holden_nelson

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Engineering, Fast and Slow(undecidability.net)
2 points by holden_nelson 7mo ago|0 comments
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by holden_nelson 7mo ago
I also found it really unintuitive what needs to be made mutable. And still do to some degree. When I first had learned that rust had this concept of “opt-in” mutability, I thought that it must then be an accepted pattern that we make as li
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by holden_nelson 8mo ago
https://jimmyhmiller.com/ugliest-beautiful-codebase
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by holden_nelson 8mo ago
Can’t tell if the “it’s not X — it’s Y” as your first sentence is intentional irony or not lol
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You still have to think. But only when you want to(undecidability.net)
3 points by holden_nelson 8mo ago|1 comments
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by holden_nelson 8mo ago
I’m not particularly political and am also not a historian but I don’t think it’s necessarily correct to equate the literal text of the manifesto with the principles and practices of fascism. The message of universal suffrage vs. that of pr
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by holden_nelson 8mo ago
I’m not an AI evangelical, but I think it remains to be seen what the size of that subset is. Those that write crypto and hardware drivers are certainly a small subset of programmers. Most of us are pumping out enterprise crud and arguing w
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by holden_nelson 8mo ago
I’m also an Idaho native and you’re spot-on. It’s been sad to see our political zeitgeist rapidly diverge from anything remotely reasonable. I generally consider myself a YIMBY but I think you make a good point and I found it very uncharita
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by holden_nelson 10mo ago
Bryan, if I may ask, what was the purpose of this LinkedIn / blog post? Acknowledging that I don’t know you, and that I haven’t seen this private conversation, this post definitely reads like you just wanted to put a former colleague o
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by holden_nelson 11mo ago
Eh I definitely agree this archetype is real but I disagree that it’s the one that constitutes the average consumer. My dad is a carpenter and my mom is a nurse. My wife is a hairstylist. None are particularly tech savvy. All three use Chat
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by holden_nelson 11mo ago
> OpenAI is facing off against Google, Meta and Amazon, all of which have existing relationships with advertisers. I will point out that these companies have existing relationships with advertisers because they have massive, sticky userb
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by holden_nelson 11mo ago
I’m thoroughly impressed with how you handled the comments in this subthread. As someone who was on and off antidepressants for years, I can say confidently that for every one person spewing vitriol and judgement at you for your parenting d
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by holden_nelson 11mo ago
He learned it from being on Earth? And noticing that some people who used to be on Earth aren’t anymore? And it dawning on him that he doesn’t have to be either?
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by holden_nelson 1y ago
Highly recommended the Bending Spoons episode of The Pragmatic Engineer podcast. They address the layoffs head-on and talk about some of their other unconventional stuff like no on-call. https://pca.st/episode/11464df6-
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Meta lays off 600 from "bloated" AI unit(cnbc.com)
5 points by holden_nelson 1y ago|1 comments
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by holden_nelson 1y ago
if scientists are so curious, why do they have to eat??? checkmate atheists Less snarky: getting funding and making a living in academia, which is the most accessible way to be a scientist, has been cutthroat since long before this administ
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by holden_nelson 1y ago
I feel like if I'm being asked this in an interview, they're not asking me to use a constraint solver, they're asking me to _write_ a constraint solver. Just for a specific constraint problem, not a more general constraint so
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by holden_nelson 1y ago
This is the way. I’m learning Haskell right now like this kind of. I’m reading through a book, coding examples and exploring further as I go, and using an LLM to fill in the gaps / parse the esoteric compiler errors. It’s insanely effi
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by holden_nelson 1y ago
They’re saying that they can use linters to check the output from a reinforcement learning model and reward it for correct output.
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by holden_nelson 2y ago
When in human history has a reasonably educated person been able to do that calculation rapidly without a calculator (or tool to aid them)? I think it's reasonable to draw a distinction between "basic arithmetic" and "ca
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by holden_nelson 2y ago
This is true, but only in a car-centric city like those in the US. If we extend this hypothetical to include additional changes to our infrastructure such as: reclaiming lanes for wider sidewalks, bike lanes, and bus/taxi lanes, restri
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by holden_nelson 2y ago
My wife and I own a salon in Idaho, USA. You're welcome to reach out. Email in my profile.
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by holden_nelson 2y ago
One thing that stood out to me was that all of these relatively small-time "rich by Kansas standards" farmers lost a huge chunk of their wealth when one institution went insolvent. I was wondering, why didn't they diversify t
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by holden_nelson 2y ago
They said it was junior, to be fair: https://www.levels.fyi/t/software-engineer/levels/entry-leve...
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by holden_nelson 2y ago
This stat is disingenuous. 1. $2500 is one year of cable + streaming services required to watch every football game. If you don’t have cable it’s $1700. 2. $1700 is the cost to maintain all of those services year round; the regular season +
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by holden_nelson 2y ago
I was thinking of that scene in Lars and the Real Girl as I was reading the first part of your comment. Such a phenomenal movie.
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by holden_nelson 2y ago
> The inbox, though, is still at least a little bit sacred. > Email is still your own little corner of the internet. I love that the author can say something like this and then provide a guide for ruining the last sane piece of the in
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by holden_nelson 2y ago
These are all strange things to tweet publicly. I would expect all of these to be DMs. Unless he had somehow closed his DMs / forced their hand.
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by holden_nelson 2y ago
> You can’t detect it, you can’t measure it Eh, perhaps we can’t detect it perfectly reliably, but we can absolutely detect it. Go to a funeral and observe a widow in anguish. Just because we haven’t (yet) built a machine to detect or me
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by holden_nelson 2y ago
I went down the rabbit hole of this blog after reading this post. This person's blog is amazing. I particularly appreciated this piece: https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/quitting-my-job-for-the-way-...

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