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by jonahx 2y ago
I watched the full lecture, did an MFA in creative writing, was an English major at an ivy, and have seen countless well known authors speak and discuss literature. This dismissal of the lecture is ridiculous. It is of an extremely high a
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by jonahx 2y ago
Huh, nice observation. The suggestion implied by the question is false.
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by jonahx 2y ago
A nice quote by Plunkett from the interview: > There’s a cultural association between the time of exposure and the level of sophistication. You’d sound pretty vulgar if you said, Oh, yeah, I learned to play Bach when I was thirteen—that’
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by jonahx 2y ago
Thought about this a bit more... Not sure if this is what you're saying, but the concept of "space between" I alluded to seems to arise naturally whenever you have ordered items, and vice versa. Because once you have order y
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by jonahx 2y ago
I don't follow the distinction you're making. The number line is ordered and contains a 0.... The GP's explanation seems more fitting for the year 2000 ambiguity. Are you measuring completed years (celebrate millenium on NY
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by jonahx 2y ago
A possible interpretation.... Using the insight from the top comment that "it all depends on whether u're counting the items themselves (1-based) or the spaces btwn them," the American way of numbering floors is based on coun
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by jonahx 2y ago
> Seriously, it all depends on whether u're counting the items themselves (1-based) or the spaces btwn them I've never heard the distinction stated this way. It's clarifying.
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by jonahx 2y ago
> “To replace programmers with AI, clients will have to accurately describe what they want. We're safe.” I've had similar sentiments often and it gets to the heart of things. And it's true... for now. The caveat is that L
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by jonahx 2y ago
> What am I missing out on? 1. Non-technical colleagues. 2. Easy and real-time collaboration. 3. Slickness, mixing of multi-media, etc. This is related to 1. Not arguing against your preference, just answering the "why".
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by jonahx 2y ago
You are presuming a lot, and the proposed solution you are ridiculing does have possible advantages that you aren't taking account of. > So the office manager just need a minute passing by the kitchen to see what would have to be or
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by jonahx 2y ago
Batching.
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by jonahx 2y ago
Your proposal probably is an improvement (though there may be some reason it's not feasible in this case -- no closet in the kitchen, etc), but calling the original idea "very stupid" is quite the ungenerous overstatement.
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by jonahx 2y ago
Uiua ( https://www.uiua.org/ ), broadly in the APL lineage, solves this problem nicely. Like APL, it has a set of well-chosen symbols, but each symbol has an english name you can type just as you would a function name in anot
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by jonahx 2y ago
This is a great point. I think what you're really responding to is that it's a game without clear rules, and so part of the "game" is thinking about creative interpretations of the rules themselves and pushing the bound
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by jonahx 2y ago
Constructive criticism, but I checked out the docs hoping for an up-front explanation of interaction nets and how they can improve a PL, what kinds of problems they are uniquely good for, etc. Finding none, I read the interaction nets wiki
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by jonahx 2y ago
Literature professor = bike argument? That's were I put my money, but I could see it going either way. This can devolve into a definitional argument, but I actually think it's fair to say we don't understand how we ride a b
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by jonahx 2y ago
"the average persons hatred of autistic or nerdy people" This is a wildly inaccurate picture of the average person. I don't even think this is true of 10% of people.
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by jonahx 2y ago
Ah, that's definitely true. But that feels like an orthogonal concern to you being an existing dev working on legacy stuff vs greenfield stuff... unless the new boss likes the greenfield stuff for some reason. What you are talking ab
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by jonahx 2y ago
> The time always comes when a new leader and their lieutenants come into the org and prioritize new features over maintenance, at which point your moat is null and void and you’re on borrowed time. The "on borrowed time" is an
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by jonahx 2y ago
Worth noting the author's retraction of the figgie post mentioned, which he makes in the eulogy post: "Put that way, I was (and am) convinced that my original post was arguing against a strawman . I had never actually played the
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by jonahx 2y ago
Neon signs have more charm.
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by jonahx 2y ago
Saying this as a fan of the article who agreed with the whole thing... > and especially if they live in socially unsafe places like US, where if you lose your position it's not clear where you may finally end This is very unlikely t
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by jonahx 2y ago
It would be still be art but no, you wouldn't be taken seriously. To some extent succeeding at art is by definition succeeding in those circles, whether through politics, a chance patron or gallery owner fixating on you, raw unignorabl
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by jonahx 2y ago
Some guesses: 1. A low traffic urban park still has some traffic, and criminals want reasonable waiting times. You might wait all day on a hiking trail. 2. Escape routes. Harder to make a clean getaway on a trail. Often one way out, a si
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by jonahx 2y ago
My understanding is that this is not a settled issue, and there is dispute about the evidence, conflicting studies, and so on. Regardless, to the extent that it's true, it's imo likely more to do with the nature of crimes of passi
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by jonahx 2y ago
Agree and didn't mean to imply otherwise. A good book by an expert is still better than LLMs at providing high-level priorities, a roadmap for new territory, and an introduction to the way practitioners think about their subject (thoug
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by jonahx 2y ago
> Seems more efficient to have one reference book rather than generating entire new 20 chapter books for every person. The main advantage of LLMs is that you can ask specific questions about things that confuse you, which makes iterating
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by jonahx 2y ago
This feels like deliberate misdirection, because in most practical cases what people mean is "some memory management process that will slow my program down non-trivially". By this definition Rust does not have GC whereas Go, eg,
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by jonahx 2y ago
In contrast Law 229 of Hammurabi's Code: "If a house builder built a house for a man but did not secure/fortify his work so that the house he built collapsed and caused the death of the house owner, that house builder will be
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by jonahx 2y ago
Their video has a cultish vibe. Not necessarily of the dangerous variety, but there seemed to be a lot of shared jargon and groupthink under the umbrella of "freeing your mind."

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