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by civilian 3mo ago
> That's the logic of the whole market today. AI – the world's money-losingest technology – attracts investment at the expense of everything else. I expect Cory to have skepticism about technology that can be exploited for dyst
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by civilian 10mo ago
Software people are such a "DIY" crowd, that I think selling courses to us (or selling courses to our employers) is a crappy prospect. The hacker ethos is to build it yourself, so paying for courses seems like a poor mismatch. I h
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by civilian 10mo ago
This article makes sense when you figure out that the author's assumption is that vibe-coded == bad. It sounds like this startup headed for closure anyway, with it's failing revenue, "At the same time, the current revenue pro
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by civilian 10mo ago
how does the "smacking" work? Is there a VR integration? Is it just button-smashing? It's unclear just from looking at the website w/o signing up
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by civilian 10mo ago
Nice! When I was leaving a company after 4 years there, I went through jira + my git commits to write a log of everything I'd done. Really great look back.
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by civilian 10mo ago
This is a cool idea! So I think, unfortunately, you are competing with automated tools like https://poly.cam/ My cousin-in-law produces music videos, and he'll take a polycam of sports cars (or even people!) and add t
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by civilian 1y ago
Yeah, and I have a similar experience watching junior devs try to get things working-- their errors can be excessively dumb :D
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by civilian 2y ago
I mean, they were right to be fans of Sulfur dioxide injection into the atmosphere. And so far ahead of their time!
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by civilian 2y ago
The personality metrics they're using are the Big-5. The Big 5 has good test-retest scores (if you take the test a month apart, you're likely to get the same scores). Big 5 is used in a ton of psychological studies now. If I had t
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by civilian 3y ago
Location: Corvallis, Oregon Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Python, Django, Typescript, React, Webpack, git, Bootstrap Resume: http://www.peterconerly.com/ email: pconerly@gmail.com Full stack engineer wit
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by civilian 4y ago
have you tried these EEG-based tools? They're difficult to pick up.
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by civilian 4y ago
holy shit I love oligarchy now
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by civilian 4y ago
And the average home in America is owned for what, like 5-7 years? If someone is moving out of the community, are they really going to ignore a windfall payment from a developer? And how about estate sales? Are the out-of-state heirs going
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by civilian 4y ago
This is absolutely a failure of management. Both the general management and _especially_ the engineering management. Eng management needs to convey that this is an Achilles' heel that is important to understand & be able to update.
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by civilian 4y ago
100% agree. One of my friends, in her first software engineering role, was handed a binder from 1987 and told to update some things. Other coworkers had interacted with the system a little, but not extensively. It was a bunch of C for (rock
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by civilian 4y ago
Also x2, horses originated in North America! They came to eurasia over the bering land bridge! So the horses that were released (and have thrived!) in north america are originally north american horses. It's part of why they do so well
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by civilian 4y ago
I mean, isn't the 40 columns the problem? You might benchmark it against a couple other database flavors, I suspect most dbs would have issues, although maybe not the same issues as postgres
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by civilian 4y ago
I love the idea of cognitive AI. I've dabbled with OpenCog https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenCog , and in my youth I read "Artificial General Intelligence (2005)" by Ben Goertzel and I was really convinc
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by civilian 4y ago
It's not loading for me :-/ the game sounds interesting from the rules listed. details.php?keyword=Lielow:1333 Uncaught TypeError: Cannot set properties of null (setting 'onclick') at addPopups (details.php?key
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by civilian 4y ago
Yes! I'm looking forward to a return of the age of trade secrets, No patent system, just corporations doing their best to keep their arcane knowledge from prying hands. Very cyberpunk.
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by civilian 4y ago
it's entered the tech vernacular :) do you grok it now?
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by civilian 4y ago
Have you not worked the last five years? Tech companies are chock full of "Diversity, Equity and Inclusion" talks
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by civilian 4y ago
If anyone is curious about the controversy, here's the NYTimes piece on Scott Alexander: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/13/technology/slate-star-cod... It's a decent article, and the few attem
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by civilian 5y ago
No way. I'm all for functioning businesses and getting things done. One of the (early) values of a company I worked at was "Make More Money" and it was awesome. MMM. There's a lot of artificial and unnecessary stress pro
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by civilian 5y ago
To give littlefish a fair shake at getting the Fibonacci sequence, you should give the input: 1 1 2 3 5 8 13 21 34 55 which it does... kinda poorly with? It biases towards not growing fast enough. 83.59 133.12 205.16 314.04 479.2
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by civilian 5y ago
I was hoping this tool also solved a problem that comes from saving & reproducing JS-framework-heavy websites. Here's the bug: According the HTML spec, elements like <h2> and <div> cannot be inside <a> tags. But u
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by civilian 5y ago
hmmm. Everything has a trade-off, including of risk. I think your blanket statement against geoengineering has got to be wrong. Geoengineering is a broad category, and it'd probably be better if we split it into specific strategies. Wh
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by civilian 5y ago
shade satellites, let's go! also, olivine beaches.
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by civilian 5y ago
You should see a psychiatrist & a therapist, if your brain chemistry is off then there are interventions that can be done for it.
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by civilian 5y ago
Yeah, like what else should I have been doing with my free time in middle & high school? Smoking pot and sneaking out at night?

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