SketchySeaBeast

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by SketchySeaBeast 4mo ago
I don't know enough to speak about that particular domain, but if the junior is writing something the senior can't understand, that's always going to be a problem. That code becomes the team's responsibility, and that c
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by SketchySeaBeast 4mo ago
If the code is so smart that it's not easily understandable, it's not easily fixable. My transition from junior to senior was accompanied by the realization that simpler is nearly always better.
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by SketchySeaBeast 4mo ago
I'm a simple man. Promises of utopia are well and good, but it would appear the way we get there is by corporations hoovering up all the new means of production, at which point they somehow decide to share it all with the rest of us
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by SketchySeaBeast 4mo ago
In your future, when does it stop costing $500 to buy 32GB of DDR5? Or are the companies still leasing us the compute?
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by SketchySeaBeast 4mo ago
I think we've all seen by now that the majority doesn't much matter if you have a rabidly zealous minority.
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by SketchySeaBeast 5mo ago
Few Albertans. The Forever Canada petition got over 10% of the entire population to sign it. Considering that it was a grassroots effort and that you had to sign in person, meaning you had to go out of your way to sign an entirely optio
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by SketchySeaBeast 5mo ago
Speaking as an Albertan, it's only a very loud and vocal minority. The UCP government has seen that the premier only stays in power if they cowtow to the fringe crazies in the party, and that's what she's doing.
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by SketchySeaBeast 5mo ago
It also doesn't qualify how or how often the users use the app. Online games like to do this too - "40M registered users!" when the number of players with an active subscription are a tiny fraction.
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by SketchySeaBeast 6mo ago
*Would we say that there's not "nothing" wrong with water?
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by SketchySeaBeast 6mo ago
Sure, but it feels like a silly distinction. The famous example is water, which fits those same criteria. Would we that that there's not "nothing" wrong with water?
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by SketchySeaBeast 6mo ago
Very easy - mock the useNotifications and you can easily see all the behaviour by changing three properties.
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by SketchySeaBeast 6mo ago
I'm not fully comfortable with the shift in language either, but my point is that, even if the language is changed, the thoughts will remain. To use 1984 (is there a Godwin's law equivalent for this now?), the party taught that 2
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by SketchySeaBeast 6mo ago
I also agree with your follow-up around the normalization of language. It's a good point, but it seems like an improvement to standardize effective communication, and at the time it was outweighed by the ability to spread challenging
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by SketchySeaBeast 6mo ago
On the contrary, the printing press enabled people to quickly spread new ideas. Protestantism was enabled by it. That was quite the schism in thinking.
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by SketchySeaBeast 6mo ago
That seems to me to be an example where the language is forced to change but the thoughts remain the same. Sure, people are using the "safe" terms, but they're using them to continue to subvert the rules, not to bow to them.
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by SketchySeaBeast 6mo ago
I say this with a multiple decades-spanning love of the game and the lore, but Warhammer 40k is what you get when teenagers try to create something immediately after reading Dune.
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by SketchySeaBeast 7mo ago
> This country put the man abusing it in power. Twice. I can forgive the mistake once, but this is the second time in 10 years that America is facing this nonsense with the exact same demagogue.
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by SketchySeaBeast 7mo ago
Did we discover a new diet hack?
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by SketchySeaBeast 7mo ago
It's important to remember to thank them for their service.
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by SketchySeaBeast 7mo ago
> This kind of song would not fly in any other country on Earth. No other country has Freedom of Speech laws strong enough to defend against insulting the police. I'm fairly certain you could do the exact same thing here in Canada.
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by SketchySeaBeast 8mo ago
Yeah, that's only going to last until the first bad actor. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260218-i-hacked-chatgpt...
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by SketchySeaBeast 8mo ago
Is Opsec 101 to increase the estimate by two orders of magnitude? "We think this operation will take about 10 weeks, so we're estimating 10 years."
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by SketchySeaBeast 8mo ago
I think it would be more accurate to say "based upon true events".
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by SketchySeaBeast 8mo ago
Wait a minute...
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by SketchySeaBeast 8mo ago
That kind of makes sense philosophically if your business is trains, but I don't think that their business was AI agents. Although given they have a VP of AI, I have no idea. What a crazy title.
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by SketchySeaBeast 8mo ago
It'll never cease to amaze me how many powerful people can't tell advice from advertising.
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by SketchySeaBeast 8mo ago
Better, yeah.
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by SketchySeaBeast 8mo ago
3. They discovered it's something they can measure so they made a metric about it.
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by SketchySeaBeast 8mo ago
This feels like a construction company demanding that everyone, from drywaller to admin assistant, go out and buy a drill.
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by SketchySeaBeast 8mo ago
I'm not a huge fan of conspiracy theories, but starting a 240 hours closure, ending it after 4, and claiming it was a test? What sort of testing are they doing that they were off by two orders of magnitude about the duration?

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