warmcompress | 1 year ago | on: Losing a 5-year-long Illinois FOIA lawsuit for database schemas
About as believable as DOGE "saving" the government $105 billion.
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warmcompress | 1 year ago | on: DOGE will use AI to assess the responses of federal workers
Comparing daily standup to the situation here is an equivocation so sublimely dumb that I'm just... at a loss.
Also— if standup is just a manager mandating people to give updates in a daily meeting, that's a Scrum smell: it's probably wasting time, when people could be doing reports on their work activities in one of the many, many ways organizations do in the pursuit of getting things done. Not the best way to go about it!
Oh, the "smell" part means that it's an issue - as in an unpleasant odor that indicates a problem. Just FYI, in case the Hacker News crowd might need another term from the world of software development defined.
warmcompress | 1 year ago | on: Scientific American's departing editor and the politicization of science
> As I said, I said it was a guess. I tried chatgpt, but no help there.
"We've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas"
warmcompress | 1 year ago | on: How I Got a Digital Nomad Visa for Japan
Answering your comment seriously, with an appropriate level of flippancy:
On the Tokyo metro this year I saw many advertisements for hair issues; lots of ads with balding noggins, contrasted with thick gorgeous heads of hair that you can acquire by making an appointment through a (naturally!) Japanese domain. In London, meanwhile, I saw zero ads for any hair-related products or services on the tube. Though if there were, I would imagine most would be advertised with a UK TLD.
warmcompress | 1 year ago | on: Internet troll Joshua Goldberg's response to Elon Musk posting his old bait
warmcompress | 1 year ago | on: The Internet Archive has lost its appeal in Hachette vs. Internet Archive
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ca2.609...
On one hand: the court opinion. On the other, a breaking news tweet from Publisher's Weekly with hundreds of tedious low effort takes ready to melt precious brain cells. Please read the opinion.
warmcompress | 2 years ago | on: Our Oppenheimer Moment: The Creation of AI Weapons by Alexander Karp of Palantir
> It is not at all clear — not even to the scientists and programmers who build them — how or why the generative language and image models work.
Wowie! Someone should look into this!
warmcompress | 2 years ago | on: The 1990s Amiga with Video Toaster has a VFX cool factor that endures today
Degradation of analog data stored on magnetic tape is a lie—teach the controversy!
For real though, can't one just... not post about stuff you don't know about?
warmcompress | 2 years ago | on: Ego and Math [video]
There are comments on HN I find correlate to blithe superciliousness. A light expression of common sentiment (math is beautiful!) without domain knowledge is somehow a marker of social superiority... yeesh. kandel's sibling comment being the kind of reasonable rejoinder that shouldn't have to exist if there was a good faith follow-up to this sort of conversation, instead of turning up the nose...
warmcompress | 3 years ago | on: Fewer than 40% of New Yorkers earn a living wage
warmcompress | 3 years ago | on: The Tyranny of Nicespeak (2001)
"We should try", "may be ... effective"; propositions are not hard conclusions.
The biggest whiff for me in this essay is the idea that people aren't acutely aware of the fakeness. It would be like her acknowledging no irony in holding the Rupert Murdoch Professorship in Language and Communication.
warmcompress | 3 years ago | on: FILM: Frame Interpolation for Large Motion
Thank you!! Our contemporary 60hz world seems to have retconned broadcast video standards.
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