Wobbles42

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by Wobbles42 9d ago
Surely consumers can easily obtain these rights by simply sticking to smartphones manufactured in the EU, right?
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by Wobbles42 12d ago
Web space is a heck of a lot cheaper than LLM tokens are. The solution to this problem is to start creating forums and getting agents to post to them as much as possible. It's a war of attrition and should be easy to win.
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by Wobbles42 3mo ago
Being deported if you get fired is a basic job requirement. Keeps people in line. Americans can't compete with that.
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by Wobbles42 4mo ago
The measure was clearly stated: the life style of that one guy's dad. He's the official consumer well being canary.
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by Wobbles42 6mo ago
I don't really see that happening here. Microsoft doesn't have any trust to lose, and they won't be gaining any by this move. That is the one advantage they have in all of this. Their public image is as bad as it can get.
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by Wobbles42 7mo ago
I keep hearing "this is the worst it's going to be" as if we can expect a monotonic increase in quality and value generation. Meanwhile, search was better in the past and is at this point the best it's going to be. Enshi
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by Wobbles42 7mo ago
This only remains true so long as open weight models lack significant utility. Access to compilers was almost as controlled as access to LLMs to prior to the GNU toolchain and Linux putting a C compiler and unix (ish) machine in the hands o
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by Wobbles42 7mo ago
Perhaps there will be a lot more people who can write software as well as I can weld metal. Welding is peculiar in that becoming a professional welder takes a great deal of time and effort (and probably some talent that I don't have),
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by Wobbles42 7mo ago
It's an extension of pretending that developer productivity can be measured in lines of code per day, as well as the managerial blindness to the fact that code can have negative value.
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by Wobbles42 7mo ago
Interesting. I am glad you commented. It's nice getting grounding from someone with a real background in the area. With that said, if it is a hallucination (and it sounds like it was), it's one of the more interesting ones I hav
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by Wobbles42 7mo ago
I would agree with all of that. Searching for information is inherently an adversarial process. You want your attention in one place, other actors in the system want it in another. Any solution that doesn't suck will need to be aware
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by Wobbles42 7mo ago
Bugs get fixed when systems are iterated on. They also tend to be single results from single mistakes, not compound end results of the implementation. Design features tend to persist. The phrase/idiom "the purpose of a system is
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by Wobbles42 7mo ago
It's a great question, and is tough to answer intuitively without speaking a native language that actually has such a word. I would agree that "boiling milk" and "boiling oil" are very unlikely to get separate words
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by Wobbles42 7mo ago
I am with you on the literal definition there. I wonder if the connotative association is exactly what we are trying to capture here though, and if those other phrases also fit in at the "separate words but slightly special" end
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by Wobbles42 7mo ago
I tend to agree. The definitions overlap perfectly. At the same time, I am having intuitive issues seeing "hot dog" as an idiom, vs just an ordinary noun. It certainly seems to follow noun rules, and fit into speech as one. I do
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by Wobbles42 7mo ago
This will be a hard argument to make. The decision makers who are the target audience for these metrics value "objective" data. They value the appearance of being quantitative, but lack the intellectual tools to distinguish betwe
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by Wobbles42 7mo ago
All of academic publishing has fallen victim to Goodhart's law. Our metrics for judging the quality of academic information are also the metrics for deciding the success of an academic's career. They are destined to be gamed. We
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by Wobbles42 7mo ago
I wonder if the term "published" as a binary distinction applied to a piece of writing is a term and concept that is reaching the end of its useful life. "Peer reviewed" as a binary concept might be as well, given that i
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by Wobbles42 7mo ago
"Steam" is very definitely the gas phase of water. Water vapor is too. If we are talking about chemistry they are essentially synonyms. If we are talking engineering, the term steam generally implies water vapor that is at or ab
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by Wobbles42 7mo ago
Do you think this comes from a gradual internalization of a real linguistic concept? Or it more a familiarity with common (if unspoken) conventions of the puzzle makers? I suspect the answer isn't binary, but it's interesting to
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by Wobbles42 7mo ago
More to the point, how to German dictionaries handle this? Is there a distinction between words that get enumerated and compound nouns that do not? It does seem, though, that German speakers might be more comfortable with the fuzziness that
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by Wobbles42 7mo ago
There seems to be a lot of overlap between this compound word concept and idioms. Both are largely atomic, defy analysis via individual word definition, and fairly language (and culture or dialect) specific. Dictionaries are also language
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by Wobbles42 7mo ago
This is a great comparison. We're arguing about the definition of "word", and attempting to expand it to include edge cases where two words with separate meanings have a different atomic meaning when combined. We could have
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by Wobbles42 7mo ago
The difference between phrases and "words with spaces" is addressed. The confusion might be that this seems to be a spectrum rather than a binary phenomon. We have single words at one extreme, ordinary sentences at the other, and
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by Wobbles42 7mo ago
A single word for boiling water would be like the single word "slush" we have for ice in water. It likely could apply to other liquids in the same mixed state, but would be assumed to refer to water (or solutions or colloidal mixt
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by Wobbles42 7mo ago
A dictionary is an enumeration of words. A thesaurus is a mapping between existing words. Every word in a thesaurus belongs in a dictionary.
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by Wobbles42 7mo ago
We have the word slush to mean a mixture of ice and water. A single word for boiling water would occupy a similar conceptual space. While these are not separate states of matter, they ARE special thermodynamic systems, with the particular
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by Wobbles42 7mo ago
Are mid level and junior developers being hired anywhere for any reason right now? I don't mean specifically rust developers. I mean software developers.
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by Wobbles42 7mo ago
> Neither do most programming languages. Rust is trying to replace C++ and C in particular. Those languages have specifications.
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by Wobbles42 7mo ago
This. The world is becoming increasingly more uncertain geopolitically. We have incipient (and actual) wars coming, and near term potential for societal disruption from technological unemployment. Meanwhile social media has all but comple

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