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by wrs 2mo ago
What is the giant blinkenlight panel on the right?
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by wrs 2mo ago
I’ve had enough double-redundant links fail - and I mean pretty thoroughly double-redundant, different provider, different media, different physical path - that I’m quite surprised something like the air traffic control system only has two
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by wrs 2mo ago
Based on the examples, It’s like the thing took a writing class from Claude, but isn’t quite as smart — kind of worst of both worlds. The “Interactive Reporting” one is particularly terrible. A huge amount of waffly padding around a thesis
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by wrs 2mo ago
As someone who’s had to refresh electronics a few times over the decades, I remember this course as being particularly good, for a couple of reasons. The whole thing is organized around building explicit abstractions. You’re always making m
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by wrs 2mo ago
>[Nadella said] if he “had been made aware that OpenAI had scraped and trained on information that was behind a paywall,” he would have “invoked [Microsoft’s right to] require OpenAI to retrain its models.” Whew, good thing it’s too late
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by wrs 2mo ago
Isn’t the “error in the equation x = 0” just…x?
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by wrs 2mo ago
It says they can manually search them. According to this, the ruling explicitly doesn’t say if they can digitally search them.
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by wrs 2mo ago
This would be more convincing if there were a simple stat on the home page of the dispositions of the reported bugs (fixed/no-repro/won't-fix). As a random sample of one, I looked at one of the bugs this reported on Tailscale
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by wrs 2mo ago
That’s what I thought too! And now I kind of want to see that.
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by wrs 2mo ago
Oh, well, after rotating the board, sure, I get that.
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by wrs 2mo ago
Do we really know that? Or have we only seen the sequences from people searching for Numberwang? Has a number been both Numberwang (or Wangernumb) and not Numberwang (or Wangernumb)?
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by wrs 2mo ago
> If you know proposition X is true, it’s easier to figure out why. This misses the point entirely. If you know proposition X is true or false, you won’t bother spending years trying to prove or disprove it, developing deep understanding
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by wrs 2mo ago
The author argues for evaluating Ph.D. candidates based more on the oral thesis defense than on the actual thesis. By essentially the same reasoning, I’ve been arguing for prioritizing in-person design/code reviews over code-only async
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by wrs 2mo ago
I keep the studio computer OS a full version behind. My impression from audio developers is that the audio infrastructure is very badly documented (like so much of MacOS nowadays) and using it properly requires a combination of luck, WWDC v
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by wrs 2mo ago
>They took actions that would be considered as crimes if a human took them Um, hang on, if you meant that to be taken literally then we have a major problem. If you want to do something criminal, you just need to ask ChatGPT to do it f
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by wrs 2mo ago
I’m a bit baffled by how one could learn math without doing the homework. In my experience the homework is how you learn the math! So the exams would essentially already be testing whether you did the homework.
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by wrs 2mo ago
I don’t quite understand why the author says Context doesn’t count here. I’ve certainly experienced a top-down version where because a function starts accepting a Context, and therefore needs to be cancelable, lots of functions it calls now
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by wrs 2mo ago
We’re talking about the UI here, not the binary executable. Finder was extensively reworked in 2001 from the file manager in NeXT to be much closer to the original Finder, and most of the complaints here are about UI decisions taken from th
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by wrs 2mo ago
“Weird for the sake of being weird”…you know Finder existed first , right?
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by wrs 2mo ago
Aaargh! OK, you made me look it up. :) The word is "chordophone" (an instrument that makes sound from vibrating strings). A "fretted" instrument is a chordphone whose pitches are fixed by frets. But I can't find a w
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by wrs 2mo ago
I've tried (admittedly for just a few minutes) to come up with a case where you'd need to compare two pointers to ZSTs in any real algorithm, and failed. Can you think of one?
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by wrs 2mo ago
And yet people don't, because it would reduce quarterly profits. So one market (for equities) does kind of magically prevent workers from being trained, by not allowing rational participation in another market (for workers).
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by wrs 2mo ago
And piano is a stringed instrument, oops! How about “fretted instrument”?
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by wrs 2mo ago
That’s exactly why I didn’t say it privileges the major scale; I said it privileges modes of the major scale. Bjork did have a pretty big song in Locrian that one time. :)
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by wrs 2mo ago
Yeah, that sounds great — the ideal is product and engineering engaged on a common and realistic view of what the business is trying to do. You want a staff meeting where everyone’s contributing their skills to the problem, not defending or
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by wrs 2mo ago
I haven’t been directly involved in networking for a while, so it was funny to tune back in and see that now not only is 10Gbps apparently no big deal, they even put it on the management interface!
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by wrs 2mo ago
A lot of Chesterton’s Fence going on here… I remember thinking this way when I still had a pretty low-level understanding of music (like, “I’m reading arbitrary pitches and pushing the matching keys on the piano”), but once I started unders
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by wrs 2mo ago
A quick way to lose your engineers’ trust is to claim you “trust your engineers” and then unilaterally deprioritize an engineering task. Not saying there aren’t clueless or myopic engineers, just that you should be honest about the relation
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by wrs 2mo ago
I was quite happy when I could type search keywords in, Google searched for relevant pages with those keywords, and I went and read those pages. Haven’t really been happy since they broke it quite a while ago.
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by wrs 2mo ago
Same is true of Google search “summaries” where quite often I click on the link provided and it doesn’t support the statement Google made. BTW, this post would be more convincing if it wasn’t written in Claude voice itself!

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