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by svilen_dobrev 8mo ago
gmail uses IMAP. make another mailbox (another provider - migadu, fastmail, proton, whoever) that has IMAP as well. (selfhosting.. is PITA. only if u really need it). install some standalone mail-client - thunderbird, clawsmail, applemail
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by svilen_dobrev 8mo ago
some hand-wavy thoughts.. > it has them (preconceptions), it's just that you don't know what they are. further in this direction... the "thing" might evolve into some cyclic (or not) system. a bit like that LIFE gam
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by svilen_dobrev 8mo ago
> will partner with local nonprofits mmh. be very careful when choosing those. Esp. in former socialistic countries, and esp. in some of them (hint), where $$$ scheming has become bread-and-butter of the.. kind-of-former-but-new aparatch
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by svilen_dobrev 8mo ago
> We must keep hiring EiC (i.e. newbies) developers, accept that they initially reduce capacity, and deliberately design systems that make their growth an explicit organizational goal. ... this has always been the case - even the Mythica
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by svilen_dobrev 8mo ago
also check Luigi Colani's quite bold designs: https://www.colani.org/luigi_colani_Product_design_museum/Tr...
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by svilen_dobrev 8mo ago
IMO, software's code is the ink of the book. Does the book have something to say? or is it just a papermill-filler? Same question applies to software.. re: anecdote: .PDF written in python: PDF is actually (interpreted) code. Postc
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by svilen_dobrev 8mo ago
two/3 things of my own (experience): - Find a friend to be your senses. - With time, places change people. Other way happens noticeably only while coming in - or switching on. - People should feel good when writing the software, otherw
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by svilen_dobrev 8mo ago
i know what you mean. i am die-hard DIY but that does not pay bills. And also.. i have been asking myself alternative question.. Who do you plan to work with? s/plan/imagine/ but still where do u find those..
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by svilen_dobrev 8mo ago
so... anyone who's not native english, reading all these overpuffed texts, is cooked? The nuances are most times lost on me And even if the style is (or isn't) LLM'ish, it does not say/help if the (even-filtered) content
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by svilen_dobrev 8mo ago
partially related.. the Minotaur is one of the main "characters" in Physics of Sorrow by Georgi Gospodinov. https://www.amazon.com/Physics-Sorrow-Georgi-Gospodinov/dp/1... https://losangelesre
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by svilen_dobrev 8mo ago
sounds like the bitter-lesson on a meta level - discarding not only the way humans represent knowledge, but also the way humans store/collect/look-for knowledge..
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British Scientist Raising $1B for 'Superhuman Intelligence' in Europe(europeanbusinessmagazine.com)
1 points by svilen_dobrev 8mo ago|1 comments
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by svilen_dobrev 8mo ago
write-once read-never? something that was not perl ;) in ~2005 i lead a team to build horse-betting terminals for Singapore, and there server could only understand CORBA. So.. i modelled the needed protocol in python, which generated a set
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by svilen_dobrev 8mo ago
the important word is "scared". if the incentive / whiff / hint from-the-top is "those not using AI are out"... there's no stopping that..
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by svilen_dobrev 8mo ago
what happened to Sailfish? the successor of meego et-al It is finnish, anyone knows how are they going? i used that for 2 years, it's linux+kde bottom to top, a terminal + shell is a builtin, though only supporting 5+ years old Sony ph
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by svilen_dobrev 8mo ago
> The same applies more generally, to all sorts of tools, frameworks, and platforms yep. When everyone and their dog tells LLM to generate stuff in whatever way LLM knows best, not bothering even reading the output, any new thing is doom
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by svilen_dobrev 8mo ago
how long to s1m0ne ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_(2002_film)
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by svilen_dobrev 8mo ago
looking up and down... how many $$$ tokens were spent on this topic? for the last year? it may make sense to make up / re-play such stuff once and again.. to prop-up usage...
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by svilen_dobrev 8mo ago
reading comments so far.. seems from people who have not tried how the current situation is. Yes most of these "cant say" worked 3+ years go. But it is harsh employer-driven market now. 100 candidates for 1 position. The question
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by svilen_dobrev 8mo ago
do you really need that? the scripting language is.. okay, but u have to try doing something practical in it, to get a feeling. see my vimrc, being updating it since ~2000 https://github.com/svilendobrev/svd_bin/bl
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by svilen_dobrev 8mo ago
i have been using vim since v4 (1999?), but in the last year+ - maybe since v9? - there's some weird defect happening only once in a while: While walking around a file with keyboard, sometimes a random line's indent is removed - t
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by svilen_dobrev 8mo ago
... personal psychology aside (btw somehow i have never seen anyone taking on the top-winners but anyway) but what i see, organisational-health-wise, is a way-too-long and totally broken communication chain. A Director presents a vision and
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by svilen_dobrev 8mo ago
[2016] would be interesting how that M-disc looks - and reads - today 10 years later..
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French railway operator tests solar on train tracks(pv-magazine.com)
9 points by svilen_dobrev 8mo ago|4 comments
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by svilen_dobrev 8mo ago
> gatekeeping mechanisms > people doing work they have no formal qualification to do These can be bad and good.. Depends on the domain, and regulatory overstepping / guilding. Let's take electricity at home. In some countrie
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by svilen_dobrev 8mo ago
as per [1], software is a knowledge medium. Much more flexible, and (kind-a self-) executable, than plain tools (knife, screwdriver, car, house), but yes - it's the same kind of thing - the means to do something. But it's people w
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by svilen_dobrev 8mo ago
> already exerting gravitational force on everything it touches. So, "Falling of the night" ?
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by svilen_dobrev 8mo ago
so, prompt engineering it is. Happy new LLMium.
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by svilen_dobrev 8mo ago
how about the elephant.. Apart of business-spec itself, Where-from all those (supply-chain) API specs/documentation are going to come? After, say, 3 iterations in this vein, of the API-makers themselves ??
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by svilen_dobrev 8mo ago
> “define the spec concretely“ (and unambiguously. and completely. For various depths of those) This always has been the crux of programming . Just has been drowned in closer-to-the-machine more-deterministic verbosities, be it assembl

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