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by twodave 1y ago
This is fine when the question is, “What’s for dinner?” However, there is nothing wrong with having core principles that aren’t able to be swayed. This is called having integrity. It’s important to understand where these lines fall within y
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by twodave 1y ago
I have come to conclude that there are both reasonable and unbalanced individuals on the extreme ends of both sides. When Obama was elected I had paranoid relatives telling me he was going to pilfer their 401k and bankrupt the country. Well
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by twodave 1y ago
Ostensibly not since she didn’t bother changing the recipe when the box shrank to ~15oz.
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by twodave 1y ago
I looked into this not long ago, and the main ingredient that is hard to store the way you would a mix is fat. Most recipes need it, and “wet” fat like butter or oil behaves quite a bit differently than the milk solids or whatever else they
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by twodave 1y ago
Being asked to login via an “internal login page” is a huge, bright red flag. It doesn’t matter what the reasoning is, if it’s not the same domain or an SSO integration that is well known to both you and the vendor then you shouldn’t be usi
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by twodave 1y ago
It depends on the establishment, but some of us (actually I sort of doubt it’s a minority) rather enjoy speaking with other humans, even strangers, and even if it’s over an intercom.
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by twodave 1y ago
> verify your logic This is what unit tests are for.
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by twodave 1y ago
Maybe, but anyone who knows what a chromatic scale is should be able to reason it out. E# == F, B# == C, so no black keys between those.
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by twodave 1y ago
I feel like if you keep your effort problem-oriented you can avoid a lot of the stalling that comes from not being confident about things. E.g. saying, “This code sucks, but it solves the problem in a way that doesn’t paint me into a corner
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by twodave 1y ago
Ironically, this post reads like it was written with an LLM.
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by twodave 1y ago
One’s ceiling may be more or less stable, but there are many instances where individuals have certain underdeveloped cognitive skills (of which there are a litany), undergo training to develop those skills, and then afterwards go on to scor
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by twodave 1y ago
Do you mean the overall issue or that F-Droid’s guarantees are arguable? The guarantees may not be the whole discussion, but for many they are the most relevant piece. Edit: or perhaps you mean that isn’t the only way to provide such guaran
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by twodave 1y ago
Perhaps not, but what is the impetus of discovery? Is it purely analysis? History is littered with serendipitous invention; shower-thoughts lead to some of our best work. What's the AGI-equivalent of that? There is this spark of creati
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by twodave 1y ago
It’s more nuanced, I think. Some of those in power do understand science and technology, and have responsible stances. Some … understand …, and have intentionally-irresponsible stances. Some do NOT understand, and choose positions either ba
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by twodave 1y ago
I suppose the verification algorithm would need to also include a checksum that is basically a hash of the frame’s pixels. So not impossible to fake but also not practical to do so.
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by twodave 1y ago
Using a computer to stave off loneliness is self-delusion in its highest form. I’m not saying it’s always harmful, but self-isolation of any form can easily override one’s desire for genuine interaction.
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by twodave 1y ago
I was disagreeing with the notion that this law has to be taken into account. I suppose that’s true for certain software, but if e.g. Apple can get away with breaking these use cases then I don’t see why, as an API designer, I should care e
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by twodave 1y ago
Hard disagree. If my users are exploiting some unintended, unannounced part of my API then me patching that out is something they’re just going to have to deal with. In well-described systems these sorts of behaviors lead to nasty bugs down
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by twodave 1y ago
I work on optimization a large fraction of my time. It is not something learned in a week, month or even a year. At least in B2B applications that rely heavily on relational data, the best developers are the ones who can optimize at the dat
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by twodave 1y ago
There is (IMO) still a lot of value in having a searchable Internet index. If AI summaries were the only option it would be very difficult to know whether something is influencing the AI. The problem is, of course, that we've already l
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by twodave 1y ago
Well my steaks are already devoid of that when they go in the pan ;)
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by twodave 1y ago
Not specifically, no. I think the benefits for me personally outweigh the risks, anyway. Everyone's physiology is different, so I don't expect everyone else to eat the way I do.
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by twodave 1y ago
Surface moisture from the fat on the steak is what actually produces a good sear IMO
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by twodave 1y ago
About 5-7 minutes, tops. I haven't tried the reverse sear, I'd worry about overcooking.
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by twodave 1y ago
I cook (and eat) a lot of steak. Probably 3-4 per week, 1.5" thick ribeyes. For me, resting has always been about temperature normalization. I like to sear my steaks in a cast iron skillet. I use an induction cooktop and tend to start
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by twodave 1y ago
My initial reaction to this is that the licensor is a scammer and the author just got fleeced. I don’t know much about the law in the UK, but this tactic is almost identical to the one media licensing companies in the US used to go after ol
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by twodave 1y ago
Yes, and honestly probably the deepest line in the film (though plenty others are often quoted in my family). I think there is a lot of strength that comes from waking up and doing the “hard” thing, whatever that is. I’ve had injuries, unex
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by twodave 1y ago
Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says different is selling something.
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by twodave 1y ago
Having dealt with mental health issues in adulthood after stuffing them for decades, the consequence being that they came raging to the surface at the risk of breaking apart my family, and then shortly afterwards parenting children whose tr
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by twodave 1y ago
This is how 100% of non-technical executives view software engineers, really. And probably explains a lot of the hysteria (unfounded as I may believe it to be) around LLMs eating the industry.

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