jnovek

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by jnovek 8mo ago
I started programming when I was eleven years old and I’m now in my 40s. I have no idea what to do with the rest of my life.
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by jnovek 8mo ago
Do you have management pressure to use these tools? I don’t have any data but me and virtually every software engineer I talk to regularly is feeling or has felt pressure to use these tools.
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by jnovek 8mo ago
I just did a test project using K2.5 on opencode and, for me, it doesn’t even come close to Claude Code. I was constantly having to wrangle the model to prevent it from spewing out 1000 lines at once and it couldn’t hold the architecture in
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by jnovek 8mo ago
I think that’s still anthropomorphization. The point I’m making is that these things aren’t “assumptions” as we characterize them, not from the model’s perspective. We use assumptions as an analogy but the analogy becomes leaky when we get
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by jnovek 8mo ago
You may be anthropomorphizing the model, here. Models don’t have “assumptions”; the problem is contrived and most likely there haven’t been many conversations on the internet about what to do when the car wash is really close to you (becaus
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by jnovek 9mo ago
I’m an American and my vision, fully corrected, is right at the legal borderline to get a license without restrictions. I’ve never “failed” a vision exam at the DMV; one time the clerk even said, “good enough”. (Don’t worry, I never drive,
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by jnovek 9mo ago
You are being very aggressive and confrontational in your comments and people are responding in kind.
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by jnovek 9mo ago
> The attitude itself is of course something has been designed and implemented into engineering culture by precisely the leaders you contend are scape goats to society. POSIWID. I don’t know if this particular statement is true or not, b
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by jnovek 10mo ago
It’s not even the American definition. We have many exceptions, particularly using speech to cause violence or physical harm in various ways. I’m also confused by American free speech absolutists because that’s not a thing here and essentia
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by jnovek 10mo ago
The phrase “its logical conclusion” is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. Why on earth would that absurdity be the logical conclusion? To me it looks like a very illogical conclusion.
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by jnovek 10mo ago
This is actually a real bother to me with digital — I can never get a digital photo to follow the same B&W sensitivity curve as I had with film so I can never digitally reproduce what I “saw” when I took the photo.
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by jnovek 10mo ago
I wish no one had taken over. The threat of TikTok is easy to understand right now. It’s going to be much more murky after this deal is complete.
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by jnovek 11mo ago
Why does it matter? The information in the post still accurately captures a sentiment held by many people.
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by jnovek 11mo ago
You are actually landed on the difference between “impairment” and “disability”! They’re often used interchangeably (along with “handicapped”), but they have specific meanings. https://med.emory.edu/departments/pediatri
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by jnovek 11mo ago
OK! Good luck, I hope you’re never disabled, you won’t enjoy it.
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by jnovek 11mo ago
My workout routine was prescribed by an MD who specializing in pain, specifically targeting my areas of pain. Then it was reinforced over eight weeks, four days per week, six hours per day by a team of two physical therapists and one occupa
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by jnovek 11mo ago
I’m one of those people who have a nonspecific disorder. I get plenty of exercise both aerobic and strength training. It helps with maybe 30% of my pain. People who play armchair doctor only make things worse for those of us who are actuall
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by jnovek 11mo ago
I couldn’t see the whole link on my phone but I knew it would be Moritz Klein.
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by jnovek 11mo ago
I guess I really don’t like this message because I am a disabled person. In the exercise that she describes where an instructor tells people to stand up from a position that they think they can’t stand up from, what if I actually can’t stan
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by jnovek 11mo ago
This was sort of my takeaway too. The OP got help from someone else and thought to herself “if only I’d tried harder I could’ve done this on my own”. That doesn’t seem like a healthy takeaway.
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by jnovek 1y ago
I love writing Ruby. It’s one of the most pleasant and elegant languages I’ve used… but the footguns it comes equipped with rival those of Perl.
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by jnovek 1y ago
I think my low-key long-term goal is to eventually fully eliminate the mouse while still enjoying the niceties of a modern GUI desktop.
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by jnovek 1y ago
Exactly the same! I was a student and couldn’t afford a very nice laptop so it was fluxbox + dillo for me.
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by jnovek 1y ago
> kinda soul crushing regurgitating the circumstances for chronic illness while hoping for a job I have to do this every time now because I have a resume gap. I don’t have to explain in detail, but even revisiting those three years for a
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by jnovek 1y ago
The kind of high-trust we need to get back (at least here in the states) is the kind between neighbors on the same block. Of course it’s never been wise to trust someone just because you’re both from Boston, but in the past neighbors genera
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by jnovek 1y ago
I wouldn’t describe it as the correct response, more like “the best one we can think of right now.” Living this way is that it’s really exhausting, saps quite a lot of joy out of life and makes people more lonely. It’s far from optimal and
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by jnovek 1y ago
Then I don’t know this “feeling”. To me it looks like the kind of professional writing I’ve been doing for the last 20 years. It’s bonkers that using good grammar and punctuation is now considered a bad thing on the internet.
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by jnovek 1y ago
Sorry, what are you talking about? Why is his post an “AI writing trope”?
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by jnovek 1y ago
“I’m sure there are some number of people out there who only use Facebook Messenger, do not check their email, refuse to use any other messenger” I don’t know how old you are or where you live, but I’m in my mid 40s and don’t live in a tech
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by jnovek 1y ago
I think this is quite a bit more complex when you’re talking about products that operate as common carriers. The historical social contract we have with these services is that we treat them as the digital commons. Clearly that has changed,

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