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by adamc 2y ago
I was a biological anthropology postdoc for a year or so. My office mate used to refer to the process of turning one decent idea into as many papers as possible as producing LPUs ("Least Publishable Units"). He was joking, but it
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by adamc 2y ago
I have had that experience. Or variations of it.
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by adamc 2y ago
Given the heat, you basically need to start your walk or whatever before 8am. Visited my brother in Michigan earlier this summer; it was lovely. But I grew up in the north. Winters were not lovely.
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by adamc 2y ago
Good point. UV in Austin, TX today is 10.6.
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by adamc 2y ago
If you can't show me a spinner or other indicator that this is an ongoing operation (which I find preferable), and you think I will have moved away from the controls for this, then put it in a central location that I will see even if I
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by adamc 2y ago
No, they're bad. Messages that are on the periphery of my vision/attention (imagine a widescreen monitor) are actively confusing. I'm working on THIS problem here and something flashes up over there. Half the time, as I r
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by adamc 2y ago
Good piece. I've experienced this in many contexts, and widescreen monitors make it a bigger problem.
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by adamc 2y ago
Great reminder of the people behind services, as well as a nice account of the debugging process. The reality is that pressure doesn't make you debug problems any faster... usually, it interferes with your thinking. You have to try to
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by adamc 2y ago
Yeah, I have lots of questions about how homogeneous that experience really is, for either group.
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by adamc 2y ago
True of post-divorce boomers or Gen-Xs as well. (Speaking for myself.)
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by adamc 2y ago
I'm sure there are intelligent business books, as there are intelligent people in business, but most of the books I see are awful.
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by adamc 2y ago
I don't think this is clear at all. What I am experiencing is mostly the inner narrator, the ongoing stream of chatter about how I feel, what I see, what I think about what I see, etc. What I experience is self-observation, largely dir
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by adamc 2y ago
Made me think of the famous McNamara fallacy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McNamara_fallacy "The fourth step is to say that what can't be easily measured really doesn't exist. This is suicide."
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by adamc 2y ago
Usually syntax makes things easier, certainly for types. That's why we have syntax. I don't claim Python developers cannot understand it. But every additional thing adds to the cognitive burden.
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by adamc 2y ago
Yes, at that point in time you wouldn't switch from Python. Hence the comments about Java, as an example of where escalating complexity can take you. I think my assertion, less pithily, was "if having the best type-checking system
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by adamc 2y ago
You're not wrong, but the distinction here that I was responding to was the idea of needing to use Pydantic routinely for typechecking. Libraries that you have to know might as well be language features. The phrasing of "The eng
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by adamc 2y ago
I don't think you are wrong and I have at times missed having such an option. But... I saw Java go down this path of cool features that you needed to learn, on top of the basic language, and eventually it took Java to an environment wh
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by adamc 2y ago
True, I did not enumerate them. Adds another step to development and generally adds complexity would be other perceived downsides. I'll note that most of the upsides are also subjective.
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by adamc 2y ago
The problem I see with it is this: Now, instead of understanding Python, which is straightforward, you have to understand a bunch about Pydantic and type unions. In a large shop of Python programmers, I would expect many would not follow mo
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by adamc 2y ago
That's ignoring all the negative effects of using typescript.
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by adamc 2y ago
I learned typescript for a project I spent 9-10 months on. It wasn't that hard to learn but... ugh. On many levels. There are problems where it's typechecking is helpful (enough) for, but the degradation in readability was quite n
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by adamc 2y ago
I have no quarrel with your viewpoint. Beyond search, everything is basically a strategem to get eyeballs at Google.
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by adamc 2y ago
Not all of us care. I barely use the camera on my phone.
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by adamc 2y ago
Well, from the phone viewpoint people buy them to get a less garbage-filled android experience. Most consumers don't really expect phones to last forever... because they seldom do.
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by adamc 2y ago
Monopolies are very profitable.
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by adamc 2y ago
I did that with the Pixel 8. Although I don't really care about the better camera either.
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by adamc 2y ago
Turned out chrome had disabled it. Doesn't always work in any case.
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by adamc 2y ago
Maybe that depends on your mental definition of quest. I don't think of quests as "getting things done" -- they are both more significant and less certain than that. Quests are adventures where you hope for significant outcom
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by adamc 2y ago
This is a problem that could be solved with serious penalties (say, 20 years in prison for executives involved) and serious enforcement.
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by adamc 2y ago
Hideous, unreadable number of ads on the desktop.

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