imperfect_blue

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by imperfect_blue 4mo ago
Lazy is not bad, and bad writing doesn't mean it's not valuable or insightful.
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by imperfect_blue 4mo ago
Using LLM as a writing assistant to properly format your ideas, while lazy, is not the same thing as a slop bomb. They're highly rated because the original ideas are good, even if the writing quality is sloppish, and it genuinely conta
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by imperfect_blue 4mo ago
The problem, in my experience, is that most PMs don't add anything when it comes to drawing up the acceptance criteria. In your example of an order placement - the PM has no special knowledge of what is a good customer order flow. Deve
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by imperfect_blue 7mo ago
There's no way to perfectly forecast demand; all things equal I'd prefer that companies overproduce and we live in an age of plenty with a bit of waste (which companies are already incentivized to avoid ), rather than face shorta
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by imperfect_blue 7mo ago
It's a terrible idea because approximately 90% of the cost of clothing is not in producing it, but in the supply chain - keeping it in stock, transporting it to and from warehouses, the manpower needed to organize and sorting and inspe
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by imperfect_blue 9mo ago
If you are actually asking a serious question: while a patron is primarily motivated by whatever catches his interest, a corporate conglomerate funding the same investments is motivated by profit. They would have more of a motive to select
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by imperfect_blue 10mo ago
Imagine you're asked with building, say, a train network within your country. Domestic regulations demand that, because other countries are not certified up to your country's safety standards, you're not allowed to import any
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by imperfect_blue 11mo ago
US healthcare costs are nothing to do with socialism or capitalism. The reason is two-fold: US is subsidizing the rest of the world's medical research, and US healthcare bureaucracy is among the worst in the world.
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by imperfect_blue 1y ago
Economic growth is a measure of how much goods and services are available to everyone. If that isn't improving, that means your quality of life is lower, ceteris paribus. It means you don't produce enough energy on your own are de
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by imperfect_blue 1y ago
They can but they shouldn't. Replace phone ownership with race or social-economic status and it should be obvious why profiling shouldn't be done.
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by imperfect_blue 1y ago
You're hurting yourself when you tip. You have, objectively, less money than before. Ergo, tipping is self-harm.
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by imperfect_blue 1y ago
>> It's that they believe they have a religious duty to destroy the state of Israel. > And the US is full of Christo-fascists who believe they have a religious duty to "defend" Israel by any means necessary. How do y
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by imperfect_blue 1y ago
As an amateur home-cook, I find current LLMs incredibly useful as a sounding board for the on-the-fly recipe modifications - for allergies and food sensitivities, adapting preparation methods to available equipment, or substituting produce
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by imperfect_blue 2y ago
Windows actually has a built-in remote assistance tool now called Quick Assist. It provides a simple way to remotely control another Windows machine with user consent, without requiring third-party software. It's preinstalled on Window
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by imperfect_blue 2y ago
I'm not American and haven't done the calculus here. I'm just pointing out that from an outside perspective, what the American right is doing here is +EV in terms of American lives from their point of view, so it's perfe
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by imperfect_blue 2y ago
They're doing this because the expected value on lives saved is positive, not negative. It's the exact same thing as "defund the police" except applied to the entire government. If policing is net negative, reducing it w
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by imperfect_blue 2y ago
> But you cannot doubt that a trans woman is "really" trans. Trying to be the opposite of your biological sex is what "trans" literally means. Breaking it down, trans has two parts to it. The smaller part is simply de
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by imperfect_blue 2y ago
OP wrote: > A few days ago, Paul Graham published an essay on “Wokeness”. I skimmed it. I couldn’t finish reading it, it made me too upset...I’ve been feeling quite anxious ever since. It feels like the world is crumbling around me. ...a
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by imperfect_blue 2y ago
I read Practical Guide to Evil to the end. It started out amazingly strong, but suffering from increasing worse pacing problems as the series progresses, where the plot progression slows to a crawl with increasing amounts of build-ups and s
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by imperfect_blue 3y ago
Audit is not a foolproof guarantee that no fraud exists, the same way that locking your door doesn't guarantee that no crime exists. It deters opportunists by making crime more difficult and onerous. In this context, they're just
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by imperfect_blue 4y ago
Because a minor coordination failure across an enormous company is...not worth chastising them over? Because if you cry wolf too many times about trivial innocuous issues, nobody will believe you when companies are actively being evil? My d
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by imperfect_blue 4y ago
In theory yes, it's more secure. In practice personally auditing the installation script for every program you're going to use and the installation script for every update is grossly impractical, for the same reason nobody reads E
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by imperfect_blue 4y ago
Speech can be injurious if they cause someone reputational damage through slander, but I'm not sure that's what's meant here.
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by imperfect_blue 4y ago
Tit-for-tat makes perfect sense from a game theory point of view, even ignoring the egregious abuse of data for nefarious purposes by the CCP.
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by imperfect_blue 4y ago
I cannot understand why you would think so, even in a first world nation. Who would grow your food? Who would make the tools and fertilizer that enable the farmers to grow your food? The robotics and software that enables those tools and fe
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by imperfect_blue 4y ago
Because for everyone to make what they want to make is, as of current year, a pie in the sky fantasy until scarcity is solved, and perhaps not even then. There are 8 billion humans, the world doesn't need another hundred thousand progr
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by imperfect_blue 4y ago
Trello boards export to JSON, would you consider it open? OneNote notebooks are also an open and well-documented specification, as well as local first and backed by a very reliable company, which makes them just as open as Obsidian by those
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by imperfect_blue 4y ago
Open source != Free != Libre, I didn't expect to need to make that distinction. And of course, Obsidian is free to do whatever they want to do. But primarily, my intention is to to advocate support for and investment in ecosystems&#x2F
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by imperfect_blue 4y ago
The features may be available in the new app, but your existing setup will break. Your existing relations and notes will break if they used any Obsidian specific feature, of which there are plenty. Any notes you use to dynamically summarize
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by imperfect_blue 4y ago
If you use a subset of its features and don't rely on any particular plugins, yes, you can seamlessly convert between some tools — because in the end, it's just Markdown and some basic features like tagging and linking are shared.

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