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by jihadjihad 6mo ago
The site causes cancer but the conclusion of TFA is sensible: just get a Kobo and be done with it. I had a Kindle for years but there's no reason to stick to Amazon for e-readers anymore.
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by jihadjihad 6mo ago
> You did not write a single line of SQL. You did not set up an attribution model. You asked a question, in English, and got a table. But nobody bothered to check if it was correct. It might seem correct, but I've been burned by q
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by jihadjihad 6mo ago
Agreed. Don't forget the "Can't send emails farther than 500 miles" one, too [0]: 0: https://web.mit.edu/jemorris/humor/500-miles
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by jihadjihad 6mo ago
> Truly a hidden gem Where the gems are in plain sight!
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by jihadjihad 6mo ago
Another one to see in Madrid is the much earlier but similarly arresting painting by Francisco Goya, The Third of May 1808 [0]. 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Third_of_May_1808
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by jihadjihad 6mo ago
Picasso was an artistic prodigy from an early age, and was talented at painting in the styles of the day like realism etc. The reason why he is influential and not forgotten is that he took painting in an entirely new direction and was able
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by jihadjihad 6mo ago
I can’t figure out which is worse, a girlfriend’s husband’s dad, or a husband’s girlfriend’s dad.
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by jihadjihad 7mo ago
OT, but as a kid I remember being perpetually confused whenever "least common multiple" or "least common denominator" came up in math class. I always parsed them as "least common", so "rarest", which
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by jihadjihad 7mo ago
It's a slap in the face that we tack engineering onto it. A very small percentage of software engineering is as rigorous as actual engineering.
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by jihadjihad 7mo ago
s/Django/the codebase/g , and the point stands against any repo for which there is code review by humans: > If you do not understand the ticket, if you do not understand the solution, or if you do not understand the feedb
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by jihadjihad 7mo ago
para- has a variety of meanings [0] depending on which word it’s used to form. Parasocial itself means “one-sided” in a relationship [1]. 0: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/para-#English 1: https://en.wik
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by jihadjihad 7mo ago
> Perhaps not the worst thing in the world? Definitely not. “Terminally online” is as deleterious as it sounds.
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by jihadjihad 7mo ago
Shame is a powerful social tool, but sadly some are simply immune.
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by jihadjihad 7mo ago
> Blackwater, of the Nisour Square Massacre infamy in the GW Bush administration And sadly the infamy continued into the prior Trump administration. In 2020 Trump pardoned all four employees who had been convicted in 2014.
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by jihadjihad 7mo ago
Surely.
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A Primer on Bézier Curves(pomax.github.io)
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by jihadjihad 7mo ago
How dare you besmirch Sun’s good name for no reason.
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by jihadjihad 7mo ago
> But when you start comparing it to the surrounding code, there's a pretty big lack of coherency and it'll happily march down a very bad architectural path. I had an idea earlier this week about this, but haven’t had a chance
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by jihadjihad 7mo ago
Yeah, Occam's Razor and all that. The current admin has proven itself to be poor players of games like checkers, let alone 5D chess.
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by jihadjihad 7mo ago
A 2026 AI Engineer is a 1996 Software Architect. I don't need to be the one manually implementing the individual widgets of a system, I can delegate their implementation to developers (agents). I'm being a little facetious, but I
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by jihadjihad 7mo ago
Because they are practicing the reverse scientific method. They hold a conclusion in their hand, like, man-made climate change is a hoax , and seek to find any threads of "evidence" that support their foregone conclusion.
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by jihadjihad 7mo ago
A Persian lime is a cross between a Key lime and a lemon? I never would have guessed that, that's really interesting.
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by jihadjihad 7mo ago
Username checks out?
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by jihadjihad 7mo ago
> Palantir’s move is just one of the ways biohacking has taken the Silicon Valley tech space by storm. It's not a new phenomenon, either. I remember biohacking being mentioned in the late aughts, if not earlier, and it's refere
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by jihadjihad 7mo ago
"How do you do, fellow coworkers ?"
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by jihadjihad 7mo ago
TFA is a stub that points to a longer-form article here: https://archive.ph/1Mg8f
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by jihadjihad 7mo ago
I just don't think the WSJ could resist putting "Florida man" in the standfirst of TFA.
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by jihadjihad 7mo ago
Among many other possible examples, here are a few [0] from Ruby that I've seen in the wild before LLMs, and still see today spat out by LLMs. 0: https://www.codewithjason.com/examples-pointless-rspec-tests...
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by jihadjihad 7mo ago
Agreed, and that's why I think adding some example prompts and ideas to the Testing section would be helpful. A vanilla-prompted LLM, in my experience, is very unreliable at adding tests that fail when the changes are reverted. Many ti
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by jihadjihad 7mo ago
I wish there was a little more color in the Testing and QA section. While I agree with this: > A comprehensive test suite is by far the most effective way to keep those features working. there is no mention at all about LLMs'

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