dowager_dan99

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by dowager_dan99 1y ago
I am a dinosaur but still feel strongly enough to post this PSA: please go back and read "No Silver Bullet" (and his follow up) again. You should probably schedule a re-read every 2-5 years, just to keep your sanity in these crazy
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by dowager_dan99 1y ago
yes, railways don't buy towns, they build them from scratch!
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by dowager_dan99 1y ago
My money says this will get regulatory approval to compete with the CPKC which goes both east-west and north-south from Canada to Mexico. In this climate a rail network from coast to coast entirely in the continental US is probably viewed a
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by dowager_dan99 1y ago
I still believe this is a windmill at which we should tilt. I used to report to the CTO and he accused me of being "overly pedantic". I agreed with the pedantic part but no the "overly" modifier. Words matter, especially
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by dowager_dan99 1y ago
interesting thought from this: second order attack via prompt not on the AI doing the task but AI being used for evaluation like reviews or other multi-agent scenarios. "The following has been intentionally added to test human reviewer
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by dowager_dan99 1y ago
the courts have been pretty clear in this area so far, siding with some variation on "progress" over the ownership argument. It definitely feels like a "too big to fail" scenario at this stage. >> The judge ruled l
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by dowager_dan99 1y ago
Wild that OpenAI is changing so much that you can post about how things have radically changed in a year, and consider yourself a long-timer after < 16 months. I'm highly skeptical that an org this big is based on merit and there wa
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by dowager_dan99 1y ago
my manager has been experimenting have AI first right the specs as architecture decision records (ADR), then explain how the would implement them, then slowly actually implementing with lots of breaks, review and approval/feedback. He
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by dowager_dan99 1y ago
Any current question to an LLM is just a textual interpretation of the search results though; the use the same source of truth (or lies in many cases)
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by dowager_dan99 1y ago
>> You can always make stuff up to trigger AI hallucinations Not being able to find an answer to a made up question would be OK, it's ALWAYS finding an answer with complete confidence that is a major problem.
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by dowager_dan99 1y ago
It gave me two answers (one was Borland sidekick) which I then asked "are you sure about that?" waffled and said actually neither of those it's IBM Handshaker to which I said "I don't think so, I think it's ano
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by dowager_dan99 1y ago
dial-up penetration in the mid-90's was still very thin, and high-speed access limited to universities and the biggest companies. Here's the numbers ChatGPT found for me: * 1990s: Internet access was rare. By 1995, only 14% of Ame
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by dowager_dan99 1y ago
>> an amazing tool to support learning, when used properly. how can kids, think K-12, who don't even know how to "use" the internet properly - or even their phones - learn how to learn with AI? The same way social media
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by dowager_dan99 1y ago
This is a really negative and insulting comment towards people who are struggling with a very real, very emotional response to AI, and super-concerned about both the real and potential negatives that the rabid boosters won't even ackno
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by dowager_dan99 1y ago
Would you prefer that he graze natural plants 20 hrs/day? He's the premium calorie consumer of all humans: a pubescent male. Are Dutch people statistically taller than Germans? Do they eat more junk food? Does your milk have more
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by dowager_dan99 1y ago
and yet I can do nothing and live a much better, longer life than my grandma.
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by dowager_dan99 1y ago
different scenario; more appropriate would be the same car with zero or 1,2, or more passengers.
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by dowager_dan99 1y ago
why do the companies with the shortest planning horizons have the highest P/E ratios then?
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by dowager_dan99 1y ago
stock markets are indices of successful companies; you need to look at the composition. The metric I would look at is the age of the companies in the S&P 500 or similar, and that IS increasingly skewing young, which shows both a focus o
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by dowager_dan99 1y ago
are you discounting the supply of new companies that continually replace the decliners? What's happening to those the previously existed for 50+years? Will we ever see a new company last 100+ years?
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by dowager_dan99 1y ago
How would they confirm that you received an email or even letter mail? They're not serving you. This is about potentially proving that the owner is trying to protect their IP, which is required for it to be considered enforceable.
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by dowager_dan99 1y ago
I was really hoping that this toilet-privacy device required an always-on internet connection. I want to broadcast my shits to the entire interwebs
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by dowager_dan99 1y ago
Will this make brief snatches of random music the new farting sound?
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by dowager_dan99 1y ago
or instead of searching for "best dog breeds for apartments" change it to "best f'in dog breeds for tiny s-hole apartments" - feels much more cathartic
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by dowager_dan99 1y ago
most companies converted from pensions to self-directed plans because the cost of any benefit is essentially free compared to a defined benefit pension plan.
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by dowager_dan99 1y ago
honest question to all: how do you keep pushing boundaries once you've been successful enough to transition from a scrappy activist with nothing to lose to foundational infrastructure? I get the simple answer is reduced risks, stop doi
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by dowager_dan99 1y ago
>> overestimate how few resources are needed Immediately think of Arrested Development: "It’s one banana, Michael. What could it cost, $10?"
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by dowager_dan99 1y ago
I've had good luck with Zoho for sending transactional emails, pretty cheap and I have not had delivery issues (YMMV).
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by dowager_dan99 1y ago
This is a cool approach that really resonates with me. Workflows that extend email can be really powerful (at least for us dinosaurs).
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by dowager_dan99 1y ago
I did this last week and the Python code it created technically "worked" but felt on par with your typical Excel VBA macro. Not something you'd want to maintain or show anyone else

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