arglebarnacle

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by arglebarnacle 2mo ago
I learned to touch-type by accident as a kid playing MUDs—no time to look at your hands while you’re under attack! I made friends, discovered things about myself, and even got brought on to start writing room descriptions. Totally formative
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by arglebarnacle 3mo ago
The models are getting better at agentic coding, so over time using complicated harnesses and precise prompt engineering to attempt to squeeze out an extra X% performance will become irrelevant as the models approach expert-level performanc
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by arglebarnacle 5mo ago
I hear you but of course history is full of examples of biases shared across large groups of people resulting in huge human costs. The analogy isn’t perfect of course but the way humans learn about their world is full of opportunities to in
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by arglebarnacle 6mo ago
Fascinating. We hear that the leaps in AI have been made possible by orders of magnitude increases in compute and data availability, and of course that’s substantially true—but exactly how true? It’s a nice exercise in perspective to see ho
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by arglebarnacle 8mo ago
Interesting, when I've come across this before I have always interpreted it as "not from Hong Kong", especially in a context like this where it's raised in the context of engaging with a western counterpart's potent
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by arglebarnacle 8mo ago
A really interesting article, and I'm likely to give it a shot a work. I'm grateful for it, and yet I found it difficult to get through because of a sense of "LLM style" in the prose. I won't speculate on whether th
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by arglebarnacle 8mo ago
Agreed, and the impact, culture, and law around the rise of distributed smartphone video by citizens is especially relevant in a universe where the Justice Department has called filming immigration officers "obstruction of justice&quot
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by arglebarnacle 1y ago
I assume your choice to describe average HR reps as “clueless ladies” isn’t meant to suggest that you respect e.g. women software engineers on your team any less. But if the gender of the clueless HR employees isn’t relevant, why mention it
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by arglebarnacle 1y ago
A dead project that has been replaced with a fork with a different name? Maybe I’m missing something but this really doesn’t seem so bad as far as name collisions go
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by arglebarnacle 2y ago
On a full keyboard it’s not too bad—just hold alt and tap 0151 on the numpad. Honestly I wish it was harder to type for stylistic reasons—it would help cure me of my em-dash addiction
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by arglebarnacle 4y ago
Why do you find it believable that they asked for government intervention to protect "the innocent" as opposed to simply acting to protect their own private financial interests, which seems to be the simplest explanation? I'm
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by arglebarnacle 4y ago
Very funny to me that on the way out of the room Wittgenstein allegedly "clapped the two examiners [Bertrand Russell and G.E. Moore] on the shoulder and said, 'Don't worry, I know you'll never understand it.'"
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by arglebarnacle 7y ago
It would have been better to say that she has an ideological objection to using they/them pronouns (rather than non-binary identity), so I'll concede that point. But the thrust of my post is that it's wrong to describe her as
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by arglebarnacle 7y ago
That's not true--the moderator said she refused to acknowledge non-binary people by their pronouns if they use a singular "they" because of an ideological objection to their gender identity. I am non-binary and use they/
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by arglebarnacle 7y ago
Yeah, but unlike management, you can start an opposition caucus in your union, do organizing, win an election, and reform bad union leadership. We just have such low awareness in the US about what unions are and how they work that we take s
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by arglebarnacle 7y ago
The unions are democratic institutions that represent the self-organization of working people. If the current leadership of a union is bad (and in many cases it is) it should be campaigned against, voted out, and replaced. Giving up on the
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by arglebarnacle 8y ago
Does anyone have any insight about what kind of jobs are out there for people with the kind of skills demonstrated in this post? I have a lot of data exploring, cleaning and visualizing skills, python/SQL skills and experience using it
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by arglebarnacle 8y ago
Its much more likely that the critical or cynical response to alturism by wealthy individuals and corporations is political than psychogical. What I see is ordinary people railing against a system where millions of people work multiple jobs
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by arglebarnacle 8y ago
I understood the title more as, "since we all know other people's bragging is insufferable and does little to convince us of the bragger's supposedly higher status, why do we continue to brag ourselves as if we believe it wil
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by arglebarnacle 8y ago
The GP was pretty clearly talking about PGP in the context of ordinary encrypted communication between people (like email). Keybase isn't competing with PGP for signing releases. In the field that we are talking about, PGP has absolute
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by arglebarnacle 8y ago
You can see a flash of that in this article with "Actor systems can perform computations that are impossible by Turing Machines"
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by arglebarnacle 8y ago
Honestly I don't think most Airbnb users are looking for a hotel like experience. They're looking for something in between renting an apartment in a foreign city for a month and a hotel--a genuine short term apartment rental. I us
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by arglebarnacle 8y ago
In the sea of dead links, early tech companies, think tanks, and so on, I was happy to see my local (Boston) PBS and NPR affiliate, WGBH. I don't usually think of public broadcasting as an early tech adopter, so even in Boston it was a
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by arglebarnacle 8y ago
"With bread risen with instant dry yeast, it will definitely resemble visual qualities of bread, but the texture and taste will not be comparable to bread that uses wild yeast." This is so wrong it drives me insane. The key thing
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by arglebarnacle 8y ago
Well I wasn't cheating in any way, just using the auction house/trade chat much more than a typical new account because most of my MMO experience was in EVE online and I like the "economic PVP" of cornering markets and f
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by arglebarnacle 8y ago
I was misatakenly caught in an automated ban wave in World of Warcraft for "botting" just a couple months after joining, but as soon as a human reviewed my account I was reinstated immediately. The automated system flagged my acco
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by arglebarnacle 8y ago
I don't disagree with you either. I'm just saddened by the way we're trained to accept it as normal that Microsoft's shareholders are allowed to make a 75%+ margin on the efforts of an exceptional developer. At least in
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by arglebarnacle 8y ago
The 10x developer narrative is intriguing because 10x developers aren't being paid 10x (maybe more like 2.5x), yet it's held up as a personal goal. Unless you own your own company, you're basically aspiring to deliver actual
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by arglebarnacle 8y ago
Piping curl to bash is equivalent to running a remote code execution exploit against yourself. Even if you implcitly trust the endpoint, do you trust that they will remain uncompromised forever? Also, it's especially silly because it&#
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by arglebarnacle 8y ago
We're talking about a world where automation has consumed say 20%+ of jobs. You presumably don't want to let these newly unemployed people starve, so what's to be done? It's naive to think that continued rising mass unem

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