aplusbi

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I'm an unremarkable programmer who, unremarkably, keeps a blog: http://www.aplusbi.com

I hope to one day be remarkable.

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Comment · 1 year ago
Perhaps I'm being uncharitable but this line "each person will be more load-bearing" reads to me as "each person will be expected to do more work for the same pay".
Comment · 2 years ago
Cellphones used to operate on a frequency band that was very close to the same band used by ground proximity warning systems, so theoretically they could interfere with the safety systems on a plane. Modern phones use different frequency bands now.
Comment · 2 years ago
Remember, the product is the stock and the customers are the shareholders. And oh boy do the customers want AI.
Comment · 2 years ago
Honestly this feels like a better policy than most AI training - Meta actually has explicit rights to the content it is using. Sure it was EULA click-through but at least it's something that the content creator ostensibly agreed to.

Of course I'm sure Meta is also training their AI on content that they scraped from the internet/other sources without permission...

Comment · 2 years ago
Branching in Subversion was fine, but merging was quite painful (at least at the time I was using it, around 2008ish). From my recollection, SVN didn't try to figure out the base commit for a merge - you had to do that manually. I remember having a document keeping track of when I branched so that I could merge in commits later.

And even if I was using it wrong or SVN improved merging later the fact was that common practice at the time was to just commit everything to the main branch, which is a worse (IMO) workflow than the feature-branch workflow common in git.

But you're right, SVN was largely fine and it was better than what preceded it and better than many of its peers.

Edit: Forgot to mention - one of the biggest benefits to git, at least early on, was the ability to use it locally with no server. Prior to git all my personal projects did not use version control because setting up VC was painful. Once git came around it was trivial to use version control for everything.

Comment · 2 years ago
Minor spoilers ahead:

I still can't get over the fact that Trisolaris is actually a four body problem, not a three body problem. I've heard some explanations that this is because you can ignore the mass of the planet. While I'm not an astrophysicist, I'm not sure that's true given that the entire point is to figure out how three suns affect the planet.

Comment · 2 years ago
Food is heavily regulated though, in a large part because markets failed to prevent food-borne illnesses.
Comment · 2 years ago
Perhaps I worded it a bit poorly - I don't think most workers have a purely non-financial agenda. But most workers have multiple agendas for working, the financial agenda probably being the strongest.

But it's not a purely transactional agreement like you make it out to be.

Comment · 2 years ago
Most workers do have an agenda other than enriching themselves though:

* Self-satisfaction

* Sense of identity

* Belief in the company

* Desire to improve the world

* Puritanical work ethic

* etc

Comment · 2 years ago
Fortunately owners will forever remain entitled to the profits of others' work.
Comment · 2 years ago
It was my understanding that many of the studies on moderate alcohol consumption included people in the study who could not drink for medical reasons (or were former alcoholics) which skewed the results for the zero-alcohol groups.

Studies on red wine included people whose only source of fruit was red wine, which similarly skewed the results.

Comment · 3 years ago
The best way that I've thought about it is like this:

You pick a door, then Monty let's you switch to the two remaining doors and if the car is behind either of them you win.

Obviously choosing the two remaining doors is better.

The trick is to realize that Monty showing you the contents of one door and letting you choose the other one is identical to Monty letting you choose both the remaining doors.

Comment · 3 years ago
The `ac` in `actime24` probably means `arrival city`.
Comment · 3 years ago
I do like this (and the way you phrased it!) but I do think it has a dark side - there will come a time in your life where your skills plateau, and another time in your life where your skills start to decrease. Actually both of these will probably happen many times in your life!

It's important to recognize the ebb and flow and to be kind to yourself.

Comment · 3 years ago
A lot of addiction is caused by social issues or mental health issues, but it's really hard to deal with those issues when someone is also dealing with the effects of addiction. A drug like this could provide an opportunity to fix the underlying issues causing addiction in the first place.

And for some people they will have to take this for life, which isn't so different from many other medications.

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