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by jonahx 1y ago
The issue is the means of enforcement requires taking away other rights they shouldn't be able to. What if I want to require (for anti-piracy reasons) that to use my software you must also give me complete access to your computer, all
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by jonahx 1y ago
I was using Coinbase as a placeholder -- I am not up on current market share status but most people I know in the US use Coinbase. The point stands. > so you can find someone in another country to convert you out through another currenc
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by jonahx 1y ago
In a sense, all of these coding practices -- whether restricting goto to loops and conditionals, which has broad acceptance these days, or avoiding else to "keep the happy left", or anything else in a coding style guide -- are jus
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by jonahx 1y ago
> he weirdest example I have ever had to deal with - a team had unilaterally decided that the 'else' keyword could never be used in code. Not weird at all: https://medium.com/@matryer/line-of-sight-in-code-
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by jonahx 1y ago
The link back to the real world is money in your bank account. While Coinbase is not the only market player who can provide that (put money in your bank in exchange for bitcoin), it's the biggest, and so there is (to a degree) de fact
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by jonahx 1y ago
Your claim is not supported by the paper: "Furthermore, employment declines are concentrated in occupations where AI is more likely to automate, rather than augment, human labor." No mention of rent-seeking. No evidence they are b
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Very interesting. Are there PLs that support this kind of thing at the language level as you are describing?
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by jonahx 1y ago
Congrats on your game of the year. I do agree it takes time for things to be fully absorbed into the culture, and the full impact of even the current state of AI has not been felt. But I stand by my claim that, basically, many many people
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by jonahx 1y ago
> Everyone who wants to. Yes, and that's a good thing. Though I'd argue the bar has been on a downward trajectory for decades, is now plummeting with AI, and still we don't see a huge influx of the newly enabled. At the m
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by jonahx 1y ago
> yes, let us enable EVERYONE to build little tools for themselves. It will enable more people, but "everyone" is never, ever going to happen. This is both because (1) many people don't want to do this, no matter how e
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by jonahx 1y ago
That makes sense. But wouldn't the "write quality software" and "test the software thoroughly" still be relevant to the individual pieces? If the chance of a catastrophic failure is the product of the failure rate
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by jonahx 1y ago
> Big-O isn't as relevant as it once was. Modern hardware includes mutithreading, piplining, numa, and complex caching. Some operations can take less than one CPU cycle and others can take hundreds, or exceptionally thousands of cyc
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by jonahx 1y ago
In Miami, there is very little enforcement and reckless driving flourishes. I used to regularly see cars doing 90, weaving, pass cops who did nothing. I've also talked to multiple cops who confirmed that they rarely enforce unless sp
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by jonahx 1y ago
> There may not be much reason to use __subclasshook__ in new code, but there's a pretty good reason it exists. That's quite a different claim, and makes a lot of sense. Thanks for the history!
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by jonahx 1y ago
> You better not find out about Protocols in Python then. The behavior you describe is exactly how duck typing / "structural subtyping" works. Your class will be an instance of Iterable if you implement the right methods h
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by jonahx 1y ago
There is no reason to think that code review will magically be spared by the AI onslaught while code writing falls, especially as devs themselves lean more on the AI and have less and less experience coding every day. There just hasn&
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by jonahx 1y ago
The tension arises because in some cases, at least for a while, the availability can be suppressed. Like when some expert releases an expensive ebook or video course "Secrets of X". Ofc many such books are scams, but assume for
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by jonahx 1y ago
Doesn’t training data pollution largely invalidate the usefulness of this benchmark?
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by jonahx 1y ago
I'd say it's a "know your audience" question. It can work well for more extroverted people that enjoy an opportunity to talk about themselves. But it's also low-effort and asks the other person to do all the conver
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by jonahx 1y ago
Yes it’s not always appropriate. It’s for friends.
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by jonahx 1y ago
More cynically, they don't believe it in the least but it's great marketing, and quietly suggests unbounded technical abilities.
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by jonahx 1y ago
> What else would you talk about? A shared memory, a common friend, perhaps one who's died, their opinion on a movie, a book you're sure they've read, some current event, a funny story they, specifically, might appreciate,
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by jonahx 1y ago
I'm of two minds here. I agree there is something petty and unwholesome in the fixations of cancel culture, and by and large they don't spring from a virtuous place. Otoh, it's more nuanced than just "did not affect the
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by jonahx 1y ago
> The message doesn't have any warnings on it like "oh I know it's been a while" or "you might not remember me". Yes. I do this too and wish more people would. The qualifications, the "what have you be
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by jonahx 1y ago
You could say that all words are abstractions, and therefore my statement is false because almost all teaching uses words... obviously this is not what I meant. Some interpretive generosity about where to draw the lines between what counts
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by jonahx 1y ago
I think we're talking about two different things. I'm talking about relationships you have with real people in your life. Avoiding large threats is evolutionarily more important than taking advantage of good opportunities. So if
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by jonahx 1y ago
An example would be helpful (ironically), but I think it's because you already have fluency in many abstract concepts (rooted in a lifetime of concrete application and examples), and in this situation the abstraction is usually much fa
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by jonahx 1y ago
I agree. Neither cancels the other. But also: they are not weighted the same. Bad things are usually "more important" -- both practically, and for evolutionary reasons. So the bias -- and I agree the bias has gone too far in ou
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by jonahx 1y ago
> Based on your experience, do you have any insight for whether, in the course of verbal/written instruction, it's better to start with concrete instances of a concept, and then give the abstract concept itself, or vice versa?
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by jonahx 1y ago
> Maybe much learning is an individual activity and learning in groups is just ineffective? Learning in groups is wildly ineffective from the perspective of gaining functional mastery over some subject (whether writing well, solving al

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