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miyoji commented on He set out to walk around the world. After 27 years, his quest is nearly over washingtonpost.com/lifest... · Posted by u/wallflower

MrBuddyCasino · 2 days ago

One must distinguish between "classical" communism (Stalinism, which is dead except in North Korea) and the modern variety, which is alive and well and I think is what you mean.

There are many that think themselves "cosmopolitan", when it is a delusion and coping mechanism about being a parochial hicklib. A chip on their shoulder that makes them especially fervent acolytes of liberalism (as in: Obama flavoured, not the other kind), hoping it offsets their humble origins after moving to the big city, so folks won't get the idea that they are flyover country chuds that vote the wrong way.

A cosmopolitan, as in one that truly knows the different cultures and people of the world because he has deep first hand experience, or has read so much that it allows to draw some independent form of conclusion, is either a strong proponent of borders or a fool.

The core tenet that makes this communism-adjacent is the denial of differences: everyone is equal, "no one is illegal" etc pp. Ignorance of history and the nature of man is a must to take this position.

miyoji · a day ago

> A cosmopolitan, as in one that truly knows the different cultures and people of the world because he has deep first hand experience, or has read so much that it allows to draw some independent form of conclusion, is either a strong proponent of borders or a fool.

This is the most incredible No-True-Scotsman fallacy I've ever read.

miyoji commented on Apple's slow AI pace becomes a strength as market grows weary of spending finance.yahoo.com/news/ap... · Posted by u/bgwalter

danaris · 4 days ago

From what I can tell, only Apple even wants to try doing any of the processing on-device. Including parsing the speech. (This may be out-of-date at this point, but I haven't heard of Amazon or Google doing on-device processing for Alexa or Assistant.)

So there's no way for them to do anything without sending it off to the datacenter.

miyoji · 3 days ago

> (This may be out-of-date at this point, but I haven't heard of Amazon or Google doing on-device processing for Alexa or Assistant.)

It was out of date 6 years ago.

"This breakthrough enabled us to create a next generation Assistant that processes speech on-device at nearly zero latency, with transcription that happens in real-time, even when you have no network connection." - Google, 2019

https://blog.google/products/assistant/next-generation-googl...

miyoji commented on Pebble Index 01 – External memory for your brain repebble.com/blog/meet-pe... · Posted by u/freshrap6

nemomarx · 4 days ago

maybe wear the button on the underside of your finger?

miyoji · 4 days ago

And activate it by pressing it into the tip of my nose?

miyoji commented on Pebble Index 01 – External memory for your brain repebble.com/blog/meet-pe... · Posted by u/freshrap6

miyoji · 4 days ago

I'm not sure what other people's hands are like, but mine are pretty big and I can just barely push my thumb against the part of my index finger where I would wear a ring, and doing so renders my thumb useless for any of the opposable things that I usually use my hand for. It's also extremely uncomfortable for my hand and thumb. I've managed to press buttons on my watch with my hands full, but it would literally be impossible to activate this thing with my hands full.

I've worn rings, and they can rotate in place on the hand if they're not perfectly sized, and there aren't any half sizes here, so this would definitely rotate on my finger, making no guarantee that I can even reach the button without adjusting the ring with my other hand, or maybe awkwardly spinning it with my thumb until the button is in reach again.

And it only lasts for 10-15 hours of recording time. And there looks to be a cloud services upsell for better STT than the open source offering on device.

This seems like an early alpha version of something that might be a good idea, but as it is I can't imagine buying one.

miyoji commented on ChatGPT Pulse openai.com/index/introduc... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

moralestapia · 3 months ago

"Not done" vs "Done" is as objective as it gets.

miyoji · 3 months ago

You obviously have never worked a company that spends time arguing about the "definition of done". It's one of the most subjective topics I know about.

miyoji commented on Getting AI to work in complex codebases github.com/humanlayer/adv... · Posted by u/dhorthy

foobarbecue · 3 months ago

I really can't tell if this is meant as a joke.

Anyway, I just wrote what I, personally, would type in a normal work day to accomplish this coding task.

miyoji · 3 months ago

It isn't a joke, you need the Kolmogorov complexity of the code that implements the feature, which has nothing to do with the fact that you're using someone else's solution. You may not have to think about all the code needed to parse a CSV, but someone did and that's a cost of the feature, whether you want to think about it or not.

Again, if someone else writes a 100,000 line function for you, and they wrap it in a "do_the_thing()" method, you calling it is still calling a 100,000 line function, the computer still has to run those lines and if something goes wrong, SOMEONE has to go digging in it. Ignoring the costs you don't pay is ridiculous.

miyoji commented on Getting AI to work in complex codebases github.com/humanlayer/adv... · Posted by u/dhorthy

foobarbecue · 3 months ago

> Show me the programming language that can express that entire feature in 20 words.

In python:

    import pandas
    mycsv = pandas.read_csv("/path/to/input.csv")
    mycsv['total_cost'] = mycsv.price*mycsv.quantity

Not only is this shorter, but it contains all of the critical information that you left out of your english prompt: where is the csv? what are the input columns named? what are output columns named? what do you want to do with the output?

I also find it easier to read than your english prompt.

miyoji · 3 months ago

> `mycsv = pandas.read_csv("/path/to/input.csv")`

You have to count the words in the functions you call to get the correct length of the implementation, which in this case is far far more than 20 words. read_csv has more than 20 arguments, you can't even write the function definition in under 20 words.

Otherwise, I can run every program by importing one function (or an object with a single method, or what have you) and just running that function. That is obviously a stupid way to count.

miyoji commented on A blog does not need “analytics” thisdaysportion.com/posts... · Posted by u/FromTheArchives

stevage · 3 months ago

You could make the counter-argument: Why would I want to read something written by someone who doesn't care about their audience at all?

Both of those are extreme positions.

miyoji · 3 months ago

I would make the counter-counter-argument: someone who is just trying to make what the audience wants to see to get views doesn't care about the audience either, they just care about the audience's eyeballs and the money/fame/influence they can get from leveraging those eyeballs.

miyoji commented on 'Ad Blocking Is Not Piracy' Decision Overturned by Top German Court torrentfreak.com/ad-block... · Posted by u/gslin

charcircuit · 4 months ago

Copyright includes the rights for controlling the modification of the work.

miyoji · 4 months ago

Markers are illegal because I can use them to cross out words in books I've bought?

miyoji commented on Have you ever noticed that people dressed better in the past? twitter.com/dieworkwear/s... · Posted by u/surprisetalk

andy99 · 4 months ago

https://xcancel.com/dieworkwear/status/1955756224030630264

Didn't really resonate with me, I'm not very interested in fashion.

I did think the first comment was interesting, that it could be selection bias as fewer photos were taken so people dressed up.

miyoji · 4 months ago

The thread isn't about fashion, really. It's about style and aesthetics. Most of the poorly fitting loose clothes that he's criticizing are "in fashion" but they look terrible. Even if you don't agree with his sense of aesthetics, learning to see what he's talking about is valuable.

> I did think the first comment was interesting, that it could be selection bias as fewer photos were taken so people dressed up.

He addresses this in replies, noting that people today dress worse even on formal occasions when they expect their picture to be taken. https://xcancel.com/dieworkwear/status/1955872833965580437#m