RogerL

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by RogerL 28d ago
individuals can blow in the wind, but if you are a company who bought a thousand seats and spent a ton of time training people up, establishing policies, vetting which extensions are allowed, the transition cost is much higher.
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by RogerL 5mo ago
You want me to enter my api key into a website? Yes, I see the message about it staying local. No, I don't trust the message or that you will never be hacked.
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by RogerL 5mo ago
7 trivial prompts, and at 100% limit, using sonnet, not Opus this morning. Basically everyone at our company reporting the same use pattern. Support agent refuses to connect me to a human and terminated the conversation, I can't even g
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by RogerL 5mo ago
It's an AI generated article; don't trust anything in it unless you verify it.
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by RogerL 5mo ago
it was light gathering. the D5 they brought is a very old camera tech wise, but it was ideal for the low light photos of the eclipse. they also brought a Z9 for much higher resolution photos.
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by RogerL 6mo ago
I've purposely eaten insects while traveling. for me it is hard to get over the fact that they are not 'cleaned' - you eat everything in their digestive tracts. I intellectually understand that is safe, but my conditioning ma
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by RogerL 6mo ago
yes, the correct sub for this is r/truespotify, and there are a dozen discussions on the problem.
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by RogerL 9mo ago
Claude does these things even though you have explicit instructions not to do them, this isn't a tool for you asking it to delete files. Just today Claude decided to do a git restore on me, blowing away local changes, despite having st
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by RogerL 9mo ago
I was just about to say the same thing. This is bad code/documentation. Single letter variable names is almost always wrong if it isn't i for an index or such (and even then, would typing 'idx' kill you?). And as paramet
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by RogerL 9mo ago
You assume they were talking about a single product. at my job there is essentially endless amounts of small tasks. We have many products and clients we have many internal needs, but can't really justify the human capital. Like I might
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by RogerL 10mo ago
I grew up in the 70s. The hand wringing then was calculators. No one was going to be able to do math anymore! And then wrist watches with calculators came out. Everyone is going to cheat on exams, oh no! Everything turned out fine. Turns ou
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by RogerL 11mo ago
The article and the press release it was derived from says nothing about "more efficient", just smaller. https://yasa.com/news/yasa-smashes-own-unofficial-power-dens...
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by RogerL 11mo ago
I'm not a physicist but every definition of dark matter that I read says it does not interact with electromagnetic radiation hence it is invisible, and rocks are not that dark matter (wiki. NASA, etc)
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by RogerL 11mo ago
Hire, then train them for a long period of time? That is an apprenticeship. It's what they do in the trades already. There aren't enough slots (union or not). e.g. http://www.calapprenticeship.org/programs/ele
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by RogerL 1y ago
The oil can coat the pasta, reducing the ability of the sauce to penetrate the pasta when you cook them together.
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by RogerL 1y ago
Hard water will boil at a higher temperature, but it's only a degree or two.
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by RogerL 1y ago
Or because their kid or dog is in the car. Or because they have difficulty walking. Or because they just want to decompress and scroll their phone or listen to the news for 10 minutes. Or they hate crowds. Or they are immune compromised and
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by RogerL 1y ago
Go check out VxWorks or the like. only 20K a seat, build tools at a similar price, and then oh joy, runtime licenses required to deploy the sw you wrote. Which are reasonable prices when lives are at risk. Yes, I know RTOS are not general p
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by RogerL 1y ago
My inbox is filled with never asked for sales pitches, most having no concept of what we do or what pain points we have. And I'm a principal IC, but still IC, so mostly wasted effort on their part. Every last email gets deleted unread
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by RogerL 1y ago
> really hard to convince yourself to work 60 hour weeks Good!
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by RogerL 1y ago
It's a life endeavor that you will never master. start at age 4 playing minuet in G, at age of 90 you'll still be learning new things. The music is beyond us, yet ourselves, to paraphrase Wallace Stevens. All we can do is enjoy t
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by RogerL 1y ago
You also need selection, not just mutation (I know you are being silly, so am I)
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by RogerL 1y ago
That's not the point, the point is the ordering is inverted, not that history shouldn't be learned.
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by RogerL 2y ago
The tiniest amount of vacuum stops sound as abruptly as non transparent matter stops light. furthermore, there was no amount of sound which can overcome the vacuum, whereas enough photons at enough energy will destroy the matter in its path
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by RogerL 2y ago
And that is true for the foreseeable future, which unfortunately, if my math is correct, is around 17 hours. In 2 (time units) we'll be doing computer analysis of lens distortion or something to try to suss out the AI. At which point i
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by RogerL 2y ago
It's like a person in the 60s saying "computers will eat everything". Were they in every device at the time, in every home, on your wrist, in your pocket? No, capability wasn't quite there yet, but it would be. Today we
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by RogerL 2y ago
> having wealth is a social responsibility in itself Warren Buffet has said that every dollar he owns is an IOU that he owes to society - somebody worked hard, produced value, he is in custody of it for the time being, but it has to be p
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by RogerL 2y ago
It was "cooked up" by people like Joshua Maynez, Shashi Narayan, et al, who I'm going to guess understand what is going on, and adopted by the rest of the field. https://aclanthology.org/2020.acl-main.173&#x2F
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by RogerL 2y ago
return [key, value]
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by RogerL 2y ago
Aerospace welding is a different beast. Vast/tedious documentation requirements, experience with dissimilar metals, welding gold (think about the cost of splatter with that one), extremely tolerance requirements, etc. Some welding jobs

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