fallous

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by fallous 2mo ago
You can buy $100,000 of the best fishing equipment in the world, but if you don't know how to fish it won't do you much good. Of course, if your goal is to collect great fishing equipment then you have no need to fish... but then
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by fallous 3mo ago
There are no Dixiecrats if you've hanged all the slave owners after the Civil War, and clearly Reconstruction is entirely different since you've purged most of the white population in the South (as well as some from the Union, sin
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by fallous 3mo ago
Your argument/timeline seems a bit confused in a couple of places. Our problem was "not stringing up all the slave owners after the Civil War," yet you then point out American industrialists (going back to the robber baron e
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by fallous 3mo ago
Nukes launch Chuck Norris at their enemies.
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by fallous 3mo ago
Agreed that on first blush it looks like Chesterton's Fence but it may be more of a cargo culting situation.
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by fallous 3mo ago
Mutually Assured Distraction.
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by fallous 4mo ago
It's not a linear cognitive decline but more like hitting a wall (usually late 40s/early 50s). What's it like? Frustrating as Hell because you can remember your prior capabilities but have to deal with things like randomly f
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by fallous 4mo ago
Adding AI to an organization that is somehow making process decisions based on "vibes" isn't going to solve problems, it's simply going to add yet another problem generator to a dysfunctional system.
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by fallous 6mo ago
The question is does this eventually lead us back to genetic programming and can we adequately avoid the problems of over-fitting to specific hardware that tended to crop up in the past?
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by fallous 8mo ago
Yes, but as with outsourcing those who are making such decisions often lack the awareness, or even skills, to properly specify the requirements and be able to evaluate the results.
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by fallous 8mo ago
If the on-premise offshoring centers around the use of LLMs then I suggest the term "off-braining." :)
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by fallous 8mo ago
The investor being the customer rather than actual paying customers was something I noticed occurring in the late 90s in the startup and tech world. Between that shift in focus and the influx of naive money the Dot Bomb was inevitable. Sad
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by fallous 8mo ago
Heh, I was at Netscape when the Sun-Netscape Alliance was created. Tip of the hat to a fellow gray beard. ;)
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by fallous 8mo ago
You just described the burden of outsourcing programming.
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by fallous 9mo ago
So many are desperately wishing to be the next Tom Wolfe rather than striving to find their own voice and style (as Wolfe did).
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by fallous 9mo ago
You're arguing from an end-user perspective, I'm pointing out that the Internet wasn't designed to solve easy but fragile problems but instead was intended to be a resilient network capable of surviving failures and route aro
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by fallous 10mo ago
Your electricity to servers IS a single point of failure, if all you do is depend upon the power company to reliably feed power. There is a reason that co-location centers have UPS and generator backups for power. It may have been unthinka
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by fallous 10mo ago
"My architecture depends upon a single point of failure" is a great way to get laughed out of a design meeting. Outsourcing that single point of failure doesn't cure my design of that flaw, especially when that architecture&
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by fallous 10mo ago
If you combine a 3 year-old, whose favorite word is "why?", and the ambition of a 7 year-old you might just end up with the most productive genius possible.
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by fallous 1y ago
If you think that resolution is terrible, you should've tried my lightpen-based "scanner." ;)
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by fallous 1y ago
It precludes many of the advantages of a flatbed scanner (such as scanning book pages without requiring removal of the pages), which existed at the same time as the Thunderscan. Things like hand scanners established themselves at the low-e
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by fallous 1y ago
Prior to the iPhone (but within the years Jobs was in charge), Apple was a company whose target demographic was the professional/semi-professional creative market. Once iPod and iPhone demonstrated a huge sales potential the company a
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by fallous 1y ago
No, it's not a parasocial relationship. Those are one-sided and usually a passive consumer of media believing they have a real relationship with those who appear within said media. If you are a customer you most assuredly have an actu
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by fallous 1y ago
A muscle car is as much a visceral experience as it is a means of transportation, and never under-sell the fun of driving a slow car fast. Modern cars are sensory deprivation chambers that turn the joy of driving into the tedium of transpo
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by fallous 1y ago
I'm not sure that you can reach the conclusion that "people don't have world models" based on beliefs that do not fully integrate with such a model. We too often try to misapply binary truth requirements to domains in w
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by fallous 1y ago
Everything? How about legal liability for the car killing someone? Are all the self-driving vendors stepping up and accepting full legal liability for the outcomes of their non-deterministic software?
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by fallous 1y ago
There is a reason that newspapers had old saws about their business such as "if it bleeds, it leads" and "dog bites man isn't newsworthy, man bites dog is." And there is the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect that was coined
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by fallous 1y ago
A common mistake that some managers make is pushing the burdens of managing onto those you're managing. Any of us who have been managers can look back and see things that we tried to push down to those we've managed because it ma
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by fallous 1y ago
After having a stress-induced LAD heart attack at the age of 46, my cardiologist gave me the "you need to reduce stress" line and I responded with "Oh, so you're not going to send me a bill for that stent in order to hel
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by fallous 1y ago
If, as a humorist, you are concerned about whether you can publish your humorous book you can be certain that you live in a cursed timeline. Additionally if you think there are two kinds of jokes: those that were once funny and those that

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