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by coffeemug 9mo ago
My experience has been that "chosen family" is a thing that works when you're young, but almost always falls apart when you get older. This has happened to countless people I know. Life throws all kinds of curveballs, incenti
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by coffeemug 9mo ago
It took me a couple of days to find the right level of detail to prompt it. Too high level, and the codebase gets away from me/the tooling goes off the rails. Too low level, and I may as well do it myself. Maybe also learn the sorts of
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by coffeemug 9mo ago
I actually don't use it in the terminal, I use the vs code extension. It's a better experience (bringing up the file being edited, nicer diffs, etc.) But both are trivial to pick up.
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Thoughts on Claude Code(spakhm.com)
3 points by coffeemug 9mo ago|0 comments
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by coffeemug 9mo ago
Strongly disagree. Claude Code is the most intuitive technology I've ever used-- way easier than learning to use even VS Code for example. It doesn't even take weeks. Maybe a day or two to get the hang of it and you're off to
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by coffeemug 9mo ago
Eh people get consumed by these things. It's very hard to resist when you have a platform and your own people are at war. Very very difficult to get past abstractions and just work to help in minute particulars. Plus social media is a
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by coffeemug 9mo ago
Know Amjad from years ago. We're on the opposite sides of ideological barricades, but he's no terrorist sympathizer. Just a man who loves his people. He seemed extremely pragmatic too-- if he ran Gaza it'd be an economic para
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by coffeemug 9mo ago
Right-- talent isn't that useful in a vacuum. You need economic and legal infrastructure that talented people can plug into to be productive. That infrastructure (a) takes a very long time to build and (b) depends on cultural norms tha
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by coffeemug 9mo ago
Two counterintuitive/surprising lessons I've come to appreciate: 1.Talent pools in nation states are extraordinarily deep-- much deeper than they appear. Countries can suffer from brain drain for decades (or centuries!) but when c
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by coffeemug 9mo ago
Not always, but sometimes, new things are just better. One example is null-- a billion dollar mistake as Tony Hoare called it. A Maybe type with exhaustive pattern matching is so dramatically better, it can be worth switching just for that
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Thoughts on Claude Code(spakhm.com)
7 points by coffeemug 9mo ago|0 comments
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by coffeemug 10mo ago
> nothing beats the comfort and security of one's parents home, especially during the holiday season. A bit morbid, but reminds me of this passage by John Quincy Adams: > Everything about the house is the same. I was not fully se
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by coffeemug 10mo ago
Where did you move from (and to)?
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by coffeemug 10mo ago
Hope everyone has a healthy, rewarding and prosperous year. Special thanks to @dang and team for keeping this community a great place everyone wants to come back to. I love coming back here every day. Merry Christmas to all!
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by coffeemug 11mo ago
In a universe where all AI investment goes to zero, wouldn’t you have the opposite effect? You can torch wealth but not the money supply, which ultimately _increases_ inflation, not decreases it. There is only a short term inflation decreas
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Decoding Leibniz Notation (2024)(spakhm.com)
47 points by coffeemug 11mo ago|12 comments
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by coffeemug 1y ago
IMO this view puts the cart before the horse. Suppose ChatGPT builds a UI that consumers prefer over web browsing to purchase products. How should merchants plug into that UI? This protocol is an easy way for merchants to do that. And once
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by coffeemug 1y ago
More importantly it would give parents options: - stay home with your child and take the income - hire a babysitter - hire a better babysitter by adding a little cash - take your child to daycare - take your child to better daycare by addin
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by coffeemug 1y ago
I haven’t heard this before, this is incredible. Thanks for sharing. There were a bunch of phenomena that didn’t quite make sense to me before, which make perfect sense now that I read the quote.
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by coffeemug 1y ago
idk man, I have the opposite experience. I've always followed my instincts, and am now stuck with consequences of bad decisions that are not easy to undo. My life is good, but I feel like I squandered a real shot to be world class and
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by coffeemug 1y ago
In practice third world countries are very unproductive, and it's immediately visible to the naked eye. Many shops and restaurants have half a dozen people (or more!) taking the order and handling the check, there are entire extended f
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by coffeemug 1y ago
That’s not the reason. Almost certainly people feel a strong reaction, then when asked why it’s selective reach for a plausible answer. “Israel is supported by the west” is plausible.
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by coffeemug 1y ago
When I met you at Stripe you seemed to me the person with strategic foresight and iron discipline— the kind that gets endless opportunities without even trying. I was hopelessly floundering by comparison, and not in a good Kevin Kelly way.
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by coffeemug 1y ago
Thomas Jefferson sent the U.S. navy to fight the Barbary war (in modern Libya) because he refused to pay tribute to protect our trading routes. This quote is simply false. We've had enemies in the Middle East pretty much since the foun
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by coffeemug 1y ago
There is no myth. Both Trump and Elon have generational talent in their respective domains. This is the kind of talent that’s so unique, it creates its own domain that didn’t exist before, and that no one will be able to replicate after. Bu
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by coffeemug 1y ago
It would not be a reversion to 2020. If I were a rogue superhuman AI I'd hide my rogueness, wait until humans integrate me into most critical industries (food and energy production, sanitation, electric grid, etc.), and _then_ go rogue
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by coffeemug 1y ago
People stare at their phones while walking, having dinner, and driving. It's not a big leap to imagine replacing that with subvocal conversations with AI.
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Announcing a new IDE for PostgreSQL in VS Code(techcommunity.microsoft.com)
12 points by coffeemug 1y ago|4 comments
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by coffeemug 1y ago
AlphaGo.
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by coffeemug 1y ago
I don’t understand this (or all the AI “skills” discourse). This is the most intuitive technology in the history of the world. You literally talk to it in your language and it does what you want! What is there to learn? (You do need to adju

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