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by lanstin 5mo ago
And doing incremental dev, so once a feature is done you can mostly ignore it.
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by lanstin 5mo ago
Been there, done that :)
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by lanstin 5mo ago
So the thing to analogize is that DHS is acting like a junior high school gang, enforcing ever shifting rules and norms capriciously for the fun of bullying to score points with the onlookers. The bullied folks are not analogous to pick poc
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by lanstin 5mo ago
In this case the people brought up in the United States are sacrificing the well fare of their own children to preserve their own fears. I think that is wrong. I want to keep the US a destination for hard work and smarts and striking out on
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by lanstin 5mo ago
People coming to live in your area, not your personal home, to work hard for opportunities, are in no material way like pick pockets. Your analogy is so extreme I am tempted to assume you argue in bad faith. The economic success of the Unit
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by lanstin 5mo ago
I run Claude code inside an emacs vterm for moderately long lived work streams, and an ever shifting set of tmuxes for quick small features or bug fixes. The way I ensure I read the code at least a bit is the same as for wholly hand written
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by lanstin 5mo ago
Static initializers in C++ - sometime ago I saw savings of some 400 ms (?) startup cost of initializing static strings from constants by moving it to some compile time thing.
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by lanstin 5mo ago
And then your own custom allocator that would be fitted for your algorithms and vastly faster than malloc.
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by lanstin 5mo ago
That's true for product development, but it's not true for mathy libraries. Perfect is achievable. For a released software that humans will decide to use or not, rapid iteration is great. But also: https://randomasci
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by lanstin 5mo ago
You need a server push "reconnect here" in your protocol. Makes maintenance of all sorts a much easier deal.
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by lanstin 5mo ago
"We do not trust because we have to or because we have a guarantee, we trust because we choose to, knowing the alternatives might be safer but would rule out things we long for: connection, community, vulnerability, and magic."
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by lanstin 5mo ago
I guess we can see how subtle a skill good messaging is - one can so easily come across as a moralistic busy body if one doesn't listen and connect before trying to persuade. The suggestion wasn't overt, it was kind of implicity -
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by lanstin 5mo ago
Also, pure rationality is sort of an empty idea - without goals or preferences, it's not really possible to reason your way into deciding an action - just understanding the various likely consequencies of various courses of action. Wit
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by lanstin 5mo ago
One certainly doesn't smoke imagining it's for the benefit of others - if anything it's the selfishness of now against the benefit of future me.
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by lanstin 5mo ago
This theory maps very well onto (at least some parts of) modern neuroscience; how emotions are made is taking this model, that the brains MO is predicting how the body will need to be tuned in the near future, as a way to explain how emotio
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by lanstin 5mo ago
I doubt your conclusion that unified action needs unified mentation. One may take unified action without achieving unity of the contents of the brain. Acting with instantaneous regret if you will, flying by the seat of your pants, etc. The
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by lanstin 5mo ago
Certainty would definitely appear to be premature when we don’t understand the physical characteristics or causes of consciousness. Hell, we don’t quite yet understand a cell in good mechanical detail, much less the full body/mind of a
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by lanstin 5mo ago
That sweet sweet nicotine.
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by lanstin 5mo ago
It's sort of an open question how LLM authored code will stand up over the years/decades. It's a lot of code, but maybe the capabilities for reading lots of code will also improve, or maybe the way human shops can snarl up in
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by lanstin 5mo ago
Groups formed of people with similar life experiences have a greater tendency to fall into group-think that misses out on both giant errors and giant opportunities compared to more varied groups. And all people aren't the same, you wan
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by lanstin 5mo ago
Are you saying that auto labor unions can't go into other places and organize the people there for higher salaries and less wretched conditions? Or that organizing doesn't increase the power of the hard working people? Economic fa
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by lanstin 5mo ago
This problem is not a software engineering problem nor an AI problem but a problem of the balance of power between working hard vs. investing. If the people who believe in working hard organize and slow down the tendency to rig everything
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by lanstin 5mo ago
I find “locality of scope” to be extremely significant fact about a variable, and so I like seeing signs of it at one glance. The . as well for everything tied in a class and the go convention of shorter names for function locals also suppo
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by lanstin 5mo ago
Fathers in the US can go out in public doing the absolute minimal amount of parenting work with a kid and bask in the warmth of approval from all observers.
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by lanstin 5mo ago
Even bad mothering takes a tremendous amount of work and selflessness. It is worth recognition prima facie.
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by lanstin 5mo ago
I was a stay at home dad for a number of years and my observation is that kids never get over a bad relationship with their mother (also informed by knowing a number of adults with mothers that weren’t that good for them); any one can benef
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by lanstin 5mo ago
I like it because I have more control over the size and layout of my memory structures than many GC languages, and the goroutine/channel data flow design model lets me use all the cores pretty evenly without having to worry about mutex
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by lanstin 5mo ago
Upper case symbols in a module are exported. Everything else should be lower case.
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by lanstin 5mo ago
I find I have to design servers from a data flow view; when my performance demands let me do everything via channels to worker goroutine pools (including sending a response Channel back to the request handler) I don’t have to do any locking
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by lanstin 5mo ago
Nilaway linter FTW here.

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