russnewcomer

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by russnewcomer 5mo ago
I agree. But that usefulness can be deceptive, especially when one thinks enough context has been captured to prevent misunderstandings. An LLM (or human, to be clear) can easily go down the wrong path from their own assumptions, and now yo
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by russnewcomer 5mo ago
I can’t tell from the text if the first paragraph of your response is meant to be ironic or tongue-in-cheek, but it certainly works that way. It feels hard to recognize that you agree with me from the following paragraph of your post > T
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by russnewcomer 5mo ago
>None of the three can easily be captured in code, but are trivial to capture as documentation. Posts like this frustrate me. Not because of what they ask, but because of what they incorrectly assume. They assume that documentation can
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by russnewcomer 1y ago
You're not entirely wrong that double-entry accounting doesn't add much to keeping track of one balance. And the example provided in the article was very simple, just like mine was very simple. Transactions do help, but if you a
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by russnewcomer 1y ago
I'm not sure CRDTs are actually the right answer here for your example of #2, Marco. A double-entry accounting system might actually be more ideal. In that case, what you are keeping in sync is the ledger, but depending on your use-c
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by russnewcomer 2y ago
It's Wargaming who owns the IP and assets, and I doubt they release them, if they even have them. DrDeath or Mavor might have copies, but neither of them would likely release them. Similarly, TA's source code never got released,
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by russnewcomer 2y ago
That’s one of Peter Watt’s Rifters trilogy, I think maybe the second one? Been a few years since I read them. I think it’s a biological neural net, not an Ai per se. Lots of big ideas in those books, but not a lot of optimism and some rou
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by russnewcomer 2y ago
I wonder if part of this has to do with the more complex, piecemeal nature of medical debt and these buybacks. How I understand several of these groups (I'm not certain of the one in the article) do these debt purchases is that they pu
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by russnewcomer 3y ago
The web is crying out for true RAD. GridWhale is promising, I have been casting around for a project I could use it with. If you can pull it off, I guess we'll grudgingly forgive you for not finishing Vault of the Galaxy yet. :)
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by russnewcomer 3y ago
When we both worked at an NGO in a mountainous desert country in a relatively peaceful period. My advice is always, find the kind of thing that you want to be doing and then do it. In my case it was do something more meaningful with my lif
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by russnewcomer 3y ago
An acquaintance did basically this a few years ago on a vBulletin. My memory says there was a project to be a vB->Discourse converter that didn't rely on DB access, but I can't immediately find it.
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by russnewcomer 3y ago
I took your using the word literally to mean you were saying that the physical characteristics changed, which is apparently not what you were saying. I think this is a difference in language expectations, because when and where I grew up, s
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by russnewcomer 3y ago
I wouldn't really characterize the Catholic Church's official doctrines that way or that flexibly, but again, I am a Protestant with a number of overall disagreements with them and less personal experience with them, and it is eas
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by russnewcomer 3y ago
I'm a Protestant, but that explanation of transubstantiation may be the popular understanding but is not the actual official doctrine of the Catholic Church. I'm not versed enough to explain it except by way of terrible analogy t
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by russnewcomer 3y ago
Zero-k is based on Spring Engine, that started as a community project to be a 3D engine for TA. So you are very correct.
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by russnewcomer 3y ago
It’s still some of the same folks - SJ and some of the other SYs wrote the Spring Engine that Zero-K uses. I myself learned how to code writing .bos scripts and hanging out at Annihilated, TAU, and #gnug If you want to see some of the stuff
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by russnewcomer 3y ago
Hard for me not to conclude that hoarding can happen more easily now, and that it is more prevalent because it takes a surplus of money and a surplus of goods available, plus some relatively remarkable social and political stability (that t
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by russnewcomer 3y ago
:) Not celebrities, but a little bit of whimsy makes life fun! As far as rewinders, he has a huge collection of VHS cassettes and VHS decks, but they are all getting old, have already had a long usage when they get to him, and VHS is not a
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by russnewcomer 3y ago
This doesn't feel like an archive to me, it feels usable. When I was 16, my parents got a new answering machine. My dad's recording of the message was yelling into the machine "You have reached xxx-xxx-xxxx. Leave a message
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by russnewcomer 3y ago
The library in the city near where I grew up had some variant of this book in it. Unfortunately, the variant of BASIC was something that didn't compile on the 286 my parents had purchased and either I didn't ask or they couldn&#x
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by russnewcomer 3y ago
If that is the takeaway you got from my comment, I am sorry for bad phrasing on my side. I was trying to short, pith, koan-like. Can I try again? Almost no one want to use the tool. They want to use the tool to do the thing they want to do.
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by russnewcomer 3y ago
Somewhere between 2010 and 2012 when doing small business IT support, for a client, I spent some time installing 1-2-3 on an old, mostly disused machine in a corner of their office, then connecting to the machine via LogMeIn on an iPad (I t
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by russnewcomer 3y ago
I lived in the relatively safe stable part of a war zone as a foreign civilian for a few years, and had friends who were frequently in the less safe/less stable parts. So much of our modern world is designed for modern infrastructure,
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by russnewcomer 4y ago
My dad's bank switched to $COMPANY in the late 90s and to this day, when I run into people who work for them (which happens from time to time since they have offices in my city), I have to suppress my inclination to dislike them, since
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by russnewcomer 4y ago
My father, controller at a mid-sized regional bank, was involved in a couple of these when I was growing up, and worked at the FDIC as an examiner in the 80s. My memory from the last takeover he did shortly after this NPR article was that
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by russnewcomer 4y ago
Congratulations on that position! A sibling did a masters' in organ performance, and getting an Organ Scholar position is a solid achievement for an undergrad. I would not worry too greatly about your skills not being viable, dependin
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by russnewcomer 4y ago
Top three (sorry) Christianity and the New Spirit of Capitalism by Kathryn Tanner. A really good look at how capitalism has been expressed in our modern world, and how Christianity should not enable the worst excesses of capitalism. The Pow
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by russnewcomer 4y ago
You are absolutely correct that authenticity is hard to find, and that foreigners do not truly experience the culture as the locals. I hope I didn’t give that impression in my post. And my intention is not to argue, but rather to point ou
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by russnewcomer 4y ago
Hey, Chris - I think one of the difficulties I had with your article(and with other writing like it), having lived outside the US and trying to travel like this occasionally then, is that we don't really get to live as the locals live.
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by russnewcomer 4y ago
- The Pragmatic Programmer - helped me see some common pitfalls and figure out how to avoid them. Also gave me some good language for working with others. - Coders at Work - hearing how some very experienced people thought about software w

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