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>Sure, if you summarize the whole book as "keep things small with a single purpose" that's not an awful message, but that's not the book. Assuming that you have read the book, I fi…

>Have you read Uncle Bob? Yes, I have read Uncle Bob. I could agree that the examples in the book leave room for improvement. Meanwhile, the real-world application of these princip…

That reference link is a wild ride of unqualified, cartoonish passive-aggression, the cute link to the author's "swag" is the icing on the cake. Concidentally, I encountered the au…

I don't think you're on the right track. When someone says to me "Can you pass me my tea?", my mind instantly builds a simulated model of the past, present, and future which takes …

Very interesting, cognitive atrophy is a serious concern that is simply being handwaved away. Assuming the apparent trend of diminishing returns continues, and LLMs retain the same…

Apologies for repeating myself but this directly addresses a question I posed in a sub-comment: of the total population, at the time, what proportion were considered working class?…

Yes, I made sure to highlight that this was the (unreliable) source, consider it an invitation for the history buffs to chime in. Food for thought: if I had posted the very first s…

No doubt that is true but it doesn't seem to account for the discrepancy, at least not without acquiring more data. Google's LLM is spitting out ~250K immigrant and first-generatio…

A lower standard would apply across the board, not only to the Irish. For your comment to make sense, forces would have to be majority Irish to begin with. Otherwise, Irish are vas…

This is a narrative I've heard many times, with very little evidence to back it up. An alternative and more accurate view is that, as the world came online, people became exposed t…

I would frame this slightly differently: managers care about delivery above all else, not necessarily productivity or efficiency. Their goal is to attach their name to as many feat…

I mean examples in-practice of such a system being used for anything other than mass surveillance of citizens which flouts their constitutional and human rights. >having laws writt…

Distinction without difference: one would have to actually explain how surveillance is applied and leveraged differently across jurisdictions, allowing us to sub-divide into "good …

True, though there is much emphasis placed on the link between language and thought in the book. As the parent comment suggests, there is a lot of tacit differentiation-without-dis…

The following quote is taken from the CrowdStrike blog post linked in the article: >Based on the testing performed before the initial deployment of the Template Type (on March 05, …

>This has been debated to death on guitar forums, but some would argue that digital is now undistinguishable from the tubes. I find that it's impossible for the average listener to…

>I don't think I can name a single one known to play solid state amps. Dimebag Darrell and Buckethead are two names who come to mind, favouring the even response of solid state ove…

This downvoting is ridiculous, your comment is entirely reasonable, objective as can be, and should serve as a starting point (for those already versed in Rubin's career and career…

The engineers invovled would certainly be responsible for this, Rubin himself has little-to-no technical ability or involvement with the actual process of creating music, instead h…

I think this is truly is Rubin's defining contribution and achievement: the industry leaders had an appetite to expand the hip-hop market to the mainstream and, judging by the gene…

>how notoriously difficult it is to stay alive and relevant in the entertainment industry. This smells really bad: the entertainment industry is notoriously hard for the majority o…

Accepting the conceit that the music industry is a meritocracy and that demand drives supply, Rick Rubin is clearly a 10Xer genius who gets the best of the best out of the best of …

I stopped drinking around 6 weeks ago. Due to my indolent WFH lifestyle and drinking heavily after work to "relax", I gradually developed back pain which eventually made it impossi…