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by d4nt 3mo ago
I agree, chronological feeds of people you’ve explicitly chosen to follow are fine, but AIs looking to optimize engagement have caused untold damage to society. Future generations will study it as an example of unintended consequences in AI
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by d4nt 2y ago
Like this: https://openid.net/certification/about-conformance-suite/
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by d4nt 2y ago
I think they’re on to something, but the solution needs more work. Sometimes it’s not just individual engineers who are playing defence, it’s whole departments or whole companies that are set up around “don’t change anything, you might brea
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by d4nt 3y ago
Maybe it is running really slow. Maybe it’s taken 100 “real world years” for me to write this comment.
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by d4nt 3y ago
I suppose that really depends on what the subject of the simulation is. If it’s you personally, it only needs to simulate other scientists telling you about quarks, the solar system and the latest JWST images. If it’s humanity in general th
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by d4nt 3y ago
Soon everyone exists in a social bubble thats 1000 times worse than any present day social media bubble. It becomes impossible to interact with another actual human because there’s no common frame of reference. Micro languages emerge. AIs s
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by d4nt 3y ago
“Subspecies” feels a bit othering. Humans have been eating meat since Homo erectus (about 2M years).
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by d4nt 3y ago
Some time ago I asked myself: why did gambling become so addictive? You always loose, but it’s so powerfully addictive the behaviour must be beneficial in some way. It occurred to me that you always loose when doing “artificial gambling” (c
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by d4nt 3y ago
One of the first things that some reading on psychology gives you is the realisation that the “real self” is an illusion. You’re a bundle of competing drives and narratives. Even you don’t know why you do stuff most of the time, and you mak
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by d4nt 3y ago
If he stopped the legislature doing something, there would be a “constitutional crisis” but whether or not he then lost the power to do that again would really depend on public opinion and how well judged his move was. I can imagine a scena
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by d4nt 4y ago
Convert “$x” into “something Alice wants”. Alice doesn’t really want $x, she wants a new car, a house, a vacation, a new machine for her factory. Now “They want to (add, prevent from decay) as many edges as possible” becomes “They want to e
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by d4nt 4y ago
Until recently money was very cheap, so it wasn’t a choice between hiring an engineer OR a salesperson, just hire both.
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SQLite conversion support lands in SQLizer(blog.sqlizer.io)
7 points by d4nt 4y ago|0 comments
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by d4nt 4y ago
I see so many similarities with the freelance web/mobile developer space. And having run a small dev shop (3-6 people) for 7 years I agree that the _only_ way forward is to hold your nerve, fire the shitty clients and only ever do work
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by d4nt 4y ago
As governmental systems go, having an unelected head of state is actually kind of smart. Their lack of democratic legitimacy means they don’t try to exercise any real power, leaving that to the parliamentary parties. But they represent the
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by d4nt 5y ago
A pay as you go model seems reasonable in principle, but the devil will be in the detail. In theory the information being gathered is public already. I could follow someone round the public highways if I wanted to. But having everyone’s mov
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by d4nt 5y ago
I’m reminded of this article: Why didn't electricity immediately change manufacturing? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-40673694 In the same way that swapping steam engines for electric motors didn’t yield much
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by d4nt 5y ago
I’m a 42 year old male and have found it very hard, my whole life, to establish meaningful friendships with other men. I have many acquaintances, I’m not shy or socially awkward. E.g. When I was running a business I would often go to busine
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by d4nt 5y ago
A simpler system might be to have dedicated upward and downward shafts, with change over points in the roof and basement. The cars all queue up to go up or down depending on which shaft they’re in. The elevator cars couldn’t have cables of
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by d4nt 5y ago
I've also had the occasional issue with serverless platforms. Not to do with Google indexing, but I had a similar sensation: "well now we're just completely stuck". When something doesn't work the way it should, the
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by d4nt 5y ago
The awe and wonder I get from an old building comes from 3 things: 1. This building is beautiful. 2. How did they build this all that time ago? For example, the Great Pyramids, Stonehenge, or a large stone cathedral built 800 years ago. 3.
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by d4nt 5y ago
I think the point is that laws/regulations should always be followed. Not followed _unless it's cost effective to break them_. If they're simply setting aside money and then carrying on, or objecting to the fact that a fine i
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by d4nt 5y ago
Having worked with a few large IT services companies, I’d question their definition of “productivity”. I suspect it’s related to Jira tickets completed or short term revenue (eg billable hours). I doubt it’s measured in terms of end user ou
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by d4nt 5y ago
This article is everything I dislike about the postmodern perspective. It seems to start from a position of: humanity is bad. Then adds: any promotion of space exploration must be an covert attempt by the people involved to "normalize&
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Multiple API keys in your SQLizer developer account(blog.sqlizer.io)
2 points by d4nt 6y ago|0 comments
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by d4nt 6y ago
I find it disturbing the way a trait that seems to be very common among humans is being framed as a problem. External stimulus means you’re with other humans that you can cooperate with. That you’re sharing stories and learning. That you’re
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by d4nt 6y ago
Aside from other factors like better treatments, it seems logical that mutations of the virus that make it less severe and therefore less detectable would spread more easily. Social distancing could inadvertently be breeding the virus towar
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by d4nt 6y ago
Companies have processes and changing those processes is very difficult and risky for the managers involved. A new software provider really needs to fit round the existing processes if it wants to make a sale. Buying one person, or one team
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by d4nt 6y ago
Why is Rome sinking?
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by d4nt 6y ago
This is already a thing, but it‘s only done at “enterprise scale”. Meaning account managers meet with energy purchasers at large manufacturing plants to negotiate “interruptible supply” contracts. The notice periods, levels and tariffs are

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