or_am_i

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by or_am_i 1mo ago
How does 12 years required for this scheme to pay for itself stack up against the typical house battery's lifetime?
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by or_am_i 2mo ago
Isn't it today/wouldn't it be in the close future relatively trivial to port most of the already formalized results between languages with help of LLMs?
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by or_am_i 2mo ago
The article explicitly calls out selection bias (this is entirely based on 90% that opted into using the tutor, there was no control group), I wish the headline did as well. "Engaged students score 0.71 - 1.30 SD better in tests"
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by or_am_i 4mo ago
Brilliant! IMO could be even better if the number of points/comments was easier to scan.
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by or_am_i 4mo ago
Lemmas ~ library code, theorems ~ application code.
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by or_am_i 5mo ago
Same. Plenty of perfectly valid reasons to outright ban generated PRs, but "Look, I asked ChatGPT to generate a PR which would break SDL, and it did not bother reading AGENTS.md" is a pretty weak take - gotta know thy enemy a litt
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by or_am_i 6mo ago
It's always easier to blame the model and convince yourself that you have some sort of talent in reviewing LLM's work that others don't. In my experience the differences are mostly in how the code produced by LLM is prompted
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by or_am_i 7mo ago
Have owned a couple iPads starting ~2010 -- mainly for reading pdfs, and comics in electronic form. Occasionally drawing / jamming some tunes - almost all via 3rd party apps. There are still plenty of decent apps in the ecosystem, even
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by or_am_i 8mo ago
Steam phone incoming in 3... 2... 1...
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by or_am_i 9mo ago
Wish it was only the keyboard enshittified. Literally everything became worse with the update, I had to google how to turn off the silly transparency (Accessibility Settings -> Display -> Reduce Transparency) so that the battery that
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by or_am_i 10mo ago
The subscription revenues is a decent chunk of your lifetime value (LTV) as a customer, but it's not all of it. The goal here is to squeeze as much value from you aside from that as possible, measured mostly by two things, really: the
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by or_am_i 10mo ago
Jonathan Blow's The Witness is a notable example (minor spoiler alert)! Past a certain point in the game, it becomes REALLY challenging to just walk through the IRL woods without over-concentrating on things.
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by or_am_i 11mo ago
In JetBrains editors it's possible to highlight mutable variables, at least in the languages where the distinction exists. My go to setting in Kotlin is to underscore all `var`'s, for two reasons: - this makes them really stand ou
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by or_am_i 1y ago
Mathematics trains a lot of skills that are generally applicable in engineering. Decomposing complex problems into non-trivial sequences of manageable steps, being able to prove that the design works, spotting appropriate invariants to buil
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by or_am_i 1y ago
Yes, and the press release makes no mention of this extra context -- hardly good journalism.
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by or_am_i 1y ago
Yeah, the `numpy` version still looks relatively cryptic (like, "line > 0" is still fine, but the numpy arrays broadcasting rules can quickly get out of hand) compared to the author's Javascript example, or any decent coll
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by or_am_i 1y ago
It sucks when your communication preferences are overridden! To be fair though, many valid reasons to prefer a quick call over a message (a potentially infinite sequence of messages, really). Even on the receiving end of a request: perhaps
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by or_am_i 1y ago
“If you would escape moral and physical assassination, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing — court obscurity, for only in oblivion does safety lie.” E. Hubbard, ca. 1989
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by or_am_i 1y ago
> If you try to humanise the place you will lose your mind. If you ask yourself what the woman at the hair-braiding stand left behind to be here, and why, you will lose your mind. If you accept the kindness of the staff with whom you mak
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by or_am_i 1y ago
Would you give to charity? You are pointing at the heart of the prisoner's dilemma endlessly recreated by the very existence of capital: why choose long-term public benefit over a short-term personal gain?
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by or_am_i 1y ago
Yeah, I guess I'm silently assuming the developer's time is more valuable than the API costs (which is true in the majority of use cases in US+EU, unless using parallel/multi-shot strategies or hyper-expensive frontier models
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by or_am_i 1y ago
A lot of the same kind of skill goes into prompting AI and delegating work to other humans. Delegation requires building intellectual empathy for the task recipient, giving them an instruction they can verifiably follow. It requires buildin
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by or_am_i 1y ago
Analogy would have been correct if prompting didn't influence the output (which I hope you agree is not the case). And yes, the model keeps changing under you -- much like a horse is changing under a jockey, forcing them to adapt. Or l
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by or_am_i 1y ago
> The “bullshit” here is the implicit claim of an author that such jargon is needed. Maybe it is to explain advanced applications (like attempts to do “inference in Bayesian networks”), but it is certainly not needed to define or analyze
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by or_am_i 1y ago
What if we built a strong culture around actively avoiding advertising? What if we educated the general public about adverse effects of time after time giving up your attention, without getting anything in return besides a short lived dopha
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by or_am_i 2y ago
Am an "outliner", currently working together with a "discovery coder" on a project. We are half a year in and have no common working build, just my "outline" and a bunch of non-integrated throwaway discovery bi
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by or_am_i 2y ago
> there's nothing to be done, legally speaking. Even if true, this sure feels like a loophole though, like the Saul Goodman's burner phone side business, doesn't it? Should there perhaps be a stricter KYC requirement/
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by or_am_i 2y ago
I guess the b2b sales work the same irrespective of the businesses' legal status.
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by or_am_i 2y ago
To clarify, I was basing the "some 30%" on the wage change distribution histogram that comes somewhat further down in the article from the statement you quote.
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by or_am_i 2y ago
I am not defending Shipt and there is no doubt gig workers are in a very vulnerable position. However, the data analysis results as presented in the article do not support the article's main point. "40% are getting paid at least 1

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