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New comment by great_wubwub in "Reverse engineering my ADHD test"

great_wubwub — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 23:26:04 +0000

Autism Disorder with High Distractability?

New comment by great_wubwub in "AI Is Undermining Leaders' Judgment. Here's What to Do About It"

great_wubwub — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 19:03:01 +0000

Management replaces developers with AI: this is good, AI is magic and developers are monkeys.

AI replaces management: this is bad, management is magic and AI is monkeys.

New comment by great_wubwub in "Tech leaders say AI means less work – staff say they work up to 90 hours a week"

great_wubwub — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 16:21:27 +0000

"It appears you've misunderstood. We meant less work _per person for the number of people we have right now_."

New comment by great_wubwub in "Bank of America spends $250M a year on GLP-1 drugs for its employees"

great_wubwub — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 23:36:40 +0000

If employers don't t want to pay to keep employees healthy they shouldn't tie employees to employer-provided healthcare like indentured servants.

New comment by great_wubwub in "Aristotle quotes on virtue, knowledge, and happiness"

great_wubwub — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 15:25:45 +0000

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”

Aristotle never said this. It's Will Durant.

https://medium.com/the-mission/my-favourite-quote-of-all-tim...

https://old.reddit.com/r/askphilosophy/comments/s2n3s/source...

This invalidates the post for me, it takes it from academic research to fanboy posting.

New comment by great_wubwub in "Guardian Angels: LLM Personalization for Productivity and Security"

great_wubwub — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 21:34:14 +0000

IDK, this seems like the next step towards uploading yourself to the cloud.

New comment by great_wubwub in "IEEE Rolls Out Large Language Models Training Course"

great_wubwub — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 14:59:32 +0000

Oh that was very much sarcasm. I have no idea why I'd pay for five hours of recorded videos from two guys from Samsung when I can get top-tier academic and industry content for free. I'm happy to pay for good education but nothing about this training has $240 of value to me.

New comment by great_wubwub in "IEEE Rolls Out Large Language Models Training Course"

great_wubwub — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 23:07:19 +0000

Yes but you get a digital badge with it, so that's nice.

New comment by great_wubwub in "Cell-based architecture for resilient payment systems"

great_wubwub — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 23:13:59 +0000

Makes me a little nervous that a web page about resilience is failing to connect.

New comment by great_wubwub in "Can we have the day off?"

great_wubwub — Thu, 28 May 2026 00:52:01 +0000

This reminds me of Ted Chiang's point that fear of technology is really fear of capitalism. https://kottke.org/21/04/ted-chiang-fears-of-technology-are-...

"Most of the things that we worry about under the mode of capitalism that the U.S practices, that is going to put people out of work, that is going to make people’s lives harder, because corporations will see it as a way to increase their profits and reduce their costs."

New comment by great_wubwub in "Throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations"

great_wubwub — Thu, 21 May 2026 20:31:18 +0000

Are you arguing that trying to write more clearly is a 'special use case'?

New comment by great_wubwub in "Throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations"

great_wubwub — Thu, 21 May 2026 12:14:14 +0000

I have a coworker whose first language isn't English. She uses AI to polish up her writing, particularly long documents. She puts a ton of effort into making sure that it still reads well. Because of this effort her writing is strong and precise. Before AI she made all the obvious mistakes you'd expect from someone who's not a native English speaker. It's very hard to tell that she used AI because she puts so much effort into post-AI copy editing, it's just clear and useful writing. Sure, the occasional non-idiomatic phrase creeps in but those are hard to find.

That's AI writing done right, and it's very different from this other guy I work with who does the whole slop grenade thing.

New comment by great_wubwub in "GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values"

great_wubwub — Tue, 12 May 2026 16:54:37 +0000

So is New Relic, which also featured the same CEO and CTO. I'm sure that's just a coincidence.

New comment by great_wubwub in "FCC Funding Application Notes Paramount Will Be 49.5% Foreign-Owned Post-Merger"

great_wubwub — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 17:02:35 +0000

This is the scariest part.

New comment by great_wubwub in "How far can you go with IX Route Servers only?"

great_wubwub — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 15:29:31 +0000

Calling these Magna not Manga is a miss.

New comment by great_wubwub in "Cloudflare CEO on the Italy fines"

great_wubwub — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 18:57:15 +0000

> this means a court order can't block a single cloudflare site without blocking every cloudflare site

Not true. Cloudflare can't block only a single web site _by IP address_ but that's pretty common with IPv4, The same is true of Fastly and AWS and I'd be shocked if there's a mass-market CDN out there that has a unique IPv4 address per customer.

They can absolutely block any site they want at the application layer (SNI or Host header or whatever they use, IDK, I'm a network guy).

New comment by great_wubwub in "Eat Real Food"

great_wubwub — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 21:41:47 +0000

No, what I meant was "haven't we been basically ignoring science on nutrition since the 80s?" I think we have.

For those who don't believe me - go find some old family photos of your parents or grandparents, whichever generation would have been young adults in the 1960s or 1970s. Compare them to people of the same age born any time after, say, 1990. Nothing come of one sample, but people from the previous generation just weren't fat in their 20s like we are.

Yes, there's more to it than that. But food is a big part of it.

New comment by great_wubwub in "Eat Real Food"

great_wubwub — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 20:54:42 +0000

The man is stark raving bonkers mad in that head-in-the-sand, if-I-ignore-science-then-it-can't-hurt-me way but (and OMG I think I'm going to throw up a little in my mouth even coming close to agreeing with anything that come out of his mouth) isn't that basically what we've been doing with dietary guidelines since the 80s?

Like, don't get me wrong, RFK will kill N*10^5, N*10^6 people with his outlook on diseases, but....how many people have had their lives wrecked by "fat makes you fat", "ketchup is a vegetable", and "eat a balanced diet composed entirely of sausage, flour, and sugar"? As a GenXer I've been dealing with the echoes of this for a long time.

New comment by great_wubwub in "An Implementation of J (1992)"

great_wubwub — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 03:17:31 +0000

Me too, but

> This document describes an implementation of J in C. The reader is assumed to be familiar with J and C.

New comment by great_wubwub in "OMSCS Open Courseware"

great_wubwub — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 22:07:05 +0000

I have not applied to this program but I've gone through a part-time MBA. I doubt that an online program for working professionals is as rigorous about references as, say, undergrad admission to an Ivy League program or Oxford or Hogwarts or something. Just get a couple of coworkers with a similar advanced degree to write something that says "this person exists and I think they can handle the load" and you'll be fine. Remember that college is a business; if you look like you can both handle the program and pay for it, they'll let you in.