unwise-exe

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by unwise-exe 3y ago
Coworker: hey, what's up with this code? We're having issues getting it to do X. Me: oh yeah, I just hacked it together and never finished cleaning it up to make sense and be adaptable. Here's enough context to hack it again
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by unwise-exe 3y ago
If you have enough passing candidates that you can do additional filtering on irrelevant reasons, that means your hiring bar is lower than it could be. Also, since when is being "diverse" a property of an individual rather than a
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by unwise-exe 3y ago
I do not understand the Vector AI thing. Doing math on embeddings isn't new, so it can't be that. So what is it?
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by unwise-exe 3y ago
Um, yeah? Can't assign rights to an entity that isn't legally eligible to have those rights. I hear the same used to be true of various groups of humans in some jurisdictions.
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by unwise-exe 3y ago
> AI will make the world even more quantifiable and, in many cases, falsely quantifiable. > The false quantification and rank ordering of things using AI will bring real-world weirdness in how people function, which has nothing to
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by unwise-exe 3y ago
But will they maintain brightness better than current power LEDs? Some of my rooms are noticeably dimmer than when I first put in the LED bulbs they have now.
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by unwise-exe 3y ago
> merit based DEI what even does this mean
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by unwise-exe 3y ago
This seems more like a topic that can only be discussed anonymously, lest someone take offense and start a pressure campaign against one's employer. > hostile interlocutors A strong noise filter is indeed required.
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by unwise-exe 3y ago
> never even heard of the Genderbread Cookie. https://www.samkillermann.com/work/ You can find it on that ^^ list, along with other projects by the same person.
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by unwise-exe 3y ago
So now all the other ISPs they compete with will have to improve their offerings to match, right? ...Right?
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by unwise-exe 3y ago
Yeah, using basic geometry to calculate the size of a star from it's distance and the size of the dot it makes in your telescope, doesn't give sensible answers when the size of the dot is due to quantum diffraction (an Airy disc).
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by unwise-exe 3y ago
That only makes sense if the government owns the people. Which is exactly backwards.
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by unwise-exe 3y ago
> infohazards That would be, what, harmful social contagions like anorexia? Or dangerous explicit teachings like "the government is your friend"?
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by unwise-exe 4y ago
> I’ve never heard anybody who thought that there was no differences in women and men behaviours on average. It usually takes the form of insisting that underrepresentation of women in $profession is proof of discrimination and/or
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by unwise-exe 4y ago
My car is a decade and a half old, and still works well enough. Not having to visit a gas station ever, would be kinda nice. Having to get a rental for longer trips once or twice a year would be mildly annoying. A hybrid with enough battery
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by unwise-exe 4y ago
BTW. Figuring it who is the core team is not that complicated. You just ask everybody to name five people who are doing well and who they want to work with again (in the next company). Then, sort employees by votes, and viola, at the top,
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by unwise-exe 4y ago
The way your organize work needs to be appropriate to the work being done, and to the individual people involved and their relationships. Sometimes this will look like one of the named methodologies under the "agile" umbrella, s
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by unwise-exe 4y ago
Today's popular usage often is tomorrow's proper usage. Even if it is sometimes a bit unfortunate.
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by unwise-exe 4y ago
1. This is for the San Francisco area. Does it generalize to software development more generally? 2. It sounds like this is from polling people about time at their current job rather than how long it took to leave their previous job? Wi
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by unwise-exe 4y ago
"Browser vendor says that browsers are so important that browser vendors should get special legal privileges that other application vendors don't get."
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by unwise-exe 4y ago
That's not safe for a lot of sites, though. I hear that porn tends to be officially frowned on in a fair number of places. Reading non-approved news is dangerous in some places. Honestly debating political topics can be super dangero
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by unwise-exe 4y ago
> Some of the other traces of medieval attitudes compiled here seem disturbingly modern. Why would it be disturbing that some advice has stood the test of time? Is it just that the listed example involves (presumably largely accurately
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by unwise-exe 4y ago
Sure. Being active online is one way to try to drum up expose if you're trying to make a career out of public speaking. Which potentially has implications if your area of interest isn't inherently tied to the main polarization a
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by unwise-exe 4y ago
Past some point, I've heard that more excessive punishments don't do much for deterrence. What does help is a certainty of getting caught.
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by unwise-exe 4y ago
> Engineers shall at all times strive to serve the public interest. > Engineers are encouraged to participate in civic affairs; career guidance for youths; and work for the advancement of the safety, health, and well-being of thei
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by unwise-exe 4y ago
The reason to use Python instead of Perl is that you can do `python3 -mvenv env`. Actually using the language itself is far less painful in Perl than it is in Python.
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by unwise-exe 4y ago
> Significance > People change when they think others are changing, but people misperceive others’ changes. These misperceptions may bedevil people’s efforts to understand and change their social worlds, distort the democratic proc
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by unwise-exe 4y ago
> amount so high it will get taglines so people will pay attention and think that could happen to them That's not how it works, it's about getting the accountants or lawyers or whoever to tell that person's boss "this
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by unwise-exe 4y ago
> copy-and-pasted [text] from a screenshot It's kind of amazing that that's even a thing, let alone that it's higher quality than a typical read-and-type copy.
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by unwise-exe 4y ago
> We should carefully consider the crime based on the individual and how much punishment is appropriate for that individual to compensate the victim/deter that single individual/company from continuing that future behavior. No

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