gliall_err

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by gliall_err 1mo ago
Metalworking, lathes, precision tooling, are all way more valuable skills and tools today than they ever were before the industrial revolution. I suspect that over time a good grasp of fundamentals and great tooling will only get more valua
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by gliall_err 1mo ago
I'm bad at getting some API to not be unreliable? What are you even talking about? When your team fails an SLA do you just tell them "well it's working now so git gud"?
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by gliall_err 1mo ago
We are assigning semantics to systems that deal only in syntactics. The entire problem with the current "AI" hype is squarely based on how we interpret output from systems based on statistical modelling of natural language. That s
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by gliall_err 1mo ago
Talent is not some fungible measure. I know incredibly smart people who can fail at incredibly basic life skills. "They wouldn't be that dumb" is a meaningless argument. People you don't know can be as smart as anyone on
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by gliall_err 1mo ago
Not "collapsing the climate" Collapsing human-optimum climate, a temporary state Earth entered about 15 thousand years ago and made modern civilization possible. The truly sad thing about it all is not the damage to some abstract
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by gliall_err 1mo ago
I was trying to figure out what time of day, by UTC, would most people be asleep. Searching I could only pre-slopped answers in hundreds of random blogs. So I decided to get my own custom slop. Opened Gemini and it said "video generati
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by gliall_err 1mo ago
You're missing the forest for the trees. Horse population today is in line with the long term average. There was a freak bump from 1850-1920. Think about this question: is it harder today or 200 years ago for the average person to lear
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by gliall_err 1mo ago
And how much of today's craftsmanship would be impossible one, two or three centuries ago? There has never been as much craftsmanship as today. The idea that industry destroyed craftsmanship is a caricature. Modern industry was built o
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by gliall_err 1mo ago
This is a sophomoric oversimplification. The US and Europe might have lost a lot of craftsmanship knowledge at a social level. Yet, what is left is so far ahead of what has ever existed in countries in South America for example. And China h