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by djeastm 2y ago
My Arabic teacher liked to say "التكرار يعلّم الحمار" which rhymes and says "Repetition teaches the donkey" Not the most flattering of proverbs, but it stuck with me.
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by djeastm 2y ago
All of us over here memorizing words to speak instead of looking up each word each time...
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by djeastm 2y ago
I think perhaps there's a confusion of "memorization" with "rote memorization". The word "rote" connotes flashcards and dull drills, but memorization by itself, to me at least, is more like "a focused
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by djeastm 2y ago
Yeah, I don't know what the going rate is for decent-looking background paintings, but I can see why films cost so many millions of dollars to make.
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by djeastm 2y ago
I suddenly feel very, very small, but not in a bad way. Things are changing so much all around us. It's quite beautiful to stop and think about it.
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by djeastm 2y ago
>then apply types once your happy paths start working for the first time to start catching the unhappy ones. I.e. the "I'll go back and add safety later" strategy. Somehow I never seem to get around to doing it.
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by djeastm 2y ago
I have enough Echoes to cover my whole place within speaking distance and they serve as fancy voice-activated light switches and also timers, radios/music/podcast players (via Spotify) and calculators/measurement converters.
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by djeastm 2y ago
These discussions always devolve into political diatribes instead of a discussion of the study itself.
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by djeastm 2y ago
It'd be what you made it. I went back for a CS degree long after having coded for years and there were certainly things I would have had to sit around and wait for others to catch up on if I let it. But instead I always pushed myself t
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by djeastm 2y ago
One thing I've not understood about this is how do you create an AI course to teach people things... without creating an AI that can DO the very thing that will make that very same knowledge obsolete? For example, how do you create an
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by djeastm 2y ago
Forgive me for not tying it back to your example explicitly. Your example was a read. So in that case since there's no change in state (no need for protection of the data/invariants) there's no dangers in having different cli
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by djeastm 2y ago
>Have you found anything that makes everyone happy and productive? Not really. It's kind of a constant push-pull and a lot of compromises. In the end it's just about getting things done and dealing with the friction in stride w
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by djeastm 2y ago
>- Maybe a lot of programmers have ADHD, are autistic, or suffer from dyslexia, and find planning, naming, designing abstractions as excruciating activities. I don't know about the medical conditions, per se, but I think this does b
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by djeastm 2y ago
This is where command/query separation is strongest regardless of onion/layered architecture. Your queries/reads are treated entirely separately from your commands/writes so you're free to include/exclude any o
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by djeastm 2y ago
Kafka's life abounded with misery. Great writer, though
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by djeastm 2y ago
The last thing I want to do in my side projects is to use the same technology I spend all day with at work, so instead of any software, my side projects use old-fashioned 3x5 cards in a box, with dividers for what part of the project they i
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by djeastm 2y ago
That's really neat. Thanks for providing it
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by djeastm 2y ago
I gauge the risk of my government targeting me lower than the risk of hackers stealing/selling my information. Mainly because the latter has occurred to me numerous times already.
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by djeastm 2y ago
>Carmel did not invest in anything that anchors poverty into the community. Alternately: Carmel invested in making life easier for wealthy people to live here and harder for the poor. This doesn't seem like an innovation much as it
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by djeastm 2y ago
A story as old as time.
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Naming things is hard
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by djeastm 2y ago
>many usage examples could be "live" as you go through the document learning about htmx functionality The examples at htmx.org itself are like this (e.g. https://htmx.org/examples/click-to-edit/ )
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by djeastm 2y ago
>You can implement all this stuff using literally any framework from the past 15 years if you want. Do you want to do that? I'd rather use what other people have done
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by djeastm 2y ago
As former military intelligence, I have a hard time believing someone in that line of work would wear a hat advertising which task force they worked on. Or that such a task force would even allow such hats to be made.
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by djeastm 2y ago
>An extreme example might be the lack of a version field. Nothing a "IF version is NULL THEN version = 1" can't fix ;)
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by djeastm 2y ago
If the problem you're solving isn't sufficiently complex, there's probably already a solution out there and you're re-inventing the wheel.
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by djeastm 2y ago
There's something to be said for constraints leading to higher levels of creativity, but it's also possible that those artists could have achieved much more in a free society. We'll never know. But in any case I think they we
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by djeastm 2y ago
>If there are 5x more chart-topping songs, more of them will be from famous artists, who would've thought!? I don't see how that negates their argument. Can you elaborate?
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by djeastm 2y ago
Alexa's "by the ways" will be its downfall. What kind of assistant says "by the way" apropos of nothing? An annoying one. It's just a thinly disguised ad that was never asked for.
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> Oh, if you do have an Alexa device "Alexa, what noise does a hamster make?" I just did this and it said "Here's a hippopotamus' grunt" So that's how it's going for Alexa in my house

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