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by j_w 4mo ago
In the section "Everyone should learn some coding": > I would say that the major unlocks are at: 1-2 weeks: Basic understanding of what the field is about and what general words to use when asking the AI to do something.
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by j_w 4mo ago
> However, one of the most repulsive ideas is that you can cripple everyone else, because some people have less. When did I say that I'm in any way pro crippling other students? I'm simply pointing out the socioeconomic reality
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by j_w 4mo ago
Middle class parents are wealthy compared to the average student of a "sucky" school. These schools are typically the in the poorest areas in the state/county.
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by j_w 4mo ago
Okay but if you care this much about school choice why not move to an area with better schools? That's a tool most people already have. And yes, most people who are complaining about "school choice" have this tool to some ext
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by j_w 4mo ago
Because the "sucky" schools are statistically where poor people go to school, which statistically is where minorities go to school. School choice is bad because the only people who benefit from school choice are already wealthy -
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by j_w 4mo ago
Would the compiler not allocate the memory contiguously on the heap in that case then? Seems like a reasonable thing to do.
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by j_w 5mo ago
Isn't an array of arrays by definition the sequential implementation? Otherwise you would have an array of pointers to arrays. The usage (syntax) for them would be the same but the performance would not be. They also have different use
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by j_w 5mo ago
Continuing with your skepticism: > Stories are circulating of companies surprised at how expensive their LLM bills are becoming from usage by their staff > Enterprise customers are now paying API prices How long before enterprise cust
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by j_w 5mo ago
I assume if they copy pasted the same question it could have been cached? It would seem wasteful for <llm_provider> to not cache responses to exact same questions with exact same context windows (fresh session). I'm just speculat
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by j_w 5mo ago
It's not typical but it's how you should personally act. You aren't going to be able to convince others to be upstanding coworkers that actually give a damn, but you can be that person yourself.
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by j_w 5mo ago
There is a line between "somebodies job to know" and you just being too lazy to look at the documentation/do basic research.
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by j_w 5mo ago
Obviously publishers provide some amount of value, but for a subset of the media I consume they are not great. In the more indie fantasy scene authors often pay for editing themselves out of pocket. Often the only "publisher" they
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by j_w 5mo ago
If I didn't have a resource like AA I would likely read less and in the end spend less on books. When people around me ask about how to "get into reading" I tell them to just find stuff they like online (via AA) or at the lib
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by j_w 5mo ago
I use AA and buy books. Typically I may start a series on AA epubs then buy the books. Sometimes authors take money directly (patreon, straight donations, etc) which is how I would rather pay them than pay the publisher for them to only get
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by j_w 5mo ago
The easiest thing for people to do if they aren't confident about their level of stress (moderate vs vigorous vs maximal) is to wear a smart watch with a HR monitor. They aren't perfect (chest straps better yada yada) but you can
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by j_w 5mo ago
HIIT is far beyond vigorous. Vigorous would be Z2/3 cardio, so like 120-160 BPM for most adults. Moderate would be Z1 90-120. Once you are capable of doing cardio consistently in Z4/5 with HIIT and tempo training you really don&#x
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by j_w 5mo ago
This comment is so absurd I'm struggling to reply. A car takes you to an "uncommon place in the woods?" Taking a plane is a "common edit?" For the majority of people a car would be the "common" usage and a
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by j_w 5mo ago
Why can you not run specific tests from neovim? If you really wanted to you could add some trigger on save for a file that would re-run tests for said file. Maybe a plugin or key bind could run a specific test which you choose in buffer.
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by j_w 5mo ago
Horrible analogy. You can't "get to more places" with an airplane. An airplane can only go to very limited number of locations compared to a car.
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by j_w 5mo ago
> it's the "bad" chocolate you buy for cooking? This is crazy to me because I would never use Hershey's for cooking. Hershey's is the childhood candy. Enjoyable for nostalgia only, while also being fairly cheap c
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by j_w 5mo ago
But that is part of the point of the argument which the author is shadowboxing against. If LLM sellers are shovel sellers, does that not make you suspicious when they are the ones telling you that there is gold in the hills?
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by j_w 5mo ago
The blog post is weird. It feels like shadowboxing. "Where are the vibecoded X app replacements?" questions aren't asking that question, they are making the argument that the author is. Software is immensely complicated and &
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by j_w 5mo ago
I assume this quote in particular? > Typescript, Visual Studio Code, GitHub, npm, and so much more exist primarily because Microsoft executives believe this will lead to more business for Azure and other Microsoft offerings. I don't
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by j_w 5mo ago
Can you source this? I couldn't find anything from the author like this.
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by j_w 5mo ago
It's a balancing act. Some portion of computer science education needs to be practical (implementation details), while some portion needs to be pure computer science (pseudo code). Obviously projects are a good way to measure implement
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by j_w 5mo ago
You don't need programming languages to DESCRIBE computer science but to implement it you need some programming language. Quite literally an "implementation detail."
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by j_w 5mo ago
Rethink it in written language: > Surely you don't think that the details of a particular written language's syntax are an appropriate criteria for grading an exam? Computer science is the science of computing. Programming lang
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by j_w 5mo ago
Even a large AAA game should be able to be cloned to a machine. You don't need to clone history, just use --depth to specify the number of commits you want. Obviously a 20 year git repo with all commits is going to be massive, but you
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by j_w 5mo ago
> might be the one that causes customers to reject the offering This is a valid why for a feature though. Clients want it. Now, the concern here is do the clients want it, or does sales/product THINK the client wants it?
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by j_w 5mo ago
This is why the first thing you should do as a dev when somebody tells you that they want Y feature is to ask why. Non-developers have no clue WHAT they want, then know WHY they want it. The why is much more important to know, because the r

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