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by dimal 2y ago
I’m obsessed with The Curse of Knowledge. I see it everywhere, especially in tech. It’s the reason why so much code is impossible to understand, why documentation is terrible, why users don’t understand how to use your app. Person A assumes
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by dimal 2y ago
> What we say is, attack the issue, not the neighbor. > Wood-Lewis said the beauty of careful moderation is that, over time, most users learn to adhere to the site’s norms on their own. Seems like these principles alone can do a lot o
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by dimal 2y ago
Interesting that the article doesn’t mention that they’re a public benefit corporation. I think we need more of these.
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by dimal 2y ago
> probably Harris is the simplest answer And probably the wrong answer. I don’t see her winning over swing voters. Gretchen Whitmer seems like the best option to me. I’d enjoy watching her debate Trump.
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by dimal 2y ago
> If you’ve used CoPilot in VSCode, you understand the satisfaction of feeling like an LLM is thinking one step ahead of you I did not get that feeling from CoPilot. I usually got the feeling that it was interrupting me to complete my th
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by dimal 2y ago
> I see AI being more of a teaching assistant, rather than a replacement for teachers. That’s what he announced he’s doing. Creating an assistant, not a replacement.
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by dimal 2y ago
Interesting that you talk about Effexor. Effexor was the one drug that “worked” for me. But over time, my thinking and behavior became more and more erratic. I became highly unstable, doing bizarre and unsafe things I never would have consi
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by dimal 2y ago
I disagree. It’s not clear from the context. People often generalize their experiences to think they apply to everyone. With psych meds, this is very common. I don’t expect a PSA, just a recognition that “they work” cannot be stated as an a
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by dimal 2y ago
It’s the interface. Compared to Outlook, it’s dead simple. It abstracts gmail/outlook away, and doesn’t give you ALL the features of Outlook. It just gives you what you really need. And it’s not dev-specific, they’ve just somehow taugh
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by dimal 2y ago
Correction: they work _for you_. This may sound pedantic but I see this blanket assertion all the time from people who take psych meds and have them work for them. There is a very large group of people for whom they do not work, and others
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by dimal 2y ago
> To this day Outlook is pretty much table stakes for working in a corporate environment Then Superhuman made a tool to simply deal with email quickly and easily (using vim key bindings no less) and charges $30 a month for it. There’s st
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by dimal 2y ago
AI actually does something useful. A boom isn’t necessarily a bubble.
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by dimal 2y ago
I think that the usefulness of any “X driven development” methodology is so highly variable based on the particular problem being solved and the particular brain solving it, that it’s impossible to make any general recommendation for anythi
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by dimal 2y ago
> Our goal is to replace humans in any domain where data work is required: data collection, preparation, analysis, and interpretation. Nice that they say up front what their goal is. Not to help humans or make humans more productive. The
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by dimal 2y ago
> people don't really want to learn. This is the most nonsensical statement I’ve ever heard. I don’t know how someone could actually believe this. As someone who loves to learn, I’ve already been using AI to learn things I never had
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by dimal 2y ago
I've done a lot on my own too. I'm hoping it'll help, but my health has been pretty bad the past few yers. It feels like I've gotten on top of it, though, and I've been improving, but it's a struggle. It's
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by dimal 2y ago
I should say more. I think most people are going in the wrong direction. Everyone is focusing on chatbots, and I think that's too limited. Conversation is a slow, low-bandwidth interface that isn't good for most work. I'm hop
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by dimal 2y ago
I had the same experience reading that book. It’s amazing that even though these effects are well documented, they aren’t really taught in medical school. I’ve never come across a doctor who knew anything about it. It’s really incredible an
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by dimal 2y ago
I’m intrigued! I’m up for a conversation if you want to hit me up at daniel at imal dot name. I’d love to hear more about what you’re up to.
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by dimal 2y ago
An answer to the Fermi Paradox!
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by dimal 2y ago
If AI is controlled by the current players, this is the most probable endgame of the current AI trajectory. Not human extinction, but a permanent dystopia where most of humanity is manipulated 24/7 for profit by a few advertising compa
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by dimal 2y ago
Has anyone actually tried? I’ve searched for simple microwaves and can’t find any.
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by dimal 2y ago
I’ve seen teams destroy themselves by solving complex problems that didn’t need to be solved. Instead of solving the real problems, they imagined a problem that was more interesting and complex, and tried to solve that.
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by dimal 2y ago
The Apple one doesn’t seem fair. You can do the math to center the box but typography with descenders throws everything off. I think if they had centered it “correctly” it would feel off.
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by dimal 2y ago
This post makes me want to get on Mastodon just so I can talk to this guy.
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Nope. Listen to them first. Really try to hear them. When people feel heard, they tend to listen better.
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by dimal 2y ago
I couldn’t make it through. It’s funny but also stressed me out. I feel like the front end web dev community is going through its equivalent of the microservices/kubernetes madness that overtook the server devs in the past few years an
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by dimal 2y ago
Just from looking at the massive amount research on the effects of sleep deprivation and burnout on humans, and assuming that medical professionals are humans, we can infer that performance would decline. But ok, I’ll play along. https:&#x
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I’d rather have three well-rested people and an additional shift change than two burned out, exhausted people. People who are exhausted make mistakes. Maybe it would be better to focus on improving internal communication.
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by dimal 3y ago
Only for limited areas of a server codebase on a small team who understood what tests were meant to accomplish and wrote excellent tests. Basically, about a year and a half out of a twenty five year career. I’ve never seen them useful on fr

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