davidthewatson

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by davidthewatson 6mo ago
Yes, please. Thank you!
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by davidthewatson 8mo ago
Does anyone know Rosen's role in Sega Saturn? I owned one and loved it so much. It was ahead of its time, given few mastered its design intricacies while those who did are legendary.
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by davidthewatson 1y ago
I was thinking the same thing. Then it occurred to me: what if the designer - writer sought to draw my attention by making me hyperfocus on the text? That is, musicians do it with dynamics, architects do it with compression and expansion, w
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by davidthewatson 1y ago
Define "AI therapy". AFAICT, it's undefined in the Illinois governor's statement. So, in the immortal words of Zach de la Rocha, "What is IT?" What is IT? I'm using AI to help with conversations to not cur
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by davidthewatson 1y ago
If so, that's interesting. Why? One of my principles is that we gain control of an uncontrollable environment by relinquishing control to that environment. It may not be obvious, but icy roads are an uncontrollable environment. Hence,
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by davidthewatson 1y ago
Well said. The death of trust in software is a well worn path from the money that funds and founds it to the design and engineering that builds it - at least the 2 guys-in-a-garage startup work I was involved in for decades. HITL is key. Ev
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by davidthewatson 1y ago
Thanks so much for this splendid writing about Satie! For me, it's as if the hauntological presence of David Foster Wallace showed up to match the known and yet unknowable genius that is Satie. https://en.wikipedia.org/
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by davidthewatson 1y ago
This is a good idea. It reminds me of the need for better visual debugging or visualization of the masked complexity in these products. I'm sure they exist inside tech titans, but I haven't seen them outside terrain visualization
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by davidthewatson 1y ago
Maybe. I get the frame but I don't think arguing the co-opting of Cockburn by the MBA crowd gets us anywhere. Think about it. GUI - Graphical User Interface - a concept taken from HCI Human Computer Interaction. I think that describes
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by davidthewatson 1y ago
For those of you who read with glee of the author's work and it's launch in Toronto soon, the event is free and open to the public if you wanna flee to Toronto for fun or are already there. I hope this won't become an unlikel
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by davidthewatson 1y ago
Thanks for your comment. Indeed. Therein lies the rub. Why? Because no matter the fact that I've spent several years of my latent career crawling and parsing and outputting PDF data, I see now that pointing my LLLM stack at a directory
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by davidthewatson 1y ago
This reply is so perfect I'm going to memorize it for family and friends.
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by davidthewatson 1y ago
Indeed. I'm guessing legal is the only reason we don't have 3d-printed ikea. Raymond Loewy FTW. But then, we'd have garages full of bespoke n-of-1 junk instead of mass-made LLM (liminal-labor-made) junk.
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by davidthewatson 1y ago
Indeed. I thought blocks world stuff would be amazing for early childhood education. I'm guessing some labs are already there since minecraft supports user-programmable models for years though I dunno the details. I'd be happy to
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by davidthewatson 1y ago
Indeed. I complained that Apple design gets a free pass while being haunted by Steve from beyond the grave for a decade. Your comments resemble my habits except rusted sway right into cosmic desktop alpha and done.
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by davidthewatson 2y ago
Does brain science have a Fitt's law? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitts%27s_law This is before we even start talking about serial or parallel, concurrency, etc. And then modify the networks and the wires themsel
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The Paradox of the Internet(aparc.fsi.stanford.edu)
4 points by davidthewatson 2y ago|6 comments
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by davidthewatson 2y ago
The range of communication side effects and their societal impact is correct between swimming in the shallows and alone together.
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by davidthewatson 2y ago
Solving complex challenges from code to testing of complex systems full-stop is a page from Buchanan and Pirolli, combined: https://web.mit.edu/jrankin/www/engin_as_lib_art/Design_thin... https://w
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by davidthewatson 2y ago
If anyone is succeeding here I hope they have a stronger neck and head structure than I do. I was present when Randy Pausch made the empirical lecture on screen real estate at CMU almost two decades ago. I believed strongly in that argument
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by davidthewatson 2y ago
I upvoted your comment because I'm afraid you may be correct. I say, "afraid" because I can remember the day when a member of my team was fired for copy pasta from SO with little, if any understanding, into "production&
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by davidthewatson 2y ago
I'd refer you to a comment I made a few weeks ago on an HN post, to the same effect, which drew the further comment from gwern here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40922090 LSS: metaprogramming tests is not trivi
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by davidthewatson 2y ago
The previous commenters are correct. T1D here. Sorry for the book. I think you are correct but you may be overstating the case when you say, "healthy people can stay active for weeks without food". Carbs, yes. But its worth noting
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by davidthewatson 2y ago
That's right. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14149986 We all wanted an experience as simple as interacting with the human at Whole Foods checkout OR the robot at the self-checkout, but what we got was this c
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by davidthewatson 2y ago
This is a short book. My apologies. You don't really have a choice with current gen CGM as to "all day". These devices are designed to be inserted and used on either a 10 day cycle (Dexcom) or 14 day cycle (Abbott). Also, be
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by davidthewatson 2y ago
Reacting to this and the previous comment, I've pursued the idea of iterative human-computer interaction via GPT as perhaps not the ultimate solution, but an extant solution to the problem posed by Knuth in literate programming before
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by davidthewatson 2y ago
Definitely a fan of k3s as k8s lite - complexity that your particular project may not need, particularly since every project doesn't need k8s and many are better off with less. If you look at the history from J2EE to the k8s prototype
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by davidthewatson 2y ago
I linked Redis Queue on the previous reply but had not heard of rqlite so thanks for this! It looks like this may solve at least another part of my quest to replace various back-ends with sqlite.
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by davidthewatson 2y ago
That's right! https://python-rq.org/
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by davidthewatson 2y ago
Yes, thanks for asking. Continous Glucose Monitors (CGM). That used to be a diabetic-only problem until Abbott, Dexcom,and other vendors expanded their markets beyond diagnosed diabetics into pre-diabetes markets and exercise, health, and w

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