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by RangerScience 1y ago
I mean - going from “doable in a week with the right mindset” to “doable in a day when I’ve struggled before” is uhhh kinda worth being blown away by
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by RangerScience 1y ago
AFAIK, this is only commercial bees, which have a pile of stressors (such as being shipped places frequently). Non-commercial bees are doing "better" (I remember hearing that they're doing fine, but poking around now that d
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by RangerScience 1y ago
nah. there's a lag time in my imagination filling in deeper details (roughly: the more time I spend imagining an apple, the more detailed it gets) that isn't present when interrogating reality. Reality is immediately as detailed
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by RangerScience 1y ago
This is a good starting point, but it doesn't have to be the _conclusion_ to this line of thinking. Philosophically: You can being building criteria for consciousness; the things you look at in yourself that tell you are, and then begi
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by RangerScience 1y ago
Note: many neurospicy brains do not get the thing where something happens on “automatic”. If you’ve tried to “build a habit” and never got to the “now it’s automatic” stage, don’t beat yourself up about it. AFAIK, we have to rely on patte
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by RangerScience 1y ago
Typescript is literally a language describing what the quack “sounds like” so you can attempt to ensure any particular variable makes those kinds of quacks. Typescript doesn’t care that it also quacks like a dog. Plus, Ruby has lots of easy
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by RangerScience 1y ago
I think your question is well-asked, and I lament any work environments that have led you to think asking a question like this would be A Problem(tm). IMO - there’s a lot of things that queues are an excellent answer to. Potentially includi
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by RangerScience 1y ago
> several quality frameworks Gonna name names? :)
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by RangerScience 1y ago
Ruby inheritance is a list of class names. When you call a function on an object, Ruby goes up that list, looking for the first one that defines that function. If it doesn't find any class defining that function, it calls `method_missi
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by RangerScience 1y ago
That was the common theory for awhile, but I’ve been seeing a few articles that talk about the egg doing things to “select” amongst the sperm
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by RangerScience 1y ago
> IMHO, the whole idea of "design patterns" is that they are a standardized way of doing stuff To disagree - Design patterns are a communication language. You use them to talk about code; if you use them as strict recipes they
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by RangerScience 1y ago
Might've been wise at the time, but nowadays I think the recommendation is to use View Components to package up view logic. (I'm personally so-so on VCs; I think the core idea is pretty good but I'm not super sold on some of
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by RangerScience 1y ago
AFAIK, I would not read much into the possession and use of gas masks - the bake-sale anarchist medics are pretty well organized and equipped. There's a lot of people in LA with the skills and equipment to rapidly organize like this;
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by RangerScience 1y ago
Yes. AFAIK, this is exactly the (theoretical) cause for the "doomed to repeat it" effect of "those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it" - the death of the last generation who remembers it from the p
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by RangerScience 1y ago
reminds me a lot of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_Decision
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by RangerScience 1y ago
IMHO, anecdotally, if you attempt a full rewrite under the same organizational conditions that resulted in code bad enough to warrant it... ...you're gonna get bad code again, or, as you say, worse. The impact of the organizational cul
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by RangerScience 1y ago
Do you know of examples of other agents with more defined tools, to use as inspiration/etc? (Like - what would it look like to clean up test results for an LLM?)
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by RangerScience 1y ago
This is very cool, somewhat inspiring, and (personally) very informative: I didn't actually know what "agentic" AI use was, but this did an excellent job (incidentally!) explaining it. Might poke around... What makes somethin
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by RangerScience 1y ago
+1 gaffer tape. Related: if you want the tapiest tape to ever tape, "bi-filament tape". It's sticky as hell, cannot be torn, and you can get it in 12in (or wider!) rolls.
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by RangerScience 1y ago
I think part of it is the form factor of the camera; enough that I wish there was some kind of phone case that could pop out (from some flat shape) and make it feel like I had a real camera in my hands.
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by RangerScience 1y ago
Go see if you’re ADD/ADHD and get on meds (I recommend Dexedrine), then also “join” the neurospicey community spaces where people swap tips, learnings and observations. Also always go for a walk, touch grass, hug a tree. Pleasant physi
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by RangerScience 1y ago
“Made in America” == “Assembled in America out of offshore parts”, only with AI? (Also, huh - I wonder if that’s actually directly doable; “assembled by AI out of programmed outputs”?)
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by RangerScience 1y ago
you can probably always just do something like: def no_items? !items.present? end def items # something lone end memoize :items, ttl: 60, max_size: 10` just makes sure the expensive operation results in a truthy v
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by RangerScience 1y ago
The validation is that you're having the experience you're having, not that it's, say, an intractable problem, or necessarily the emotional experience you're having about it. It's this: 1. You: I am having problem X
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by RangerScience 1y ago
No, but I needed some kind of number (100k in equities would be middle/upper-middle class?). Ah; I should’ve gone with 10m-to-1m and 100k-to-10k income. Those are reasonable numbers for either end of the scale, and illustrate the point
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by RangerScience 1y ago
The speculation that I’ve seen is that the carve-outs will be used to reward loyalists and punish detractors. So yes, likely to happen.
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by RangerScience 1y ago
Math doesn’t math because it’s not about absolute losses, but practical losses. If you go from 100mil in assets to 10m, you’re fine. If you go from 100k to 10k, you’re not.
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by RangerScience 2y ago
Ruby isn't dead and like all alive things, it grows and changes; your expectation is out of date. https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2020/12/25/ruby-3-0-0-rele...
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by RangerScience 2y ago
Yep yep, that's the whole "sharp knives" thing. What I advise (and aim for) is only pulling out the sharp knives for "library" code, but application code should stay "simple" (and this much more easily nav
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by RangerScience 2y ago
Every language prioritizes something (or somethings) because every language was made by a person (or people) with a reason; python and correctness; Java and splitting up work; Go and something like "simplicity" (not that these are

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