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by didibus 1y ago
> He literally wrote the bulk of a multi-million line system, most of the code is still running today without much change and powering a unicorn level business I've been a bit of that engineer (though not at the same scale), like sa
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by didibus 1y ago
> engineers that really know how to use this stuff effectively I guess this is still the "caveat" that can keep the hype hopes going. But I've found at a team velocity level, with our teams, where everyone is actively usin
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by didibus 1y ago
So in this case, both can corroborate their findings because both demonstrate success in learning to read? Since you said both look at controls to assess that they're better than random ? But from the article, it seems to imply there h
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by didibus 1y ago
I'm curious what's the difference between "observational science" and "cognitive science"? I assume it means the former is just one person theorizing from his personal experience as a teacher? That's what
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by didibus 1y ago
The researchers wrote neither of the articles. Two people are claiming the researchers say/mean different things. In both cases you have no access to what the researchers have actually told either. So yes, you have two people talking a
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by didibus 1y ago
I think it's possible that Derek Thompson is just doing the same thing he is calling out. 4. Derek Thompson interpreted a short conversation with the author the way he wanted to hear it. The author might have said a bunch of "nuan
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by didibus 1y ago
Yes, that's why I commented, as a kind of feedback, the piece could be so much better with a very small tweak. Replace "antitrust-left" with the name of the exact handful of people whose book/article/stance you are
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by didibus 1y ago
I don't know about the left/right. But like I said, when I read this idea, it was presented as an argument that the housing market was not capitalist enough, and that was the issue. In order to properly make it capitalist, so it c
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by didibus 1y ago
> on nothing but anti-capitalist dogma What I remember from the proposal of it, it was making a pro-capitalist argument. Based on a quick AI chat it seems that: "Some argue this form of passive income generation through rent-seeking
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by didibus 1y ago
> What would happen to those who can't afford to buy? That's what I find fascinating in the thought experiment, it forces you to think outside the box in these areas as well. What happens to people today who can't afford t
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by didibus 1y ago
I assume I'm somewhat impartial, I don't know this author, it's the first time I hear of the "antitrust left" or of the argument that big monopoly builder purposely keep the market scarce to increase prices. And it&
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by didibus 1y ago
Most interesting proposal I heard on this topic, is that the solution to housing prices is to ban renting altogether. It's so radical that it's almost impossible to predict if it would be better or worse. But at least it had the m
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by didibus 1y ago
> all he did here was read papers and call up the authorities they cited, and the narrative behind those papers collapsed Did it collapse, or he simply created another dubious narrative to replace the previous one?
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by didibus 1y ago
I just couldn't keep reading with the constant "antitrust left" being refered to on every sentence. The issue, is that for me, the reader, it framed the piece as the author seemingly positioning themselves as the "the ot
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by didibus 1y ago
Hum, personally I've always found git having more features than those, though I don't know them all, at least when git released it distinguished itself by its features mostly, specifically the distributed nature and rebase. And hg
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by didibus 1y ago
You're taking the wrong conclusion, "Fast" is a winning differentiator only when you offer the same feature-set, but faster. Your example says it, people will go, this is like X (meaning it does/has the same features as
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by didibus 1y ago
Biometrics are like identification yes. It checks that it's you. Now knowing that it's you, it retrieves a password stored on-device and uses the password for auth. The auth is using a password still. The password is just indexed
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by didibus 1y ago
It helped me to start from the problem it tries to solve. Fundamentally, we've been making digital versions of everything. We have digital phone calls, television, bookkeeping, document writing, drawing, etc. One thing we didn't h
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by didibus 1y ago
> why do all these business leaders all do the same things at the same time It's like fashion, humans follow trends, almost always, and in the case of big companies, the CEOs are quite wealthy and that means the people they hangout
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by didibus 1y ago
The thing with a credit card, is that when I buy something online, or it never gets delivered, or turns out to be crap, I can get the credit card company to reimburse me. And in person, if someone manages to copy it and fraud me, I can also
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by didibus 1y ago
> I simply cannot square this with my last few weeks absolutely barnstorming on a project using Claude Code. I don't know, but the interesting data in the study is that they all said the same thing you are saying, but their actual t
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by didibus 1y ago
It's plausible, I just want to point out it's hard to know if that's just coincidental, as opposed to causal.
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by didibus 1y ago
> Nothing in that paper said that AI can't speed up software engineering I mean, the paper did provide tangible data that at least in their experiments, AI slowed down software engineering. What they said is that it's not a pro
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by didibus 1y ago
I've always thought that I'd probably be paid even more and have the choice of many more jobs if open source didn't exist. Could it be there'd be less jobs because it would have prevented some businesses to bootstrap and
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by didibus 1y ago
Personally, I think this is a disingenuous take. The thirst is for tangible data, the issue is that we've never been able to measure any form of productivity/quality in software development. My team does two person PR reviews for
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by didibus 1y ago
Almost all other AI do that as well. ChatGPT will show you like 10+ sources, it'll put it next to the part of the answer that the source was used for too.
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by didibus 1y ago
Funny story, I used that to know the cooked temperature of burgers, it said medium-rare was 130. I proceeded to eating it and all, but then like half way through, I noticed the middle of this burger is really red looking, doesn't seem
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by didibus 1y ago
I think the author makes good points, if you were focused on enhancing human productivity. But the gold rush is on replacing humans entirely for large swath of work, so people are investing in promises of delivering without human in the loo
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by didibus 1y ago
All institutions are supposed to work for the people no? And kind of supposed to have some amount of independence for check and balances? To make sure none of them stop working for the people? That's what I always thought.
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by didibus 1y ago
Not necessarily, but I guess it depends how you define "dependency". For example, it might be partial ordering is needed only, so B doesn't fully depend on A, but some parts of B must happen after some parts of A. It also doe

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