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by timeagain 3y ago
In what way? The article states clearly why the change was made, it makes sense to me.
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by timeagain 3y ago
Is the modern definition any different than the older one? It just means systems with feedback loops. A motion sensitive video camera is “cybernetic”. So is the Facebook feed algorithm and self-checkout at the grocery store.
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by timeagain 3y ago
Teslas (unit of magnetic flux) have the opposite problem. An MRI—the machine with the highest magnetic field most people will ever encounter—has an operating field of 7 Tesla.
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by timeagain 3y ago
Gatún Lake is 425 km^2. It provides the drinking water for Panama City. It has a watershed covering a large portion of the country. You might be underestimating the scale of the problem.
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by timeagain 3y ago
Sorry to make you feel bad, but that exact realization is the reason I don’t do remote work anymore. (I still scroll on my phone here and there!) A cynic might retort that reading a book is also “doing nothing”, but I think there is a certa
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by timeagain 3y ago
See the movie Eighth Grade for an anxiety inducing exploration of this theme. My personal take is that not having community is devastating, and the issue with social media is that it makes you think you have community in your brain, but you
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by timeagain 3y ago
Doesn’t matter if you live to 55 or 95 if you have some kids when you’re 25.
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by timeagain 3y ago
This post raised my corporate cynicism levels more than any ribbonfarm post has to date.
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by timeagain 3y ago
In a similar vein there is there’s this video explaining why phi is somehow “more irrational” than other numbers. It looks like a special case of the same kind of analysis you are talking about https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=
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by timeagain 3y ago
I’ll add my own humorous one. “Text copied from MS word and pasted on a text field will have some resemblance to the original text”
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by timeagain 3y ago
+1. Using statistics about a population to make determinations about a specific outcome is often fallacious anyway. “70% of businesses fail” might sound like it is a bad idea to start one, but of course every business succeeds or fails on
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by timeagain 3y ago
“ France does not encourage innovation and investment”… in foreign media companies. They’re using the tax to fund local investment in music.
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by timeagain 3y ago
Historically Amazon gives devs some number of weeks to find new work internally if they cut a department. Sales and admin aren’t normally so lucky…
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by timeagain 3y ago
Maybe it is just circumstance but I had been working with devs in Hyderabad since at least 2016 when I was at Amazon. I’m sure they are expanding the workforce there, though
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by timeagain 3y ago
Well inferior might be overly simplistic. In many cultures you use formal speech with strangers as well.
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by timeagain 3y ago
It is interesting that the word “cybernetics” doesn’t really come up anymore. I think the optics of calling a system “AI” is less jarring. You have the AI over here and then you have the totally unrelated thing that it is controlling/c
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by timeagain 3y ago
I had a database that was in a boot-crash loop because it had a corrupted innodb_history_list for a given table. Everything would be ok if we could just delete the table, but that would involve opening a session and that wouldn’t be possibl
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by timeagain 3y ago
Randomly, probably not. But I bet that they go pretty uniformly through their URL hashing space.
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by timeagain 3y ago
So what was the conversation?
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by timeagain 3y ago
this all sounds great for rich people and like hell for everyone else. AI learns that brown people exist, women become data farms, clippy is your new boss, children are our future profits. There is some kind of satire in here about how tech
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by timeagain 3y ago
Having worked in shelters, these are all nice ideas and would take an amount of funding and staffing tantamount to freeway construction. Except freeway construction pays more and is a lot more pleasant.
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by timeagain 3y ago
From what to what? What counts as “serious?” What percentage of flights? Which kind of flights? How many of them are commercial passenger (as opposed to cargo)? Can the variance be ascribed to noise? Sorry if some of these questions can be
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by timeagain 3y ago
In my experience psychedelics changed my outlook so thoroughly that I needed to get different friends.
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by timeagain 3y ago
Anything that can be handled by a compiler can be hacked to interface with anything that can be handled by an interpreter. That’s the kind of fundamental daoist “code is data is code” that underlies the power of computing.
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by timeagain 3y ago
This is silly right? It isn’t like Hamas demanded this ratio, or that they forced Israel to accept. Should Hamas refuse out of principle if Israel gave them prisoners for free? On the contrary it seems more like a power play on Israel’s par
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by timeagain 3y ago
Why does how many Muslims there are have to do with anything? Israel is not at war with the Muslim community they are at war with a single country which is not even all Muslim. Seems like shaky rhetoric.
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by timeagain 3y ago
Yeah but at those internships you aren’t taught how to build quality software, just how to ship a SPA that connects to an API in 15 weeks (or you’re not hired). It is a good peek into the professional software world though!
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by timeagain 3y ago
> the true competition to take place in the corporate finance marketplace rather than the retail one. This hits the nail on the head. There is no secret cabal of colluding business owners, but for any company that is public, they are nec
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by timeagain 3y ago
PI is so good even if you don’t “understand” it all. In it he pretty much demolishes any notion that language is composed of words that refer to objects. This idea was as old as Plato and an often un-explored assumption of almost every phil
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by timeagain 3y ago
That don’t sound very pragmatic to me, more like fatalist

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