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by wpietri 3y ago
Ooh, that's very interesting. How would I find the metaphors used before, say, the industrial revolution?
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Yeah, I have been guilty of that myself sometimes. This XKCD is a reminder to me: https://xkcd.com/793/
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The trouble with this approach is that people with less money then only get the things that got made for rich people and then set aside. When I got my first car, the thing many of my peers ended up with is the land yacht: https:/&#x2F
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by wpietri 3y ago
For those wanting more, here's the character: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pee-wee_Herman And here's the actor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Reubens
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I don't think that's what seeknotfind did. And I don't think somebody going cold turkey on an addiction is having a mental health episode; if anything, it's the opposite. But even if it were, if the article is "wpie
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It might have been. But but the other factors make me take it at face value. In each of the last 3 quarters, psykose had more commits than everybody else put together . Going from that to doing zero while saying she needs to sleep for a ye
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I disagree entirely. If we want to solve problems like "make sure packages have maintainers" we need to think very hard about human impact and human motivation. People can be addicted to work. People can be addicted to anything th
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My dad knew a mail carrier. Tall, lanky, energetic, and a bit of an odd duck. When he started a new route, he'd go through it quickly, finishing early. An early finish meant they'd add more to the route. He'd take that as a c
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> To the contrary, building off the OSS ecosystem can make it healthier, if for no other reason than they are cultivating more engineers that know how to use these tools. "Extraction" is not the right metaphor. It can, but it o
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And please god offer a help menu somewhere that includes decent docs and an opportunity to re-run tours. So many designers seem to think I am opening an app with oceans of time while asking myself the question, "What delights do these
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It's understandable in some sense. But wow, the arrogance of designing and building something and then only doing user testing at the point where it's too late to do anything about it. I could even forgive it the first time, but t
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If you can't tell the difference, I think that says more about you than it does about the text. And I'm definitely not going to try to bring you up to date on centuries of the humanities, or even the decades of cognitive science r
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It is not the same. One way to tell is that we think protecting human creators is so important that the US Constitution says Congress has the power to "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times t
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It is not intelligent, any more than découpé [1] means scissors and paste are intelligent. I understand that people like to anthropomorphize things. That's harmless fun when people are imagining tree spirits or thunder gods or whatever
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This is big enough, though, that we'll likely see new laws made in response, the same way the rise of the internet caused previously ambiguous things to get clear laws around it. So I think they also thought they could force the ambigu
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Exactly. When you have enough money, you think laws are for other people, as with Uber or cryptocurrency. The legal status of copyright in this context is unclear, because the laws were written without imitation machines in mind. Presumably
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I see no reason to think this isn't them sticking to short-term PR concerns. For a while, the tech playbook with regulators is to say vague, positive things, grudgingly agree to some bare minimum, and then mostly ignore or sandbag on t
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For sure. XP looked at first glance to be heavily prescriptive. But the initial set of practices were always meant as a starting point for a team. The notion was to give them a safe context in which to experiment and adapt. That was never r
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> maybe it's worth updating your assessment Nope. Because I think the White House's press release is expressing the White House's view of what's important. That the White House didn't get distracted by the chaff
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Yeah, I think this is Scrum in specific. Unlike the other Agile methods, it had a revenue stream through certification. At the time I was like, "Hmm, something doesn't seem quite right to me, but I'm sure the best ideas will
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Hi! I was involved in the Agile movement before the term existed. I came up through the "Extreme Programming (XP)" school of thought, and later on the "Lean" one (in the Poppendieck sense of the term). Here's my tak
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I think that's a plausible start at a definition, but I think the ship has sailed on the term having a real definition at all. Once marketers get hold of a term, it doesn't really matter what people who like definitions or precisi
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If people are building things that only run once a year or once a decade and haven't included sufficient tests to make sure those things work and keep working, then the failure lies with them, not with the people who work on the system
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For sure. AI is a marketing term. But in some sense, so it "tech". The paperclip is a highly evolved technology, for example, [1], but working on those doesn't mean you work "in tech". Tech meant something like, &qu
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And I think it's important to note that hype about "existential risk" is coming from people who stand to profit from "AI": https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/31/ai-poses-human-extinction-ri.
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The British people broadly agree with you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reform_of_the_House_of_Lords#O...
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That only shows how wily the Chinese are about IP theft, building time-viewing technology 2,000 years ago so that they could rip off American pop culture. Especially clever of them to steal things that sound like ancient parables and plant
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I agree, but what I'm talking about is distinct from a usual "process of understanding", because the goal is explicitly remain as ignorant as possible. In many cases I want to learn the exact minimum needed to safely make a c
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Reading how tuned this is for the quirks of human perception, it makes me wonder how difficult alien technology would be for us to comprehend.
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In software, I would strongly disagree with this: > you ought to understand what something is doing before fiddling with it I think understanding before fiddling is one option. But I think a better option is often fiddling and seeing wha

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