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by jimbokun 6mo ago
I think PRs is pretty good, IF 1. you sample a few to see that they are actually meaningful, 2. they go to prod and are validated without having to roll back. Still needs to be managed. But it should be much easier for a manager to catch a
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
Maybe use it to run a small local LLM + Zed instead of just VS Code? (I’m probably off on how much memory it takes to run a small LLM, but still.)
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
Many people here are saying AIs work great with the REPL.
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
The Three Body Problem has the Wallfacer project, named after a form of Buddhist meditation.
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
It worked when he wanted a system for ranking Harvard girls by appearance.
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
I don’t know. I couldn’t get past the first paragraph because it seemed like complete slop.
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
Well Apple is in the consumer computing business.
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
But they don’t do this. They fight tooth and nail to keep the claims paid to doctors and hospitals low.
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
We have failed to design a universal app engine…except for the one that dwarfs every other kind of software development for every kind of device in the world.
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
The big AI companies are in deep trouble if the general public ever figures this out.
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
It’s the doctors. Insurance company profit margins are capped by law and if anything their incentives are to pay the hospitals less. US physician salaries are astronomical compared to anywhere else in the world.
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
The lack of people is too low because the organization tasked with accrediting new doctors has a financial incentive to its current members to keep the pool of doctors low.
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
In an article critiquing over-use of AI assistants, the author confesses at the end this article itself was authored partly by Claude that introduced errors in the citations, lol. Nonetheless, I come away from this article with the sense th
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
Yes but would an improved Facebook and Instagram bring in more revenue than the current shitty Facebook and Instagram?
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
The network effect is still there, they have billions of users who are on Facebook because friends and family are on Facebook.
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
We’re seeing multiple reports now of the number of PRs being closed increasing by 1.5x and that sounds about right.
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
What is a modern media company if not a targeted advertising company? The amount of subscription driven media today is relatively a very small part of the industry.
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
Well if they’ve learned that much it’s a good thing. The remaining piece is to speak with some personal references to verify they did some real work.
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
It seems like a compiler from Ruby to Objective C could support all the Ruby features while still being more performant than interpreted Ruby.
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
This subset of Ruby doesn’t either.
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
The benefit of meta programming was never having less code to write. It was having less code to read.
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
“Nobody ever got fired for buying… …IBM …Microsoft …AWS.”
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
This is critical to consider in this age of slop. It’s important first to consider the purpose of writing anything at all. Slop almost always fails this test.
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
What it has going for it is human interpretability. Anyone can look and decide if it’s a good picture or not. But the numeric benchmarks don’t tell you much if you aren’t already familiar with that benchmark and how it’s constructed.
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
Hitchhiker’s also had the superhumanly intelligent elevator that was unendingly bored.
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
The best possible outcome.
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
Well you need to live someplace and homes near the best jobs are the most expensive, all new cars and many used ones are expensive, and state universities can also be expensive these days.
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
But people used to join those kinds of clubs at much higher frequency. Sp it’s not impossible for that behavior to change.
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
All of those things predate Christianity. Well maybe not scholasticism.
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by jimbokun 6mo ago
The decline of religion is happening in lockstep with declines in happiness and mental health and increases in loneliness. Also you somehow skipped over the track record of the atheist regimes of the 20th century.

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