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by xpe 1y ago
> pressures users to hoard As a pedantic note, I would say 'ration'. Things you hoard don't magically go away after some period of time.
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by xpe 1y ago
IP Phone Roulette!
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by xpe 1y ago
> I don't know if there's anything we can do to make sure Zed succeeds sustainably and doesn't eventually get enshittified, but I'm crossing my fingers that for once we can have nice things. This is a good conversatio
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by xpe 1y ago
To individuals, a life seems priceless. But to anyone facing resource constraints, tradeoffs are inevitable. Welcome to the quagmire where moral philosophy meets bean counting.
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by xpe 1y ago
Makes sense. This also reduces the chances of a caller being “convinced” mid-call to tell the operator “oh, sorry, this is just a test”.
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by xpe 1y ago
Yes! I am not a lawyer, but I know many… In addition to steering clear of legal issues, demonstrating overall decency is the right thing to do. In terms of $, customers have already spent money on the company’s hardware devices.
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by xpe 1y ago
Maybe I’m going out on a limb here?… Even this thrifty and most excellent (party on Garth!) 3 to 17 step process might slightly reduce adoption by the target audience: kids.
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by xpe 1y ago
Ouch. What resolver? What hardware? With something like a N100- or N150-based single board computer (perhaps around $200) running any number of open source DNS resolvers, I would expect you can average around 30 ms for cold lookups and <
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by xpe 1y ago
Fear and doubt are mighty enemies. “Did I make the right choice?” haunts us all. But when exploration is (temporarily at least) an end in itself, trying a new sword, moat-digging technique, or trebuchet mechanism is inherently satisfying.
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by xpe 1y ago
Same. Or — just an idea — maybe it is time to kickstart an adapter so that we can plug a 386 into a LGA 1700 socket? A little underclocking, instruction translation, voltage conversion and presto.
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by xpe 1y ago
belated edits: … find other anchors … and try not to assume the status quo will persist, much less be part of a pattern or movement (which may only be clear in retrospect)
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by xpe 1y ago
> LLMs are the first step in the movement away from the "early days" of computing where you needed to learn the logic based language and interface of computers to interact with them. Even if one accepts the framing (I don’t), L
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by xpe 1y ago
> seems like tech is at least partly moving on This framing risks getting it backwards and disempowering people, doesn’t it? Technology does not make its own choices (at least not yet). Or does it? To problematize my own claims… If you a
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by xpe 1y ago
> many very intelligent, thoughtful people feel justified in brushing away millennia of philosophical and religious thought because they deem it outdated Why lump philosophy and religion together? I distinguish between philosophical thou
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by xpe 1y ago
What technology? Agriculture? The steam engine? The automobile? Modern medicine? Cryptography? The Internet? LLMs? Nanotechnology? Who are these people? Jonas Salk, widely credited as the inventor of the polio vaccine? Sam Altman, fundraise
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by xpe 1y ago
> I don't understand the desire to reduce government spending. It's all super high return on investment. "Return on investment" (ROI) is only the start of the conversation. ROI is only part of the context. Think of
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by xpe 1y ago
>> For example they often have attended college and believe in science. > One doesn't believe in science. One uses science as a tool to test hypotheses, using real world evidence to understand reality and truth. The first quot
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by xpe 1y ago
Even carefully thought out comments like the above are only hints and ideas relating to making sense of the world. They don’t talk about building quantitative predictive or causal models to disentangle the many factors driving success, fail
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by xpe 1y ago
From that article: > On a related note, unlike traditional unit tests, you don’t necessarily need a 100% pass rate. Your pass rate is a product decision, depending on the failures you are willing to tolerate. Not sure how I feel about th
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by xpe 1y ago
And AI in general* poses existence-level questions (that could go either way: good or bad) regarding military applications, medical research, economic benefits, quality of life, human thriving, etc. The idea that the future is going to “mor
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by xpe 1y ago
Apple coordinates internally, since macOS works with Apple hardware. Windows can drive coordination among hardware vendors. In the Linux world, many organizations and projects share power; there is not the same focal power on having a consi
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by xpe 1y ago
Thanks for the feedback. > As the reader I had to do too much work to discern your point and what was relevant. Re-reading, I hope the first ~15 words make my main point: > Either/or fallacy. There exist a varied set of ways to e
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by xpe 1y ago
> A simple rule applies: "No matter what tool created the code, you are still responsible for what you merge into main". Beware of claims of simple rules. Take one subset of the problem: code reviews in an organizational enviro
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by xpe 1y ago
> Dunno. I think you're being pedantic about a point that is clearly incorrect. If I was incorrect about a positive (factual) claim, that's fine, I'm happy to learn. However, if we disagree on normative claims (values), th
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by xpe 1y ago
Initial Operating Capability (IOC) is notably different from how many people think of Minimum Viable Product (MVP). From the Wikipedia page on IOC: > "In general, attained when some units and/or organizations in the force struc
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by xpe 1y ago
> To wit: you're just wrong. Take the L. There is no need to be a jerk about it. I explained my standard and thinking; we don't have to agree, to restate your earlier point. Your comment is choosing a "win versus lose&quot
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by xpe 1y ago
> I'm way more comfortable with the "stochastic parrot" framing, since we all know that parrots shouldn't always be taken seriously. First, comfort isn't a great gauge for truth. Second, many of us have seen this
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by xpe 1y ago
Point taken. Interesting example. Do you have some theories about why continuing education requirements are so different in aviation compared with finance? Some factors might include: individual skin in the game, observability, feasibility,
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by xpe 1y ago
We both know there is a difference between intrinsic and extrinsic incentives. This difference underlies so many things, including: (i) justification for regulatory frameworks; (ii) individual motivation; and (iii) likelihood of follow-
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by xpe 1y ago
I welcome specific and actionable criticism. Would you like to engage with my (a) substance; (b) tone; (c) something else?

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