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by disqard 3y ago
My story is similar to yours -- forced to use fountain pens (in grade 4-5, IIRC). Perpetually ink-stained fingers, and absolutely hated these irrational rules back then. Decades later, I came back to fountain pens and now love the feel of
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by disqard 3y ago
When I read the second sentence, I suspected it was you, and then it was confirmed by your username :) Those diagrams are beautiful, and I think anyone who picks up that book and holds it in their hand can appreciate the work that went into
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by disqard 3y ago
Thank you for articulating this! I'm not accusing everyone of this cluelessness, but many appear to think that Google was looking at financially-trying times, and fired some employees to save some money -- no, they fired people, and th
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by disqard 3y ago
Thank you for the reply! Yes, Venkat's essays tend towards logorrhea, so I don't quite like them (though the kernels within are insightful). I went back and skimmed this one again, and your verse makes more sense now :)
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by disqard 3y ago
Did you have ChatGPT generate this?
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by disqard 3y ago
You're both right -- technology acts as an amplifier for human intentions (Kentaro Toyama's words, not mine).
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by disqard 3y ago
I'm trying to guess what "OE" stands for... over engineering? operating expenditure? I'd love to know what you meant :)
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by disqard 3y ago
Yes, KEXP is great! I regularly discover new artists there.
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by disqard 3y ago
You articulated what I wanted to add to this thread -- thank you! I play the piano, and even though MIDI exists, I still derive a lot of enjoyment from playing an acoustic instrument.
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by disqard 3y ago
(You inspired me to riff on this and extrapolate, so here goes...) Great story and I can relate. In the late '20s I worked as an ML intern at a tech company. They assigned me to train the crotchety programmers on prompt engineering, bu
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by disqard 3y ago
They became president. I would not be surprised if they replaced the current CEO within the next 3 years.
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by disqard 3y ago
Relevant to your insight (see "The Design of Everyday Things" by Don Norman): 1. The gulf of execution: how do I do something? (i.e. what can be clicked/tapped/pressed?) 2. The gulf of evaluation: how do I know/unde
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by disqard 3y ago
I'm with you on this one. The Internet already has a big Garbage Patch, and this will make it worse. Maybe it'll make evident that this frog has been getting close to boiling, and many of us will sharply reduce our usage according
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by disqard 3y ago
I see the capitalized "R" in that last sentence :) What I find ironic is, Sundar himself will almost certainly be canned and replaced by her within the next few years. Meanwhile, Google will continue to be torn "asundar"
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by disqard 3y ago
I like this suggestion -- we can make it happen too! Just start using "ClosedAI" in conversation...
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by disqard 3y ago
Seconded! In this age of ongoing enshittification, seeing a company do something special for the customers who are cheering for its success, is actually heartwarming. IMO, this will boost/cement customer loyalty. Also, I often want to
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by disqard 3y ago
Your comment reminded me of Douglas Adams' Electric Monk: "The Electric Monk was a labour-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder. Dishwashers washed tedious dishes for you, thus saving you the bother of washing them
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by disqard 3y ago
I'm curious... which country did your friends live in?
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by disqard 3y ago
Can confirm. I grew up in India and now live in the US. I regularly regress into a scarcity-oriented mindset (e.g. preventing all food wastage, avoiding spending on "nice-but-not-strictly-necessary" things, etc.). Even though th
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by disqard 3y ago
You bring up a good point, and it elicits the question: Once a company is overwhelmingly infested with folks who are cashing-in-till-they-bounce, should you stick around anyway, even though that'll hurt your career?
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by disqard 3y ago
This entire thread was very educational -- I learned a lot about myself :)
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by disqard 3y ago
Savage and incisive comment. Even the "thought leaders" who might try to rouse you from your compromised state, are themselves compromised. We're all stuck in this local extreme of ad/rent-supported "free Internet&q
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by disqard 3y ago
I've had the same problem with other pens, and have found that the TWSBI Eco always seals perfectly -- I once uncapped my Eco after several months, and it instantly wrote, flawlessly!
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by disqard 3y ago
> "raid on RAID" I see what you did there :)
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by disqard 3y ago
Thank you for that enthusiastic appraisal! You made me wonder "is it really that good?", so I just tried it out and loved it, and I'm grateful to you for bringing it to my attention. Have a wonderful day, Internet stranger
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by disqard 3y ago
Is there anything similar for Sqlite?
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by disqard 3y ago
They're in the "Acknowledgements" section, which is appropriate for this particular scheme of things. Academia is nothing if not a "street cred" game, and that cred is not portioned out easily (or equitably).
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by disqard 3y ago
> Will people still write code by hand once the machine is clearly superior at it? Probably not for a living, though one can still do it for some sort of intrinsically-motivated fun. Folks still enjoy doing woodworking and make boxes, ta
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by disqard 3y ago
An excellent point! It reminds me of how drafting was thoroughly disrupted by AutoCAD: https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/life-before-autocad-1950-19... How much of (our, as in, programmers') work is the "writing co
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by disqard 3y ago
At this point, are the "wrapper around ChatGPT" startups nervously eyeing other LLM-as-a-Service (LaaS) providers?

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