stahorn

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by stahorn 7mo ago
The difference between the fire fighter and the fire safety inspector. The former puts out fires and saves lives and is of course a hero. The latter complains about things that never happen, wastes everybody's time and money and is gen
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by stahorn 7mo ago
No mass domestic surveillance of citizens is an old trick also. Country A doesn't surveil their citizens and Country B doesn't do theirs. But then they set up the infrastructure and both surveil each other's citizens and then
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by stahorn 7mo ago
I think this would be good for everybody, not just kids. It doesn't even have to be complicated: Just that after a certain amount of time scrolling/watching, put in a message asking if it's maybe time to stop with some inform
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by stahorn 7mo ago
Just like we want to know where the food we eat comes from, we want to know where the information comes from. Of course there's the limit of journalists having to keep their sources secret in many cases. But original publisher I think
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by stahorn 8mo ago
Sounds a little bit like the stories from Feynman, e.g.: https://enlightenedidiot.net/random/feynman-on-brazilian-edu... The students had memorized everything, but understood nothing. Add in access to generative AI, an
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by stahorn 1y ago
The proper way to work with git: Commit like a madman on your private branch. Short messages, written in seconds, just to be able to remember what you were doing if you are interrupted and have to get back into your work later. If you have
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by stahorn 1y ago
Like that one time the Spotify algorithm found a cool band. Only problem was that they were Chinese. If the name of a band uses some language that's based on some form of the latin alphabet, I can always type something similar to the n
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by stahorn 1y ago
You're doing it wrong: You should just feed other peoples AI-generated responses into your own AI tools and let the tool answer for you! The loop is then closed, no human time wasted, and the only effect is wasted energy to run the AI
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by stahorn 1y ago
Here's one. A great read: https://www.amazon.com/Plentiful-Energy-technology-scientifi... It's available online also: https://www.thesciencecouncil.com/pdfs/PlentifulEnergy.pdf I read it 14 y
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by stahorn 1y ago
I was ready for a deep-dive into things like asyncio in python; where it came from and what problems it promised to solve!
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by stahorn 1y ago
I've become a bit cynic, and I think it will take time until it becomes better. Eventually though, there will be large protests that turn into law that change the dynamics of the now very centralized web. London was known for having so
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by stahorn 1y ago
I also think about this. With the amount of history I've read, I'm not surprised that suddenly there's autocrats that take power. I just wonder, is there some good example from history of what did turn the tide towards democr
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by stahorn 1y ago
Same when you a few times per year need to write some short bash script. It's really nice to not have to remember how it really works again!
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by stahorn 1y ago
It's like the world turned upside down in the last 20 years. I used to pirate everything as a teenager, and I found it silly that copy right would follow along no matter how anything was encoded. If I XORed copyright material A with op
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by stahorn 1y ago
I imagine there will be the same problems as with Facebook and other large websites, that used their power to promote genocide. If you're in the mood for some horror stories: https://erinkissane.com/meta-in-myanmar-full
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by stahorn 2y ago
As someone that speaks English as my second language, the trick of English is to memorize all the exceptions and then accept that the English spelling is just made up to mess with foreigners. Looking at you, the "b" in debt, that
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by stahorn 2y ago
I took up social dancing in my 20s, including salsa and Argentinian tango. I think that it is a very good way to experience the difference between being very good at something and being able to teach. I've been on courses with some peo
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by stahorn 2y ago
Pair programming if done on task such as "let's make this completely standard thing we've done five times already and need a slight variation of" is horrible. When working with new developers, if they're senior or j
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by stahorn 2y ago
E-golf had an updated battery in 2017, that increased the capacity by 50%. The 2014 version was sold with 200km (125mi) range, but the real range was closer to 125km (75mi). The 2017 version was sold with a 300km (185mi) range, but 190km (1
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by stahorn 2y ago
A piece of advice I heard many years ago was to not be afraid to throw away code. I've actually used that advice from time to time. It's not really a waste of time to do a `git reset --hard master` if you wrote shit code, but whil
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by stahorn 2y ago
"... relatively short paragraphs (possibly up to a few pages)" I love things like this that just shows me how much I view the world from a certain perspective. I don't think I've ever had a paragraph even on one page! Th
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by stahorn 2y ago
When you thought you made "smart" solutions and many years later you have to go in and fix bugs in it, is usually when you learn this.
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by stahorn 2y ago
Next big thing: AI that writes as British football hooligans talk about the referee after a match where their team lost?
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by stahorn 2y ago
I think it's similar with all things that hook into our dopamine centers, like alcohol, food, sugar foods, tobacco, gambling, drugs, games, ... It has to be regulated to the correct amount to benefit society. Outlawing them, like with
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by stahorn 2y ago
Yeah, but you have to remember that people answer questions such as "are you an alcoholic" a bit different in different countries. Go to any polish person drinking beer every day and they will say they are of course not an alcohol
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by stahorn 2y ago
I grew up in Sweden, where strong alcohol is only sold in a state owned company and the same for gambling, so this probably make me have another view of this than people from other countries. I do believe that there has to be some sort of l