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by wwweston 9mo ago
> Wikipedia is a corporation, just like Work or University “Work” and “University” are so wildly different as institutions that to use them this way makes it perfectly clear how little merit your point has. It’s an empty character attack
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by wwweston 9mo ago
“atlanticist” - the culture of the enlightenment and the good that’s come from it. Wikipedia does hold ideals, that access to knowledge is a net good, that people can cooperate both in contribution and review without a dominating magisteria
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by wwweston 9mo ago
Pre-lenovo or post? any particular model?
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by wwweston 10mo ago
Putting software in long lived components — screens, speakers, whatever — is shortsighted as the industrial short term and barely engineered mindset. Maybe in an era where software can be carefully engineered to a point of actual completio
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by wwweston 10mo ago
And some people have been advocating for Apple to do something similar with old iPhones and tablets for a decade, and there’s no sign. Their privilege but not great for the world.
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by wwweston 10mo ago
If there weren’t a repo I think it was satire. There is a repo and I am not sure; the only way to resolve it probably is to spend some of that money he’s talking about.
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by wwweston 10mo ago
Absolutely. I'm a fan of the ACA's patchwork of wonky choices including no pre-existing exclusions and community rating. Additionally the subsidies made it genuinely accessible for most, at least where they made it through attempt
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by wwweston 10mo ago
It doesn’t. It’s part of a rosary of things people wield to stave off thinking about the topic. You can do other things besides nationalizing all care or insurance, but when you hear people talk about “open up markets to cross state compe
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by wwweston 10mo ago
Effectively no one was using XSLT at any point (certain document pipelines or Paul Ford like indie hackers being the exceptions that proved the rule). Browsers keep all kinds of legacy features, of course, and they could well have kept this
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by wwweston 10mo ago
XSLT is the solution domain specialists and philosophers. Abandoning it is the vote of the market and market interests, the wisdom of crowds at work. This is the era of scale not expertise, enjoy the fruits.
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by wwweston 10mo ago
There’s probably something to theories of generational cycles. But the people in charge are put their by voting populations who aren’t all one demographic.
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by wwweston 10mo ago
I’d be willing to bet that behind a change like this is a certain amount of data showing that the removed options weren’t used that frequently, and a stakeholder decision that this must mean that they should be demoted. And it’s data driven
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by wwweston 10mo ago
Not so much profit as a particular failure of accounting. Focus on privatization of profit with socialization of costs allows making staggering and possibly fatal costs someone else’s problem.
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by wwweston 10mo ago
Start with love of the domain and a culture of respect working in it, then move to a love of the status and respect, then a focus on those instead of the domain…
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by wwweston 10mo ago
Sometimes I wish I could do this for mid career sabbatical.
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by wwweston 10mo ago
Things are bad, but the worst part isn’t hidden/missing principled reporting, it’s that a significant number of people don’t care to attend to it where it exists, domestically or internationally. And a majority of US voters cast their
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by wwweston 10mo ago
what else has comprehensive off-line docs these days?
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by wwweston 10mo ago
Can you provide an example of someone who outright denies thermodynamics? I’m familiar with people who believe that there are details of how a body metabolizes fuel , expends energy, and generally operates that escape analysis focused on fu
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by wwweston 10mo ago
> I've noticed LLMs are really bad at cleanly abstracting across multiple layers Which makes sense, as most developers are too (it’s a particular non-trivial skill and rarely modeled wrll), so LLMs are more likely to be trained on m
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by wwweston 10mo ago
Surely if we can recognize this, an AI worthy of the name would be able to recognize this at scale, and what can be recognized can be remediated… Or perhaps this could serve as a kind of test: a technology that cannot be reliably used in ta
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by wwweston 10mo ago
AI dev - any chance it works well with nvidia 5xxx series cards?
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by wwweston 10mo ago
Retention is one good line between enforcement and tracking. If we wanted to solve this problem while retaining the benefits, what we'd do is have stiff penalties for warrantless retention and required yearly independent audits of syst
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by wwweston 11mo ago
Is the apparent lack of displayed anxiety on Gemini’s part a sign of good natured humor, blythe confidence in its own value regardless of cloud lineup, or proof of absence of self-awareness?
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by wwweston 11mo ago
Exactly. Use LLMs as a tutor, a tool, and make sure you understand the output.
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by wwweston 11mo ago
Sometimes it strikes me that something like this might be one of the better litmus tests for AI — if it’s really good enough to start 10x-ing engineers (let alone replacing them) it should be more common for more projects like this should
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by wwweston 1y ago
Be sure to correct all the people who are using the term “cool” for things other than relative temperature, as it was originally defined. See also the dictionary fallacy, and again descriptivism vs prescriptivism. Additionally, even leaving
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by wwweston 1y ago
Developers of all people should be in a position to notice how tag semantics can keep them oriented in a document or target behavior and styling…
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by wwweston 1y ago
Accurate to some substantial usage, whatever definitional inaccuracy or backronym action is in play. Descriptivism usually reflects some reality no matter the intended prescriptives.
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by wwweston 1y ago
Every settlement reaches a level of density where they have to re-reckon with land use rules collectively — that’s one of the deep flaws in a primarily private approach to land however appealing (and definitely particularly popular in boome
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by wwweston 1y ago
I think this is a really good question, and the answer might be that ideally you move up and down the ladder of abstraction, learning from concrete examples in some domains, then abstracting across them, then learning from applying the abst

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