mattdeboard

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by mattdeboard 8mo ago
My work-issued dev device is a Surface Pro 10. I can't use WSL2 for various regulatory reasons. I will never, ever work on software like this again. Worst development experience of my life because of what a miserable dev env windows is
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by mattdeboard 9mo ago
it means their servers were unreachable due to network misconfig.
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by mattdeboard 1y ago
Yes
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by mattdeboard 1y ago
LLMs are about as good at "therapy" as talking to a friend who doesn't understand anything about the internal, subjective experience of being human.
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by mattdeboard 1y ago
You can tell the difference bc if it's lead eventually you'll die
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by mattdeboard 1y ago
frick no it's not
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by mattdeboard 1y ago
exactly! it's really hard to find something that's truly _uniquely_ human...
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by mattdeboard 1y ago
Bees.
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by mattdeboard 1y ago
Re: oral transmission , I'm operating under the (unsubstantiated) assumption at least some species of dolphins and whales, at least, are conveying "tribal" information orally between generations (locations of reliable hunting
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by mattdeboard 1y ago
Chimps and crows are documented using tools to make tools. Crows in particular can make compound tools. Orangs make cutting tools out of two rocks they pound together. Neither tool use nor manufacture is uniquely human!
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by mattdeboard 1y ago
great point about our "biomorphology" being a perhaps-essential building block of the uniquely human ability to convey information symbolically for later retrieval.
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by mattdeboard 1y ago
Awesome. A truly impressive feat that, among all the various and sundry species populating the earth, is only achievable by a human. That is exactly my point... thank you! :)
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by mattdeboard 1y ago
Cave drawings throughout the American southwest demonstrate Native Americans of antiquity were just as capable of expressing symbolic thought via a durable medium to express meaning to other humans as so-called modern humans. I know I'
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by mattdeboard 1y ago
Interesting comment. Why ants? Do they use symbols to express complex ideas to each other?
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by mattdeboard 1y ago
> Why do you have a strongly held armchair belief? What an interesting thing to say/ask.
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by mattdeboard 1y ago
...but is there another species that writes things down for other individuals in their species to reference?
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by mattdeboard 1y ago
I think it's very possible there are other species that use "oral history" to convey information to their children, like whales, dolphins, etc., so it's not "safe" -- again just IMO -- to consider it uniquely h
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by mattdeboard 1y ago
I'm not saying there wasn't any cultural advancement prior to the invention of using written language to store information for use by others. Just that there wasn't any human behavior that distinguished it as unique among all
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by mattdeboard 1y ago
The oldest known cave paintings are 50,000+ years old. Those count as archived information :) It's pictographic information but it _is_ stored information :) About a hunt or a ceremony or a disaster or ...
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by mattdeboard 1y ago
Reinforcing my strongly held belief that what fundamentally sets humans apart isn't spoken language, or tools, or any of that, but rather the fact we write down what we know, then make those writings available to future generations to
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by mattdeboard 2y ago
Do you plan on writing about your dip back into vintage BBSs? I have a lot of memories from my youth oriented around BBSs, a world and network of communities I wasn’t really old enough to understand. I’d like to revisit that time with my ad
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by mattdeboard 2y ago
No. If I'm understanding correctly it means the software is learning how to solve problems in general by ingesting examples of procedural problem-solving.
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by mattdeboard 2y ago
This is the whole problem with half-measures
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by mattdeboard 2y ago
Oh wow. Awesome. I had an idea for similar game for system design but got bogged down trying to learn game dev. This is so cool
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by mattdeboard 2y ago
This is wild, I was just complaining about smoke detectors to "the group chat", to the point that someone sent me the link to this topic asking if it was my throwaway that created it. My thing is, why the hell don't they ev
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by mattdeboard 2y ago
Here are Cloudflare's docs on R2 consistency model https://developers.cloudflare.com/r2/reference/consistency/
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by mattdeboard 3y ago
I think you’re right, I can’t edit tho unforch
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by mattdeboard 3y ago
Dustin from Smarter Every Day posted a video last month of a talk he gave at NASA to Artemis stakeholders. It was absolutely fascinating and illuminated several lessons for any engineering organization's leadership. Highly recommend h
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by mattdeboard 3y ago
Simply matching a greeting is a lot of information. It conveys shared context, it conveys an acknowledgement by the party doing the matching that the party doing the original communication was recognized and understood, it conveys an accept
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by mattdeboard 3y ago
I see you created this account STRICTLY to question my sincerity, which is interesting. But setting that aside, I just wanted to say: > obviously judgmental language like “vulnerable” I consider children to be a vulnerable population reg

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