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by tibbetts 2y ago
Headlines like this are more pleasant than headlines about how the $100M project to implement SAP is five years behind schedule, how Deloitte has consumed tens of millions of dollars that could have gone to patient care, or that the new ERP
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by tibbetts 2y ago
Needs a mode where touching snow counts.
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by tibbetts 2y ago
Probably by trying to do it from first principles.
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by tibbetts 2y ago
Humans are actually intuitively log scale thinkers. That is, humans without the kind of early arithmetic training that Westerners get will think more in terms of ratios than differences. There are theories it is more evolutionarily adaptive
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by tibbetts 2y ago
Sounds like a Greg Egan writing prompt.
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by tibbetts 2y ago
I’d imagine longer term contracts not renewing or renewing at lower prices / lower volumes.
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by tibbetts 2y ago
But can their AI quietly introduce a security exploit into a GitHub project?
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by tibbetts 2y ago
I dunno, the new Microsoft / OpenAI computer is named “Stargate,” that’s a pretty solid name.
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by tibbetts 2y ago
I was disappointed that the lab assistant is not named.
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by tibbetts 3y ago
I’m disappointed it has nothing to do with the logo programming language.
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by tibbetts 3y ago
Reusing short English words is a big problem in computer science.
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by tibbetts 3y ago
Love seeing real time streaming connecting through to visualization. You make Grafana look really good. Did you run into any limitations there?
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by tibbetts 3y ago
Many years ago I had a job interview that included a personality test. I didn’t take the job, for other reasons. But I always wondered what had gone wrong in the past such that a personality test for engineers was in order. I’m now glad to
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by tibbetts 3y ago
Premature denomalization is expensive complexity. Denormalization is a great tool, maybe an under-used tool. But you should wait until there are hot paths before using it.
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by tibbetts 3y ago
I think of it as a bunch of bad early implementations that are being used for dubious financial purposes and outright fraud, fueling a bubble. The same could be said for joint stock corporations in the 1600s. Something can be inevitable (ma
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by tibbetts 4y ago
I don’t think we need to solve non-problems in the interest of foolish consistency.
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by tibbetts 4y ago
I canceled recently and had to escalate to “I have told you to cancel three times and if you cannot cancel now I will have to dispute the charges with my credit card company.”
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by tibbetts 4y ago
Can confirm, my kids get letters at camp from their grandmother written in cursive and they basically cannot read them. They can puzzle out cursive when it is very neatly written, but casual cursive handwriting is frequently impenetrable.
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by tibbetts 4y ago
I remember the days of going down to my friends store because he had a modem and knew which BBSes would have software downloads. I had to bring my own floppy disk because those things cost money.
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by tibbetts 4y ago
I dunno, I watched two professional architects not be able to estimate a beam size for a 16’ span without mocking it up in autocad. This delayed us like a week in design iterations, and cost me probably $2000 in architect hours. I own a boo
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by tibbetts 4y ago
I like to flip a coin when the decision is difficult. If the answer is satisfying, then either I had an unarticulated preference or it didn’t matter. If the answer is unsatisfying, then I had an unarticulated preference and I can just choos
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by tibbetts 4y ago
The causal connection can be remarkably tenuous, especially if you add securitization or other financialization into the mix. The people supplying the money often care more about hitting standards than maximizing overall eventual profit. Un
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by tibbetts 4y ago
There are already a handful of Lorawan companies that have built out networks or partnered with telcos. They have raised money from places like Comcast. They will probably exit back to places like Comcast. Governments are often their custom
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by tibbetts 4y ago
I did one once and it was a huge PITA and a very slow timeline. The free money part was nice, but the overhead and timeline mean I’ll probably stick to other funding sources in the future. If your founding team has extra PhDs and you want t
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by tibbetts 4y ago
Finding a big problem is actually optional, and often a distraction. Most companies that are already functioning at scale have plenty of medium sized problems that need strategic fixes. For example “sales aren’t growing in Japan.” Most smal
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by tibbetts 4y ago
The “shadow foster system” is related to this and has some problems. These are complex situations, maybe sometimes there is no good options. But if you are interested in learning more, Propublica has done some good reporting on the downside
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by tibbetts 4y ago
I’m all for questioning a group’s motives. But protecting personal liberty for everyone sometimes requires limiting personal liberty. I like to be free to not be killed by a drunk driver, for example, and that means we cannot leave drunk dr
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by tibbetts 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouse_Systems became available in 1982. My first mouse (on an Apple 2c) came with drawing software included.
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by tibbetts 4y ago
I’m not an expert, but 20 years ago I had a small part in DARPA research into monitoring soldiers’ hydration. The idea was that people in combat often don’t notice they are thirsty, or power through it, and as a result are operating at redu
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by tibbetts 5y ago
This is sort of liking saying “how hard could it really be to do a special software build for one customer?”

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