tobyjsullivan

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by tobyjsullivan 18d ago
I saw a good mental model for this a while ago. Unfortunately I have no idea where. Three kinds of disability: 1. Permanent (eg, blind) 2. Temporary (eg, pregnant/new parent, recoverable injury) 3. Contextual (eg, holding something wit
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by tobyjsullivan 22d ago
I wonder if there’s a version of Maslow’s hierarchy that applies to countries/societies.
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by tobyjsullivan 1mo ago
You might be reading this through your own filter. It's an overloaded term right now but I took the parent to be referring to actual violent radicalization which is a real online threat: https://rcmp.ca/en/corporat
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by tobyjsullivan 8mo ago
No idea why this comment is getting downvoted so hard. This was exactly what I thought of too, and it provides a concrete answer to the question. There’s valid concern with these types of laws and scope creep. But there’s also precedent wh
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by tobyjsullivan 8mo ago
Apologies, I forgot to use the more general term. FOSS projects didn’t always have a standard process for Fagan inspections. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fagan_inspection
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by tobyjsullivan 8mo ago
Further to this, the quality problem is affecting the entire industry, not just FOSS. Anyone working on a large enough team has already seen some contributors pushing slop. And while banning AI outright is certainly an option at a private c
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by tobyjsullivan 8mo ago
Scanning a few. Some are definitely written by AI but most seem genuinely human (or at least, not claude). Anecdata: I read five and only found one was AI. Your sampling may vary.
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by tobyjsullivan 8mo ago
Isn’t this a form of what he labels the “human coefficient”? Some businesses prefer tools built by other businesses for some tasks. The author advocates pretty plainly to identify and target those opportunities if that’s your strength. I th
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by tobyjsullivan 8mo ago
Sounds a bit like man pages. I think you’re onto something.
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by tobyjsullivan 8mo ago
It’s moving fast. Just today I noticed Claude Code now ends plans with a reference to the entire prior conversation (as a .jsonl file on disk) with instructions to check that for more details. Not sure how well it’s working though (my agent
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by tobyjsullivan 8mo ago
I believe they’re talking about Claude Code’s built-in agents feature which works fine with a Max subscription. https://code.claude.com/docs/en/sub-agents Are you talking about the same thing or something else lik
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by tobyjsullivan 8mo ago
Someone said it best after one of those AWS outages from a fat-fingered config change: > Automation doesn't just allow you to create/fix things faster. It also allows you to break things faster. https://news.ycombina
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by tobyjsullivan 8mo ago
I do like the idea of crowd-sourced collections of resources like skills. It might be more useful if it was an index of skills managed in GitHub. Sort of like GitHub actions which can be browsed in the marketplace[1] but are ultimately just
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by tobyjsullivan 8mo ago
It’s telling that Russia stands out in this list. “One of these is not like the others”
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by tobyjsullivan 8mo ago
> Paying more for programmers or parking machine processors would be a waste of money. The rise of parking apps on mobile adds an interesting angle to this. No doubt, many of us favour apps because the UX is so much better. Not quite sur
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by tobyjsullivan 8mo ago
I’ve wondered about this more generally (ie, simply prompting in different languages). For example, if I ask for a pasta recipe in Italian, will I get a more authentic recipe than in English? I’m curious if anyone has done much experimentin
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by tobyjsullivan 8mo ago
I think it’s more for Python libraries that depend on JavaScript. Lots of packages rely on other languages and runtimes. For example, tabula-py[1] depends on Java. So if my-package requires a JS runtime, it can add this deno package as its
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by tobyjsullivan 8mo ago
Over my 35 years of computer use, most hardware failures (very, very rare) happen during a reboot or power-on. And most of my reboots happen when installing updates. It actually seems like a very high probability in my limited experience. O
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by tobyjsullivan 9mo ago
He also seems to talk to a lot of people, and he has access to pretty much anyone given his stature. Imagine being passionate about business and then being able to spend every day talking to people about their businesses and their thoughts
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by tobyjsullivan 9mo ago
Always worth remembering that PDFs are basically a graphic design format/editor from the 70s. It was never intended for securely redacting documents and while it can be done, that’s not the default behaviour. No surprise non-experts
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by tobyjsullivan 9mo ago
Honestly, I’d still be surprised to learn feathers in America are produced from American poultry. Far more likely the local ones get burned and everything for sale is shipped across the ocean because cheaper.
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by tobyjsullivan 9mo ago
> agree with authors, every game older than 10 years, and that is not in active development, should be made open source so that community Note that GTA V is now 12 years old and still sells ~20M copies per year. So that’s going to be a t
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by tobyjsullivan 9mo ago
20% to 33% is not a 10% increase, if that’s what you’re referring to. That’s a 65% increase.
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by tobyjsullivan 9mo ago
Reading, I knew someone would comment on it. I actually prefer the style - maybe because my attention span is shot. But I think it’s more because the author made sure each sentence was content heavy. No verbose paragraphs. And paragraphs ma
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by tobyjsullivan 9mo ago
The total probabilities add up to 1. But I’m not following how that relates to the average bits. Despite summing to 1, the exact values of P(true) and P(false) are dependent on the options which have previously been discounted. Then those v
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by tobyjsullivan 9mo ago
Has the author redefined “effort” such that the amount of effort required to carry a boulder up a mountain is, by his own definition, always zero? > Let me share my slightly unusual definition of “effort”: it’s the felt experience of exp
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by tobyjsullivan 9mo ago
The author defines one “bit” as ruling out half the remaining options. So a yes might rule out 75% of remaining options (for example) which provides 2 bits of information.
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by tobyjsullivan 9mo ago
Don’t forget cotton. 234 m3 per tonne, of clean water. 25M tonnes per year. => 16M m3 of clean water per day Edit: convert to comparable units
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by tobyjsullivan 9mo ago
Likewise. I’ll regret it but I certainly won’t be complaining to the Internet that it did what I told it to (skip permission checks, etc.). It’s a feature, not a bug.
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by tobyjsullivan 9mo ago
No doubt there’s a lesson in there, but I don’t think it’s a technical one.

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