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by namose 4y ago
I've found estimations helpful when it's really about breaking down parts of a task that aren't independently deliverable, but still independently estimatable. When working with a sufficiently technical manager, it gives them
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by namose 4y ago
That sounds like the estimation process was screwed up, not that all estimation is a waste of time
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by namose 4y ago
You speak as if this is a bad thing. If the U.S. funded research that caused the covid outbreak, the international community should lose trust in us, especially since public officials dismissed (perhaps unfairly) theories that would have
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by namose 4y ago
> There are any number of other labs around the world working on similarly dangerous research that could get released on accident. And you don't see a problem with this? You seem to assume the lab-leak hypothesis assumes malicious i
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by namose 4y ago
Same reason black-hat security research exists. By developing a virus in a contained environment, you can study it, model it, potentially develop mitigations or cures.
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by namose 4y ago
Yeah, I think the query-able knowledge engine is the key here, although I think it’s maybe more like “we haven’t figured out how to generalize conceptual learning”. The computer not only has to be able to query images on the internet, but a
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by namose 4y ago
Good, we both agree that no one in this thread suggested terragrunt is developed by hashicorp?
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by namose 4y ago
I feel like we kinda do this already it’s just that both servers are owned by GitHub and you can’t tell that it’s happening.
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by namose 4y ago
Gain of function research can either be outlawed or not outlawed. We don’t get to try both because viruses are global issues.
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by namose 4y ago
Fauci directly said masks don’t work at the start of covid https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-fauci-outdated-...
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by namose 4y ago
Stop doing revisionist history. Fauci said directly that masks don’t work. https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-fauci-outdated-... It’s fine to be wrong, that’s what science is all about, but at least admit it
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by namose 4y ago
It seems pretty clear to me that regarding the origin of the virus specifically, there has been bad-faith dismissal of the lab leak theory due to the politicization of GoF research.
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by namose 4y ago
> The most popular tool in HashiCorp's ecosystem that wasn't written by them was written by a consulting firm who hated HashiCorp's UX This is the initial comment about Terragrunt, which doesn't say that
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by namose 4y ago
I think the thing that’s missing is that the AI can’t train itself. If you were asked to draw a realistic x ray of a horse’s ribcage, you’d probably google image search, do some research about horse anatomy, etc, before putting pen to paper
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by namose 4y ago
I think pop media will continue to decline while the long tail will become better and better (this has already happened to music, film, tv, etc). If you use google and billboard charts as a discovery engine you’re gonna have a bad time, but
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by namose 4y ago
Maybe, but it hasn’t worked that way for software. I think people might see the opportunity to inject bespoke art in a lot of places it wasn’t previously. College students who could only afford movie posters previously will have art commiss
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by namose 4y ago
I think the apprentice model will still exist, they’ll just use AI to aid them. Only the very experienced, talented artists will know when AI is hindering them. Same way a really good programmer will understand when not to use a web framewo
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by namose 4y ago
I wonder if subtitles could be used, so rather than describing the video, you just write a script and it generates video for you. I'm certainly no expert, but it does seem like there's a lot more data there.
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by namose 4y ago
Most businesses want CRUD apps, and people don’t particularly like coding them. Technology where you can pump out a CRUD app with little to no effort would be a blessing, freeing people to work on more interesting problems.
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by namose 4y ago
No, it’s like claiming the internet is centralized because google exists, except the alternative to things like coinbase is way more difficult to use than alternatives to big search engines. It’s a pretty valid argument
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by namose 4y ago
Ok, so indentured servitude then
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by namose 4y ago
It’s about 7 years too late for this article
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by namose 4y ago
It’s important for audit ability and security that people can’t change commit ids from under you. If you run a security review of commit A and decide it’s safe to automatically deploy on your production systems, you’re only doing that becau
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by namose 4y ago
The problem is that most use-cases for blockchain require being beholden to a central authority anyway, because a chain is only as strong as it’s weakest link, and it’s either impossible or prohibitively inefficient to also run distributed
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by namose 4y ago
I sort of agree, but then why play sports or fantasy at all? Why not just turn to a hobby that inherently rewards creativity and boldness (most contemporary arts)? Alternatively, in competetive environments, things that have stock trading o
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by namose 4y ago
AWS services are usually based on standards anyway. If you use an architecturally sound approach to AWS you could learn to develop for GCP or Azure pretty easily.
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by namose 4y ago
I do also remember in one of the recent AWS outages, the google cloud compute service had lower availability due to failovers hitting all at once
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by namose 4y ago
Although tbh I’ve never seen accessible public transit in the US.
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by namose 4y ago
With a great public transit system, it feels like you are beholden to nothing. You feel like going to a restaurant and you just start walking. In NYC you can even get to hiking trails by transit. It’s wonderful. Not to mention no DDs
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by namose 4y ago
What happens if, instead of making $100M, the kid just takes the money, slacks off, and refuses to work? Can he be sued for breaching fiduciary duty? Or, what happens if he/she works really hard, but never makes it, and their investor

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