Feathercrown

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by Feathercrown 13d ago
AGI and superintelligence are not the same thing
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by Feathercrown 3mo ago
Given "dirty" would make a strange (although valid) imperative, it would likely be referring to the state of the dishes
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by Feathercrown 3mo ago
Black is more common, judging by the description at the bottom
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by Feathercrown 3mo ago
Surely you understand that this is impossible in the general case?
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by Feathercrown 3mo ago
Citogenesis! https://xkcd.com/978/ Can't believe we got to see one in the wild, and with clear attribution to boot.
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by Feathercrown 6mo ago
Correct me if I'm mistaken, but weren't pencils ruled out by NASA because of the dust they create when they write? The toilet engineering could be a similar situation. These people are professionals, we should not assume they buil
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by Feathercrown 8mo ago
This would still benefit from a difficulty rating system or order
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by Feathercrown 10mo ago
Incremental config changes sounds like it could lead to a LOT of bugs
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by Feathercrown 11mo ago
This is a well-known effect, it does make a significant difference. People feel safer driving slower when the road has obstacles closeby or when it's curved. You can use this to slow people down with bollards, small curves, or even tr
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by Feathercrown 1y ago
I get the same feelings when I edit code in different languages. study_n += 1
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by Feathercrown 1y ago
I haven't found that to be very accurate. I suspect the internal idiosyncrasies of a company are an issue, as the AI doesn't have the necessary context.
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by Feathercrown 1y ago
No mobile support?
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by Feathercrown 1y ago
Some people talk slower than your natural listening speed. It's less like skimming and more like if some books used 36pt font and you normalized the size back down to a comfortable information-dense size.
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by Feathercrown 1y ago
I did this the other day in an old component that had been refactored several times. It's incredibly satisfying. IMO removing code is often more important than adding it because it helps so much with maintainability and future developm
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by Feathercrown 1y ago
An AI agent has agency-- it can choose when to act.
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by Feathercrown 1y ago
Autosorting, fuzzy search, document analysis, identifying posts with the same topic, and sentiment analysis all benefit from AI's soft input handling.
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by Feathercrown 2y ago
This is an excellent tool for the toolbox. My company has work from home days but the managers technically have to approve schedule changes/exceptions. Since they almost always approve it, we usually just say "I'll be working
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by Feathercrown 2y ago
Feels this way to me too.
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by Feathercrown 2y ago
> However, I had no concept of cuteness or how to be it. My memory isn't as good as yours, but you just reminded me of this fairly distinct feeling. As a child you're being earnest; only as an adult do you see that as being cut
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by Feathercrown 2y ago
Isn't drowning one of the few things that babies instinctually fear?
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by Feathercrown 2y ago
Flexbox allowed this within a flat list, but this is much more applicable
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by Feathercrown 2y ago
Isn't the Peter Principle only true if you consider skillsets to be static? If you learn and grow into new roles, it can be avoided or mitigated.
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by Feathercrown 2y ago
You can't claim that Linux games running on Windows counts against Linux, but ignore that Windows games also run on Linux. You can't have it both ways.
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by Feathercrown 2y ago
Agreed. I think you could automate some of that too, could save time if you do it often.
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by Feathercrown 2y ago
Ooh this is neat, I've been working on something similar. I'll have to check it out and see if they're using the same abstractions as I am. Could be enlightening!
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by Feathercrown 2y ago
I'm a monster, I see code that's been commented out for more than 2 months or so and nuke it unless I know it's needed. We have Git, it'll be fiiine
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by Feathercrown 2y ago
Threads in browsers sounds like an absolute nightmare of new browser bugs and dev issues
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by Feathercrown 2y ago
I've been waiting for this for a long time. Previous attempts to do similar things required installing Node-Gyp, which was a nightmare.
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by Feathercrown 2y ago
They even created setImmediate(fn) for this purpose
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by Feathercrown 2y ago
Something I've always wanted is a simple way to rearrange local commits between different branches (or reorder them) by clicking and dragging. I know there are CLI tools out there to do it, but I haven't explored the options yet.

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