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721.
by coldtea 5mo ago
And you can be the best car driver and still sway off or have some idiot crash into you head-on or miss a red light...
722.
by coldtea 5mo ago
The previous is a bit like saying "My pal got hurt in a car crash, never get a car".
723.
by coldtea 5mo ago
It's hardly any given. You can just ride properly. In other countries they are a huge means of transport.
724.
by coldtea 5mo ago
Billions of people have a motorcycle globally... Some anecdote from a chronically motorcycle adverse culture (US) doesn't mean a whole mean of transport is invalid...
725.
by coldtea 5mo ago
> But doing so negates any improvements in speed the LLM brought. We could do with less speed.
726.
by coldtea 5mo ago
> I don't know, even if AI allows two engineers to do the work of six, companies will likely just use that efficiency to expand their scope. Not really. It will be a cuttthroat landscape, and the scope wont matter as much anymore.
727.
by coldtea 5mo ago
> I don't think they were saying anything more than that. Well, they did claim something more though though: "the lack of a feature is the same as the presence of a bug then "fixing all bugs" also means "adding
728.
by coldtea 5mo ago
> but for the purposes of prioritization there’s no point in differentiating feature from bug when you use the same “how does this impact my products value to users” as the deciding factor for what gets scoped. Then they could just say
729.
by coldtea 5mo ago
> Grandparent is onto something. You can't define correctness without a spec. Sure you can. Correctness doesn't mean "follows a spec", it means "It does what the developer intended it to do without problems&quot
730.
by coldtea 5mo ago
because it's the lack of any aesthetics
731.
by coldtea 5mo ago
Funnily, that's the first stage in how you end up designing "will work for food" signs with markers, more than with Figma or Claude...
732.
by coldtea 5mo ago
> The human brain mostly adapts. A small percentage of human brains have persistent dizziness and depth perception errors, which can lead to physical injury and reduced quality of life That's a fine argument, which I accept. Not th
733.
by coldtea 5mo ago
> an argument from the end user’s perspective Well, the end user's perspective is buggy. And a developer doesn't have to give the same semantics as the user, anymore than a medical equipment manufactured needs to consider its
734.
by coldtea 5mo ago
> Your argument hinges on all parties agreeing on what "wrong" means No, it just hinges on common sense. "All parties" are never gonna agree on everything. There will always be customers that demand whatever and trea
735.
by coldtea 5mo ago
> Some times there is, and in many cases there is not. Distinguishing a feature from a bug requires having some kind of spec. In some cases you can have obvious sign the behaviour is unintended/not desired, but in other cases it&#x2
736.
by coldtea 5mo ago
> Once you realize that the lack of a feature is the same as the presence of a bug then "fixing all bugs" also means "adding all the features", then you also accept that you will never be done. This doesn't make
737.
by coldtea 5mo ago
Nah, it's also just as well the LLM that's not smart enough/hallucinates. You can see it often reading the code wrongly (and the code is the canonical description of the program, no room for interpretation). Or inventing non-
738.
by coldtea 5mo ago
It read the context and randomly picked a way around what it asked. That's just how it works. Other times, it will follow it.
739.
by coldtea 5mo ago
> I review these overviews carefully and make edits as necessary before I check them in. It's my signature on the commit, and my bank account receiving the paycheck, so nothing goes into the repository that I haven't read caref
740.
by coldtea 5mo ago
Snark aside, Apple did built Alan Kay's vision. Just 50 years too late, and in a half-arsed way.
741.
by coldtea 5mo ago
> I think the way Google handles flags/experiments in one project (Chrome) is very relevant to interpreting the language around how they handle flags/experiments in another project (Go). You'd think that, but you'd b
742.
by coldtea 5mo ago
That's not the spirit of Go. They will implement their NIH version of JEP/PEP, just one with an awkward interface, held together with duct tape, and missing obvious functionality, then do another round and get 70% of what JEP&#x2F
743.
by coldtea 5mo ago
> to the point that it is practically useless. And yet I know many people who use them and love them. So?
744.
by coldtea 5mo ago
Historically good stuff "stands the test of time and rises to the top" when it is not drown out by the bad stuff. Gold nuggets among some scaterred garbage are still findable. But 10x gold nuggets burried in a massive landfill mou
745.
by coldtea 5mo ago
> The have it buried in the FAQ, but that's pretty much the interface for AI. Well, they have it buried because it's not "the interface for AI", it's a programming interface, that could have existed 5 and 10 yea
746.
by coldtea 5mo ago
> I don't own Max for Live, so the large ecosystem of useful tools that I'd enjoy trying out is unavailable to me. Well, it's not that difficult to purchase as an update to Suite or by itself, on a typical western salary.
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by coldtea 5mo ago
Ableton yes - and Bitwig which is ex Ableton people. But Cubase, Logic, etc weren't focused on electronic music in particular. They catered to general studio production.
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by coldtea 5mo ago
> Also Reason, you guys remember Reason? It had such a warm, characteristic sound out of the box. You could easily hear it in many songs of the time; same with Fruity Loops but for all the wrong reasons, lol. Remember? It never went awa
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by coldtea 5mo ago
What made the community so good, is that it was a community. Any rando armed with an LLM is not a community.
750.
by coldtea 5mo ago
> This seems quite misguided Does it? Seems the only sane option. The other being being drowned in AI slop PRs.

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