jonahx

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by jonahx 3y ago
Appears to be something that will make my APIs better, presumably by load testing them. Unclear how AI helps here. I'd rather know what the product does and why it is better than scripting curl or something like that.
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by jonahx 3y ago
Piling on to #2, get rid of the fancy animations and fade ins. For a developer audience especially this is meaningless posturing that's impressing no one.
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by jonahx 3y ago
Exactly this. And it's not only about time: it's a hard skill to learn. Often, the simple solution won't occur to some engineers, no matter the time allotted.
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by jonahx 3y ago
> In my experience, it's always the junior who shouts "This could all be so much simpler!" Don't have time now to find links of Jonathan Blow, George Hotz, Casey Muratori, and many other decidedly non-junior programme
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by jonahx 3y ago
That rope article is great. I think my favorite part is the hand-drawn sketches from your notebook.
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by jonahx 3y ago
As far the library itself goes, the README is all you need to know. That's what's great. It does assume familiarity with testing in general (ie, how to design for unit testing, how to write clear tests, etc), but you'll need
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by jonahx 3y ago
If you're looking for a minimalist framework that can be learned in 10 minutes or so, I recommend "ospec". For me it was a delight compared with Jest. https://github.com/MithrilJS/ospec
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by jonahx 3y ago
You can get started quickly, yeah. You can also build some stuff. It might be useful, even. The article is about what it takes to really know a language. That's a bigger task. It takes months, if you work fast. That's how
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by jonahx 3y ago
> What does take tons of time however is figuring build systems, packaging, distribution, debugging, editor support, documentation, community, libraries, etc... Yes. https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/learning-a-langua
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by jonahx 3y ago
Just to be clear: your boss was a moron. Neither I nor Carmack nor the author of this article is arguing that “thinking doesn’t count”.
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by jonahx 3y ago
In that case I think you might be straw-manning the message of the article. It's about being honest with yourself about how your practices relate to your actual productivity versus your potential productivity. Of course at the end o
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by jonahx 3y ago
I think what you are saying is true, and experience this personally on an almost daily basis. I also think that it can be used as an excuse, during times when forcing yourself to work would lead to a better outcome.
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by jonahx 3y ago
Your perspective isn't mutually exclusive with the one in the article. I take the article, and the Carmack stories, as an argument to be scrupulously honest with yourself about when you're fucking around. If you do your best thin
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by jonahx 3y ago
This is uncharitable to the point of seeming like a deliberate misread. The bathroom anecdote is just a memorable illustration of Carmack's mindset: only work counts as work. Neither Carmack nor the author thinks you should avoid the
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by jonahx 3y ago
I assumed it was a play on "value town"? I'll add a +1 to praising your (sadly rare) ability to actually explain what your product does on your product's landing page. I got it instantly from your tagline "If GitHu
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by jonahx 3y ago
Possible -- depends on the rules of the specific challenge. Most of the time it's edits, deletes, or some combination. Sometimes the score depends on how many edits your code can withstand.
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by jonahx 3y ago
https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/radiatio...
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by jonahx 3y ago
What you're describing just isn't what this game called "radiation hardening" is. It would be a different, also interesting game. But "radiation hardening" challenges are common in code golf, and always (from
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by jonahx 3y ago
As a native English speaker, I consider all of these just barely outside the range of common. "adoration", "amorous", and "put on airs", especially -- I'd be very surprised if a college-educated, native sp
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by jonahx 3y ago
Yeah it would be nice if there were a more specific word, but I think this still qualifies as a straw-man. It misrepresents the argument as a whole by acting as if refuting the "your kid" example refutes it completely.
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by jonahx 3y ago
This looks like a case "straw manning" the original argument. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man
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by jonahx 3y ago
Indeed, it will be a total cluster. From a pure engineering perspective, it is obviously the wrong solution, and your initial suggestion is the right one. Yet.... I strongly predict that the forces of market demand and human behavior will p
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by jonahx 3y ago
> e.g. as a human admit, review answer -> notice it's bad -> click citation -> locate incorrect part -> change it. I understand why you want the flow to work this way (single source of truth, fix things at the root, simp
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by jonahx 3y ago
I've wanted a product like this since I first encountered chatGPT. How do you handle curation? Meaning... if the model picks up some out of date info or misinterprets it, and a human admin notices that and wants to mark something as o
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by jonahx 3y ago
I've always thought the layouts and conventions of Drakon are simple and clean, and a legitimate improvement on most other systems. But I would prefer to use them as Graphviz renderer, or via another textual interface, than via a cus
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by jonahx 3y ago
Short answer: for all practical purposes, yes, it can and it does. For each specific example, there is no way to tell for sure (afaik) if the example was in the training set. But you can easily run some experiments yourself, inventing you
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by jonahx 3y ago
The difference is GPT4. Unfortunately these were run on 3.5. I asked GPT4 the question verbatim, just one time, and like the grandparent got: "Every night Linda reads short books about space."
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by jonahx 3y ago
> and didn't instruct the grad student to pay $20 to use GPT-4 An inexcusable oversight... more so on the grad student than Knuth. For example, Knuth's complaint about the question "What is an optimystic?": > Answ
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by jonahx 3y ago
> I wish Zig had Go-like interfaces. I understand why they don't as they have decided control flow must be explicit How do Go-like interfaces make control flow non-explicit?
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by jonahx 3y ago
A FRACTRAN interpreter in FRACTRAN, in 24 fractions: https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/246682/15469

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