BaronSamedi

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by BaronSamedi 4y ago
If any of the alternative search engines would offer this and a feature to block pages with affiliate links--like those "review" sites--I would be happy to pay for them. They need to offer ways to customize the search experience.
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by BaronSamedi 5y ago
It is possible to agree that content creators should be paid and that ads are bad. Substack, for example, allows you to pay and doesn't have ads. Ads are one business model, not the only one.
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by BaronSamedi 5y ago
Thanks to the magic of modus tollens, absence of evidence can indeed be evidence of absence. "A 100kt nuclear bomb just went off in your front yard!" Me, looking out the window, nope. It depends, of course, on the argument being m
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by BaronSamedi 5y ago
"The point of experts is they have thought about a field more and are better at making sound arguments in that field." This is an excellent point. It is so good that I think it may serve as the definition of an expert: An expert i
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by BaronSamedi 5y ago
Ironically, if we apply your first statement generally you are likely excluding yourself from the debate. "If you are not a logician your opinion on fallacies doesn't matter at all."
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by BaronSamedi 5y ago
I thought his statement that all requirements should have a name assigned to them was very good as well.
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by BaronSamedi 5y ago
I agree with you. The idea that using e-prime makes one's writing more clear isn't a "fallacy". People might disagree but it's hardly fallacious. There are many items in this list that aren't fallacies (e.g., &
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by BaronSamedi 6y ago
For your home network DNS: a server with dnsmasq -> stubby -> DNS over TLS -> NextDNS works quite well. Fast with dnsmasq caching and reasonably secure, plus NextDNS can block unwanted domains (ads, malware, etc.)
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by BaronSamedi 6y ago
The governor of Nevada is proposing exactly this. https://apnews.com/article/legislature-legislation-local-gov... Autonomous zones appear to be leaving the realm of science fiction and into reality.
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by BaronSamedi 6y ago
After many years working with these tools I agree. Declarative and template DSLs are OK for basic things but you quickly bump into their limitations when you want to do advanced configurations. At this point administrators should know how t
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by BaronSamedi 6y ago
Scalability is just one reason for using serverless. There are many others. Most of which have to do with being able to focus on the part of your code that actually does something instead of on infrastructure and integration. For example, n
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by BaronSamedi 6y ago
One rarely discussed effect of drug legalization is that pharmaceutical companies would start developing recreational drugs. I expect they would create milder versions of current drugs specifically for the recreational market. That market w
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by BaronSamedi 6y ago
Your are conflating what is practical with what is true in logic and argumentation. It is practical to accept our doctor's diagnosis because we trust that the medical system produces competent doctors and because of constraints on our
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by BaronSamedi 6y ago
My first thought when reading the article was, how about CORBA? The author makes no attempt to explain why CORBA and SOAP/WSDL failed so their recommendation has very little merit. Software technology historically follows a pattern: &q
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by BaronSamedi 6y ago
Lumpers vs Splitters is a fun categorization. When I see a group of things categorized I view it as a set partition and I wonder what equivalence relation is being used to distinguish the partitions (categories). The relation is usually uns
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by BaronSamedi 6y ago
It cost a bit more but not, for us, excessively more. A big upside was that we no longer had to tinker with docker and especially kubernetes. This allowed us to focus almost entirely on delivering functionality (and reliability and security
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by BaronSamedi 6y ago
I would play that. Your comment makes me wonder why policy simulators don't already exist, or maybe they do and I am unaware of them. Such a simulator would have to be able to handle the "cobra effect" which could be quite a
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by BaronSamedi 6y ago
This is an excellent comment. Thinking about laws or policies as dynamic processes with various feedback loops and side-effects offers a better model than the usual static approach. Side-effects are critical, so critical that they often oft
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by BaronSamedi 6y ago
We migrated from containers to serverless (Azure Functions in our case). This removed a large amount of complexity from our architecture and we are pleased with the result. It is always a question of tradeoffs, serverless has its own issues
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by BaronSamedi 6y ago
Academia is not unique in this regard. Superficial metrics have been introduced into many fields with similar results. Warnings about the danger of metrics have been ignored. Campbell's law: "The more any quantitative social indic
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by BaronSamedi 6y ago
There is a scene in The Simpsons where TV stops working and the children suddenly have to go outside and play. Great happiness ensues. That is exactly the scene I imagine if Twitter were turned off.
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by BaronSamedi 6y ago
Since this is a widely held view, it is worth debating. I would argue for a contrary position: 1) every organization has an ethical responsibility, and 2) corporations not only do have an ethical responsibility but have a higher one. A few
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by BaronSamedi 6y ago
Good points but I think it would be accurate to say that Docker solved a developer problem. But developers are only part of the story. Does Kubernetes solve the business' problem? The user's problem? The problems of sys admins, te
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by BaronSamedi 6y ago
This reminds me of my wish to see a unified theory (and notation) that encompasses formal logic and probability. On their own, each is lacking. A unified system, for example, in which we have all the tools of first order logic and Bayesian
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by BaronSamedi 6y ago
I think of the current neural net based approaches as more "artificial instinct" than "artificial intelligence". The goal of the older, expert system AI paradigm was to create software that could reason about a problem,
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by BaronSamedi 6y ago
I agree. While this is well done, it seems to be copying human programming techniques rather than allowing the AI to create code that it thinks is optimal. I think there is the potential to evolve efficient and secure code that is free from
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by BaronSamedi 6y ago
Instead of Test Driven Development, Test Only Development? I like that idea. This reminds me of an article I read a while ago on co-evolutionary training in genetic programming: one algorithm evolving to do something, with another evolving
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by BaronSamedi 6y ago
Good point. I've seen this mistaken notion of science a lot recently. Scientists can describe the world and make predications about how it might behave, they don't have anything to say (as scientists) about what one ought to do. A
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by BaronSamedi 6y ago
The funny thing is that this search is pretty easy to put into first order logic (shirt(x) & ~striped(x)). I guess we now have computers that are bad at logic.
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by BaronSamedi 6y ago
Is the Gompertz function the function behind the standard "epi curve"? It appears from the CDC web site and other places that the epi curve is the standard way epidemics are modeled. The CDC even has a simple tutorial for creating

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