely to have a high BMI as well as lowered risk for heart disease. BMI was never meant to be used as a diagnostic measure. BMI is just a rough filter for large data sets,
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by sublinear 2mo ago
You already answered your own question. Testing and trust have always been the most important part. This has nothing to do with LLMs. There have always been plenty of solutions that are more capable, but untrusted. Your real question seems
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by sublinear 2mo ago
Was the BBC always this bad? This story represents both sides so poorly. "AI" is the same shitty tech as ever before. These "manifestos" are a PR stunt , but only because "AI" has been used as a scapegoat for
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by sublinear 2mo ago
Not true. The web is more than blogspam, SaaS, the most desperate cases of ecommerce, and the web versions of legacy newspapers/magazines.
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by sublinear 2mo ago
> you actually do often want other people's ideas to dominate the mind I don't think this tug of war is necessary. You do, however, make a great point about people who are stressed out. I wouldn't turn to "creative mo
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by sublinear 2mo ago
Catering exclusively to snobbery is everywhere in commissioned sales. The only bike shops that aren't this way are going to be relatively small and new establishments where the owner is the only guy there. Do not expect the advice or
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by sublinear 2mo ago
The journaling seems like the right direction, but it's still too passive. If there are three mental modes, two out of three are passive. Let's call this third mode "creative mode". Instead of consuming or meditating, do
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by sublinear 2mo ago
> ... I would just have a rule which I had to follow. I don't mean to be a downer, but to prevent anxiety I try not to be so strict with myself. A process can be freeing at first, but eventually the idea can seep in that I'm mi

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