d4mi3n

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by d4mi3n 23d ago
End of an era. She was a very active philanthropist and will be dearly missed for all the good she brought to the world.
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Dolly Parton has passed away(businessinsider.com)
2 points by d4mi3n 23d ago|1 comments
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by d4mi3n 1mo ago
Can we contribute to the dialog rather than bash someone’s thoughts on it? As a start, why do you disagree and how would you further this discussion?
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by d4mi3n 1mo ago
I find this to be an incredibly myopic viewpoint. Software engineering is not defined by a single tool or technology, but rather how we design, implement, and maintain processes of value we want to automate or scale. LLMs will certainly be
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by d4mi3n 2mo ago
I think the dissonance you’re running into here is that places like Reddit are not monolithic. Saying Reddit, basically a very large collection of user submitted writing, is _entirely_ non-fiction is not correct and ignores years of short s
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by d4mi3n 3mo ago
I knew the publishing and game industry weren’t known for good treatment of their labor, but WOTC had a fair reputation in that regard. This has apparently degraded prior to my joining the company and has continued to do so. A big motivator
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by d4mi3n 3mo ago
Worked in tech for a long time before I got to WOTC. Went through a lot of layoffs and short term executive decisions that invariably leave anyone without preferred stock out to dry. Wish I had a union then. Glad to have one now. Edit: Word
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United Wizards of the Coast recognized by NLRB(unitedwizardsofthecoast.com)
113 points by d4mi3n 3mo ago|67 comments
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by d4mi3n 4mo ago
Unless one choses to bargain. Perhaps collectively.
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by d4mi3n 4mo ago
This is actually a pretty interesting observation as GMail, when it first came out, was just as clunky as all the other webmail clients. At the time, everyone was used to Yahoo!, MSN, etc. and Google was the odd one out with their webmail c
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by d4mi3n 5mo ago
It shows up in API responses when you look up your own user.
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United Wizards of the Coast(unitedwizardsofthecoast.com)
234 points by d4mi3n 5mo ago|218 comments
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by d4mi3n 6mo ago
There’s important history and connotation behind pronatalist narratives—particularly with eugenics, xenophobia, and gender (in)equality. Vogue did a decent overview of this[1] and history is littered with all kinds of examples if you go loo
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by d4mi3n 6mo ago
Humans have a tendency to ascribe intelligence to how well spoken a person or thing is—hence all the personification of LLMs.
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by d4mi3n 6mo ago
Probably a diversification play and a play to see out bigger contracts. If you've worked in the FEDRamp space, you may be aware that Wiz (last a checked, a year or so ago) is one of the few and possibly ownly player certified to operat
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by d4mi3n 6mo ago
There is a reason for hoarding data: it’s an asset on the balance sheet. So long as it is legal to liquidate data for cash, there will be incentives to collect and keep it.
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by d4mi3n 7mo ago
Well, in the case of a company trying to market to you, it literally _is_ their business. It makes them money. The problem is that we have markets where we: - Incentivize organizations to pursue profits at the expense of everything else, wh
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by d4mi3n 7mo ago
I think this is interesting in that I feel, grammatically and structurally, LLMs often generate _higher quality_ text than most humans do. What tends to be lower quality is the meaning of said texts. Say what you want about marketing-isms o
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by d4mi3n 7mo ago
That's the rub though, isn't it? This feels like a form of self-censorship in response to some kind of shibboleth born of pattern recognition.
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by d4mi3n 7mo ago
No fancy keyboard required, just a keystroke on Mac (`alt+shift+-`) and Linux (`right alt+something` depending on your distro).
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by d4mi3n 7mo ago
I'm still salty that I can't use em-dashes anymore for fear of my writing being flagged as AI generated. Been using them for years—it's just `alt+shift+-` on a Mac keyboard and I find them more legible in many fonts compared
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by d4mi3n 7mo ago
I suspect this is partly due to the quality of documentation for Elixir, Erlang, and BEAM. The OTP documentation has been around for a long time and has been excellently written. Erlang/Elixer doc gen outputs function signatures, arity
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by d4mi3n 7mo ago
I've seen but haven't used CEL. Anybody with experience with competing tech have any strong opinions? I've used OPA, know CEL used by GCP and Kyverno, but otherwise haven't seen anything compelling enough to move away fr
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by d4mi3n 7mo ago
This guide has aged surprisingly well, but I’d add to this: the above response is about as good as you can get—it is firm, non-combative, and moves the conversation forward. Don’t antagonize your recruiter. You want them to advocate _for yo
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by d4mi3n 7mo ago
Effective use of LLMs in this way is not cheap.
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by d4mi3n 7mo ago
I was laid off at my last 3 positions and can really relate to this. If it’s any consolation: how a company handles this is a good indication of the maturity of their management and recruiting function. I also strongly disagree with any ass
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by d4mi3n 7mo ago
I always thought of this as authority, accountability, and responsibility of a thing. Ideally one group or person has all three. In practice you’ll have many entities with some combination of the three.
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by d4mi3n 8mo ago
What problem are you hoping to fix by doing this? I think for any proposal to change policy that has serious impacts on the economics of the country, we should really be very clear on what problem we see, how we plan to solve it, and what s
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by d4mi3n 8mo ago
What you describe sounds a lot like Diátaxis[1], which is a strategy for writing and organizing technical documentation. It categorizes docs into one of four categories: tutorials, explanations, how-tos, and references. Category is derived
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by d4mi3n 9mo ago
Unless my understanding of how IPv6 is flawed, I don’t think your assertion is true in practice. One of the big benefits to IPv6 is that addresses are plentiful and fairly disposable. Getting a /48 block and configuring a router to ass

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