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by oofnik 1y ago
41,481. Nice. That was a fun time waster.
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by oofnik 2y ago
For fellow fans of Crawford's writing, he publishes on Substack at mcrawford.substack.com.
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by oofnik 3y ago
I had a similar experience just today when trying to debug a script that serves as a connector between AWS Athena and our internal log querying platform. I got fed up with trying to understand a bunch of arcane logic and asked ChatGPT to wr
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The Poetroid Camera(old.reddit.com)
1 points by oofnik 3y ago|0 comments
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by oofnik 3y ago
> If you don’t work somewhere that rewards curiosity, find somewhere else to work. I wish everyone had this privilege.
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by oofnik 3y ago
This was delightful. Thank you for the reminder that a simple hobby driven by curiosity can be the source of so much joy.
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The Corrosion of Character (1998)(archive.nytimes.com)
1 points by oofnik 3y ago|0 comments
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Centre for Computing History(computinghistory.org.uk)
1 points by oofnik 3y ago|0 comments
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by oofnik 3y ago
> Inside, a 47-year-old man struggled to mix ashy heroin with fragments of crystal crack, crushing both into a souped-up speedball. Observed by a nurse, he took the needle and jabbed it into a vein in his neck. “The veins on his hands ha
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by oofnik 3y ago
How we perceive the world and how we act in it are intertwined in ways we are only beginning to understand, upending centuries of philosophical assumptions about human cognition. Matt Crawford discusses this theme at length in "The Wor
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Why you should not immigrate to Canada(readcanadabook.com)
18 points by oofnik 3y ago|13 comments
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by oofnik 3y ago
What you have to understand about the contemporary media industry is that their primary business objective is to sell advertisements. Your attention is the product now; the more of it they can sell to advertisers, the more profitable the bu
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by oofnik 3y ago
Closed ecosystem? Sealed environment? Prison? What do you suggest to use instead? The last term would seem apt given the term "jailbreaking"
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by oofnik 3y ago
I find it really interesting that until ten minutes ago, historically speaking, there was an implicit assumption that there exists a moral dimension to drug and alcohol consumption. I mean, referring to such substances as "stupifiers&q
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by oofnik 3y ago
I bought a copy. Thanks, Jeff, for being interminably helpful.
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by oofnik 3y ago
Many command-line CSV parsing tools mentioned here, adding my choice to the list: http://harelba.github.io/q/
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by oofnik 3y ago
Markdown is a markup language. Google Docs is a WYSIWYG document editor. These are two fundamentally different approaches to the creation of written content. This question is kind of like asking why you can't edit Illustrator projects
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by oofnik 3y ago
> We create systems designed to drain the jobs of bureaucrats, especially low-level bureaucrats, of any opportunity to exercise judgment. When things go wrong, we find new ways to constrain, and we make the hierarchy more and more rigid.
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by oofnik 3y ago
Here's the thing about buzzwords - they are a useful abstraction for grouping together a set of concepts for non-tech people to make decisions with tech impact. The ideas presented here are a good summary of the day-to-day issues I exp
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by oofnik 3y ago
I'm happy to see someone really trying to color outside the lines with deployment tooling. I think we've fallen into a number of paradigms for system operations that we know are kind of bad, but we tell ourselves about how much mo
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by oofnik 3y ago
I recommend reading "Liberal Parents, Radical Children" by Midge Decter. https://www.abebooks.com/9780698106758/Liberal-parents-radic...
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by oofnik 3y ago
DevOps was supposed to be about accelerating the software development lifecycle. In my current role as a "DevOps Engineer", a significant portion of my time is spent being a roadblock. This is mostly due to misaligned incentives a
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by oofnik 3y ago
> Is everyone in charge of hiring at major tech companies just in a big whatsapp group exchanging dirt on employees they didn't like? Yes. Source: family member who works in HR
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by oofnik 3y ago
Wow, it's rare to have American hubris summed up in one article so succinctly. The total absence of self-awareness almost convinced me that this was satire.
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by oofnik 3y ago
I think the author tried to pack a little too much into this article, but it's an interesting topic and his observations ring true. As far as I'm concerned, anyone who successfully climbed the social hierarchy from dysfunctional f
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by oofnik 3y ago
What does race have to do with any of this?
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by oofnik 3y ago
We can use AI to help us design and build a functional fusion plant, which we can then use to power more datacenters running ever bigger LLMs to help us design more efficient datacenters to run bigger LLMs to help us build ... yeah this is
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by oofnik 3y ago
> SWEs who are able to wring better performance out of less hardware resources are going to become more valuable in the future. As much as I'd like for this prediction to come true, I think it's wishful thinking. Compute capaci
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by oofnik 3y ago
Child sacrifice hooks into some very deep and dark aspects of human psychology that we have yet to unpack. There is a reason that this practice crops up in various civilizations seemingly independently, and it is not a pretty one - at least
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by oofnik 3y ago
One of my most memorable courses in undergraduate was taught by a spritely lecturer who must've been in his 80s. He'd make a statement or proposition, write it on the board, then quickly turn around, point at a student somewhere i

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