OJFord

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by OJFord 6d ago
Exceptional rather than excellent I'd say, i.e. not necessarily positively exceptional.
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by OJFord 8d ago
Sure but that's just adding more rather than different information really? Like if the title is Tech Lead, Staff, Principal or whatever there's an (often) unstated focus area. You're saying if you also state that, that&#x27
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by OJFord 8d ago
> at my $WORK, we're all software engineers by title, from the lowly interns to the CTO. Still, everybody knows who's who and whom to talk to, depending on the gravity of the issue. It's not exactly conducive to knowing th
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by OJFord 9d ago
I suppose `reduce` as built-in is the footgun because it's too easy to reach for. Now if someone doesn't know about `join` perhaps they look up how to do it because they think 'surely there's a better way than a loop w
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by OJFord 14d ago
Oh, I read that quote the opposite way (wrongly, I think now) – > > There's an incredible amount of value in simply not worrying if your car will run when you need it to. > True, being able to know for sure you can get to work
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by OJFord 18d ago
I've been reading it, knowing it was largely debunked/retracted but feeling it was a 'classic' I 'ought' to read; I could only really recommend it if what you want is a Kahneman autobiography.
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by OJFord 20d ago
I suppose it means that has to be available to you somehow, the easiest example perhaps being that if you're renting in such a place, the landlord is obligated to ensure access.
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by OJFord 24d ago
They'll need to keep on top of this, or one day it'll look like banning 'word processors' in schools. Seems like a similar path would be sensible: at first it's a topic for IT, but over time it'll creep into al
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by OJFord 24d ago
Huh, fortunate for it that GitHub (especially) preserves it then! I wonder how guaranteed that is, can imagine GH deciding to 'clean' it (how much data can you put there theoretically? Or to close a range of potential security iss
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by OJFord 26d ago
'all AI', or just all LLMs/coding assistants? It would be hugely disruptive to the world if no businesses could do any machine learning any more.
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by OJFord 26d ago
I wasn't conversing in the first place, I'm just bored of reading through exchanges where at some point someone says Aha! That's a fallacy! Got you, I win!
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by OJFord 26d ago
What's the name of the fallacy in which one tediously shuts down all conversations by highlighting a named fallacy?
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by OJFord 27d ago
No it doesn't? I've written commit messages ending with 'Co-authored-by [Claude]' a few times, in acknowledgement that it was largely 'vibed' and I only reviewed and committed it. I've never had Claude C
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by OJFord 27d ago
The person I replied to described their frustration with a colleague dismissing an error message without reading, not a user. I'm not shaming users not providing clear actionable feedback with stack traces and reproduction steps. I&#x2
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by OJFord 27d ago
That's even worse than the "I'm getting an error when I ..." type! ("...ok... What's the error? ")
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by OJFord 28d ago
Cool! Thanks.
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by OJFord 28d ago
Is the Motorola partnership that they're ensuring support in the phone, and helping the port with docs/support perhaps, or is it even actually shipping with GrapheneOS?
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by OJFord 28d ago
I've never talked to someone for it, and I would've first done it in something like 2008. (It's 'always' been done by SMS, well before 'apps' that might let you (and I don't recall it on websites).)
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by OJFord 1mo ago
Passim: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=507movements.com
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by OJFord 1mo ago
Sorry, I was referring to your first paragraph, about someone new coming along and caring about metrics retroactively not previously cared about. My point being that by proposing the solution 'so we should care about them, in case th
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by OJFord 1mo ago
Doesn't that just effectively make you that person? The alternative is surely simply saying we haven't historically tracked that, should someone join and want it.
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by OJFord 1mo ago
What is meant by 'superhuman intelligence'? Certainly it seems to be the case that LLMs are capable of a sort of 'polyhuman' intelligence, in that the same LLM that advances mathematics with a novel proof can add unit te
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by OJFord 1mo ago
An exercise in understanding gpt2, flexing the author's cmake skills, while demonstrating the absurd complexity of what it allows similarly to 'c++ templates are turing complete' or 'doom on my calculator'.
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by OJFord 1mo ago
No doubt. ...You can have non-zero revenue and still be loss-making though.
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by OJFord 1mo ago
Read it not as 'may not be', but 'nothing shall be done that should give cause to'.
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by OJFord 1mo ago
> I suspect that Microsoft would even prefer to have Github operate at a loss, I assumed it does , do you know that it doesn't?
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by OJFord 1mo ago
> Expecting media to keep up with the exact demographics of the USA when the rate of change is so drastic, is a pretty high bar. They don't have to 'keep up with' it all the time though, is 'do your research' and
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by OJFord 1mo ago
It's not a moat, or much of a barrier because you can literally just rename it, but it is 'good' marketing/branding. People talking about CLAUDE.md is much better for Anthropic than people talking about AGENTS.md.
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by OJFord 1mo ago
Didn't Anthropic stop allowing it, can only use the subscriptions with first-party tools?
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by OJFord 1mo ago
Also an aging population problem I believe though right? So if nothing else changed, today might not be the 'worst' it could get, with lower GDP and increased health and social care costs.

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