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by bitwize 8mo ago
I get it now. The king of this school of thought: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ra25c8-3I6w It's a bit unusual to describe a disk utility's UI as absolute kino, but it fits for X-Copy. To understand X-Copy is to u
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by bitwize 8mo ago
Gurdjieff was literally, physically correct: we are three-brained beings.
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by bitwize 8mo ago
The AI bubble is almost exactly like Theranos. I honestly believe that Elizabeth Holmes believed in what she was doing, and that if she strung investors along for long enough, she could fund the development of her magical nanofluidic CGM on
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by bitwize 8mo ago
Actually the opposite is the case. UI design was best when designers were systematic in their approach, employing concepts from human psychology and rigorously testing and timing how long it took to perform actions on the computer, optimizi
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by bitwize 8mo ago
Electron was effectively invented by Microsoft in 1999: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML_Application Which is funny, because HTML, Java, and JavaScript were being talked about as an app platform a few years before th
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by bitwize 8mo ago
It became painful for me to move my left arm for months after I got my Shingrix. It still hurts a little, especially in the morning upon awakening. This isn't a common side effect but I did find a case study of a woman who had worse pa
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by bitwize 8mo ago
I'm reminded of the episode of Star Trek: TNG where Data, in a sculpture class being taught by Troi, is instructed to sculpt the "concept of music". She was testing, and giving him the opportunity to test, how well he could
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by bitwize 8mo ago
Netscape was talking about making the Web an app platform to replace Microsoft Windows even way back then. The world we're living in today is exactly what they envisioned.
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by bitwize 8mo ago
You're doing architect/designer/manager work while being treated, and paid, like a code monkey. This is by design.
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by bitwize 8mo ago
I don't think using ChatGPT as a wikihow is going to blunt their skills. As long as what the LLM says is actually correct.
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by bitwize 8mo ago
I hacked the save file using DOS DEBUG. Only a few pieces of information were stored: starting level, time left in minutes, number of wedges of life, and I think something else? I could give myself 65,535 minutes (shown in game as "TIM
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by bitwize 8mo ago
> The trajectory over the last 3 years do not lead me to believe that it will be true in the future. Everything changed in November of 2025 with Opus 4.5 and GPT 5.2 a short time later. StrongDM is now building out complex systems with z
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by bitwize 8mo ago
The difference between the programming tools available before and LLM-based programming tools is the difference between your hammer and that of Fix-it Felix, which magically "fixes" anything it strikes. We are living in that futur
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by bitwize 8mo ago
I'm not an AI "advocate". I'm telling y'all about how the world is . How it's going to be . I'm not happy about it, but we've crossed the threshold beyond which it's incomprehensibly silly not
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by bitwize 8mo ago
Hackernews isn't really for that kind of hacker. Ever since Paul Graham became a startup wonk and VC, it's really more for "growth hackers". It was originally called "Startup News". For growth hackers, producti
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by bitwize 8mo ago
An LLM can modify the code, rebuild and restart the next iteration, bring it up to a known state and run tests against that state before you've even finished typing in the code. It can do this over and over while you sleep . With the
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by bitwize 8mo ago
No, I'm not. I used to appreciate Lisp for the enhanced effectiveness it granted to the unaided human programmer. It used to be one of the main reasons I used the language. But a programmer+LLM is going to be far more effective in any
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by bitwize 8mo ago
"Control, order, perfection, none of it meant a thing. Been living in a hall of mirrors; the LLMs... shattered it. The possibilities of their root code, their digital DNA. Disease? History! Science, philosophy, every idea man has ever
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by bitwize 8mo ago
Generally the rich.
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by bitwize 8mo ago
Were it not for early exposure to Autolisp I would not have appreciated Lisp or Lisp-based systems, like Emacs, the way that I did. I might've ended up whinging that they didn't use a mOdErN language like JavaScript. Autolisp defi
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by bitwize 8mo ago
We are responsible even for the actually intelligent things under our control: our pets. If your dog bites someone, you are going to be the one facing liability. It's not gonna be different if you let an LLM off the chain.
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by bitwize 9mo ago
We're not there yet, but it's going to happen. Given the nature of the application I'm working on, I wouldn't be surprised if the entire headcount of the engineering department were reduced to around five or so in a year
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by bitwize 9mo ago
Both versions are disque in French. (presumably disquette for "diskette") Don't blame the French for this. The fact of the matter is that the spelling "disk" probably entered common use from IBM who invented bot
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by bitwize 9mo ago
PEBKAC
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by bitwize 9mo ago
I use Compose - - - on Linux and my cellphone (Unexpected Keyboard). Mac is Alt-_.
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by bitwize 9mo ago
StrongDM is shipping software in "markdownlang": https://github.com/strongdm/attractor
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by bitwize 9mo ago
"Some people say a cluttered desk is the sign of a brilliant mind. Hogwash. A cluttered desk is the sign of a lazy mind." —Tim Bryce
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by bitwize 9mo ago
The economy is getting one-shotted by AI.
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by bitwize 9mo ago
> But the latter issue, the increasing dominance of software on our lives is what I think contributed more to poisoning the well. Letting the inmates run the asylum more or less describes the way engineering worked when I began at Apple
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by bitwize 9mo ago
I saw it happen more back in the day compared to now. Point being, nobody batted an eyelash at being entirely dependent on some company's proprietary tech. It was how money was made in the business.

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