joshdick

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by joshdick 2mo ago
This is answered in the interview: "Context collapse is a claim about informational contexts, and my claim is a claim about normative context."
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by joshdick 3mo ago
This paper is from 1997 ...
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by joshdick 3mo ago
I did the same thing! I was playing nonogram puzzles a lot in an ad-infested iPhone app, got sick of the ads, and replaced it with my own site: https://karstendick.github.io/nonogram/
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by joshdick 4mo ago
I think new forms of media, like radio and television, are worthwhile comparisons to AI. They were hugely influential technologies in the 20th century, making a small number of media companies hugely powerful. That sounds a lot like AI. The
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by joshdick 5mo ago
Seriously. If he doesn't already have a diagnosis, he should probably get evaluated.
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by joshdick 7mo ago
This is 4XX versus 5XX errors in HTTP.
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by joshdick 7mo ago
> everything owned by no one is owned by infrastructure eventually Whoa, now there is a truth bomb. I've seen this happen a bunch, but never put it this succinctly before.
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by joshdick 8mo ago
Aww, that's so sweet!
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by joshdick 11mo ago
> Look, we clearly have a problem here. This task was voted a two-pointer and after two weeks we're still here talking about this. This shows me that there's a skills mismatch between you and what we expect from someone in this
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by joshdick 1y ago
Claude Code
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by joshdick 3y ago
Steve Jobs just came up with the number. There was no deep reasoning behind it.
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by joshdick 3y ago
Shouldn't future work like this just go into the backlog of your ticketing system?
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by joshdick 4y ago
And that's why we now require any pilot flying VFR within 60nm of DC to get special training: https://www.aopa.org/advocacy/advocacy-briefs/air-traffic-se...
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by joshdick 4y ago
This is partially a collective action problem. It might be socially optimal for people to take more risks working on crazy ideas, but for individuals there's less risk in working for a large corporation on incremental improvements.
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by joshdick 5y ago
This species of mosquito isn't native to Florida in the first place, so I don't see how we can wreck the ecosystem by removed this non-native species.
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by joshdick 5y ago
I wonder how long till Substack starts aggregating writers. Subscribe to these 5 for 20% off, sort of thing. You could aggregate writers within a niche to get a full view of that area. Or you could aggregate across topics to get something a
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by joshdick 6y ago
Now that's it possible for the machines to be operated remotely, how long till those operator jobs are offshored?
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by joshdick 6y ago
It's crazy to think that a tech company like Apple might have the clearest picture of the pandemic
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by joshdick 6y ago
The paper does analyze a real conspiracy: Bridgegate.
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by joshdick 6y ago
"Taxi drivers told you what to buy. The shoeshine boy could give you a summary of the day's financial news as he worked with rag and polish. An old beggar who regularly patrolled the street in front of my office now gave me tips a
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by joshdick 6y ago
Reminds me of the angel's share when you're aging whiskey: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/angel%27s%20share
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by joshdick 6y ago
You're right, and I think you've highlighted what makes a good monolith so hard to build and maintain. You need to be disciplined to keep a monolith highly modularized. For microservices, in contrast, their architecture encourages
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by joshdick 7y ago
There's a good example of this in my South Philadelphia neighborhood: The Italian-Americans here speak Italian with the accent of a southern Italian from a century ago, frozen in time. Italian accents have progressed in Italy over that
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by joshdick 7y ago
A recent HN article answers this question, actually! "A basic installation of SAP has 20,000 database tables, 3,000 of which are configuration tables." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22244750
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by joshdick 7y ago
WikiMedia's database schema is used by Wikipedia, one of the most popular websites there is, so it's arguably a very successful database schema design: https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Manual:Databa
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by joshdick 7y ago
When some of the economists mentioned are the president of the International Economic Association, a a chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, and a Nobel Prize winner who also happens to be the economics columnist for one of the largest
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by joshdick 7y ago
At least a few gigs on a modern computer before you start running into issues.
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by joshdick 8y ago
Yeah, it's hard to imagine myself ever recommending my company buy TravisCI now.
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by joshdick 8y ago
Yep, that's right.
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by joshdick 8y ago
You need a certain level of maturity in devops practices before microservices are worth it. Deploying an extra service to a kubernetes cluster, for example, is neither costly nor prone to breaking nor harder to monitor, etc. I think the bes

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