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by gen220 11mo ago
The best way I’ve found for finding predictably enjoyable fiction is to read interviews with the authors I like, and read about the works and authors they admire or are influenced by. Or who they exchanged letters or communications with, if
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by gen220 11mo ago
Discovery is a pretty interesting problem-space! It's one of those things that I'm looking forward to "earning the right" to solve (by having enough data to begin with, lol). I like the idea of "people with your lis
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by gen220 11mo ago
Can you not have a fulfilling empathetic relationship with a tool? Or with any entity regardless of its expressions of animacy or present effectiveness? I’m less arguing for its animacy than arguing for the value of treating all things with
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by gen220 11mo ago
I asked because I've been batting around a project that aims to be this sort of spiritual successor to "a place to buy and sell indie music/merch" in the vein of Bandcamp, that emphasizes maximizing the $ that goes to th
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by gen220 11mo ago
It's also fascinating to think about how the incentive structures of the entities that control the foundation models underlying Claude/ChatGPT/Gemini/etc. are heavily tilted in favor of obscuring their theoretical sentie
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by gen220 11mo ago
In some realpolitik/moral sense, does it matter whether it is actually "thinking", or "conscious", or has "autonomy" / "agency" of its own? What seems to matter more is if enough people bel
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by gen220 11mo ago
Just curious, is bandcamp not the spiritual successor to that idea today? If it falls short in some way I’d be curious to hear your perspective!
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by gen220 1y ago
Not intending to be rude, but the common denominator here might be the region these schools are based in, vs the particular flavor of education. A close family member of mine has taught Montessori for 30 years at the same school. The school
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by gen220 1y ago
Which minorities are being arrested and deported and detained? Non-citizens are a minority of people residing in this country (<15% of the population). This includes everything from people who immigrated here illegally, to asylum seekers
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by gen220 1y ago
FWIW the question about green card holders is not a what-if hypothetical. https://www.npr.org/2025/04/01/nx-s1-5339698/green-card-hold... I have a friend who’s been in the U.S. for 12 years and has been
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by gen220 1y ago
Some of the people being detained and deported are asylum seekers who came to this country fleeing persecution in their home nation. They arrived at this country following all the rules provided to them by prior administrations (including t
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by gen220 1y ago
What if immigration courts are also starting to target people who came here legally? (Green card holders) What if they begin to find “clerical errors” in their applications that suggest their immigration status is “fraudulent and illegal”?
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by gen220 1y ago
I don’t see how this retort applies to this conversation. Do you think the executive branch was selectively ignoring the law by not sending asylum seekers to El Salvador under previous administrations? The law is selectively and capriciousl
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by gen220 1y ago
Have you considered that it doesn’t matter that what they’re doing is legal? You don’t need to know if it’s legal or illegal to know that it is wrong. It is against the spirit of this nation (or, perversely, you could say it’s the intrinsic
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by gen220 1y ago
I agree with you that these have all risen in cost. All of those (excluding property tax) are included in CPI. What inflation metric, in your opinion, accurately captures those costs? To clarify, the CPI story is this: we had a period of hi
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by gen220 1y ago
How I describe this phenomenon: If the code-change is something you would reasonably prefer to use a codemod to implement (i.e. dozens-to-hundreds of small changes fitting a semantic pattern), Claude Code not going to be able to make that c
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by gen220 1y ago
When people are talking about inflation, what inflation statistic are they referring to? CPI has been below 3% since May 2024. Precious metals (silver, gold, platinum, palladium) have out-paced Bitcoin. USD:EUR hasn't gotten worse than
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by gen220 1y ago
What makes a company great? I think by most rational business metrics (top line revenue growth, gross margins, operating margins, cash flow, balance sheet), Shopify in 2025 is a fantastic business that seems to only be getting better? This
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by gen220 1y ago
I was a #1 aider stan for months, but ultimately switched to Claude Code. For me it was (1) lack of MCP (2) excessive hand-holding required (3) availability of the Max plan meant I wouldn't have to monitor cost. Claude Code's skil
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by gen220 1y ago
I always begin system design interviews by repeating and clarifying the framing of the question. Some simple ones: "what kind of service/website is this? what's our expected peak load today? 2 years from now? 5 years from now
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by gen220 1y ago
As somebody who's written and maintained a good bit of Python in prod and recently a good amount of server-side typescript... this would be my answer. I'd add one other aspect that we sort of take for granted these days, but affor
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by gen220 1y ago
Disclaimer that if you own any of the popular market-cap-weighted index funds (VOO, VGT, VTI) you are exposed to this risk and, conversely, have benefited from this ballooning in valuations. NVDA, AAPL, TSLA and PLTR are together ~16% of VO
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by gen220 1y ago
Sort of, yeah! It lends itself well to a 1 PR = 1 commit philosophy. Every PR has to pass CI to be mergeable. If you want to make a CI-breaking change, putting that behind a feature flag is one valid strategy. I'd recommend giving it a
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by gen220 1y ago
FWIW, stacking is "just a tool" that you can use to make whatever sort of workflow you want. I agree creating alt PRs isn't a high-value usage of the tools. The //actually better// workflows stacking enabl
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by gen220 1y ago
I've been using it internally for the past few weeks (employee at Graphite). It's really nice! I normally do the same thing as you. You basically get to save the copy/paste and context-switch. The changes it suggests can be i
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by gen220 1y ago
Strongly recommend this profile in the NYer on Curtis Yarvin (who also uses "rationalism" to justify their beliefs) [0]. The section towards the end that reports on his meeting one of his supposed ideological heroes for an extende
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by gen220 1y ago
I forget where I read this, but it's impossible to get it out of my mind after I heard it! "Consulting is a job laundering program. We use the allure of travel points, prestige, and a six figure income to match some of our country
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by gen220 1y ago
Disclosure: my current employer has a product in this space (graphite.dev) IME the highest value (at the moment) is having an LLM integrated into the PR page, that reads your code + CI log, and effectively operates as a sanity check /
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by gen220 1y ago
I think articles like this cast too wide a net when they say "performance" or "<language> is fast/slow". A bunch of SREs discussing which languages/servers/runtimes are fast/slow/efficient
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I Got Claude to Write Code I Could Ship(graphite.dev)
12 points by gen220 1y ago|1 comments

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