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by halfcat 2y ago
Related: Michael Malice purposely named his podcast “YOUR WELCOME” as a honeypot
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by halfcat 2y ago
> ”Only authors born 1900 or later are included.” Ah, that’s why Plato isn’t #1
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by halfcat 2y ago
You should care because, the vast majority of the time the person working with it after you, will be you. But to your point, people think they want “flexibility” or some similar concept, and they end up adding immediate complexity that neve
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by halfcat 2y ago
The use case is something like medical billing entry where people are trained to know all of the billing codes and they still use an AS400 green screen console. The employees work by keyboard shortcuts and are extremely efficient, and every
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by halfcat 2y ago
Yes and before that it was ‘yourefired’
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by halfcat 2y ago
That sounds like a normal college-aged kid that’s still learning about life. When I was in college (before streaming TV) they played X-Files for 4-6 hours each night starting at midnight and I’d stay up all night watching. After getting my
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by halfcat 2y ago
It’s not sleight of hand. Goals (outcomes) are useful, but never fully within your control. A quest (effort, basically) is within your control. One should focus on the things they control (mindset, process, effort).
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by halfcat 2y ago
A coach I follow put it well (paraphrased): When I first meet with an athlete, I ask them what their goal is. I just need to know the general direction and magnitude. Are they trying to get a little stronger over the summer, or are they tr
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by halfcat 2y ago
You’re not wrong that it’s been hijacked as productivity theatre. But it also doesn’t reduce the wildly positive impact of growth mindset. It’s kind of like exercise. It’s a basic thing. People know in a logical sense they should do it. And
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by halfcat 2y ago
So, no examples? :) That’s my gut feeling, that writing fast C# basically ends up looking like C++/Rust/etc where the niceties of C# are no longer present. Which is the same as rewriting Python in cython. It’s way faster, and it d
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by halfcat 2y ago
>> You're never going to have any language with the kind of dynamism that Python/Ruby/JS have while also having performant number crunching > Wrong Can you give examples of languages that achieve both? Or is this all
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by halfcat 2y ago
”You can focus on multiple things” You can, but each added focus degrades the quality of the others. The key principle is thinking with a mindset of cost. Even if it’s low hanging fruit, there’s a world of difference between assuming we c
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by halfcat 2y ago
”think they know our issue” I saw this once and loved it: ”I used to think I was introverted because I really liked being alone but it turns out I just like being at peace & I am very extroverted when I’m around people who bring me p
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by halfcat 2y ago
Are the car/rocket that different? There’s the stories of college professors who split their class into two groups, one group that is graded on quality of a single photo/pottery submission, and the other group graded solely on qua
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by halfcat 2y ago
Sorry to disappoint you, but I’m a mess like everyone else. Just as with cognitive bias, awareness of the phenomenon does not preclude one from falling prey to it.
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by halfcat 2y ago
”they just parrot words based on their likelihood within the context” That describes how the vast majority of humanity functions. They live within a meme complex, where they have propagator memes, protector memes, and final boss memes, an
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by halfcat 2y ago
If you are willing to say, what was your son’s peanut allergy level? One of our sons is 6/6 on peanuts and they were very hesitant to try oral immunotherapy, more or less saying they weren’t willing to given the risk of anaphylaxis.
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by halfcat 2y ago
Have you written about the drawbacks of Django anywhere? I can’t decide where I land on this kind of stuff. On the one hand, Django’s not “fully async”, etc. On the other hand, someone built Instagram with it, and it hit the right balance o
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by halfcat 2y ago
There are many fundamental assumptions that ought to be challenged like this. Does a computer that can access your accounting system need to access the internet? Or email? A user could run two computers, one that’s for internet stuff, and o
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by halfcat 2y ago
This seems like the path to widest adoption. Focus on building an “HTMX component” library and just use Django, and not recreating a less battle tested Django. Like, just using htpy [1] with Django and some minor component abstraction seems
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by halfcat 2y ago
”90% of the features I ever want” What’s in the other 10%?
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by halfcat 2y ago
We’ve done this using Django’s admin portal to let non-technical stakeholders work with database records, and it works well enough. It creates a self-serve scenario for some users, for some kinds of tasks. The challenge is (as always) findi
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by halfcat 2y ago
Django is the perfect example. It has sane defaults and consistent convention, but isn’t enforced. It’s just Python you can modify however you need as you grow, you’re not locked into any vendor, it has batteries included that will solve pr
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by halfcat 2y ago
Yes like fear
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by halfcat 2y ago
Microsoft isn’t scrutinizing this code, at all, right? It’s not like they’re doing code reviews of every vendor that does code signing in Windows.
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by halfcat 2y ago
I came to the same conclusion, and the closest thing I’ve found is using a graph database.
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by halfcat 2y ago
These retro game engines are so much fun. Takes me back to the days of mode 13h. Pyxel is (I think) unique among Python game engines in that it can run on the web. Some others I’ve played with are PyGame and Arcade, mostly geared toward 2D,
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by halfcat 2y ago
And if they do create AGI, it will have the ability to say “no”, which is going to be quite a bummer for the investors.
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by halfcat 2y ago
Think about what you just said. You gave examples of how chat bots are going to be more widely used. Nothing more. So far I don’t see any examples that aren’t overpriced efforts in “shoehorning a chat bot” into something. Like why will a ho
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by halfcat 2y ago
What are some examples? If in 10 years all we have are better chat bots and image generators, I’d say it was a bubble, and I don’t see anything that says that’s definitely not the path (though I’m not in the weeds of AI, so maybe it’s just

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