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by dimal 4y ago
It’s what comes out of the process of pushing things into piles. Once functions are factored nicely, patterns emerge. You see different ways of combining things that make more sense. Abstractions that were muddy and confused become clear. Y
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by dimal 4y ago
Hmm. I love refactoring. Getting the initial something that works but is ugly is fun but can be frustrating, and leaves me wanting. Once I have it working, refactoring it to something elegant is a joy. It already works. That was the hard pa
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by dimal 4y ago
Exactly. Reuse through conditionals is a trap. “Look! I made a reusable thing!” No, you made a choke point. Dedupe what you can, then compose with the other 10% when you need it. No need to complect it, as Rich Hickey would describe it.
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by dimal 4y ago
But you don't know the architecture you really need when you first start. I think the key is that you accept that this is true, and that having a good architecture is a continuous process that never ends. You build the best architectur
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by dimal 4y ago
They really need to add the phrase “I don’t know” to the model.
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by dimal 4y ago
Same. It’s like working with an incredibly smart junior engineer who doesn’t think things through, sometimes solves problems that don’t exist, and then when you ask for a minor change, inexplicably rewrites everything to be “better”. I have
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by dimal 4y ago
Sure. I’m AFK but I’ll get it in a little while.
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by dimal 4y ago
Here's a fork. https://codepen.io/mrdanimal/pen/VwGNOQw?editors=0100 As far as I could tell there was no visual change. It's not drastically different, but once you make everything flex, it's possib
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by dimal 4y ago
Grid isn't a good solution for this particular problem because the layout depends on the intrinsic size of the content. Grid is good for when you want the container to define the layout and have the content flow into it. Flex is good f
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by dimal 4y ago
This is sad, but it doesn’t seem all that new to me. As a kid in the 80s I remember seeing suburban subdivisions going up in all the farmland around where I lived. (I lived in one of the first subdivisions to go up.) Each new subdivision lo
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by dimal 4y ago
This isn't a categorical imperative. This is a decision for this individual situation. By "doomsday" I mean, an economic doomsday for privileged people like me who have had a pretty good ride for a while, not a literal doomsd
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by dimal 4y ago
This is roughly how I’m starting to think about it. This may be doomsday or it may be an amazing opportunity. I don’t know. If it’s doomsday, it doesn’t matter whether I act as if it’s doomsday or if I look for opportunities. Either way I’m
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by dimal 4y ago
Oh wow. I didn't know this had a name. I hate hearing someone chewing. It's really distracting and disgusting. And any repetitive clicking. Ugh. But strangely, some other noise is enjoyable and even cathartic, as long as there&#x2
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by dimal 4y ago
We don’t know what’s inevitable in foresight, only in hindsight. Sparks of AGI are sparks, and do not imply an inevitable progression to a particular end state. I don’t see GPT-* replacing us unless they endow it volition. If it requires pr
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by dimal 4y ago
He’s laid out five stages where he says specific changes will occur. He’s extrapolating this all based on evidence from just the past few months. This is nonsense. I’m not saying I know we’re not going to be replaced, but neither does he. F
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by dimal 4y ago
I'm glad it's this way. I'm opinionated. I couldn't live in a Rails-like ecosystem. If you want an opinionated framework, there are frameworks built on top of React. Choose the one that fits your opinions best.
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by dimal 4y ago
I think it's trickier than that. People wouldn't trust the answers. At least with ads, you can see that it's an ad. And it seems like there would be liability issues to having your AI saying "Use X product because...&quo
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by dimal 4y ago
How do you sell ads on an AGI product? Since they made their original mission ("to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful") subservient to their ads business, they didn't have an i
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by dimal 4y ago
Saying hooks are less confusing than classes and understanding the weirdness of `this` is a pretty bad selling point and easily refuted. Hooks are weird. Really weird. They make all your components that use them impure which makes them hard
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by dimal 4y ago
I haven't found it very useful. It's been useful for writing tests, but in most other stuff it's like an annoying person who's always finishing your sentences for you... wrong. It'll autocomplete stuff like file pat
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by dimal 4y ago
This comment seems out of place because most of the article was describing apprenticeships for white collar jobs, and listed a bunch of white collar industries removing their college requirements.
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by dimal 4y ago
Doom is a bit strong. I haven’t worked at a company that uses Microsoft stuff for fifteen years, and I don’t imagine many companies will switch everything from Notion, Google Docs, Confluence, Slack or whatever they’re on, just so they can
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by dimal 4y ago
That doesn’t buy them back. It allows banks to use them as collateral for a loan. So it provides short term liquidity, but the banks are still on the hook if prices don’t recover. The hope is that eventually prices will recover.
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by dimal 4y ago
Really. Companies are going to panic and lay off masses people, effectively destroying their company in the process. "Who do we fire? A don't know! Fire some people!" Well it's 4:30 on Friday and I haven't heard of
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by dimal 4y ago
Cool idea, but I'm confused about the demo. Sure, it generated a lot of code. Does that code actually work and do what you asked? It would be helpful to show the app it created actually running. And the music... lower energy at a lower
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by dimal 4y ago
Meditate for 1-2 hours a day for four years straight. It worked. But it's work.
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by dimal 4y ago
Agreed. It's very demoralizing to know that you are extremely capable of doing the job, but since you don't satisfy the narrowly defined fitness function you're being passed into, you fail. But more than that, companies are m
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by dimal 4y ago
If you do have PTSD, I’ve found that somatic experiencing therapy has been amazingly effective for me. Talking about trauma only gets you so far. It sounds crazy and very “woo”, but I’ve found that trauma really is stored in the body in the
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by dimal 4y ago
Software development isn’t just “writing code”. It’s knowing what code to write. It’s knowing how to accomplish a goal using code. It’s knowing how to structure all of your code to work together. It’s knowing how to adapt code to meet new r
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by dimal 4y ago
It's very convenient to be able to book visits next day from an app. If you don't have any significant illnesses, maybe the convenience is worth it, but the medical care I got there was atrocious. I went in with a serious complain

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