dkarl

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by dkarl 8d ago
AI output right now is like a final exam essay response from an anxious student. Instead of being edited for focus and clarity, it's anti-edited to cram in as many details as possible. Instead of worrying that the reader might get bore
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by dkarl 8d ago
It improves the text readability quite a bit, at least for me, but the soullessness is still there.
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by dkarl 13d ago
Same thing on a smaller scale, and they never would have got venture capital funding if they didn't have an upward trajectory from HOAs. There's only one path upward from private HOA surveillance, and that's government survei
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by dkarl 16d ago
The insanity the author is describing sounds like normal corporate BS to me. Everybody wants to "raise concerns," everybody is looking for an idea to take credit for, everybody has a reason your idea won't succeed. I'm p
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by dkarl 16d ago
I appreciate the obviousness of it. Isn't it a good thing if the lack of effort jumps out in seconds?
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by dkarl 20d ago
Buying a car is scary enough for most people, figuring out how to trust some unaffiliated rando to do work on the most expensive or second most expensive thing they own is truly intimidating.
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by dkarl 23d ago
That matches my impressions. Narratives on crime seem to lag reality pretty severely. I first visited SF back in the 1990s, when I don't think its reputation was much different from other big cities, and saw neighborhoods that looked r
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by dkarl 23d ago
> bus drivers are great. They have higher licensing standards, their income is tied to maintaining a license, they're well trained and professional Also speaking as a cyclist: do you even expect them to be responsive to your presenc
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by dkarl 24d ago
My grocery store now uses slightly thicker plastic bags, and I've found that you con reuse them dozens of times; I've had the same bags in my car for over a year. Unfortunately, when they deliver, they use brand-new bags, and they
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by dkarl 2mo ago
> If your company is highly product driven, you’ll often find that the juniors end up lea[d]ing projects more often than not because they will tell the PM exactly what they want to hear I worked in a company where this happened, and it w
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by dkarl 2mo ago
Cases like this raise a question. As an engineer, the errors that coding AIs make are an annoyance, and reassuring in terms of my job prospect. As a consumer, the errors that AIs make are more than an annoyance. I have yet to meet an AI pho
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by dkarl 2mo ago
> But web applications are not just pipelines of isolated tools. They are full of shared assumptions: request shapes, validation boundaries, session handling, rendering, routing, serialization, deployment targets. Some of those things ar
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by dkarl 3mo ago
The "When touching it is the right call" is the tricky part, because it contains this very subjective exception: "Every new feature costs three times what it should because of the design, and you can show the trend." I
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by dkarl 3mo ago
I find this far too black and white. There's a lot to gain from conversations where you can't change the other person's mind. If you see making them agree with you as the only positive outcome, I can see why you'd give u
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by dkarl 3mo ago
If the manosphere stopped doing cringe, what would be left?
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by dkarl 3mo ago
Wait until 10,000 manosphere influencers start selling personalize aura coaching to incels who share their glasses recordings. We'll start seeing those glasses on every lame-ass wannabro.
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by dkarl 3mo ago
I assume it's already trademarked as a pharmaceutical name.
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by dkarl 3mo ago
> The problem with "tech debt" is it can mean anything from "this is ugly code that takes 5 minutes longer to read but it works well" to "this in a insecure/unstable pile of horse manure and customers will s
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by dkarl 4mo ago
Coding taste and good architecture are the final pillars because AIs are trained on a ton of bad examples that are presented as good examples. That pillar will stand until AIs are able to reconsider and re-evaluate the material they've
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by dkarl 4mo ago
This article repeats what we've long known about how technical interviews aren't great at evaluating technical skills and inadvertently filter for things that aren't important. But it doesn't offer a better way of evalua
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by dkarl 4mo ago
A foreign student who is afraid of returning to her home country sounds like an ideal low-level drug dealer. They are legally vulnerable because they are afraid of being expelled from the country, and they have access to lots of potential b
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by dkarl 4mo ago
> Some have chosen to link their fate to the technology, dedicating themselves to learning prompt engineering, while others are staging a revolt against it. I don't understand why these are seen as mutually exclusive choices. I thin
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by dkarl 4mo ago
Unfortunately, a convincing demonstration to convince a skeptical colleague would require measuring developer productivity. Among skeptics, I've only seen people won over by using it themselves, because when they use AI for their own w
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by dkarl 4mo ago
I kind of get what they're thinking in trying to make sure all engineers use AI. For myself, and for the engineers working with me, I saw everyone go through an initial aversion and resistance to AI, and then an instant productivity
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by dkarl 5mo ago
Little tidbit that isn't mentioned in the article: he was a consultant on the film Quest for Fire and developed movement patterns and gestures for the actors.
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by dkarl 5mo ago
In the business of apparel, I think this is a natural consequence of high-end buyers turning their noses up at long-lived brands, and working to differentiate themselves from mainstream middle-class buyers. It's a revolt against modern
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by dkarl 5mo ago
Flippant answer: in the U.S., in your twenties, you have no spare space, and visiting friends sleep on your couch. In your forties, you have a guest bedroom, and visiting friends stay at a hotel. Possibly more accurate answer: it depends on
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by dkarl 5mo ago
I don't think that's the way you're supposed to read it? I think you're supposed to read it as, the trendy extremes tell you something about a place, even if the details are silly and ephemeral. People with no filter, no
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by dkarl 5mo ago
I interpret YAGNI to mean that you shouldn't invest extra work and extra code complexity to create capabilities that you don't need. In this case, I feel like using the filesystem directly is the opposite: doing much more difficul
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by dkarl 5mo ago
Honestly, at this point, if I had a design that required making atomic changes to files, I'd redo the design to use SQLite. The other way around sounds crazy to me. "Why use spray paint when you can achieve the same effect by ejec

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