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brain5ide

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Codemonkeying around.
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brain5ide··on The slow collapse of critical thinking in OSINT due to AI
Are we talking about structural things or about individual perspective things?

At individual perspective - AI is useful as a helper to achieve your generative tasks. I'd argue against analytic tasks, but YMMV.

At the societal perspective, e.g. you as individual can not trus anything the society has produced, because it's likely some AI generated bullshit.

Some time ago, if you were not trusting a source, you could build your understanding by evaluating a plurality of sources and perspectives and get to the answer in a statistical manner. Now every possible argument can be stretched in any possible dimension and your ability to build a conclusion has been ripped away.

brain5ide··on The slow collapse of critical thinking in OSINT due to AI
Or the reader will put you into a category yourself and won't be willing to look at the essence of the argument.

I'd say the better word for that is polarising than political, but they synonims these days.

brain5ide··on LLMs, Theory of Mind, and Cheryl's Birthday
If I understood correctly, that anectode in first paragraph looks like an interaction with a child who is trying something but lacks confidence.
brain5ide··on Greppability is an underrated code metric
I think the first sentence of the author counters your comment. What you described works best in a familiar codebase where the organizing principles have been maintained well and are familiar to the reader and the tools are just the extension of those organizing principles. Even then a deviation from those rules might produce gaps in understanding of what the codebase does.

And grep cuts right through that in a pretty universal way. What the post describes are just ways to not work against grep to optimize for something ephemeral.

brain5ide··on Dutch crime reporter dies after being shot
The only proper responses would be: "Not yet" or "Not anymore".
brain5ide··on Microservices – architecture nihilism in minimalism's clothes
It's not actually saying that. It's saying, that the N is not really relevant technologically enough to be worth evaluating every damn time. It maybe relevant organizationally to fit your org chart. Also, putting a barrier to creating a new service is a feature of monolith. Other types of partitionings are still there. They just might require some insight into existing arch.
brain5ide··on Intel exits memory business, sale to Hynix for $9B
This happened once.
brain5ide··on Don’t pay for 95% (2016)
How does a shared car not need those items? It is just not under your management and is accounted somewhere else. But they are needed and you are paying for it. The only advantage could be that you're not paying with your own time and then it depends on what is cheaper, your work time or that maintenance time.
brain5ide··on PG and Jessica
I call BS on your claim about everyone being in. For anything to work only a particular type of people must be in especially at the start. To be honest most of PGs writings are dedicated to defining that, including your quote.

At least that's what I take from it. Cultism is just something that follows success.

brain5ide··on How can we, as web professionals, help to make the web more energy efficient?
I might be cynical, but that change would work only with the assumption that what is done on the page remains constant. What I guess would happen is that it would do 5% more useless operations. The limiting factor here is user's tolerance for bullshit, not some predefined functionality.
brain5ide··on Why is OOP still so widely spread?
Well, to be honest, we don't have any kind of language for that. It's as if these serializer-of-an-imagined-state things which we call languages are not good for communicating our intentions, or anything really. Godel or Wittgenstein for references here, probably.
brain5ide··on How to Write in Plain English
We had this joke.

A meeting of faculty heads is taking place. The topic - funding. The chairman says: "Hey, physicists, why are you so expensive? You need all those gadgets and materials to perform your experiments. Look at the mathematicians. All they need to produce a research paper are a box of paper, a box of pencils, and a trash can." "We don't even need trash cans, sir." announces the dean of Philosophy.

brain5ide··on Being OK with not being extraordinary
Oh man! Haven't heard that one in a while. Need to rewatch it and write a TPS report.
brain5ide··on Telegram messaging app proves crucial to Belarus protests
Adulthood necessary to vote could be one?
brain5ide··on A College Degree Is No Guarantee of a Good Life
This. Just substitute goverment with society/market/evolution. Government is too small a fish for this phenomenon.
brain5ide··on Alzheimer's: 'Promising' blood test for early stage of disease
It matters for digging into that, doesn't it?
brain5ide··on How Pulse Oximeters Work (2015)
What problem if you don't mind? I have a Garmin that says I'm 94ish, though it's accuracy is questionable. Haven't had a chance to test with a proper one.
brain5ide··on Decision for 2020-21 Academic Year
A conservative 3% of endowment would be the expendable return. So about 1.2B? Wouldn't be surprised if 193M is the largest distinct chunk of that.
brain5ide··on How many of you know that the team is working on something that no-one wants?
Hm... Vested commision?
brain5ide··on How many of you know that the team is working on something that no-one wants?
I was once being sold that as a partnership advantage - that a guy would sell with a .ppt and then afterwards we'd just have to build it.
brain5ide··on How many of you know that the team is working on something that no-one wants?
They're just seeking some outside the box solutions. If you don't course correct, how do you know/show that you're driving?
brain5ide··on How many of you know that the team is working on something that no-one wants?
Him selling you that as an original was an instance of that itself as it's a Mark Twain quote. Funny how that works.
brain5ide··on Ask HN: Are my expectations on code quality and professionalism too high?
I was hoping to see the word 'protoduction' in your comment.
brain5ide··on Ask HN: Name one idea that changed your life
How's the water today, boys?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CrOL-ydFMI

brain5ide··on New 13-inch MacBook Pro
That's what I've been saying as well to those who ask. The last good one. Even though it was the staingate one. Typing this on a banged up 2015 13inch. It's seen MacOS, Win for a year and now is on Kubuntu. Battery doesn't hold an hour, but I have yet to overcome the reluctance to pay for something not as good.
brain5ide··on The crash of the global flower trade
Can I decide what is essential to me and you decide what is essential to you? And then if there are not enough of me, maybe I have to pay more? And maybe if there are not enough of you, you pay more for those that provide those essentialities? Hm... This reminds me of something.
brain5ide··on Ask HN: Programs that wasted you 100 hours?
Because the bottleneck is not the tool, but rather your decision making process.
brain5ide··on Coronavirus and Credibility
What needs to be noted clearly here I think is that he says it's something more than Dunning Kruger overconfidence but rather an absolute con-man level gamble they are taking as they don't seem to have a downside on this bet. And I guess we have a perfect moment to start providing that downside.
brain5ide··on Coronavirus and Credibility
How is that different from what happens now with links being added?

Also, journalists (or let's call them news media agencies) often abuse this by reporting of "claims by this" on the topic rather than the topic and in that way refusing any iota of responsibility for what they put on the spotlight.

brain5ide··on Startups are pummeled in the ‘great unwinding’
Because investing in a .com would be bonkers.
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