Inevitability implies determinism and assumes complete knowledge. Forecasts of inevitable things are high probability guesses based on the knowledge at hand. Their accuracy is low and becomes lower as the level of detail increases. The plethora of wrong guesses get less attention or are forgotten and right ones are celebrated and immortalized after the fact.
Readit Newspossiblydrunk commented on LLM Inevitabilism tomrenner.com/posts/llm-i... · Posted by u/SwoopsFromAbove
It's like a protocol handshake, of course. Why transmit information until you've established that the connection works? Consider it a text modem :)
possiblydrunk commented on Why do programmers need private offices with doors? blobstreaming.org/why-do-... · Posted by u/signa11
I worked at a place with a great office layout. A group of a few people working on the same or related things could all have private offices with doors, but it was also easy for people to call out questions to others or gather together to discuss ideas and see what others are up to.
There would be a large room off of a hallway, divided into 8 offices, arranged like this:
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The larger offices at the top can be used for more senior people, or the group manager, or for a lab, or a library, or a break room.
You could extend this to two teams working on different projects but under a common manager or senior engineer by putting them in separate clusters side by side, and merging the adjacent top offices so that the common manager or senior engineer's office is part of both clusters:
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I had the privilege of designing a small 4 office space exactly like this for our small bioinformatics developer core. It was beautiful and worked very well. Then the company's legal department decided Legal would benefit more from it and kicked us out. It goes back to how much a company values its developers.
possiblydrunk commented on Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses meta.com/smart-glasses/... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
So when Google Glass came out, people using them were "Glassholes" because of the ability to record surreptitiously, albeit for a very short period. And there was no mistaking Glass. Meta's look normal and I doubt the LED indicator will draw enough attention this time around. Plus as others have noted, by the time you notice it's already too late and anyway the onus is on you to ask the wearer to stop. And this is worse, as it streams directly to social media. There should be some (legal) way to jam these devices within a certain proximity radius.
possiblydrunk commented on Is this octopus having a nightmare? nytimes.com/2023/05/25/sc... · Posted by u/drdee
The best we can do is infer. We can't even know for sure what goes on in others of our own species -- we either accept what they say or infer what they might be experiencing based on our own experiences and the fact we're so similar. The further we get away from things "like us", communication falls away as does inferring based on similarity. I mean, how do you know that we even experience/"see" the same color when we both see something orange -- we agree on calling whatever we see as "orange"; but is my "orange" the same as yours? Consciousness is fascinating!
possiblydrunk commented on The Worlds of Italo Calvino newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/Caiero
Cosmicomics is excellent. A beautiful blend of science and fantasy. So poetic.
possiblydrunk commented on American drivers have a blinding headlight problem businessinsider.com/ameri... · Posted by u/pseudolus
I look stupid, but wearing blue-blocking yellow lens glasses while driving at night has helped deal with the blinding glare.
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possiblydrunk commented on Daily habits of happiness experts time.com/6241099/daily-ha... · Posted by u/lxm
Engaging in activities you feel you have control over, in general, will make you happier.
possiblydrunk commented on Artist banned, told to “find a different style”- AI-made art thetechdeviant.com/2023/0... · Posted by u/kamban
Wow, that's like banning a photorealist because their work looks too much like a photograph.