esoterae

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by esoterae 7mo ago
Honestly, this is a reasonable itemization of experience with individual tools, but this reads like a recipe for Company Cake instead of a case-by-case statement of need, selection, and then evaluation. Cargo culting continues to wrap its
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by esoterae 7mo ago
The full aphorism is: Jack of all trades, master of none, is oftentimes better than master of one.
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by esoterae 8mo ago
If a vegan LLM evangelist crossfitter comes up to you at party, which one do they talk about first?
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by esoterae 9mo ago
What a remarkable stalking horse to try and kneecap right-to-repair by arguing "Please, think of the chil^H^H^H^Hhackers!" You wouldn't download a CAR, would you? You wouldn't hack your own INSULIN pump, would you? Face
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by esoterae 9mo ago
I think their point was that there is no empirical definition of information as it relates to the observer. The expurimint you cite worked upon a physical system that already had a state prior to the expurimint. If everything is informatio
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by esoterae 9mo ago
The whitespace thing is actually one of python's major flaws. That feature attaches syntactic meaning to non-printing characters. From a human standpoint, there're many examples of silence having some kind of meaning. From an e
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by esoterae 10mo ago
Where does one begin with this kind of fallacy-ridden mud slinging? Appeals to both authority and majority, and guilt by location just to name the first three. So what if "everyone in Seattle hates AI"? What gives The Author the
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by esoterae 1y ago
Where do any of us stand but on the shoulders of giants?
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by esoterae 1y ago
There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies and the other is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. -- C. A. R. Hoare
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by esoterae 1y ago
Reading this as a pilot, this thing reads like a primer for How Not To Think. The author might think they're being a meta-pirate by saying "oh these are all possible actions proscribed by most organizations" implying that the
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by esoterae 1y ago
> They did really well in some things like ... devops Did they, though? I ask because the vast majority of people touting LLM as a huge win usually seem to speak from a.. DK-heavy perspective. As in, the bulk of their profession exper
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by esoterae 1y ago
While we're exposing implied things, let us also expose the assumption that this was posted by a real person (:
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by esoterae 1y ago
The driver of this output is a uniform lack of comprehension all the way down.
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by esoterae 1y ago
> we shouldn't focus on how a word is defined in dictionary [sic], but rather ... the ... meaning behind it. This is a spectacularly, objectively invalid take.
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by esoterae 1y ago
Did you not notice how this started over someone saying "That's not the definition of memory safety" and then prevaricating about the bush when asked to provide their definition? Your theory that this is an argument over sem
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by esoterae 1y ago
As a touch typist that learned decades before learning vi, with Emacs in the middle, I can definitively say your blanket statement is false. And as a recovering Emacs user, I can also say the little finger thing for a repetitive key is a d
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by esoterae 1y ago
I think you've made a fundamental mistake. Whether or not someone understands software is not based on their job title or their desires. Nor does typing to an anthropomorphized language model expand the understanding of software. It
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by esoterae 1y ago
I'm confused; which one is it? The property owner pays 20k, or the ratepayers are subsidizing it? Also, my pge statements now have a line item for transmission that's usually larger than my generation total. If I have 2x solar a
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by esoterae 1y ago
The fact that this must occur to address even a portion of humanitarian necessity is an indelible indication that our current government systems are incompetent likely through capture.
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by esoterae 1y ago
Keyboards in aircraft instrumentation certainly do NOT predate electronic devices. Given that one-handed operation for instrumentation is almost always the primary mode of interaction, and instrument panels are really just face-plates on q
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by esoterae 1y ago
I always thought of it as more of a race condition.
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by esoterae 2y ago
I have realized something quite related in my growing years of experience both interviewing and observing contributors to a technical/engineering organization Q: Given two engineers, one incompetent and one malicious, how can you tell
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by esoterae 2y ago
I think the civil burden of proof should apply here. Upon the preponderance of the evidence. Given so many studies that exhaustively show correlative effects of phthalates with metabolic and endocrine disruption, especially strongly durin
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by esoterae 2y ago
Enterprise
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by esoterae 2y ago
No, it hasn't. You forget, the reason systemd was originally rationalized for its insertion into our trees was "boot times are too slow". Its chameleon-like nature and ability to solve the hastily described problem du jour s
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by esoterae 2y ago
Ssh and its child processes are just another agent. Agents of a model that must be up at time-of-convergence as seen from the coordinator node; a remarkably inflexible arrangement that can only be addressed with additional development not
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by esoterae 3y ago
They'll just invent a better idiot.
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by esoterae 3y ago
The way in which the author structured the language used to describe things may be the most confusing thing of all. For example: "HEAD^ and HEAD~ are the same thing (1 commit ago)" Followed by: "But I guess they also wanted
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by esoterae 3y ago
Lungs are usually pretty reliable, but they're still working on a long-term fix for when air becomes unavailable.
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by esoterae 4y ago
Is there some large hurdle to having two sets of bdist packages, one set compiled with frame pointer support, and the other without? Like pkg vs. pkg-devel or pkg-src? pkg-fp, and have the dependency network trigger other installations.

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