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by zephen 8mo ago
> Bad Grammar is a courtesy. I agree. Or at least to the extent that the complaint is that bad grammar signifies dispensing with formality, dispensing with formality is often a courtesy. Too many people have it drilled into them that &q
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by zephen 8mo ago
Some people think texts are for quick one-off messages and emails are for longer more thoughtful missives. But (a) most corporate communication isn't by text, and (b) the CEO is probably from a time when there weren't any texts,
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by zephen 8mo ago
> They (or their clothes as per the example) sends signals in either case. Unless you're Sherlock Holmes, or know the person and their wardrobe intimately, you literally cannot discern anything of value from a one-time viewing of th
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by zephen 8mo ago
Which reminds me that the R, of course, stands for Recyclability.
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by zephen 8mo ago
Maybe? Poe's law is always described as being about parodies of extreme viewpoints, not about perceived misunderstandings of what is being commented on. I don't think that the viewpoint that these people will sell your data in a h
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by zephen 8mo ago
Dark humor is like food. Not everybody gets it.
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by zephen 8mo ago
And the P in IoT stands Privacy, and the Q for quality. The K, of course, stands for Ka-ching!
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by zephen 8mo ago
"Broker" is right there in the title of the post. Baby's gotta get some cash somewhere.
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by zephen 9mo ago
You're obviously looking for lastLs.
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by zephen 9mo ago
> You don't know. All you know is not using it is explicitly permitted. In theory, if they are truly following the specification, you know they thought hard about all the consequences . I think the pushback in the comments comes
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by zephen 9mo ago
> So should is optional, people! Only once you have satisfied: > but the full implications must be understood and carefully weighed before choosing a different course. In other words, you better have a damn good reason for deciding no
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by zephen 9mo ago
I wonder about this. If (and it's a big if) the LLM gives you something that kinda, sorta, works, it may be an easier task to keep that working, and make it work better, while you refactor it, than it would have been to write it from s
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by zephen 9mo ago
Claude contains the entire wisdom of the internet, such as it is.
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by zephen 9mo ago
> It's a bit disappointing that people are still re-hashing the same "it's in the training data" old thing from 3 years ago. They only have to keep reiterating this because people are still pretending the training dat
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by zephen 9mo ago
Exactly. If their metric implies that 1 of the top 10 prodigy chess players became 1 of the top 10 adult chess players, and that holds down the line, then a prodigy has a 1 in 10 chance of becoming a top player, but a muggle has a 1 in 889
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by zephen 9mo ago
The article is a paradigmatic example of innumeracy. 10% of prodigies becomes 10% of elite, whereas (whoknows)% of (general_population - prodigies) becomes 90% of elite. How big is elite? How big is prodigies? Well, for a start, I guess we
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by zephen 9mo ago
I came for the cute pictures, and stayed... Nah, who am I kidding. I left.
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by zephen 9mo ago
That I can't type worth shit? Yeah, I already knew that, lol. But thanks for bringing it to my attention. :-)
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by zephen 9mo ago
When dealing with microcontrollers and datasheets and talking to other designers, yes precision is required, and, e.g. 8KB means, unequivocally and unambiguously, 8192 bytes.
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by zephen 9mo ago
Knuth thought the international standard promulgated naming (kibibyte) was DOA. https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/news99.html And he was right. Context is important. "K" is an excellent prefix for 10
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by zephen 9mo ago
Nope. It would be nice to have a different standard for decimal vs. binary kilobytes. But if Don Knuth thinks that the "international standard" naming for binary kilobytes is dead on arrival, who am I to argue? https://
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by zephen 9mo ago
> 1024 bearing near ubiquitous was only the case in the 90s or so More like late 60s. In fact, in the 70s and 80s, I remember the storage vendors being excoriated for "lying" by following the SI standard. There were two propos
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by zephen 9mo ago
On the one hand, yeah, immigration and trade issues push the buttons of the hard right. On the other hand, our hard right has a trifecta of business, gun culture, and religion. You're lacking the religion and gun culture, and trying to
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by zephen 9mo ago
I think Europe is a few years behind the US in many respects, including the dumbing down of the population.
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by zephen 9mo ago
> That's Pavlovian conditioning at its best. Actually, it's Skinnerian (operant) conditioning. Pedantically yours, xxxxx
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by zephen 9mo ago
At some places this is true. At other places, they take the $20, look confused, and fart around with the change for awhile.
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by zephen 9mo ago
Agreed. In point of fact, most technological revolutions have fairly immediately benefited a significant number of people in addition to those in the top 1% -- either by increasing demand for labor, or reducing the price of goods, or both.
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by zephen 9mo ago
Agreed. This is why I differentiated "uncorrelated" from "seemingly uncorrelated." Sorry if that wasn't clear.
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by zephen 9mo ago
> Everybody thinks they're customers So much so that my comment attracted downvotes. C'est la vie.
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by zephen 9mo ago
> When you tell it that its missing a critical detail, it treats you like some genius, every single time. Yeah, or as I say, Uriah Heep. To be fair, telling everybody they are geniuses is the obvious next step after participation awards.

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