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lo0dot0··on We Must Return to the Office to Use AI in Person
I have to clock in and clock out. I can't clock in when I am commuting. I don't give over time savings to work tasks, Why would I. The time was my own time.
lo0dot0··on Kale: A Transformation-Safe Spreadsheet System
> Not tech savvy.

Excel is tech , too.

lo0dot0··on Kale: A Transformation-Safe Spreadsheet System
Ok, but I don't even want spreadsheets. SQL relational DB is way better.
lo0dot0··on Kale: A Transformation-Safe Spreadsheet System
Anecdotal evidence but when I used duckdb and Python and Pycharm the Pycharm table viewer was not working as well as Excel. The rendering was messed up. Could be related to the remote desktop rendering but still not as flawless as Excel. The patchwork of multiple software from different vendors needed to replace Excel with database plus viewer plus Code has downsides compared to the single app single file solution that is Excel.
lo0dot0··on Wi-Fi 8 is the first wireless upgrade in years that isn't chasing speed
A drone carrying a fiber cable across the tree line. Battle tested.
lo0dot0··on Stop Making TUIs
No. TUIs do not work everywhere. They can break because of terminfo which I really don't want to deal with. I hate wasting time on such configuration issues.
lo0dot0··on Stop Making TUIs
Actual GUIs also work over the network, either as a web service rendered in the browser or a desktop app with a backend network connection.
lo0dot0··on Stop Making TUIs
> shorthand inputs that make common operations (like “take the gradient of this expression”) quick to type

There's a shorthand that derives from the Phoenician string instrument : nabla . Latex has it as \nabla

lo0dot0··on A flawed paper in management science has been cited more than 6k times
I think that the solution is very simple, remove the citation metric. Citations don't mean correctness. What we want is correctness.
lo0dot0··on Boring Company cited for almost 800 environmental violations in Las Vegas
Do the cars not have a trunk door on the back?
lo0dot0··on Boring Company cited for almost 800 environmental violations in Las Vegas
Tunnels can recoup their cost easily if they are used massively by many people every day. Any reason why you are against building a subway / underground railway?
lo0dot0··on Ryanair flight landed at Manchester airport with six minutes of fuel left
Yes. Similarly, safety needs to be there even after the aging of materials over product lifetime. So basically when aging is the only variable to be considered end of life date is the worst case scenario.
lo0dot0··on Ryanair flight landed at Manchester airport with six minutes of fuel left
There must be measurements of the fuel tanks state, right?
lo0dot0··on Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year
Seeing a discord channel for special software recommended on a corporate presentation was definitely a first for me. Happened yesterday.
lo0dot0··on Wanted to spy on my dog, ended up spying on TP-Link
Fritzbox brand and possibly others updates itself automatically by default. ISPs often also control the devices they ship to clients and install updates as part of a "fleet management".
lo0dot0··on Wanted to spy on my dog, ended up spying on TP-Link
"if you don't know what you're doing don't do it" vs. "Secure out of the box"
lo0dot0··on A qualitative analysis of pig-butchering scams
You're arguing for sending money to criminal organizations which will make them more powerful. It's a terrible advice.
lo0dot0··on A qualitative analysis of pig-butchering scams
Agree that we are allowed to waste time. Sending money to scammers doesn't help anyone it just makes whoever is in charge of the criminal ring more powerful.
lo0dot0··on Language models pack billions of concepts into 12k dimensions
Not liking a writing style because LLMs use it is not a good reason. What exactly do you dislike about it?
lo0dot0··on E-paper display reaches the realm of LCD screens
Answers would be more helpful if you answered based on the panel you were using rather than saying it depends on the panel
lo0dot0··on E-paper display reaches the realm of LCD screens
The display can only show a video well that has this property of only updating parts of the screen but not everything at the same time? What if the video content is like so?
lo0dot0··on Light exposure at night predicts incidence of cardiovascular diseases
No, measuring light doesn't remove the air quality confounder. Measuring air quality would allow to remove the air quality confounder. What are you smoking?
lo0dot0··on Revisiting Knuth's “Premature Optimization” Paper
It's also good practice to chose an appropriate language for the problem. It's not premature optimisation to use a compiled language instead of Python when you already know the code will run thousands of times in a loop because of the application and use a lot of electrical energy in the process.
lo0dot0··on Enterprises are getting stuck in AI pilot hell, say Chatterbox Labs execs
A part of my question that you didn't go into was, can new knowledge be added in a new version without making the answers with knowledge learned in previous versions non-deterministic?
lo0dot0··on Enterprises are getting stuck in AI pilot hell, say Chatterbox Labs execs
The answers can be recorded and reviewed. The other points are true, or is there a way to make outcomes deterministic, when compared to previous versions while allowing to add more knowledge in newer versions?
lo0dot0··on Meta: Shut down your invasive AI Discover feed
You don't need context there is terms and services that no one reads
lo0dot0··on Forests offset warming more than thought: study
It's also not possible to tap into the full amount of reduction because of the land use
lo0dot0··on Meta: Shut down your invasive AI Discover feed
If you are unsure what you are doing, do not do it. For example, I just posted to hackernews. The button in my app says "submit", but doesn't warn me about posting to the internet. Is there any problem with that? No, because I know what I'm doing and anyone using the Internet should too.
lo0dot0··on What does “Undecidable” mean, anyway
Even if you can not compute the result in a finite number of steps through the naive approach there could still be a better approach, let me call it shortcut, for determining the value that can be computed. E.g. the geometric series result is known (a/(1-r)) but not computable through evaluating the series itself. A problem is undecidable if you can prove that the shortcut can not exist, it is decidable if you know a shortcut exists (knowing the formula is not required), and potentially either decidable or undecidable if a proof in either direction is unknown.
lo0dot0··on Beware of Fast-Math
While it technically correct to say this it also gets the wrong point across because it leaves out the fact that ordering changes create only a small difference. Other examples where arithmetic is not commutative, e.g. matrix multiplication , can create much larger differences.
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