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anon35 commented on Facts about throwing good parties   atvbt.com/21-facts-about-... · Posted by u/cjbarber
watwut · 4 months ago
Americans tend to think about themselves as informal/loose, but they evolved to be very formal and structural, in reality. Tend to like a lot of formal rules about everything.

If you look at Latin American movies, they themselves are different then American movies and show different culture. They are not the exact copy of their cultures of original, but they certainly show quite different social behavior and values.

anon35 · 4 months ago
> Tend to like a lot of formal rules about everything.

I would amend to: what Americans don't like to accept are what they see as preventable mistakes. The least American sentiment of all is "shit happens". Americans sometimes say that, but they don't mean it. What they really mean: "this shit shouldn't be allowed to happen". Hence the rules, and (in the extreme) the litigiousness.

anon35 commented on A definition of AGI   arxiv.org/abs/2510.18212... · Posted by u/pegasus
tcdent · 5 months ago
Don't get me wrong, I am super excited about what AI is doing for technology. But this endless conversation about "what is AGI" is so boring.

It makes me think of every single public discussion that's ever been had about quantum, where you can't start the conversation unless you go through a quick 101 on what a qubit is.

As with any technology, there's not really a destination. There is only the process of improvement. The only real definitive point is when a technology becomes obsolete, though it is still kept alive through a celebration of its nostalgia.

AI will continue to improve. More workflows will become automated. And from our perception, no matter what the rapidness of advancement is, we're still frogs in water.

anon35 · 5 months ago
> there's not really a destination. There is only the process of improvement

Surely you can appreciate that if the next stop on the journey of technology can take over the process of improvement itself that would make it an awfully notable stop? Maybe not "destination", but maybe worth the "endless conversation"?

anon35 commented on Flunking my Anthropic interview again   taylor.town/flunking-anth... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
saagarjha · 7 months ago
It's fine to build a better world until then.
anon35 · 7 months ago
"Until then" means others will pay for your decision to ignore policy when it happens. It's never on the person who -- with every good intention, full of an instinct to "build a better world" -- willfully ignores the stuffy rules in handbooks and HR guidelines. Instead, when it backfires and someone does threaten to sue, it's precisely execs, HRs, legal who have to deal with it. The rules are there for good reason.
anon35 commented on AI is a floor raiser, not a ceiling raiser   elroy.bot/blog/2025/07/29... · Posted by u/jjfoooo4
furyofantares · 8 months ago
I feel like nobody remembers that facebook ad (Facebook is chairs), but it's seared into my own memory.
anon35 commented on How University Students Use Claude   anthropic.com/news/anthro... · Posted by u/pseudolus
el_benhameen · a year ago
I wonder to what extent this is students who would have stuck it out now taking the easy way and to what extent it’s students who would have just failed now trying to stick it out.
anon35 · a year ago
This is an extremely important question, and you’ve phrased it nicely.

We’re either handicapping our brightest, or boosting our dumbest. One part is concerning, the other encouraging .

anon35 commented on Hacker Purity Test (1989)   armory.com/tests/hacker.h... · Posted by u/oliverkwebb
PhilipRoman · 2 years ago
> ... Xedit (in VM/CMS)?

Anyone know if this refers to the same xorg-xedit program which you can install for x11? I've used it but I have no idea what is either VM or CMS.

anon35 commented on How to avoid losing items? Holding pens   blog.alexwendland.com/202... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
sublinear · 2 years ago
I have such a hard time relating to this in the same way I get deeply annoyed by sloppy code from coworkers. Any advice?
anon35 · 2 years ago
Try to keep in mind that your attention to detail is almost certainly perceived by them to be fastidious, and that quietly your seniormost colleagues and leaders may well muse: "Man, if only sublinear would loosen their standards, just imagine how much faster we'd proceed". Put another way: the fact that you can't relate to OPs problem is because you're hardwired to solve it (putting things in their place) continuously, likely without exception, which means you're paying a different cost. Try to think of _that_ cost when you bristle at their solutions.
anon35 commented on Booting Linux off of Google Drive   ersei.net/en/blog/fuse-ro... · Posted by u/jandeboevrie
unixhero · 2 years ago
"The network is the computer." It was a shortlived thing.
anon35 · 2 years ago
"Short-lived" depends on your perspective. Cloudflare owns the rights to that trademark now; because they believe their mission furthers that vision: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Network_is_the_Computer (and John Cage, the Sun employee who coined the phrase, said he was fine with Cloudflare picking it up: https://spectrum.ieee.org/does-repurposing-of-sun-microsyste...)
anon35 commented on My mother declared my bedroom a disaster area (1984)   news.lettersofnote.com/p/... · Posted by u/sohkamyung
kirubakaran · 2 years ago
> Andy Samberg and Mark Whalberg

Andy Samberg AS Mark Whalberg :)

anon35 · 2 years ago
Wahlberg lampooned himself in a follow-up appearance with Samberg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYcHxF_cO8o. So: "and" is also correct.
anon35 commented on Why the hell is your Kubernetes API public?   leebriggs.co.uk/blog/2024... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
anon35 · 2 years ago
> the vast majority of Kubernetes clusters are just hanging out on the public

How does the author know that? Doesn't "not public" mean not visible, and therefore not countable?

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