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811.
by taneq 2y ago
I'm unsure how to interpret this statement. Are you saying that the amount of pain experienced depends on the patient's prior exposure and some 'tolerance' stat? And that we should ignore their actual statements about, a
812.
by taneq 2y ago
The availability of (mostly) accurate, in depth information snout any rabbit hole you can think of has certainly impacted some industries. There’s an entire generation of doctors who are infuriated by “Doctor Google” And another generation
813.
by taneq 2y ago
Every few months I get curious and say something like "Hey Siri, are you actually smart yet or are you just a script matching keywords?" So far the response has always been "I'm soOrrY I doOnT kNoW HoooW ToDooo ThaAT&quo
814.
by taneq 2y ago
I guess the margin was too small to contain it.
815.
by taneq 2y ago
I’d think ‘profitable but investing revenue in growth’ Is very different from ‘increasing revenue purchased with investor money’. Being profitable means you’re not beholden to new investors. If your goal is to run a company rather than race
816.
by taneq 2y ago
That’s how Skynet wins!
817.
by taneq 2y ago
This was an interesting Tor of some memes.
818.
by taneq 2y ago
Even at a bit less than 200WPM, my physical ability to press keys is seldom the limiting factor for composing prose, let alone for coding. I would suspect that this is the case for most halfway competent keyboard users using more than three
819.
by taneq 2y ago
Needs more superlatives. “Biggest” < “Extra Biggest” < “Maximum Biggest”. :D
820.
by taneq 2y ago
There’s your first lesson: Always have a debug header with serial pins on your board. ;) It should be easy enough to solder some wires onto the ESP32’s serial port… although wait, how are you programming it? It’s also good to have a couple
821.
by taneq 2y ago
I dunno, I generally try to avoid driving off the road into a landscape. That said, I very well might drive into a high-res billboard of the exact scenery behind the billboard, if I wasn’t expecting it on a long straight country road. The i
822.
by taneq 2y ago
Do you know which aspect is getting flaky? Ie. Is the wifi dropping out temporarily, or permanently, or the whole MCU locking up, or the 3.3V browning out, or…?
823.
by taneq 2y ago
I’ve been referring to this kind of belief as a ‘pigeon religion.’ This one time an operator has a problem (it’s an e-stop that hasn’t been reset) and they ‘fixed it’ by switching the system into test mode and back, then pressing the e-stop
824.
by taneq 2y ago
Maybe we should work on solving that problem, then? And maybe this is what working on that problem looks like?
825.
by taneq 2y ago
That’s OK until you’re counting down to something and instead of telling you you should stop, they just get really positive.
826.
by taneq 2y ago
Exactly! That was kind of the point IMO, that human morality was deeply complex and ‘the right thing’ couldn’t be expressed with some trite high level directives.
827.
by taneq 2y ago
There isn’t a clear line, that’s what makes it tricky. Think of it like troubleshooting a very advanced robot that’s misbehaving or underperforming. The first question that gets asked is “hardware problem, software problem…?” And the answer
828.
by taneq 2y ago
I set up ollama on our work ‘AI server’ (well, grunty headless workstation running Ubuntu) and then got Dolphin-Mixtral to help me figure out why it wasn’t using the GPUs. :) I ended up having to figure it out myself (a previous install att
829.
by taneq 2y ago
It's whatever computers can't do.
830.
by taneq 2y ago
Please have a baby and report back first-hand observations. Yes, they're far, far more sophisticated than most (all?) humans can comprehend, but they're also completely incapable for multiple months after birth. This isn't un
831.
by taneq 2y ago
Moravec talked about this kind of thing in the '80s.
832.
by taneq 2y ago
And somehow this group, in the name of 'affordable housing', keeps coming up with ways to enable people to pay more and more for houses, rather than coming up with ways to make home ownership less expensive. I guess it's just
833.
by taneq 2y ago
That stops apps tracking you, it doesn't stop Google tracking you.
834.
by taneq 2y ago
The login screen and start menu both require a key press to start the process (enter pin or start typing search term) and both then drop all subsequent keystrokes for an indefinite period until they’ve finished initialising, displaying, and
835.
by taneq 2y ago
Nope, that's because glowy crystalline or glassy things look super fancy and futuristically high tech.
836.
by taneq 2y ago
I haven't played with it too much, and maybe it's changed recently or the paid version is different, but last week I found it irritatingly obtuse. > Me: Hi! Could you please help me find the problem with some code? > ChatGPT
837.
by taneq 2y ago
I'm not saying that passing tests proves the code is correct, I'm saying that if you find a problem with the code that your tests don't pick up, then you should add a test for it.
838.
by taneq 2y ago
And/or so are your tests.
839.
by taneq 2y ago
100% this. If our product does something unexpected, finding out why is top priority. It might be that everything’s fine and this is just a rare edge case where this is the correct behaviour. It might be a silly display bug. Or it might be
840.
by taneq 2y ago
They're only inefficient if you want them to do something other than heat up a lot of air by a very large amount very fast. :)

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