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by apothegm 1y ago
What could possibly go wrong?
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by apothegm 1y ago
Most products measured in fluid ounces are actually rounded from ml. 1 floz is close enough to 25ml that so long as a product is produced in 25ml increments you can essentially find it in integer floz increments.
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by apothegm 1y ago
For sorting the table, perhaps. But for displaying the table in the first place? Static HTML is invariably faster in my experience. IMO there is just no excuse for placeholder elements with loading animations on a content or e-commerce site
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by apothegm 1y ago
All of it. Case in point: why does linting for a hello world Vue project using typescript require no fewer than 6 linting modules, each of which introduces poorly documented backwards-incompatible changes roughly annually? And why do half o
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by apothegm 1y ago
TLDR: > The open source software easyjson is used by the US government and American companies. But its ties to Russia’s VK, whose CEO has been sanctioned, have researchers sounding the alarm. Saved you a click. Edit: does the act of sum
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by apothegm 1y ago
The JS processing and rendering time on an underpowered CPU is the issue, not the payload size. It’s difficult to describe how excruciatingly slow some seemingly simple e-commerce and content sites are to render on my 2019 laptop or how slo
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by apothegm 1y ago
> My main expectations for downside risk are (1) AI being used by evil people to do evil, and (2) AI being used by lazy people before it's competent. Mine are those and mass unemployment. Whether or not AI can really replace human w
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by apothegm 1y ago
10s is painful. A server-rendered app should be able to deliver that data, already rendered, in closer to a fifth of a second. Fast enough that the user doesn’t even notice any wait.
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Both. We’ll see some horror stories in the next few years about paperclip maximizers sent about their business without proper constraints —- but they won’t be general intelligence. Just current-generation agents someone thought would be cap
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by apothegm 1y ago
Except for a user on a lower specced device that can’t performantly handle filtering and joining on that mass of data in JS code, or perhaps can’t even hold the data in memory.
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by apothegm 1y ago
What is it you’re afraid will happen if you release?
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by apothegm 1y ago
Studies show that greater wealth tends to make people less considerate and prosocial. One theory is that this is because they’re no longer as interdependent on others.
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I almost never tell it to just write me a thing (what I think of as vibe coding). (2%) I sometimes write a pretty detailed doc or spec; have the AI draft an implementation; then review and fix it myself. I try to keep this to “reasonable PR
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by apothegm 2y ago
During the dot com boom, the scarcity of developers relative to demand for them was orders of magnitude worse than in, say, 2020. After the bust, there was perhaps not a scarcity, but not much of a surplus the way there is now.
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by apothegm 2y ago
Not that loopholes are necessary when it’s ignored and unenforced.
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by apothegm 2y ago
All laws? Like, if you get cited for jaywalking or running a red light you can be permanently banned from social media?
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by apothegm 2y ago
I keep separate lists of actionable and not-yet-actionable to-dos. I check the latter daily to update the former. If I’m waiting for input from someone, I immediately create a future to-do that’s of the form of either “do stuff with input r
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by apothegm 2y ago
I use all of those virtually never (LinkedIn is the only one I view regularly, and that only when job searching or hiring). When I do visit them it’s via desktop browser. I refuse to give their apps any access to my phone whatsoever, and ha
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by apothegm 2y ago
Everyone’s brains work differently. I do best writing an outline and then fleshing it out. Some people just need to go straight through start to finish. Etc. Most people do better with a draft pass plus an editing pass than just a single dr
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by apothegm 2y ago
That seems like a good thing?
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Paywalled.
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by apothegm 2y ago
Depends on the language. Python for instance has a massive default library, and there are entire modules I use anywhere from one a year to once a decade —- or never at all until some new project needs them.
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by apothegm 2y ago
Just as with anything else AI, you never accept test code without reviewing it. And often it needs debugging. But it handles about 90% of it correctly and saves a lot of time and aggravation.
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by apothegm 2y ago
So much this. The AI takes care of the tedious line by line what’s-the-name-of-that-stdlib-function parts (and most of the tedious test-writing parts) and lets me focus on the interesting bits like what it is I want to build and how the pie
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by apothegm 2y ago
Sweet. Thank you so much!
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by apothegm 2y ago
Yeah, it sounds the bacteria are breaking down arsenic compounds, leaving simpler forms of arsenic available that the roots absorb.
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by apothegm 2y ago
He doesn’t care, and neither does anyone else in his administration. Somehow the media still has this notion that we’ll continue having free and fair elections. But if these people have their way, the will of the voters won’t matter in 2028
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by apothegm 2y ago
What’s the point of sending a fake student to a community college? What’s the end goal of the people running these bots?
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Who’s responsible for updating your docs? When we made it the responsibility of the Support team and they developed an internal rotation, the problem went away. We had a slack channel that spit out summaries and ticket links from our CI&#x2
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Plenty of people type the double-dash in its place —- and many autocorrect tools will just replace that with a proper em-dash character. Apparently the way I was taught to write is how LLMs write. I’m really not looking forward to my humani

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