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I'm bad at getting some API to not be unreliable? What are you even talking about? When your team fails an SLA do you just tell them "well it's working now so git gud"?

We are assigning semantics to systems that deal only in syntactics. The entire problem with the current "AI" hype is squarely based on how we interpret output from systems based on…

Talent is not some fungible measure. I know incredibly smart people who can fail at incredibly basic life skills. "They wouldn't be that dumb" is a meaningless argument. People you…

Not "collapsing the climate" Collapsing human-optimum climate, a temporary state Earth entered about 15 thousand years ago and made modern civilization possible. The truly sad thin…

I was trying to figure out what time of day, by UTC, would most people be asleep. Searching I could only pre-slopped answers in hundreds of random blogs. So I decided to get my own…

You're missing the forest for the trees. Horse population today is in line with the long term average. There was a freak bump from 1850-1920. Think about this question: is it harde…

And how much of today's craftsmanship would be impossible one, two or three centuries ago? There has never been as much craftsmanship as today. The idea that industry destroyed cra…

This is a sophomoric oversimplification. The US and Europe might have lost a lot of craftsmanship knowledge at a social level. Yet, what is left is so far ahead of what has ever ex…