grumpymuppet

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by grumpymuppet 17d ago
Honestly, mathematics is replete with psychos and the socially ill-tempered. How many times have I attempted to have a "human conversation" with a colleague about a topic of presumed mutual interest, just to be rebuffed or shrugge
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by grumpymuppet 3mo ago
I had my "wow" moment recently and saw an AI agent do something do over a weekend something that I spent years developing a relatively niche skill might have needed a month to complete. I think the message the team lead takes away
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by grumpymuppet 3mo ago
I bet a huge amount of that is on your head, or if it is factual, a function of a toxic work culture where people are primarily incentivized to "outperform one another" rather than arrive at collaborative solutions. The wealthy&#x
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by grumpymuppet 4mo ago
It's a little different because cloud and blogs didn't actively get in the way of your home compute. To wit, the various cost spikes for hardware. People -- WANT -- this technology on their home devices and (apparently?) the provi
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by grumpymuppet 4mo ago
As a semi-savvy programmer, but with little experience in web-dev, I'm actually a bit ignorant of what a site can measure -- client side -- versus collect server side. Presumably it's a simple matter to send something back to a se
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by grumpymuppet 6mo ago
Presumably why the person you are responding to called it a modified ad hominem.
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by grumpymuppet 7mo ago
Is that the hang-up? Like are people so unimaginative to see that none of this was here five years ago and now this machine is -- if still only in part -- assembling itself? And the details involved in closing some of the rest of that loop
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by grumpymuppet 8mo ago
I think think this must be why so many advanced level texts are couches in "introduction to..." language. Maybe it's a concession to not being able to cover every topic! Because my own introduction was through combinatorial g
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by grumpymuppet 8mo ago
Perk is... quite a thing. I think if you like programming because you like believing you have secret knowledge... go for it. Perk will scratch that itch. But I do not believe it beings you closer to the pantheon of God's. Ai n't g
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by grumpymuppet 8mo ago
I have to agree -- I generally avoided Twitter/X over the past decade. I started poking around in there once in a while the last few months and everything time I'm left exasperated. 'I can't believe people believe any of
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by grumpymuppet 9mo ago
It's not a matter of a "deal" to be made or agreed to, it's a matter of paying a fair share of the cost to organize a society. When Capital gets to reap dual benefits of revenue from business prospects and lobbying gover
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by grumpymuppet 10mo ago
I have been curious about this. Where can you find definitions for the basic operations to build up from? IEE754 does a good job explaining the representation, but it doesn't define all the operations and possible error codes as near a
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by grumpymuppet 1y ago
Well... is it really? Just because someone can pump out some kind of product that someone will buy doesn't mean it's actually worth any externalized cost whatsoever. It's one thing of we're talking food production and ho
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by grumpymuppet 1y ago
It would seem likely they were consumed by the proximate concerns of evading notice and making it to the plane and had no idea or thought about the dangers of being at such high altitudes.
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by grumpymuppet 1y ago
There are enormous pressures on a new parent -- stress about getting back to a normal work routine and lack of sleep compound into a unique kind of stress and things start to slip. For me: I decided I could just slow down a bit. Standing ou
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by grumpymuppet 1y ago
Well, they just got like $170 Billion budget passed, so they've got plenty of money to stay busy for a while.
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by grumpymuppet 1y ago
We were 38 with our first. I strongly agree that is too late to have them, especially given the likelihood of birth defects. Thankfully, we avoided issues there. A few years in and I feel "back on my feet", but it was harder for b
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by grumpymuppet 1y ago
At face value, I think I agree -- especially the format of the website being in a sort of hand-designed style. "Assembly Theory" is a sort of applying (kolmogorov-esque) complexity theory to physics and other natural sciences. I d
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by grumpymuppet 1y ago
I'm nearly certain it's the dopamine response of "solving problems" coupled with the fear of losing a paycheck. Morality isn't a consideration.
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by grumpymuppet 1y ago
Sort of both. I believe there are massive polarized forces that invest heavily in understanding and gaming the system. Sort of like a big multi-player game of tug of war . The system must be understandable or people wouldn't incorporat
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by grumpymuppet 1y ago
Were the database configurations "vibe coded"? My understanding is the notion is about getting an application to "work" without any underlying theory of operation or evaluation of the imported context.
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by grumpymuppet 1y ago
Right. There are two problems with software generally like this: interface and culture. Becoming expert at a tool like git involves building familiarity with the concepts involved. While it's not entirely hidden in the --help and manua
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by grumpymuppet 1y ago
The problem with this sort of analysis is that it's incremental and balanced across a large institution usually. I think the reality is less like a switch and more like there are just certain jobs that get easier and you just need fewe
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by grumpymuppet 1y ago
Ahh, sorry, yeah. This stuff is classic. "Old" even.
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by grumpymuppet 1y ago
If you are interested in programming language theory (think language design) then, yes. In some sense, this kind of stuff is impossible to avoid. If you're an engineer focused on shipping product, probably not. It's not TERRIBLY u
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by grumpymuppet 1y ago
I wish cache analysis was exposed more broadly everywhere . Everyone I deal with seems to understand and know how to think about it, but best practices seem to be wrapped up in a lot of heuristics. I am aware of being able use hardware cou
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by grumpymuppet 1y ago
This is something I've wished to eliminate too. Maybe we just cast the past 20 years as the "prototyping phase" of modern infrastructure. It would be interesting to collect a roadmap for optimizing software at scale -- where
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by grumpymuppet 1y ago
It seems to me the way to do this is have folks scan in a receipt. Tag with any missing information (location, date) that may be missing. Incentivize the behavior... somehow... and hope for the best.
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by grumpymuppet 1y ago
This seems like a reasonable position to take. Can you copyright the contents of a vacuum bag after pouring it down a gallon board as "art"? Did you have any meaningful hand in constructing the contents?
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by grumpymuppet 2y ago
This really resonated with me (I'm now in my 40s). I missed out on so much because I never pushed back on management who asked me to do X, Y, or Z. "Oh, that's the priority" I'd tell myself. Nope, that was their ass

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