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Quantum physics teaches us that at the fundamental levels of physics, reality itself is probabilistic. Probability distributions collapsing to discrete locations aligns nicely across LLMs and quantum mechanics.

If you're inexperienced you have no bookcase at all, going from that to a rickety bookcase is an enormous improvement.

(Perhaps this is why some devs dislike it, perhaps they place the quality of their work very very high)

Similar to quantum computing, a probabilistic model when condensed to sufficiently narrow ranges can be treated as discrete.

It's just weird that it's this complicated. We should get a static IP from our DNS. We should use standard open source streaming conversion mechanisms. It should go over basic video codecs.

Lately I've been working towards just using a webserver to host video files. Sure, it's not adaptive, but for goodness sakes it's simple.

Wasted time should not be defined as unproductive time, it should be time you did not experience, time you were completely clocked out, not even enjoyed, not relaxed or relished. Wasted. It is a subtle difference but critical to remember if you want to reclaim your time rather than claiming it for capitalism.

Perhaps this makes a very big difference to you, but I often have to remind myself that iTunes movie rentals are very much alive and function just as they do some ten years ago. No subscription required. Not physical, sure, but a normal rental experience.

Though I do miss old Netflix. That was fun.

The event one seems perfectly fine with a dictionary or even a class that wraps your events and pairs with an event object subscribers can attach to with a singleton attribute.

Rather than picking at the examples like other commenters, I very much agree with the diagnosis, which is that you do not want to pick someone who will protect your baby. That is a babysitter. You want someone who will become a parent of their own.

Ownership is one of the leadership principles. That doesn't just mean owing the things that exist, it means owning the conceptual direction of the company.

Yeah! Or cigarettes!

I think you would use SharePlay for that maybe

People used to and still say the same thing about GPS. As these systems mature they stay up and become incorporated into our workflows. The implication in the case of GPS was that navigating on your own is not a very critical task anymore. Correspondingly the implication here is that software design and feature design are more important than coding or technical implementation. Similar to Google, it's more important that you know how and what to ask for rather than be able to generate it yourself.

Personally I feel that their emphasis on privacy by design was a very winning marketing strategy. Not sure if it played with the general pop.

Yeah I like fiber optic lines

Good thing almost all of programming falls into the former. Most of the economy runs on well defined languages. Billions and billions of dollars.

>I'm sure people noticed this issue internally and brought it up but some thing by some designer was seen as biblically sacred and overruled all reason.

I disagree. Seems more like the group that implemented border radius at the OS UI implementation level did not work with the group that handles window sizing. Not everything is a conspiracy.

My two cents on this topic is to create short term, superficial incentives to help create the practices that yield the long term incentives. For me this is paying extra for a gym with a hot tub, sauna, and cold plunge. Now I derive relaxation from the workout, but before that I also received a lot of support from the knowledge that the amenities afterwards were waiting for me.

I'm not a big believer in discipline.

So would that be almost all republicans and half of democrats?

My understanding is that a big appeal of sports gambling is that it adds stakes to entertainment. So instead of casually watching the game you're much more invested. Given this angle, I don't think the majority of casual sports betters are thinking about this in terms of getting rich. It just makes their frequent content more engaging.

I know how much my ride will be and I know it doesn't vary based on what happens along the way. L

If you cannot understand what made Apple successful then or today what makes you think you're not failing to grasp something? You head right on to making an argument when nakedly revealing that you can't comprehend the other side.

Not surprising, this site is made for the Woz's of the world (and that's fine!).

Completely agree. General intelligence is a building block. By chaining things together you can achieve meta programming. The trick isn't to create one perfect block but to build a variety of blocks and make one of those blocks a block-builder.

I imagine it must feel like that. The reality is that engineers are blasé with data and have been since the personal computing revolution.

Legal frameworks are incredibly irritating and often defined by people who know nothing about what they're regulating. This can lead to very bad laws.

Given that we live in the real world and one can be sued for violating those laws, the stakes are quite high and low cost. Many states in the US allow individuals to bring suit based on these laws, meaning all that needs to happen is you make a mistake and some rando has time to hire a lawyer.

And that is, by the way, notwithstanding the reality that many of the annoying compliance requirements are actually not all that annoying in principle, they are annoying to implement because many software development practices involve the free flow of data.

Maybe that was fine when it was public blogs. But when it's someone's medical records or their financial data, or when it lands in the bucket of a Cambridge Analytica type, sorry, there's a higher burden.

It is frustrating, I know. But we as engineers need to take responsibility for the consequences and stakes of what we're building. It's lack of that awareness that caused many of the largest controversies in our industry.

So your argument is basically that he is just very smart and good at being a disruptor therefore any questioning of his ventures is doubtful because he is successful at previous disruptions?

You really think that's a valid argument? Or is this just being an Elon fan wrapped in additional language.

That's an appeal to authority. Either make an argument for why his reasoning is good or don't. But don't appeal to someone's reputation.

That being said, I do think what the parent commenter is missing is that those other modes require significant investment. With cars you get profit and can scale one by one. So less up front investment. Should do nicely in all sorts of cities.

I honestly think there is some place here to be anti tech. Some things, the things closest to our humanity, like love and community, are not all that better with technology in my opinion. Sure, you can stay connected with a family member or friend who lives in another city, but that same positive is a negative via another perspective because it doesn't force you to make new connections with people around you.

And love is similar. It's nice that algorithms can help you match, but the psychology by which you arrive at a compatible partner matters a great deal. The swipe is inherently dehumanizing even if it does match you with a human.

Some things are supposed to be uncomfortable. Discomfort is not necessarily a bad thing. Tech should stop trying to eliminate that and instead augment it. That calls for an entirely different philosophy when choosing ideas to build. Instead of looking for uncomfortable or inefficient things and trying to "fix" that, consider your values. What do you care about, what is important for a good human life? Then use your skills to enable deeper integration into those values.

Easier is not always better.

I recently had this revelation when considering how difficult it is to find events that I'm interested in. I was shocked that this isn't a problem that we had solved in the 2000s. But Facebook events is full of bar specials like ladies night and doesn't seem to match to my taste and Eventbrite is overly monetized and tends to be formal events, my friend who's very into the electronic scene told me that the way that she found events was by following people on Instagram and then following the businesses that she went to and checking their pages for events. I thought that seemed very inefficient and then it occurred to me that maybe the goal here is not to get as many people as possible to go to your event. Maybe it's about getting the right people with the right values and right taste to go to your event. This is a classic case where making something easier would not necessarily serve to achieve the goal of that ease, which, in this case would be making it easier for me to find authentic events. *The very nature of them being trivially accessible would change what they are.*

Geography still dictates some things in the diversity of the experiences it imparts, though admittedly much of our technology exists to insulate us from that stuff.

The true issue is that many middle and upper level managers are sycophantic and short term incentivized, while valuing loyalty only really shows its benefit over the long term. If you're leadership is always trying to have a green number for next quarter and your manager is always trying to only please his boss to get promoted, those two will disavow loyalty the moment anything gets in the way of that. I truly think public companies have the worst incentives in this regard.

The issue I think you're outlining is whether someone builds because they believe in their product and its value or if they are profiteers charading as believers.

I'm not saying profit isn't a factor, but a lot of these founders are five year founders, they are using the company as a means to their end. Basically I'm criticizing short sightedness and what it does to our economy. That's why I've turned against the stock market. The high liquidity means you are beholden to thousands of people who view your company as a roulette wheel amongst thousands, who want immediate gains and have no stomach for any losses. And many of the founders are the same people wearing a different hat.

That is exactly what is happening to Reddit. Made famous by its submitters and moderators. Business decision driven by metrics based on view counts because that sells ads. Let this be a lesson: metrics are not the only way to measure success. I worked at a company where metrics were viewed as a way to cut through dissonance and bias. Newflash: leaders should be opinionated and have visions that do not yet exist. They should be investors in their product and its culture. Metrics should play a role in that decision, but perhaps a tiny one. Because what metrics you choose, how you measure it, and most importantly, what is even measurable, have a tremendous impact on the effect of those metrics.

You cannot paint by numbers.

Once we are aware of these neural pathways I see no reason there shouldn't be a watcher and influencer of the pathways. A bit like a dystopian mind watcher. Shape the brain.