thingification

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by thingification 1mo ago
I wonder if this is a CS problem somebody solved in 1954. Does somebody have the link to that paper? (I'm not serious about 1954 in particular, I am about hoping somebody here knows the CS literature better than me)
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by thingification 1mo ago
I think my is-this-LLM alert is triggered not by mere use of phrases / constructions beloved of popular LLMs, but by things like unmotivated magpie-ish use of those phrases. I didn't get that reading this (I didn't read the w
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by thingification 3mo ago
I read Alien Clay and another book by him, which it turned out is basically the same book, which I found disappointing.
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by thingification 7mo ago
I think I've been waiting since the 90s hoping somebody will figure out how to make this a real thing (or was it the early 2000s?) As I recall it seemed to be just one guy, David Chaum, who did so much to show how so many of these thin
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by thingification 7mo ago
But they'll block it entirely later right, once they've whittled down the objectors? Seems we lack a nail-on-the-head term for this "but of course you'll still be able to ..." frog-boiling. We collectively fall for
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by thingification 2y ago
If you can instead construct a list of existing instances to grandfather in, that doesn't suffer from this problem. Of course many linting tools do this via "ignore" code comments. That feels less arbitrary than a magic numb
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by thingification 2y ago
To be more concrete: In the source code - e.g. requirements.in (in the case of pip-tools or uv's clone of that: uv pip compile + uv pip sync), one lists the names of the projects one's application depends on, with a few version co
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by thingification 2y ago
That might be fine in your context. People's problems are real, though. What they're almost always missing is separating the source code from the compiled output ("lock files"). Pick a tool to help with that, commit b
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by thingification 2y ago
> I think ['The Secret War' by Brian Johnson is] an earlier version of ['Most Secret War' by R V Jones] Most Secret War is R V Jones' memoir of his personal involvement in radar, aerial navigation, aerial surveil
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by thingification 2y ago
For the benefit of anybody thinking "with gitlab I'm safe from this": If you're saying (and perhaps you're not) that some other git hosting service - gives you control over gc-ing their hosted remote? - does not to
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by thingification 2y ago
I found the post you're replying to helpful (and it made me laugh): I've come across the abbreviation POLA many times, with its non-jokey meaning "principle of least authority". I've also come across "principl
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by thingification 2y ago
You're saying there's a github API that takes as an argument a secret, and creates a git commit containing that secret? I'm very surprised. Can you provide a reference to the API call?
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by thingification 2y ago
It uses types to get quoting right? Or it quotes everything (regardless if it's already quoted)? Ironically, the first time I saw the former was in a Python templating library (in the early 2000s -- from distant memory I think it migh
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by thingification 3y ago
You use both terraform and ansible in the same project? I always thought of them as competitors filling more or less the same role, do you find it useful to use them together? Is it that hetzner and digitalocean TF providers do a good job
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by thingification 3y ago
People deploying low-traffic side projects - to VPSes or similar that allows price capping - and who do use a database: what deployment stack do you use these days? I assume Docker + something is most popular, but what something? Does terr
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by thingification 3y ago
Not sure if that's intended as irony, but of course, if somebody is taking multiple years off work, you would be less likely hear about it because by definition they're not going to join the company you work for. I don't thin
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by thingification 3y ago
Behaves as I expected now! I went here looking for more info about payperrun https://payperrun.com/%3E/welcome and clicked on the "Spotlight" section and saw 4 popups blocked - I never see popups anywhere the
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by thingification 3y ago
Nice. I expected clicking on the different "filter" buttons would update of the search results right away: I didn't expect I had to repeat the search (though I can see why you'd do that)
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by thingification 3y ago
I wonder if part of this is a function of time passing / getting older rather than purely cash vs not.
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by thingification 3y ago
Ironically, I hear the ones that were shut down in Germany were some of the best maintained in the world and had very high "capacity factors" even when compared with other nuclear (fraction of time delivering power to the grid).
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by thingification 3y ago
Good to see an open mind! I think most critical rationalists would say that epidemiology is a den of weakly explanatory theories. Even though I agree, I'm not sure that's 100% epidemiology's fault by any means: it's jus
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by thingification 3y ago
As kevinwang has pointed out in slightly different terms: the hypothesis that seems wooly to you seems sharply pointed to others (and vice versa) because explanationless hypotheses ("changing the colour of the button will help") a
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by thingification 3y ago
> Some people just seem to have knack on being able to switch between layouts, but I just couldn't. Did you put in serious deliberate practice time and still find that? If yes, what sort of time? I suspect those people just did tha
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by thingification 3y ago
I'm not saying that's not a thing, but if you're going to switch keyboard layout I do think that's objectively the least of your problems. Re-learning a huge list of common letter pairs, triples, etc. that appear in wor
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by thingification 3y ago
Of course if you just stick to a non-QWERTY layout and never use QWERTY, you don't have this problem. My solution to that has mostly been to use an external "mechanical" keyboard that I flash with a colemak layout. But on l
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by thingification 3y ago
It is useful, but it's worth knowing that most of the learning effort to get up to speed comes only after you've been through all the intermediate stages, just gradually speeding up on the final full-colemak stage. But it's
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by thingification 3y ago
I also switched for reasons of keeping my hands happy (as a prevention measure), not for typing speed. I'm a bit slower than I was in QWERTY (at a guess, maybe if I race I easily get to 80 instead of 90 wpm or something, not sure). If
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by thingification 3y ago
There are games out there that help you learn the skill of switching quickly. As at least one other person has commented, context acts as a switch even when you can't directly "find" the switch consciously. It isn't onl
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by thingification 4y ago
Yes, aren't we under-focusing a bit, right now, on the goals that in the past were achieved by writing code but will in the future be achieved by LLMs themselves (and their replacements)? For example, maybe we write some code now with
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by thingification 4y ago
Speaking from ignorance (I've not studied attention nor transformers): This is my feeling too. I feel like the next step isn't far away: a more explicit model of the world with a mechanism to both query and "feed back on&quo

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