_doctor_love

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by _doctor_love 2mo ago
This is Australia. It bans things. Harden the fuck up Australia! - Chopper, probably
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by _doctor_love 2mo ago
That performance scarred so many of us growing up. It was a rite of passage to watch that movie.
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by _doctor_love 2mo ago
If I have an injury or I am disabled, then yes, an agent helping me fill out forms might be a life-changing improvement.
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by _doctor_love 2mo ago
Another good one: success in business is 40% people skills, 30% technical knowledge, 20% work ethic, and 15% basic math.
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by _doctor_love 2mo ago
It is guaranteed to happen. The key question is when is it a problem? We've lost lots of knowledge as a society but we're still going. Some skills decline in usefulness, others gain utility with the passage of time. Tale as old as
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by _doctor_love 2mo ago
I am not personally worried on this front. It is a near-certainty that something catastrophic will happen in the not-too-distant future because of the issues Lars raises in the essay. Not until that moment occurs will there be a broader ind
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by _doctor_love 2mo ago
We're all posers - unless you can implement square root in machine code, you're not a Real Programmer™
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by _doctor_love 2mo ago
I saw an analogous argument posted on LinkedIn the other day from one of the opencode guys: the job of a programmer is still to be able to answer questions - from memory - about how the system works and why.
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by _doctor_love 2mo ago
Like others have said, I don't think it's possible to create technology that cannot be weaponized. I think it's possible (mostly) to design technology so that abuse requires more people, requires the leaving of evidence &#x2F
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by _doctor_love 2mo ago
There are some good ideas buried in here but I'm afraid at this point that Steve has tipped over into a bit of AI psychosis. It's really a tremendous problem right now for many smart people in the industry. It can be hard to tell
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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Property Testing for Validating Formal Specs(proofsandintuitions.net)
7 points by _doctor_love 2mo ago|0 comments
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When the Hard Part Stops Being Hard(proofsandintuitions.net)
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by _doctor_love 2mo ago
There was a neat story on the San Diego local news some years ago about a woman artist who was a tetrachromat. Fascinating interview. This woman said that the downside of perceiving additional colors is that something like the cereal aisle
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by _doctor_love 2mo ago
Very different vibe but reminds me of The Oatmeal's tribute to the mighty Mantis Shrimp. https://theoatmeal.com/comics/mantis_shrimp
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by _doctor_love 2mo ago
Sadly, the war colleges in the US have all been aware that this kind of shift was coming, too. There are many examples from history of an incumbent superpower being dethroned because it failed to modernize and was overtaken by others with b
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S. R. Ranganathan(en.wikipedia.org)
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by _doctor_love 2mo ago
Great advice. On the Mac, make sure to set up Alt/Option as "meta key".
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by _doctor_love 2mo ago
> I’ve worked at a lot of places over 20 years Primarily in Silicon Valley or outside of it? I worked most of my two decades in the Valley but also spent time outside of it. There is in many cases a vast gulf between the dev cultures.
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by _doctor_love 2mo ago
An unsung hero for me is Refactoring to Patterns by Joshua Kerievsky. That one really shows how to tie it all together in my opinion.
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by _doctor_love 2mo ago
So every person who reads Dan's blog and finds the layout too dense, they should write and maintain a stylesheet for his site? And every person globally should do this as well for any other website that doesn't have a good default
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by _doctor_love 2mo ago
Supply my own stylesheet? No thank you, I'm not here to do work for free.
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by _doctor_love 2mo ago
I love Dan's writing. I really do. But I don't understand why he doesn't have some basic styling on his blog so that it's easier to read.
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by _doctor_love 2mo ago
Since it's Friday, I'm going to suggest an activity: this evening, invest 30 minutes in watching "The Brain Center at Whipple" from the old Twilight Zone TV series. This conversation is much older than any of us, startin
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by _doctor_love 2mo ago
Thank you! Beautiful answer.
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by _doctor_love 2mo ago
Will you share some insights on what Prolog is awesome for where a regular imperative language is not a good fit? I find both Prolog and Datalog very interesting in this new age of AI.
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by _doctor_love 2mo ago
You mean Castor and Pollux?
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by _doctor_love 3mo ago
It's not alleged, it's sadly confirmed. There's been comments on HN over the years from people who have worked under him.
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by _doctor_love 3mo ago
I don't believe it is. If we think of AI-maintained software as automated gardening / automated agriculture, the harness is all the machinery that can plow, sow, water, monitor, harvest, etc. There still has to be a human stewardi
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by _doctor_love 3mo ago
What size project an AI can complete on its own is IMHO not an interesting question. The AIs and harnesses are getting good enough that quite large things can be built, primarily as a function of cost. The interesting question in my view is
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by _doctor_love 3mo ago
Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land! Whose heart hath ne’er within him burn’d, As home his footsteps he hath turn’d, From wandering on a foreign strand! If such there br

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