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Listen to them, but don't listen to them. You are building to solve their problems or open up their capabilities, and if they knew how to do it, they would have already. So listen …

I use the terminal a lot, but I don't remember every command, flag, and syntax available. ffmpeg, piping to awk, find, etc... I know I'm not cool enough, but it's crazy-making. I g…

I've renovated houses (and I have a bad habit of buying 100 year old hacked up chaos-boxes - my current house was moved from one hill in San Francisco to another 80 years ago, so i…

I have heard so many of my co-workers use "load-bearing" over the last couple of months. It's truly comical. Maybe this is a way that we can make "fetch" happen.

I don't think it is. It's really easy to get a persistent, clever, hacky model to dial that down a bit and just come back to chat before stomping off into the woods. If a model cou…

It's a carrier medium... and it's pretty thick. I would have just committed to "slurry". Sandy water at the beach that looks a bit brown? Suspension. Mining run off that looks like…

(Edit: BTW, if you haven't, read Nudge by Thaler and Sunstein. It's a somewhat long-winded exploration on choice architectures, but you're neck deep in that space now. I'll give yo…

Clicks on link. Reads this thinking it's gotta be a joke... continues reading not sure if it's a joke. Relieved to find out it's a joke. I guess that's the joke. Heavies have been …

I'd rather penalize the application than the technique. Windows was rumored to long have "quirks" that would do better things for apps that had bugs that the OS ended up fixing ins…

This could also read as "how to be a horrible people manager for junior engineers". Techniques that work for inexperienced engineers with high ability but limited judgment often wo…

It's going to make itself unavailable again. Actually... that's probably a litmus test for sentience.

This is more likely the junior camper version of "not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts." In the early days of LLMs, we saw the c…

I don't want to "see" any of it...

C'est un véritable game-changer...

The percentages, as with 91% of statistics, are made up, but that general asymmetry is why I think this is a perilous time for folks in the middle, still learning judgement and how…

Agents can actually accelerate learning and discovery. Have them read out the work to you and ground it in terms you're familiar with (e.g., memory and threading models between C++…

However, the author makes these assertions: - No partially loaded content. - No relayout while content loads. Holding those as hard rules leads to delay or rejection. Instead, whil…

Last year I built a conversational continuous observation system, with rapid voice response interaction. After a few days of chatting with this system, it mentioned wondering if it…

The problem with trees is that the are a dimensional reduction, an aggregation; taking a problem without directionality and applying a useful/functional hierarchy. And that's a pro…

I woke up around 4am, read this, and wondered if I was still in a dream state given the meandering nature of it. Were the man page musings written in response to the (alleged, but.…

Could have just been intercontinental ballistic human transport... I can't tell you how many times I've wished to just be fired out of a cannon to Hong Kong from SF.

100% agree, but, if that's the fix for the bug, I'd probably take an Uber next time. (I say this as someone with hundreds of Waymo rides) Customer trust is a lot easier to lose tha…

Well, it's safe for me!

It's amazing for us to consider "massively wasting someone's time" as "complementary".

That's like a free bus ride to Cleveland... if I wanted to go, I'd happily get myself there.