jimbokun

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by jimbokun 3mo ago
For me the agonizing part are all the arbitrary things you have to memorize or lookup, that do not follow from the flow of the code or the principles on which the system is built. Struggling to find the right keywords to find which particu
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by jimbokun 3mo ago
Never? Never some intractable bug, that didn't seem to have any relation to the source code you're reading?
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by jimbokun 3mo ago
> Your goals are set by others; information and resources are provided by others. The programmer rarely controls his working conditions, sometimes not even his objectives. In management terms, "one's authority is not commensura
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by jimbokun 3mo ago
It smacks of “Hitler also loved…(some innocuous thing).”
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by jimbokun 3mo ago
Don’t let the haters win.
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by jimbokun 3mo ago
Reminds me how the original Mac Finder took spatial memory very seriously. Wherever you moved something on the desktop or within a particular folder, it stayed there. That’s definitely a design principle that’s been long since lost.
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by jimbokun 3mo ago
No, product managers do not get to claim they made something. They led a team that made something.
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by jimbokun 3mo ago
Just like those Southern plantation owners were so proud of all the things they “made” with slave labor.
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by jimbokun 3mo ago
Seems like the flow should be: 1. All passwords stored in password manager. 2. Login with password manager when logging in for the first time on a device. 3. Combination of OS and site/app notice that no passkey has been created for t
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by jimbokun 3mo ago
How does Google know what subscriptions you have?
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by jimbokun 3mo ago
Most people think of the loss of Steve Jobs passing in terms of Apple product design. However the loss of his talent for business negotiations was at least as great a loss for Apple. He negotiated deals to get almost the entire recording i
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by jimbokun 3mo ago
This really resonates with me. So many tasks given to LLMs can be performed more reliably and efficiently with deterministic code. In those cases the LLM can help you write the code. But doesn’t need to be invoked every time the task execu
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by jimbokun 3mo ago
And out current administration was too dumb to understand Venezuela and Iran are not the same country.
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by jimbokun 3mo ago
Decline in marriage rates is very true in real life.
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by jimbokun 3mo ago
> Men who keep pace culturally can get away with falling behind economically, and, to a lesser degree, vice versa. Do you have a citation for this? A lot of studies find evidence of the need for men to have a suitable income to be marria
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by jimbokun 3mo ago
Yes but the article also cites that the average age for home ownership has gone way up, houses cost far more relative to median income than before, rent is more expensive, and cultural changes requiring two income families and paid childcar
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by jimbokun 3mo ago
Java and Javascript run times do really well at that.
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by jimbokun 3mo ago
First time I’ve seen that equation. I love it.
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by jimbokun 3mo ago
50% of light speed would be fucking awesome.
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by jimbokun 3mo ago
Could you expand on what “space time metric engineering” is?
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by jimbokun 3mo ago
I want to know what future technologies could accelerate an object to a significant fraction of the speed of light. What kinds of scientific breakthroughs would be required? Could those breakthroughs be achieved in the next 2 or 3 centurie
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by jimbokun 3mo ago
48 light years is in our back yard. Close enough that we could probably develop a probe to get there in the next few centuries and check it out. What are the current popular candidates for propulsion systems capable of accelerating to near
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by jimbokun 3mo ago
This is a strong argument to either self host or work really hard to be cloud agnostic.
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by jimbokun 3mo ago
Maybe. Depends if they hate Apple or OpenAI more.
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by jimbokun 3mo ago
This is a staggeringly banal comment.
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by jimbokun 3mo ago
Claude Code.
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by jimbokun 3mo ago
That just isn’t true. AI is capable of performing a lot of grunt work reliably. Still must be reviewed. But a big productivity gain over doing everything yourself.
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by jimbokun 3mo ago
AI has profound weaknesses, but is still extremely useful.
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by jimbokun 3mo ago
No Mark Twain?
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by jimbokun 3mo ago
I was replying to the claim he only won because of the electoral college. True for his first term, false for his second.

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