giraffe_lady

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by giraffe_lady 5mo ago
I'm like the person you responded to, I've just used fossil personally for years after working at a place using it a while back and always liked it. This is its moment though. It is so well suited for LLM coding tools. You can jam
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by giraffe_lady 5mo ago
There is some bizarre facility with hindley-milner based languages embedded in LLMs, they're basically automatically good at even very new ones like gleam and nanolang. I have a never-released-anywhere hobby ML that compiles to lua and
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by giraffe_lady 5mo ago
> Creating wealth from poverty within a few generations is miraculous, and the system that achieved that should be emulated. I'll convey your admiration to my local sinaloa confederate.
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by giraffe_lady 5mo ago
> since homeless will often migrate to where the functional support services are. I've heard this a lot but I don't have any reason to believe it's true. Never seen a reputable study that asserts it. I've known a lot
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by giraffe_lady 5mo ago
It's really not. Anything the LLM can benefit from people can too. Keeping minimal explicit information in git history is a cultural norm not proven best practice. The best codebases I've worked on have very large commit messages
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by giraffe_lady 5mo ago
Lot of places have a strong tradition of corporal & capital punishment for social transgression and aren't like singapore in other ways. Iran and China have the most similar policies and you don't see a lot of HN people singin
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by giraffe_lady 5mo ago
None of that is given.
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by giraffe_lady 5mo ago
The secret is maintaining a permanently impoverished underclass without labor rights or a path to citizenship! Much to learn here, indeed.
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by giraffe_lady 5mo ago
> Hey, dipshit. You know what compiles in two seconds, deploys as a single binary, and doesn't shit itself when a transitive dependency gets yanked from npm at 3am? OCaml?
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by giraffe_lady 5mo ago
It will be the same two classes there are now and always have been. Those who need to sell their labor and those they sell it to. Class struggle is the only way out. Find some solidarity, you aren't exempt.
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by giraffe_lady 5mo ago
Who empties the bedpan?
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by giraffe_lady 5mo ago
You're right, you don't know. Just as a quick relevant summary I'm american, old enough to be retired if that were possible, and have lived most of my life in poverty, illness, and incarceration with long stretches of homeles
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by giraffe_lady 5mo ago
> It turns out the reality of taking that class of action is actually a lot more fraught that your 4th grade self thought it was. It's funny my entire adult life has been me slowly realizing that no, it is not. It is easy to do what
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by giraffe_lady 6mo ago
Bizarrely I feel like that reflects how a lot of tech leadership are viewing it? I can't explain this behavior but this is the first time I've seen this inversion: leaders believing money spent on something is itself value. I ha
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by giraffe_lady 6mo ago
I volunteer for a local organization, most areas have one. Some are specialized around a specific kind of court, others are big enough to be broad and then have specialized training, usually following however your local jurisdiction divides
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by giraffe_lady 6mo ago
I've mentioned this before but I've been a volunteer court watcher for domestic violence court for some years now. Cases where a state surveillance tool or database was used to stalk or harass the victim are completely routine. Ve
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by giraffe_lady 6mo ago
I'm not in this field but I know someone who used to be and we've talked about it a fair bit. A quick overview of what's needed from what I understand: Old books aren't that neat, you tend to have a lot of notes and othe
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by giraffe_lady 6mo ago
I mean only in the same sense that you spend 1 second per second doing something . Time is probably not the best way to evaluate the resources this consumes and I doubt it takes much of anything else either. It does seem weird though even
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by giraffe_lady 6mo ago
Oh, yes, I see what you mean now.
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by giraffe_lady 6mo ago
Really might be in sqlite. I've learned to never trust my intuition about performance with that thing. So many times I've gone to "optimize" something and discovered that the naive hack way I had been doing it was faster
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by giraffe_lady 6mo ago
There are transgressions severe enough that your duty to stop them is heavier than your responsibility to "the reputation of your client's product." Amazing this needs to be stated, frankly.
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by giraffe_lady 6mo ago
ok lol
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by giraffe_lady 6mo ago
A thing that's striking if you spend any time around deaf people is that at the very top there are exactly two distinct branches of human language: vocal and sign. Once this settles into your understanding the implications are profound
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by giraffe_lady 6mo ago
Or like, anything peter thiel says ever.
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by giraffe_lady 6mo ago
Fun until that's a real person using a paid bot service to promote their business and you just libeled them in a perfectly preserved medium.
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by giraffe_lady 6mo ago
I agree with this too. I decided on constraints for myself around these tools and I give my complete focus & attention to every prompt, often stopping for minutes to figure things through and make decisions myself. Reviewing every line
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by giraffe_lady 6mo ago
I'm not completely sure and I only have the insight of an interested hobbyist here but I don't think it's a single reason. A lot of it is that the production improvements have mostly been in developing processes for synthetic
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by giraffe_lady 6mo ago
I don't know what the right term is but yeah it's not quite inflation. IIRC households pre-ww2 were spending 15% of their budget on clothing, and the farther back you go the higher that gets even to the point where the concept of
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Our Longing for Inconvenience(newyorker.com)
3 points by giraffe_lady 6mo ago|0 comments
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by giraffe_lady 6mo ago
I intentionally throw some weird ones on there just in case anyone is actually ever checking them. Gotta keep interviewers guessing.

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