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by Swizec 2y ago
AI will take our jobs as soon as the suits learn how to precisely, accurately, and consistently express their needs in a backwards compatible fashion that doesn’t break existing customers. That is to say never. Our jobs will change. We migh
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> I haven't seen many CS curricula start bottom-up with things like digital logic That's how we did it in Slovenia (Uni of Ljubljana). You start with discrete math and bool algebra, and you learn how transistors work in physics
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> But can your PDF run an AI agent? Oh it's so much worse than that. Your font can run an AI agent. Llama.ttf: A font which is also an LLM -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40766791
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Almost everyone is a curious polymath until institutions beat it out of them. We could start simply by nourishing curiosity
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> It's time we acknowledge that the H1-B visa program creates a similar dynamic. The program’s restrictive rules effectively hang over visa holders like the sword of Damocles, leaving them perpetually at risk and easily controlled.
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> Cyclomatic complexity seems one indicator, but architectural complexity needs to be clarified. I agree that how much modules expose to each other is one trait, but again, needs clarification. How do you intend to go about this? Too muc
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We can measure and quantify this cognitive load! I’ve been researching this for a book and have found some really cool research from ~10 years ago. It seems people stopped thinking about this around when microservices became popular (but th
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10,000 years is quite a lot in human time. The pyramids were about 5,000 years ago and look how much has happened since. By comparison, we killed off the Dodo in, what, less than 10 years? I think it’s fair to talk about 10,000 years as a l
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Note that this also sounds exactly like the median corporate email. I could see my coworkers writing this. The higher into middle management they are, the likelier.
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> There's gotta be a better way than just blaming noobs. Here’s an alternative read of what I said: It is amazing that these frameworks empower so many people to build working software that solves users’ problems and creates value.
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As a fellow 37 year old, I had a realization yesterday after a prolonged debate about HTMX vs React. For context: I’m a long time React fan, think htmx is neat, and remember all the reasons why HTML-over-Ajax didn’t catch on in the 2007 web
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Is legalese not just the result of trying to use English as a programming language? Any time I try to write English (or other natlang) precisely and unambiguously and robust against adversarial interpretations, it comes out looking like leg
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> It succeeded because it was around at the time where SMS messages where expensive, but smart phones where exploding in popularity. Not sure that’s true everywhere. In Slovenia we had unlimited texting way before we had smartphones. By
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> I'll do small talk, but it's more boring than mowing the lawn with a pair of scissors. I find large gatherings completely boring, with nothing but noise involved because, well.. it's all just meaningless chatter. The tri
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> Sometimes you really just want to express that something is going to happen at a certain time, regardless of timezone. If I set my alarm for 7:45 am, I need it to ring when the clock says 7:45 am, wherever in the world I happen to be.
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Yes you have to use appropriate methods for the task/problem at hand. This is uncontroversial. Body doubling is good for clear tasks with clear outcomes. When you're at the "figuring out what to even do here" stage, you
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> When you are sitting at a keyboard with other people, there’s no chance you’re going to browse. You and everyone else involved will be 100% focused on the task. The ADHD community calls this body doubling and yes it works.
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What a fantastic essay. Long ago I had the same hunch and likened having the internet around me to running with a parachute. These days I am little better at avoiding consumption, if not worse. I think it's inevitable. And I think on n
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> Isn’t the distinction sort of moot at this point? I seem to remember things setting into a “birds = dinosaurs” paradigm, although I am almost certainly oversimplifying things. Birds are dinosaurs. Specifically they’re the avian branc
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Thinking Fast and Slow is a result of some 20 years of regularly publishing and talking about those ideas with others. Most really memorable works fit that same mold if you look carefully. An author spends years, even decades, doing small s
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> What needs to be normalized is a single salary being enough to support a family of four, like it used to be Is this an American thing or just a rich people thing? I can’t think of a single generation in my family going back to pre-ww2
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Those are exactly the technologies that get massively adopted by newbies who don’t know better. That’s why the LAMP golden age was full of SQL injection and a lot of those systems remain load bearing in surprising unexpected ways.
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> I would say: don’t do these things? Hey guys let’s just stop writing code that is susceptible to SQL injection! Phew glad we solved that one.
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> Brain work for me is like muscles for others - if I don’t squeeze out every ounce of energy from my brain with problems all day, I feel like I haven’t lived a full day. Many people prefer good workouts instead, if they don’t their body
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> I wonder how many home users there are versus systems managed by sysadmins Isn’t Android the most popular Linux distro these days? Probably also most TV set-top boxes and other IoT devices
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> it's hard not to appreciate how one of the first instincts we have as a society when freeing some IP is "We should make a creepy version of this!" Almost certainly rule 34 happens first and just gets less attention in pu
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> If you're happy with not having a bigger slice of the pie Not to mention a smaller slice of a way bigger pie can still be a lot bigger in absolute terms. With much lower risk.
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> The most passionate software engineers I know might be able to claim similar joy, but they have overwhelmingly quit their corporate gigs and fly solo. I have done the solo thing and have come to realize I much prefer coding for others.
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Everyone wants Bell Labs, but not the thing that made it possible — high corporate profit taxes. They were making bucket loads of monopoly money and had to put it somewhere or taxes would it away.
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In my experience roughly 80% of technical issues are because 2 people (or teams) didn’t want to just sit down together and talk it out.

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