incangold

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by incangold 3mo ago
Mmm. Same argument for any seat of power though. “It’s not always going to be the (oligo|mono)polistic corporation you personally wanted” either. So we invent democracy, term limits, anti-trust, branches of government, environmental safety
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by incangold 4mo ago
One concerning feature of AI is the speed and volume it is capable of failing at if poorly controlled, whether or not it’s more accurate than humans. Even if humans failed at the same rate, if you tried to exploit at scale you’d be throttle
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by incangold 4mo ago
I enjoy React and I’d take it over all of those other things. I wouldn’t take React over htmx/data-star and server rendering if that’s all I needed, and even if I had a couple of pages that needed a little bit more.
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by incangold 5mo ago
Console hardware is subsidized by games sales- it’s much cheaper than a similarly capable PC.
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by incangold 5mo ago
Similar sort of idea https://github.com/juxt/allium
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by incangold 10mo ago
Important content and information I want is on YouTube. I pay a YouTube subscription. I have ADHD. YouTube shorts are poison. I don’t want them. I keep clicking “not interested”. They go away for a bit, they come back, I waste hours of my l
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by incangold 1y ago
VAT can be considered a regressive tax because the poorer I am, the more of my money I spend on goods and services, and the less on savings and investments. As a proportion of income, poor people spend more on VAT than rich people. I think
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by incangold 1y ago
One infuriating thing about PACE is that even the fraudulent results only showed a 22% recovery rate. For a disease as serious as ME/CFS, a treatment with a 22% recovery rate is far from good enough. Even if PACE stood up to scrutiny i
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by incangold 1y ago
Another example of “entertainment” with scope for unconstrained spending: digital goods in the less scrupulous kinds of video games
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by incangold 1y ago
I find LLMs are often better for X vs Y questions where search results were already choked by content farm chaff. Or at least LLMs present more concise answers, surrounded by fewer ads and less padding. Still have to double check the claims
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by incangold 1y ago
You should be able to choose to switch off security as you wish. You should also be able to choose to leave it on.
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by incangold 1y ago
“About the same” is not “the same”, and there are tipping points. The gini coefficient has still seen a decent bump. But anyway, gini is a coarse measure. Look at the chart below that, showing income percentages going steadily upwards for t
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by incangold 1y ago
I agree with the broad point- as an industry we still fail to think of logging as a feature to be specified and tested like everything else. We use logging frameworks to indiscriminately and redundantly dump everything we can think of, inst
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by incangold 1y ago
Fakes over mocks every time
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by incangold 2y ago
As a patient with an under-served condition I quite often focus on the financial rather than human cost of not having a better system of care when talking about it. If someone’s going to object to improving the system it’s mostly likely goi
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by incangold 2y ago
Same situation. Going to the office and opening a Zoom call with colleagues in India and a city hundreds of miles away. Madness.
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by incangold 2y ago
Built a significant system in Clojure (from several smaller systems). Same experience. I wish Hickey had built gradual typing in to the language. I still love Clojure anyway.
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by incangold 2y ago
I think giving metrics and logging a location in a trace is really useful. But I still dislike OTel every time I have to deal with it.
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by incangold 2y ago
…and then you have customers, who will start demanding things. Now your motivation is externalised. Stressful, but we do not tend to get things done without stress, and inertia is anyway stressful in a different way.
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by incangold 2y ago
Dave’s channel on YouTube (just called Continuous Delivery I think) is also really good.
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by incangold 2y ago
“Works on my machine, ticket closed”
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by incangold 2y ago
25 years in tech and I’m still waiting for that free lunch
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by incangold 2y ago
This. There is _so much_ fraud. People blame the payment processors, and they can certainly be opaque sometimes. But perhaps fairer to lay most of the blame on the fraudsters. I’m sure Stripe would love the revenue from this enterprise, but
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by incangold 2y ago
Indeed. Who else do you give the power to regulate companies to? There are no other options.
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by incangold 2y ago
Went straight to the comments instead of the article and was surprised to discover that: "They’ll invite themselves to live in beaver dams and make for a vaguely tolerated roommate that helps patch up walls and stuff. They’re not as go
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by incangold 2y ago
This. Over and over. Founders also underestimate the degree to which good technologists who’ve worked at several startups also understand the business. I’ve watched friends who are CTOs get in to the same conflicts over and over with founde
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by incangold 3y ago
I also share the author’s concerns. I keep coming back to the fact that if you asked even GPT 3 how to solve climate change, it would give you a perfectly good answer. We have this idea that AI will “solve climate change” at some point in t
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by incangold 3y ago
Sad to hear of Ilene Ruhoy’s experience here. She is a wonderful clinician who has enormously helped other patients with complex diagnostic paths and with diagnoses that are severely neglected.
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by incangold 3y ago
This issue is that jira does not measure roi
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by incangold 3y ago
…and it’s not like we don’t produce similar regulation all the time. The conversation here makes it sound like this is unprecedented, whereas it seems to me completely normal. There are no CFCs in my deodorant any more, or lead in my paint,

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