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by vages 1y ago
Most of the adults alive today have lived sometime when CPU speeds doubled every 12–24 months (see Moores law). This has conditioned many to believe that all information technologies improve exponentially, while, in reality, most are not.
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by vages 1y ago
I use batman from bat-extras[0]. It may very well be the best named command line utility I know. [0]: https://github.com/eth-p/bat-extras
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by vages 2y ago
At around 32 minutes, he explained that a sufficient implementation of negative infinity would be the smallest possible value representable by the data type (e.g. 32 bit integers).
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by vages 2y ago
With a much better acronym.
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by vages 2y ago
That is because the green button is a «zoom» button, which maximizes the window to display its contained document: https://blog.xoria.org/macos-tips/#window-management I am not sure if I agree with the choice either, b
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by vages 2y ago
Saying that a profession is less stressful than others, doesn’t imply it’s stress free. Most professions have a much higher risk of physical violence, for instance.
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by vages 2y ago
I really liked the critique of the US sales tax. I did not know such taxes still existed.
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by vages 2y ago
It may be a “level of abstraction”, but not a good one, because it is imprecise. When you want to make changes to the code (which is what we spend most of our time on), you’ll have to either (1) modify the prompt and accept the risk of usin
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by vages 2y ago
Interesting. Does Epic come with any pre-built UI for its products? Some of the bad UX complaints have been explained away as bad reuse of interfaces adapted to the realities of US private health care (which is very different from Norway’s
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by vages 2y ago
Do you have any links for this? Tragic that people got killed, but even more so if the same software was at the core. And I sure hope it was cancelled, if that was the case.
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by vages 2y ago
Yes, this was the kind of thing I was curious about.
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by vages 2y ago
Could you articulate in what ways it is patchy? I have worked with passenger rail transport. Knowing the quirks of that domain, I am quite impressed with air travel software. Anecdotally, I have rarely heard of cases of «Computer says no» i
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by vages 2y ago
In Norway, one of the regional health authorities have recently replaced its old software. The replacement, Helseplattformen (The Health Platform, based on Epic Systems’ software) has been making headlines since before its introduction. Doc
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by vages 2y ago
That is for blood donation. See https://www.oslo-universitetssykehus.no/fag-og-forskning/nas... for bone marrow.
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by vages 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_horse_manure_crisis_of_1... While streetcars may have made it easier to transport people, you still need to deliver goods to stores. There’s also the problem of having to wait for tr
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by vages 2y ago
Please explain how
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by vages 2y ago
Visiting Seoul, I would get alerts several times a day, written in Hangul. Seoul being close to the border with North-Korea, I first suspected that they were about missile tests. When I got an app to translate the messages, they were all a
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by vages 2y ago
Reminds me of the main view in the Yr.no app, which visualises the weather as a picture of how things would look outside a window at different times of the day. It is actually quite easy to get a feel for the amount (and type) of precipitat
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by vages 2y ago
And Monopoly itself is based on The Landlord’s Game, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Landlord%27s_Game The original game was covered by two patents. Parker Brothers bought them from the creator after finding out th
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by vages 2y ago
LLMs are to a programmer what a rhyming dictionary is to a writer. A good poet says complex things using few words. A bad poet is someone who conveys something simple using a lot of words.
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by vages 2y ago
> Now is the time to take to the barricades for privacy and secure encryption! How? I have signed a few petitions, but living in Norway, I do not have a representative to write to
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by vages 3y ago
Quite sure the tulip robot company will turn a profit on this quicker than most generative AI companies do with their products.
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by vages 3y ago
I recommend the article “Facing reality about the EU is a core requirement for good management”: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39602417
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by vages 3y ago
Because a lot of Switch games require downloading the finished game to be playable. See which here: https://www.doesitplay.org/switchCartsRevisions
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by vages 3y ago
Did you forget the link to Blackstone?
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by vages 3y ago
No. LLMs are worse for customer experience than their predecessors: LLMs confabulate, and their language is so smooth that you often need expertise to catch them in it. People call customer service because they don’t know what to do. It wou
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by vages 3y ago
Haha. But taking the statement seriously: Do you think the engineers in question employ more of their critical thinking capacity when using code from a generator than when adapting existing snippets?
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by vages 3y ago
> How materially different is this from "copy-pasted boilerplate from an example on a website that isn't fully understood"? When finding and copying, you have to employ at least some degree of critical thinking. The resul
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by vages 3y ago
The modern use of the term Luddite is perhaps the clearest example of how “history is written by the winners”: The Luddites protested the wealth inequality and bad working conditions that the new technology allowed for, for example child la
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by vages 3y ago
This trend seems to have no borders. Norwegian students are worse at math, reading comprehension and science than ever: https://www-nrk-no.translate.goog/nyheter/pisa-undersokelsen... The pandemic, “studying for the te

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