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it'd be a fascinating feature - a random number on the face of the watch - especially on a mechanical one

perhaps because it gives the same answer, verbatim, for many different attempts to figure it out? and because we know it well enough to be sure that it's not smart and devious enou…

After discovering Muji Gel pens a decade ago I just buy them tens at a time (pens or refill sticks). They feel absolutely perfect and are very easy to obtain in Europe. It's a grea…

we should code up a real online game to gather the stats here. maybe we'll find a real subliminal messaging model

so it hallucinates when explaining what these companies do in relation to an idea. basically it's an automatic downer machine that lies that there's a lot of companies making your …

you also should, and inevitably will, cut corners smaller than your "step" when actually following the "coastline" in development. the more fixated one on the smallest details, the…

Weirdly I'm very used to this kind of stuff and take it very easily from programmers, but when a german bureaucrat does this same thing to me I'm also fuming.

there're no sanity checks because there are no sane "recovery" nor there are much risk. useless sanity checks mostly work towards making software annoying and unusable

Not engage on sensitive topics: yes, even with people you like Not engage on any topic outside the strictly necessary for work: a passive-aggressive way to keep the animosity forev…

they always insist that Leibnizian monad is not related to the FP monad at all, probably because it's a major point of pride of contemporary scientist to not be related to anything…

even simply expanding consultants' liability is bound to help them: they have more capital and more lawyers to fight, while any small shop would be destroyed by the first liability…

> with consulting there are no certifications, no licensing — it’s kind of a Wild West mentality I imagine how bad it would become if you'd have to get an official certification to…

it is quite sensible that origin is top left in potentially scrollable situations

Add Cosmoteer, where you build and fly a starship: playing it makes me think of John Boyd

Borges: "There are only four stories: the siege of the city, the return home, the quest, and the sacrifice of a God"

the man has a whole career out of pushing corporate-controlled languages into wider and more open use

tobacco patches do it for me

I wonder if there's a subsubsubfield of ML research that goes like "let's use halting-evaluator as an activation function for our purely theoretical neural network". or like, "NNs …

Parkinson's Law is probably the same thing, but framed in much more hostile way (now it's the worker being lazy/creating extra work/yak shaving...)

I'm not sure that's an inevitable conjecture. It's not the original text samples from the web that govern how chatgpt acts in chat - it's the consequent chat-specific fine-tuning. …

yeah when GitHub is sold to PE 15 years from now, and we get emails like "you have 2 days to backup all your repos", i hope I won't feel too lazy