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by gavmor 2y ago
Thanks, I love the English language. Edit: you know, I don't think you're being merely pedantic, as this precise difference is the exact crux of the issue, isn't it?
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That's my general attitude about programming, but the invisible hand supplies many bitter and uninterested software developers to meet the industry's demand.
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What does it mean to increase the speed of causality? This seems like asserting that we can add as many tick marks to the axis as we like, since the only universal unit of measurement is a velocity's percentage of C. If we imagine some
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by gavmor 2y ago
Here's a great video explaining how, due to relativity, FTL travel can cause grandfather paradoxes: https://youtu.be/an0M-wcHw5A?si=RYFGOmQOlaC2t0bM Edit: in short, not all reference frames can agree on the order of ev
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by gavmor 2y ago
SQL is, arguably, more ergonomic than IndexedDB APIs, and may take up less RAM/CPU when, eg, using a `WHERE` clause rather than an `if() ` filter.
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by gavmor 2y ago
Nah, I went from jquery to Backbone, Angular, and React. I don't miss jquery, and I like the functional/declarative APIs of JSX. It's a lot like just writing HTML, and CSS, and I still write plenty of JS as pure functions or
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by gavmor 2y ago
> Nobody is responsible for the software Sounds like the accountability sink[0]. 0. https://www.ft.com/content/2e1042d5-5e89-4fb6-bbee-de605a534...
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by gavmor 2y ago
"You can't make this stuff up."
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Shades of Otherland 's Orlando Gardiner. In the 1995 novel by Tad Williams, Gardiner is afflicted with a progressive genetic disorder which precludes his having much of a life offline--at least, he finds it easier to make friends onl
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by gavmor 2y ago
A crowd at the gym makes the gym less useful, so fewer people attend the gym, and it oscillates. A negative feedback loop. A crowded channel grows noisier, but there's no feedback. Can a gamed metric become valuable again, or does it l
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by gavmor 2y ago
I don't understand why most companies don't just run sensible, reliable, predictable processes like a Design Sprint when they're looking to break out of a local maximum.
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> the kind of hackathon where people give up rights to any IP they produce Wow, I have been attending public hackathons for over a decade, and I have never heard of something like this. That would be an outrage!
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Adding a parameter to the function signature, and then passing an additional value at each call site is done... automatically in Haystack? Impossible! Edit: And "to figure out what edits I need to make" is done by any ol' com
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by gavmor 2y ago
> Haystack takes care of the tedious confusing parts of coding Tedious, yes, but confusing? Yikes! My job as a coder is to resolve ambiguity favorably. Every day, I strive to leave the world less confusing than I found it. I would no mor
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by gavmor 2y ago
Hey, I also do this. I have a GPU at home that I run whisper and Llamas on to crunch through my voice memos to distill eg TODOs. I do it all in BASH. I haven't built out a smoother toolchain because I haven't settled on a form fac
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by gavmor 2y ago
ctrl + f "tool calling" ctrl + f "function calling" Have these terms already become passe, or not yet caught on? Or are they an implementation detail which Panora seeks to gracefully elide? Edit: Oh, very cool, though. I
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by gavmor 2y ago
This was a good read, and the author makes convincing points. Largely, I agree, but the author makes a mistake that's extremely common in the hobby: they presume that the author of the book is the authority of the game, whereas the pre
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by gavmor 2y ago
> I really don't have a bad word to say about them ...doesn't quite square with: > I'm still cleaning up after the unsupervised junior two years later. I can appreciate that misfactored code now helps "flatten th
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by gavmor 2y ago
Seems to me like "the unsupervised junior" isn't participating in the "Socratic method" the article discusses, but your experience does impugn the author's hypothesis that the burden of Junior Developers will d
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by gavmor 2y ago
If someone wants to pay me to do this, I have some free time Mondays and Wednesdays.
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by gavmor 2y ago
I feel very strongly that collaboration is perversely demonized, and that language models are used to delay or even defer collaboration. I can cite junior devs who use ChatGPT instead of asking for a pair, and I have had to very, extrem
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by gavmor 2y ago
Thanks. If their announcement had included the schema of the return value of `response['message']['tool_calls']` it might've been more transparent to me.
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by gavmor 2y ago
Ah, I see. The model returns the name of an appropriate tool, then the client takes arbitrary action, and appends the `tool` message to the chat context, and finally a second call to the model minges these together. Part of me was hoping fo
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by gavmor 2y ago
Where is `get_current_weather` implemented? > Tool responses can be provided via messages with the `tool` role.
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"Write everything twice" is sometimes called a "spike."[0] > A spike is a product development method originating from extreme programming that uses the simplest possible program to explore potential solutions. In my
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From one figure: > These are lines 31-34 of the second column of Sennacherib’s clay prism, probably from Nineveh, now in the Israel Museum (IMJ 71.072.0249). The text records eight campaigns of the Assyrian King, including the siege of J
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Perelman? I always thought his proof was self-evident. Kidding! For papers , yes, there's a lot of difficulty. I'm not sure it's possible to demand sense from a paper in the way that one can from a discursive partner. As Emm
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> This assumes that the other person has a "thinking style" that is compatible with yours No one has a thinking style compatible with mine. Communication is difficult, but the whole point is to share adopt novel ways of thinkin
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Thank you for sharing! > the slower one still does not really have an option to do it independently and think it through This is a good point, and a constraint of the institution. When I was the slower student, I was blessed with the ino
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This dynamic is not impossible to overcome. It's often as simple as reminding students that we are responsible for one another's success by shifting the goal from "finish the exercise" to "ensure we've both lea

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