jmbwell

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by jmbwell 5mo ago
Indeed. Understand the principles, you can work with just about any tool
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by jmbwell 5mo ago
I’ve been finding it difficult to hand things over to an LLM completely, and I wonder if this is part of it. I’ll let it help me organize at the beginning, and then I’ll have it come through and refactor or review, but the crafting part is
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by jmbwell 5mo ago
The language of drama and import without meaningful substance. Words statistically likely to be used in a segue, regardless of the preceding or subsequent point. Particularly effective when it seems like you’re getting let in on a secret. R
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by jmbwell 6mo ago
It does seem like an LLM’s ability to see a constraint and just say “I’ll write a quick helper to work around it” kinda wrecks some older-world assumptions. We know how to deal with remote human attackers, remote bot attackers, and to some
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by jmbwell 6mo ago
I understood it to mean, GitHub is being crushed by LLM/AI/Agentic code review and submission, not GitHub’s code itself What I’m not seeing here but I am seeing with the Linux kernel is, most of the automatically submitted code is
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by jmbwell 6mo ago
These days, I’ll take Mad magazine
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by jmbwell 6mo ago
I struggle not to have a cynical take these days. Of course he cared about the ROI. The ROI is access to an underserved market, a halo effect, a new community of adherents, a new reason for customers to cross the moat into the ecosystem… a
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by jmbwell 6mo ago
“Brand” and “branding” is arguably the most important thing -not- mentioned in the article. The commercial incentives to differentiate are powerful enough to kick a lot of UX out of the way. Now that all we do is “experience” a “journey,” i
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by jmbwell 6mo ago
macOS is slightly more consistent among apps that use system controls, but the more custom the app, or the more React Native or Electron it is, the less predictable it is Infuriatingly, some apps try to be smart — only one line, return subm
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by jmbwell 7mo ago
I get it. I also know customer service is a pretty low paying job for something that involves being yelled at all day I get as frustrated as anyone, but it’s not the fault of the person whose job it is to take my call. I remember once on th
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by jmbwell 7mo ago
Yes, and this has been the case for years. Cnet, ZDnet, PCmag have been user-hostile since long before AI summaries. Pop-ups, “before you go,” back jacking, all the worst. The Verge is a surprise because it is relatively new and was relativ
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by jmbwell 7mo ago
This. The truth is still putting on its shoes and all that
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by jmbwell 7mo ago
I note that Ken Fisher did post an editor’s note, Benj did publicly own up to it, and all of this was mentioned in the article.
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by jmbwell 7mo ago
In writing code, as in writing poetry, the mechanical labor is 5% writing, 45% editing, and 50% reading. But the only thing that makes it yours is you.
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by jmbwell 8mo ago
Color schemes voluntarily added by the user to an app like vim, great. All the more reason for developers to keep the app itself responsive to the user’s environment by default. Don’t bake in elaborate visual choices. It’s a usability thing
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by jmbwell 8mo ago
I think fantastical isn’t totally inaccurate, and I’m not being snarky (for once). The personal observations and sometimes colorful language has been something I like about Ars. Benj in particular, with his warm tributes to BBSes. Or Jim Sa
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by jmbwell 1y ago
And then a handful of companies can offer a service to let advertisers punch through the plugins. And then another plugin could block that! Thing is you’re probably right. The modern web is made of middlemen inserting themselves into user e
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by jmbwell 1y ago
I think targeting web sites was the right move because it was the web sites who were doing all the tracking. Of course now we also have browsers to worry about as well, being products of the same ad companies that were clogging up the web s
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by jmbwell 1y ago
I tried the same questions with my own account. I was surprised at how much it was able to synthesize that wasn't completely off-base. With these sample questions, there wasn't much to learn, and it gave me relatively thoughtful-s
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by jmbwell 1y ago
- Meds are just one of the tools available, just one part of a holistic approach that includes other accommodations, practices, and support from the people around you - Not everyone experiences these things in the same way - Your goals are
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by jmbwell 1y ago
I definitely owe this guy a beer or coffee and hope to have a chance to make good on it.
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by jmbwell 1y ago
My daily driver on macOS now for almost a year. Very happy with it.
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by jmbwell 1y ago
Used to be, with a scope, you could watch it working
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by jmbwell 1y ago
It’s about the change from endeavoring to produce a product people want regardless of profit, to making profit regardless of what people want.
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by jmbwell 1y ago
Anyone interested in better understanding a complex system can benefit from a qualified professional’s collaboration, often and especially when an outside perspective can help find different approaches than what appear to be available from
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by jmbwell 1y ago
Any field has hacks. Telling someone what they want to hear and helping get someone where they want to be are different things. Quality professionals help people reach their goals without judgment or presumption. That goes for mental healt
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by jmbwell 1y ago
The point I was waiting for them to get to was saved for last: entails completion. Try to do something, you might or might not do it. “I’m going to try to persuade them to decide in my favor.” Try and do something, you expect to get i
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by jmbwell 1y ago
All of this, plus, writing the documentation before building the app. I remember a Dilbert cartoon making fun of this being about the time I started realizing Dilbert wasn’t as smart as I had thought. If you can’t write the documentation be
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by jmbwell 1y ago
I once had hotel staff show up right after I checked in saying they needed to check on my fridge. They spent a weird amount of time going over it. I hadn’t even looked at it, but it turned out to be one of these. Later I began to suspect th
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by jmbwell 1y ago
I’ve run through a bunch of ZXplore and it’s more fun than I expected. They have it hooked in to VS Code now. It’s weirdly modern. And you get to play on a real z machine. Recommendable summer/holiday tinkering project. It’s amazing ho

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