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by jongjong 1y ago
>> Personally, I feel like code that uses map and filter looks nicer than using a for loop This is definitely not a taste thing. They are both useful in different scenarios. For example if using async/await, you can use Promise.a
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by jongjong 1y ago
It's been a moving goalpost but I think the point where people will be forced to acknowledge it is when fully autonomous agents are outcompeting most humans in most areas. So long as half of people are employed or in business, these pe
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by jongjong 1y ago
This makes sense. I do feel like intelligence has hard limits. Maybe knowledge doesn't have limits but intelligence definitely feels like it has limits. If you consider IQ tests, a lot of it is about seeing a sequence and seeing all po
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by jongjong 1y ago
I can't remember the name of the algorithm we used. It wasn't doing gradient descent but it was a similar principle; basically adjust the weights up or down by some fixed amount proportional to their contribution to the error. It
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by jongjong 1y ago
This reminds me if my university days. For one of the assignments, we had to write our own ANN from scratch for handwriting recognition and we implemented a step activation function because that was easier than sigmoid; basically each layer
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by jongjong 1y ago
I really enjoy doing code reviews. I don't mind reading other people's code. If you do it enough, it becomes easier. Also it's good for your own coding style if you read other people's code as it helps you to normalize y
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by jongjong 1y ago
I really appreciate this kind of simple out-of-the-box thinking, leveraging innovation to reinvent basic primitives. This feels significant. I can already see some dystopian 'Dead Internet Theory' use cases for this but also could
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by jongjong 1y ago
Yes exactly. Also, we should stop pretending that the money supply is fixed and that everyone exists on the same monetary playing field. Arguments about efficient allocation are laughable when you consider that someone who is socially 6 ste
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by jongjong 1y ago
When I read about people dumping 2000 lines of code every few days, I'm extremely skeptical about the quality of this code. All the people I've met who worked at this rate were always going for naive solutions and their code was f
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by jongjong 1y ago
That makes sense. When Claude Code suggests a bad approach, I kind of shrug it off and suggest a different approach. I don't think of it like a negative because I basically go through a similar process of ideation before I implement a
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by jongjong 1y ago
How hypocritical of someone preaching the virtues of formal proofs to be using a single example to try to prove the 'for all' case... As if it's feasible for all systems, for all requirements, under all possible financial con
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by jongjong 1y ago
Insufficient context is definitely a major hurdle for LLMs when coding, but I think an even bigger hurdle is their inability to synthesize ideas and to resolve logical conflicts. They don't seem to have a 'cohesive worldview'
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by jongjong 1y ago
Where reality seems to be heading: Company hires a bunch of young MBAs from prestigious universities who don't know how to code; pay them large salaries to produce a massive pile of junk which doesn't work. Pay some engineer with
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by jongjong 1y ago
My issue with formal proofs for code is that it assumes that the code is static and requirements are fixed and won't change. This assumption doesn't hold up in the vast majority of projects. Surely LLMs can make this more practica
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by jongjong 1y ago
I sometimes get jealous of bad people. Bad people tend to surround themselves with other bad people. So when their 'close ones' die, they probably don't feel much grief... And they probably inherit more money because bad peop
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by jongjong 1y ago
Even inside a big corporation, even as an employee, it's hard to figure out who to talk to about various issues. So as an outsider, it feels impossible. For security reasons, corporations don't want staff talking directly with cus
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by jongjong 1y ago
I bet they have a team of people whose job is to keep employees in a kind of trance. Part of that would involve responding swiftly to employee concerns so that the employees maintain the illusion that the company cares and that it was just
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by jongjong 1y ago
Wow. Yes. Great comment. So glad to come across someone else who fully gets it. Components should 'communicate' with each other. If you start passing elaborate structures, this is getting into the realm of micromanagement, not &#x
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by jongjong 1y ago
Yes, this is what I meant. Because you want to listen to attribute changes. Anyway, I was saying it's a good thing. I've built entire complex apps where I pass everything via HTML element attributes; it has made me think about arc
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by jongjong 1y ago
It's awful when billionaire boomers say stuff like "The pie isn't shrinking, anyone can grow the pie." Meanwhile, on the ground, it feels like literal Hunger Games or Squid Game and young people have literally 0 self-est
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by jongjong 1y ago
The worst part of this demoralization caused by the struggle to find a job is that it demoralizes your colleagues whilst putting a lot of pressure on them to 'appear' extra hard-working. The tech industry has turned into some kind
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by jongjong 1y ago
My grandmother, who lived to 90, used to tell me "The only thing which really improved in my life is medicine." She would tell me that people were so happy and society was so safe when she was a child that her family used to sleep
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by jongjong 1y ago
Agreed, Web Components don't require any framework and you can achieve everything you can achieve with React (including reactivity via attributeChangedCallback), the learning curve for Web Components is actually much less steep than Re
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by jongjong 1y ago
I'm a decently fast thinker but a relatively slow learner. I'm good at synthesizing information. It's because I tend to naturally doubt/resist new information and I need to see some proof or utility value before I can fu
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by jongjong 1y ago
What? We're more comfortable? What planet do you people live on? People have never been more stressed and uncomfortable. People are literally fighting psychological warfare and vanishing opportunities. Psychologically, we have never be
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by jongjong 1y ago
I'm hereby announcing my candidacy for world leader. I'll be running on a populist platform of self-enrichment. My first executive order will be to give myself access to unlimited money. Then I will use the money to acquire and&#x
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by jongjong 1y ago
Boomers were raised in a high trust society, they think that the powers-that-be are fundamentally good. They don't see how easily it could be corrupted. Millennials see reality through the lens of 'Squid game' and 'Hunge
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by jongjong 1y ago
TBH I think the time it takes the agent to code is best spent thinking about the problem. This is where I see the real value of LLMs. They can free you up to think more about architecture and high level concepts. Fast decision-making is ter
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by jongjong 1y ago
My Leetcode ability is unpredictable. I either ace the test or I can't finish it in time. The only way to make outcomes predictable is practice, but I have too much agency and not enough time for that. Leetcode requires a very differen
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by jongjong 1y ago
I just made a very similar comment. Spot on. It's laughable to think that this trivial opportunity that literally any developer could pull off with a couple of thousand dollars is a one-in-a-million. North Korea probably has enough mon

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