yourapostasy

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by yourapostasy 27d ago
> If you are delegating something to somebody that reports to you, you can just tell them off. Coaching someone on why the perspective of the receiver of their behavior works counter-purpose to their intent due to <undesired-behavio
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by yourapostasy 29d ago
This is when a track record of Google's "Don't be evil" motto, culture and corporate habits being literally front and center on its official code of conduct, instead of moved to the very last line in 2018, would have per
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by yourapostasy 1mo ago
I suspect we’re at the stage of technological civilizational development where, especially with LLM-assisted gradient descent seeking upon the results, basic science, research and engineering for the pure sake of establishing search space b
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by yourapostasy 1mo ago
I sometimes wonder if we as an industry should revisit XML for those use cases where painful JSON contortions are being used, now that LLM's can plausibly support writing the syntax for XML-adjacent languages like XSLT without as steep
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by yourapostasy 1mo ago
Not at all too paranoid. Just like people figured out even with elastic everything, compute from Spot instances and all the other things we're supposed to do in AWS, the data out charges between AZ's and Region's still more t
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by yourapostasy 2mo ago
When some people call this "Verification Debt" or something similar, that is setting the Overton Window upon this phenomena adversely upon the verifiers. I call it an application of Brandolini's Law: "The amount of energ
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by yourapostasy 2mo ago
Even at the pure functionality endpoint of the spectrum, I find this "wishful mnemonics" aspect very disconcerting. I put my "investor" hat on, and the whole utilitarianism "who cares how or whether it reasons, it&#
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by yourapostasy 2mo ago
For a hot second I thought the OP was going to share a way to silently suppress chats that start with "Hi", or "Hey".
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by yourapostasy 2mo ago
> The missile gap for example after all was settled and done, didn't matter at all because not a single missile was ever fired off. All that money, resources, talent, secrecy, lives lost maintaining that secrecy, lives dedicated to
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by yourapostasy 2mo ago
Maybe the Chevy Tahoes were priced as the initial capex, and a maintenance and support contract covering capex and opex for the next X years with a local dealership? I’ve sometimes seen this in corporate budgeting. Some companies prefer to
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by yourapostasy 2mo ago
> Real heavy hitters are actually eerily quiet. They don't have anything to prove. I've had the rare privilege to meet former SOF soldiers from a couple different nations, and working US cowboys, ranchers and farmers. While I k
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by yourapostasy 3mo ago
> ...whereas aerospace patents are more legitimately about hardware that indeed took years and millions to develop and optimize. Something that leaps out at me reading through semiconductor and aerospace patents is a noticeable fraction
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by yourapostasy 3mo ago
> ...governments don't know how to mandate good corporate governance... For a very brief moment, under the existential crisis condition of total war in WW2, the US government was somehow able to corral corporate governance towards a
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by yourapostasy 3mo ago
> Now is the time to adapt, not push back. Keep an open mind or you’ll be left behind. That’s not the gating factor. Who picks up the liability accountability and picks up the pager duty at o’dark thirty when it breaks in production, t
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by yourapostasy 4mo ago
> private schools can run how they want... This cuts both ways. Very well-known, competitive private schools conservatively financed have a waiting list a line around the block long and can enforce high standards. Private schools that ar
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by yourapostasy 4mo ago
> They never address the long-tail nature of productivity... Mondragon tries to address this through accepting bounded inequality. 9:1 pay ratio from highest-paid to lowest-paid is allowed (still far below US median corporation 192:1 r
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by yourapostasy 4mo ago
> Not all tools need to be used everyday. I can't remember the last time I used my 3/8" wrench. Now our 10mm sockets on the other hand, would be used everyday if we could ever lay our hands on one when we need them.
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by yourapostasy 4mo ago
I want to hear James Burke of Connections [1] and his writer team to have a free wheeling discussion for a few hours on what they see will happen with LLM’s making these connections with more conscious intent a lot easier. The awesome com
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by yourapostasy 4mo ago
That's a fair point. The equivalent in my day was when the PDP-11 with punched paper tape for offline storage could run BASIC (and lots else), but as soon as most kids saw it couldn't drive Asteroids, their attention waned after
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by yourapostasy 4mo ago
Which brings up a point I've been wondering over the years. Where are the hordes of kids like us back then who were content with the afternoons, evenings and wee early morning hours of endless fiddling? What I realize now is those year
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by yourapostasy 6mo ago
Oh yep, looks Turing complete just not performant enough for that use case. But that’s not an issue for APT-style attacks that take their sweet time. So am I off base here?
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by yourapostasy 6mo ago
Thank you Kind Internet Stranger!
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by yourapostasy 6mo ago
While standalone CSS is not yet Turing complete, I worry about the new attack vector categories opened up by moving it towards that state. Already I believe attackers have a choice to spread the attack payload between CSS, HTML and JavaScri
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by yourapostasy 6mo ago
I use Linux exclusively on the backend, a Windows laptop is usually what my clients issue to me for gigs, and I migrated years ago from macOS to a Linux laptop as my personal primary daily driver (though I still use macOS, just not where I
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by yourapostasy 6mo ago
> Regardless of OS, they all seem extremely fast, and feel faster and faster as time goes on. The modern throughput is faster by far. However, what some people mean when they talk about "slower" is the latency snappiness that
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by yourapostasy 6mo ago
Oh ye of little faith in the possible. We still don’t have truly transparent transference in locally-run software. Go anywhere in the world, and your locally running software tags along with precisely preserved state no matter what device y
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by yourapostasy 6mo ago
> ...nothing replaces the camraderie of the small, local BBSs. Nothing quite replaces the drama level and drama complexity of the small, local BBSs. Especially when the denizens met in the big room with the blue ceiling.
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by yourapostasy 7mo ago
Money and fame. Lots of money and fame. There is no shortage of Olympic hopeful elite athletes every four years, despite the incredibly small pool of competitors at each Games. Same for musicians. This kind of Winner-Take-All Economics or S
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by yourapostasy 7mo ago
> The underlying assumption is that most people don't know how to write high-performance concurrent code anyway, so why not just ask them to command the AI instead. The data economics reflexivity of LLM input means that when you r
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by yourapostasy 7mo ago
Even as the field evolves, the phoning home telemetry of closed models creates a centralized intelligence monopoly. If open source atrophies, we lose the public square of architectural and design reasoning, the decision graph that is often

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