brightstep

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by brightstep 22d ago
I’ll have ideas on my own time. On the clock, I’m happy to delegate that when appropriate.
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by brightstep 24d ago
I'm especially interested in how this can be applied to the world of the game. I think that creates much more interesting results than NPCs who can hold dynamic conversation. Imagine an MMO where quests you complete actually shape the
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by brightstep 7mo ago
Totally agree about the chat interface. I like to say it’s “infinitely powerful and infinitely confusing.” A dangerous combination. And, arguing with myself, I think it’s fair to say the code is AN object of our attention, if not THE object
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by brightstep 7mo ago
> A tool is not meant to be the object of our attention; rather the tool should reveal the true object of our attention (the thing the tool acts upon), rather than obscuring it I think this is true of AI agents. What is the object of our
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by brightstep 9mo ago
They have a monolith but struggle with individual subsystem failures bringing down the whole thing. Sounds like they would benefit from Elixir’s isolated, fail-fast architecture.
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by brightstep 2y ago
That’s true, and it’s still more reliable for useful information than the top results on Google.
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by brightstep 3y ago
> I was being exposed to engineering concepts that just weren't a thing in agency work: unit testing, CI/CD, git hygiene, release management. As someone who’s worked at an agency that’s grown from twenty engineers to hundreds o
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by brightstep 3y ago
It won’t be only for the disadvantaged.
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by brightstep 3y ago
“Tending bar” puts more emphasis on what one might argue is the more important part of the phrase. No one is there for the tender. Consider versus “woodworking”: you want the work, not the hunk of wood.
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by brightstep 3y ago
Both. Unknowingly usually means uncaringly. And the FDA clearly has duty to thoroughly test products.
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by brightstep 3y ago
We need a publicly funded body whose purpose is to issue grants for firms to reproduce scientific findings. A scientific reproduction corps. Extra can be awarded for finding flawed/fraudulent research. This would create a community of
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by brightstep 3y ago
Activation via Pegasus spyware will not be overt
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by brightstep 3y ago
Would you still have, if you knew the strings that would come attached? Tracking your every move? Enabling governments to surreptitiously snoop on your audio and camera? Constant exposure to experiences designed to addict and immiserate you
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by brightstep 3y ago
It’s not always possible to have a personal laundry machine available. Is it too much to ask that the machines also accept a credit card scanned in-person?
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by brightstep 3y ago
The solution is trust. Crowd sourced reviews are junk because you don’t know who wrote them, what their intentions are, or if they are in any way qualified (whatever that means to you) to review a book. With well known and trusted reviewer,
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by brightstep 3y ago
It's always amazing to me how on this engineering-heavy forum, so many users fail to recognize the benefit some simple engineering can deliver.
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by brightstep 3y ago
This is a perfect example (finally) of why even white collar workers need unions. Yes, even you in finance. Yes, even you in software engineering. It’s not just about pay!
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by brightstep 3y ago
That’s not true. We don’t need to do this. Absent intervention, sure these technologies are likely to be introduced and invade our lives. But we are humans, not computers, and despite the decisions of the last several decades, we are not re
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by brightstep 3y ago
The same kind of behavior happens in the private sector. Since it’s not government, we don’t call it corruption.
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by brightstep 4y ago
Because the bank, like all capitalist entities, exists to make a profit. Why else?
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by brightstep 4y ago
So have I. I love the people I work with (usually). That doesn’t change the nature of the wage relationship. We workers produce value through our labor which companies pay for in wages. Capital (CEOs, founders, VCs) wants to maximize the ra
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by brightstep 4y ago
The only difference is our capital is digital, not physical. Binaries, not machines. As such we can build it without expensive raw materials and components, as those which form an assembly robot for example. Once one owns those binaries and
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by brightstep 4y ago
All companies seek to devalue their workers. It is the nature of the profit motive. The less a company can pay for labor, the more it reaps as profit.
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by brightstep 4y ago
> cloud microservice system is just flawless for this purpose > Is it harder to debug than a monolith? Sure. Doesn’t sound flawless to me
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by brightstep 4y ago
Hard to get more elitist than our politics and economy are now at the height of digital interconnection. The liberal democratic revolutions and popular democratic swell of the US labor movement under FDR all happened without the internet. A
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New York lawmakers pass a moratorium on Bitcoin mining(theverge.com)
10 points by brightstep 4y ago|4 comments
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by brightstep 4y ago
Derailments are a red herring here. The real issue being raised by the writer is: shifts on these "monster" trains are too long and employees are burning out.
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by brightstep 4y ago
Sometimes (maybe most of the time) being a cynic is wholly justified.
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by brightstep 4y ago
What are they going to do? Refuse and lose their ridiculous salary? If only there were a way for workers to make a stand on this together, some kind of way to demands as a group.
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by brightstep 5y ago
NATO expansion did not trigger the war, Putin did that. It surely was a factor in his decision, however. If NATO, which after the fall of the Soviet Union lost its original reason for existence, had disbanded or even just stopped expanding,

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