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by gofreddygo 3mo ago
my good notes have their origins in thoughts I had while in the shower or while driving or watching a movie or a conversation with someone close to me. Ideas evade me when I'm at my desk in front of my notebook with my awesome pen. Thi
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by gofreddygo 3mo ago
Oh that is such a bad heuristic ! The commits and history of how a PR was put together is no indicator of the quality of the PR or the thought process that led to it. Thats the equivalent of rejecting a (handwritten) essay for having too ma
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by gofreddygo 3mo ago
Ahh.. gotcha. My bad.
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by gofreddygo 3mo ago
That is diametrically opposite to how I read non-fiction. Its designed on how I approach a new codebase effectively. first is skimming and context. table of contents, the preclude, intro etc. Then author (interviews, actual work done, other
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by gofreddygo 3mo ago
yes and that led me to a more fundamental question : is it even possible for an easy way to do fine grained adjustments. The finer granularity brings complexity. that makes it unreadable (especially for the untrained) and hence set aside an
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by gofreddygo 3mo ago
Graphviz and mermaid are a shitshow. anything more than their own handpicked examples and you're better off using d3 or yfiles. layering, clustering, boundaries, rearranging are all basic needs for text to diagrams. None support it. Bo
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by gofreddygo 3mo ago
Like area 51.
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by gofreddygo 3mo ago
recently read a post on a moms' forum about her having a hard time getting her kid to practice violin and the skill plateauing. the breakthrough was a trip to a relative's remote house with no screens / internet. Kid found vi
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by gofreddygo 3mo ago
How to ask for help is an under-discussed important topic. Women are way better at asking for help and getting it as compared to men. there's some very well-known psychology tricks that you can use to get better outcomes. Cialdini&#x2
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by gofreddygo 4mo ago
The programming language is the shared vocabulary Everything above are made up leaky abstractions with a handful of exceptions
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by gofreddygo 4mo ago
Its valid but useless. Think someone says i'm thirsty all the time because there's little clean water available, what's available is expensive but it could be better if we did so-and-so. and someone replies I'm not thirs
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by gofreddygo 4mo ago
This is true in broader contexts too. Bunch of experts can't agree on something fundamental which is hard to prove/ disprove, and they have strong opinions on the topic. AI is much worse.
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by gofreddygo 4mo ago
Its not _just_ that. Orgs aren't remotely sensible at measuring anything that isn't counted in dollars. employees who are on the ai bandwagon are there for the free management attention. Management is cooked because the damn marke
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by gofreddygo 4mo ago
> we are consultants This is the key insight. Design patterns were developed by a set of consultants. Promoted by other consultants. Consultants have perverse incentives, like bankers. Realizing this made me critical of the design patter
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by gofreddygo 4mo ago
> There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is
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by gofreddygo 5mo ago
For months, Employees had the option to choose claude code or copilot. Now they dont. Underlying model choice still has no restrictions. Opus 4.6 is by far the most popular. there's still big $$$ bills going anthropic's way.
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by gofreddygo 5mo ago
This got me thinking, so what happens in two years? every tom, dick and harry who can type english has the tools to attack any software that isn't patched. tools that were accessible to specialized groups, now made available to anybody
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by gofreddygo 5mo ago
Software today is worse in every possible way. Subscription solicitation is one such dimension. BBEdit, Sublime et al. are beacons of what software quality, distribution and pricing ought to be. three quarters of the saas industry is built
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by gofreddygo 5mo ago
I keep them embedded in the codebase or an artifact right next to the source. And the key thing is that i dont need too many details at all. A few cues and its all back in my head.
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by gofreddygo 5mo ago
I very much dislike this behavior, personally dont do this and want it stopped. people that I like to be nice to have done this to me. I dont have a good response that wont trigger them. They chose to do this cz its easy. I now have to choo
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by gofreddygo 5mo ago
yes I don't like the term investor anymore, because there aren't anymore. in my mind I just switch the word to a compulsive gambler or at best a speculator. and everything else is just bots.
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by gofreddygo 5mo ago
exactly what else do you expect them to do? They can see peers cheating the system using AI to get ahead, future job prospects, directly affecting time to pay off student loans are being crushed by the AI narrative which is a reminder of ho
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by gofreddygo 5mo ago
It helps to think of investors in tiers. The lower tiers mimic higher ups. Each tier has two orders of magnitude deeper pockets than the lower tier. At the very top are the big investment banks and fund houses, berkshire. Second are smaller
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by gofreddygo 5mo ago
> ash trays give them a safe place to put it out ha. i always thought they were remnants from old airplane plans that were too much effort to update to remove them. thanks for that
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by gofreddygo 5mo ago
yes, the tone feels personal, and I feel happy for the author for expressing it on a platform that is desgned for it. He is clear in pointing out the hard earned lessons we have learned before and how the current actions are essentially und
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by gofreddygo 5mo ago
I just use the built-in capabilities these days as everything that I would need is in there. This was not true many years ago when I did use some browser extensions.
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by gofreddygo 5mo ago
I agree with the criticism of tailwind. IMO any good criticism warrants at least an opinion on what should be done instead or some corrective or remedial patterns. there is a reason why tailwind got as popular as it is today. And it only hi
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by gofreddygo 5mo ago
I love, love, looove the fact that I can have a book's html version on project gutenberg bookmarked and continue to read across devices without ever having to login. I use the browser's inbuilt capability extensively to enhance my
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by gofreddygo 5mo ago
Long live Goodhart!
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by gofreddygo 5mo ago
there are 31 emdashes in that piece. the domain ends with _ai_

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