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Google recently to SWEs: replacing a mouse requires director's approval. Also Google: why cannot we ship anything fast and why does Gemini suck so badly. Because good people leave …

You will find them in the Existential Comics, e.g. [1], [2], [3] etc. [1] At the Existentialist Cafe, https://existentialcomics.com/comic/660 [2] The Asteroid and the Meaning of Li…

Just found another mouse shape comparison site that may help: https://www.rtings.com/mouse/tools/3d-model-shape-compare/

Mousereview reddit always recommends looking at Chinese gaming mice, they have reasonable prices, often clone popular mouse shapes from large brands (see [1]) and have the latest s…

Quite right, there is nothing to discuss since qualia don't exist. See Daniel Dennett.

Marxist-Leninist Philosophy was a required course for all undergrads in my time studying in USSR. Strangely enough, the professors made it into an overview course on history of phi…

Ditto, I never could get into Factorio, it was just too depressing for me to be a tiny human running around in an all-brown landscape (that was years ago, no Space Age), then getti…

But then it's not a problem of speculative decoding, fix your dam main model. BTW, in case there is confusion, we are not talking about CPU speculative execution affecting model in…

Coprolites.

Don't think so because all tokens predicted speculatively are still validated against the main model (which is faster than predicting them from scratch) and only accepted if they m…

See "Schild's Ladder" by Greg Egan: a science experiment creates a bubble of new physics expanding at 0.5 c, and humanity is forced to flee the expansion while some stay right next…

Ask AI to test and deploy them. /s

Have to make sure all coworker's coffee cups are full.

What works well for me is a taskbar icon with mouse scrolling (Waybar pulseaudio module on Sway). You see 50% and a speaker icon, hover and scroll up or down to instantly change.

BTW, a very common name in Poland, a diminutive form of Jadwiga. If you ever read any Polish history, it almost seems like most of noblewomen were named Jadwiga.

Is it this: GitLab Duo Agent Platform with Claude accelerates development [1]? Well, Gitlab itself promotes hooking them up! [1] https://about.gitlab.com/blog/gitlab-duo-agent-plat…

In other words, engineers are becoming (bad) middle management: happy to take credit on wins and quick to blame underlings (LLMs in this case) for any mishaps. As long as managers …

> a real estate agent just walked into my home without any notice Just open the door stark naked, you are in your private home.

Contractor costs are insane, our recent experience. Gas heater wouldn't start: -- diagnosis: $180 flat fee -- quote for replacing a failed igniter: plus $300, one week waiting for …

OTOH, there are people who just don't retain information from hearing it. In college, it was useless for me to attend lectures without taking notes, I would immediately forget most…

> just to check how things are going If you work remotely, a certain fraction of managers always carry a suspicion: he is probably slacking off right now, maybe napping; let me cal…

If the company does not want you to work, just coast and enjoy. I feel zero guilt when I slack in an overcrowded noisy open plan office too.

You would think arithmetic should be deterministic, but just days ago I received paper mail from IRS saying my tax software computed federal tax underpayment penalty incorrectly, a…

Software licenses usually explicitly disclaim all financial damages. I assume Intuit does too (I don't use Turbotax myself).

> we can't explain why neurons firing results in us feeling/experiencing the world Feelings/experiences are specific patterns of specific neurons activating. Why is that hard?