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by wwweston 2y ago
Isn’t that what “unfollow” is on FB (stay “friends” but they don’t influence your feed)?
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by wwweston 2y ago
15 years ago while resisting the smartphone shift I got myself a passport case to use as a combined wallet and portable notebook to write things down in. It worked reasonably well and certainly had some robust advantages but honestly so do
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> This isn’t some kind of massive win for MakeMusic, nor is it greed if they get a little money for moving people to another product. Yeah, this doesn't smell like a typical financial or strategic move. My guess would be that this i
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by wwweston 2y ago
The embrace of Dorico is really interesting; at a guess, that seems to me less like a typical product strategy move and more like an engineering team that really cared about the product domain recognizing retirement needs among their codeba
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by wwweston 2y ago
> The health insurance industry would make Franz Kafka proud. The incentives are Kafka-esque. If you're a provider, your incentive is to maximize billable treatment, and you often have prospective patients who have an extremely
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by wwweston 2y ago
People put serious effort into even IE compat for a while. AFAICT the beginning of the end came with trying to do battle with mobile browsers; you simply couldn’t debug all the potential problems well enough. I remember burning a month on a
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by wwweston 2y ago
From ash to famed flame wings then fox feet now return whence they were kindled
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by wwweston 2y ago
Or at least, reddit posts and comments that are content messaging / marketing (human or AI) fit in better with earnest and natural posts, so that they're more effective.
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by wwweston 2y ago
Not the most elegant mechanism, but it should be accessible to imagine an implementation via inheritance hierarchies even for a static manifestly typed language. Class "Person4.1" inherits from class "Person4" inherits f
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by wwweston 2y ago
Sometimes I’ve wondered if versioned types might be a help in bringing coexistence to a typed setup, and if this is part of where the benefits of a service oriented architecture come from. But given how versioning snarls can play out in dep
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by wwweston 2y ago
I've also wondered why Prolog or at least Datalog isn't available/used more widely as a query layer, especially considering that the promise of SQLs natural-ish language really didn't lead to a level of adoption among no
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One of the things that can be tricky about this happens when you’ve legit worked in a few languages and the semantics are perfectly clear in your head but the syntax for any language you haven’t used recently is crowded out by those you h
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by wwweston 2y ago
Spot on. Even too many developers think that their main skill is recall of language/platform/tool specific niche arcana, and while it's true that sometimes having that will reduce friction, it's rarely what actually driv
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by wwweston 2y ago
> Training on human data makes them embody human values and makes them a complete non threat. People can be threats, and when they are their values are part of what lies behind it.
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by wwweston 2y ago
Does the connectivity still work? Thinking about pulling out my DX and giving it a spin.
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by wwweston 2y ago
Maybe some people will be shamed that they’re not only spammers but spammers whose product may as well be a machine that automates the consumption and enjoyment of ice cream?
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by wwweston 2y ago
I’d ask why but I can already guess at the plausible technical answer (ai probably helps process/sift through lots of signals and we love sigint in the US) and a political answer (lucrative contracts). Sure hope the longstanding conver
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by wwweston 2y ago
You manage feature differences one way or another. If you like choosing rbenv vs rvm vs asdf and then using them to manage your ruby versions and gem dependencies rather than having in-band switches in a single interpreter, great, you'
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by wwweston 2y ago
If it’s available via a module, it’s done. And it smoothes over some versioning/compat issues. Useful talk deals in benefits and tradeoffs (as the linked article demonstrates in spades). Useless talk deals unsupported “should”s.
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How did you determine this and how could someone else verify it?
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And the idea that fair use includes training set fodder is a non-starter. This use was not only unaddressed in fair use standards were created it involves a set of capabilities that was inconceivable at the time, so it can’t have been inten
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by wwweston 2y ago
If different rulings by different people prove that expertise wasn't applied, it's equally credible to claim that expertise wasn't applied in the creation of this decision, since it's certainly a change. Additionally, it
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by wwweston 2y ago
While argument from authority does make sense in a social/political context which functionally defines correctness in terms of authority of appointed office, I'm sure it wouldn't be lost on any seasoned lawyer that it still
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If his complaint is the back-and-forth, this is certainly a look-in-the-mirror moment for Gorsuch and the present court, who've sure made their own notable contributions to whipsaw governance dynamics lately. If his complaint is that t
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I’d be cautious about assuming most who can benefit from continuous monitoring are already being overseen by a doctor for some range of known conditions. Having just personally gone from apparently above average health to suffering a rapid
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The past. At least pre-Spotify, before that particular rot essentially took the business model of piracy and added a veneer of legitimacy which eroded the already tenuous economics of recorded music into afterthoughts in the common case and
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This sounds a lot like “this codebase is too complex, probably because the last developers weren’t very good, we don’t need all these code branches and special cases, they’re just making it messy, it’s time for something simpler and cleaner
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by wwweston 2y ago
This looks cool. At first pass, I have one big question: are there any facilities or even just plumbing for syncing between installs / front-ends? SaaS/cloud approaches have real downsides in terms of ownership but the big upside
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by wwweston 2y ago
This. For people looking for hosting as a service that don’t need scale (and even for some people who think they do) shared hosting is often the best low-admin + low-cost solution. Buuut you can’t brag about your cloud setup.
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There’s no safe intelligence, so there’s no safe superintelligence. If you want safer superintelligence, you figure out how to augment the safest intelligence.

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