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by awkward 4mo ago
This is just the fallacy. Political groups are coalitions not single monoliths.
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by awkward 5mo ago
I’ve seen a tremendous amount of content about AI water usage, mostly from pro AI sources. The most common type is comparing AI to particularly water intensive agriculture. The result is that now I think water usage should be taken into acc
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by awkward 5mo ago
Responding to tone but not to content is what a dog does.
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by awkward 5mo ago
Why would we expect John Deere to have a low AI adoption curve? It's main product line is just as computerized as Tesla's.
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by awkward 5mo ago
Geologically speaking it's just one really cool layer.
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by awkward 5mo ago
Code quality is a tactical concern and products live or die on strategy. I wouldn't recommend neglecting tactics if your strategy doesn't put you on the good side of a generational bubble though.
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by awkward 6mo ago
There's a reason we had a few years of heavy anti police protest across the US.
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by awkward 6mo ago
Safety and freedom is incompatible with direct political control. Respect for truth is a false value if what truth is is to be put to a vote or changed to match the whims of whoever is in power.
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by awkward 6mo ago
The decline of technic sets is such a shame. There's so little support for anything but representative models of specific cars, despite the platform being able to support a ton of mechanical creativity.
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by awkward 7mo ago
To be fair that's more than a little bit present in most superhero media.
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by awkward 8mo ago
Kernighan's Lever - https://linusakesson.net/programming/kernighans-lever/index.... This article is perennially posted here and is probably the best breakdown of this quote.
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by awkward 8mo ago
You aren't renting walking distance to a butcher baker and candlestick maker for less than $3K for a studio. That's an aspirational lifestyle for a few neighborhoods.
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by awkward 8mo ago
Deeply hate this. Just add a small fee. It's just a couple bucks. What are you, cheap? Open Source Software underwrites everything. It makes the largest human endeavors work. It makes silly ephemeral games little notes apps and digital
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by awkward 8mo ago
Folding drying racks come in several shapes and are very affordable.
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by awkward 8mo ago
The article does go into this and gives lip service to the idea that a secure third party could expose age without exposing identity. Ultimately, there's still the problem that even if point of verification can be done in a zero trust
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by awkward 8mo ago
There are several humans who need to make decisions between bad training data and life or death decisions coming from an LLM.
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by awkward 8mo ago
Games are a zero marginal cost industry driven by hits. The cap is pretty high. The floor is what you should be worried about.
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by awkward 9mo ago
Unions are useful because they are a counterparty to negotiations with management. They have leverage because they are able to represent labor as a single entity. If they are only able to represent labor on one axis, but not on issues that
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by awkward 9mo ago
Having a relational database in a gui was great. The problem with access was that it tried to support network applications as a backend but supported a punishingly low number of connections. Having an application that crashed with 10-50 con
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by awkward 10mo ago
It's a myth in the most literal way. Fleming published and promoted his results despite a lack of reproducibility. By the time he won the Nobel Prize, he had backformed or misremembered a folksy story about an open window. That's
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by awkward 10mo ago
So many other good details that get to how impossibly multivariate biology research is, like the need to have several days at the exact temperature. It's not uncommon for results in biology to have this kind of snag in reproducibility
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by awkward 10mo ago
Chatbots enable self destructive manipulation of others at scale.
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by awkward 11mo ago
I like your angle, but most applications is a big difference from most companies. Serverless comes after deciding whether or not to break up the monolith, and after breaking up engineering into separate teams. It's a good way to manage
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by awkward 1y ago
It sounds like it's a B2B SaaS product that's gone through multiple pivots with very weak guidance on product on every step. Not that I'm disagreeing with you, but it's a very common way for things to go wrong.
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by awkward 1y ago
Tiles aren't just about data selection, they're also about caching. By turning a continuous domain (any part of the world at any scale) into a series of discrete requests (a grid of tiles at several fixed scales), maps become a se
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by awkward 1y ago
This looks like a clever implementation of a useful feature. I enjoyed that the developer was able to link the streaming audio API to a useful visualizer, recognize problems with his approach, debug issues in that visualizer, and find a cle
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by awkward 1y ago
The advice is all good. For the specific examples, claims with a lot of concrete numbers should be handled carefully. Unsophisticated users can bounce off numbers rather than content. Sophisticated users might care about the numbers, but ar
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by awkward 1y ago
There's some domains where the bitter lesson has big impacts on theory. The Peter Norvig vs Noam Chomsky debate on the merits of brute force compute finding a full and complete theory of language is an example. That's a case where
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by awkward 1y ago
We'll all have jobs in blamefinding software companies. BaaS.
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by awkward 1y ago
It's crazy to me that almost all new web projects start with two assumptions: - Mobile first design - Near unlimited high speed bandwidth There's never been a case where both are blanket true.

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