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by lovecg 9mo ago
Claude code, not too surprisingly, can do that (on a toy example).
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by lovecg 9mo ago
Hmm. A long trip by a 1957 bus vs. a 1957 airliner? It’s not immediately obvious what would be safer to be honest.
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by lovecg 11mo ago
Bicameralism appeared very, very early on. There’s a well known case of a missing pig in 1642’s Boston (with a population of less than 2000 at the time) that finally solidified splitting the assembly into two chambers, and that debate has b
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by lovecg 11mo ago
This seems to assume unusual optimism or foresight, most people don’t invest their life savings 100% into stocks and don’t hold on to 100% of their company vests through ups and downs. You might as well say “assuming he put all his money in
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by lovecg 1y ago
So a runner’s high is more like a literal high then? Interesting
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by lovecg 1y ago
I’m like that more often than not. Words and language always seemed like a “translation layer” to express myself to other people, not something essential that needs to happen in my head. Especially when thinking deeply about some technical
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by lovecg 1y ago
But it’s both, isn’t it? It’s so easy to use, anyone without any coding experience whatsoever can produce a somewhat working prototype. It’s hard to use well, most experienced developers will end up with net negative productivity without le
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by lovecg 1y ago
Steelmanning the "we must force tool usage" position: it's possible that a tool does increase productivity, but there's either a steep learning curve (productivity only improves after sustained usage) or network effects
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by lovecg 1y ago
100k lines in one day of “coding”? I think you already know the answer.
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by lovecg 1y ago
> The real build out that will happen is solar/wind with tons of batteries That actually sounds awesome, is there a downside I’m not seeing?
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by lovecg 1y ago
Do other professionals (lawyers, finance etc.) argue for reducing their own compensation with the same fervor that software engineers like to do? The market is great for us, let’s enjoy it while it lasts. The alternative is all those CEOs c
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by lovecg 1y ago
Those barriers often exist as survival mechanisms. It could be quite rational to not even give a hint that one will even consider the logical viewpoint if some of the consequences involve losing one’s status in the community, losing one’s j
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by lovecg 1y ago
It is indeed rare, I could find only a single example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanunoo_script
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by lovecg 1y ago
They’re putting spaces around the em-dashes which is—believe it or not—incorrect usage. ChatGPT doesn’t put in spaces. (I’m annoyed by this since I learned about em-dashes long before AI and occasionally use them in writing, which now gets
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by lovecg 1y ago
> Out of the blue, he asks me "hey mate, just for fun, what would you do if you'd murdered someone and had a dead body to dispose of?" Ah yeah, the exact sort of thing you want to hear from your cab driver
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by lovecg 1y ago
I had a thought once that no one ever lived in year one except retroactively (with some exceptions like the French Revolution). By the time a new system is adopted, it’s already been a while since the defining event.
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by lovecg 1y ago
That explanation doesn’t work if the wing is completely flat (with nothing to force the air up), which if you ever made a paper airplane flies just fine. All these explanations miss a very significant thing: air is a fluid where every molec
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by lovecg 1y ago
These things can go on longer than 2 years > Tulip mania (Dutch: tulpenmanie) was a period during the Dutch Golden Age when contract prices for some bulbs of the recently introduced and fashionable tulip reached extraordinarily high leve
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by lovecg 1y ago
I’m comparing X-Plane 12 to MSFS 24. MSFS 24 is a great aid and near picture perfect when preflying real world routes, with 3D buildings and everything, and the latest G1000 implementation is pretty complete too. But X-Plane still wins on p
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by lovecg 1y ago
Unless you want realistic scenery or an up to date g1000 implementation (I love X-Plane really but because of these two points I keep going back to MSFS - maybe there are some add-ons I haven’t tried?)
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by lovecg 1y ago
For flying in the clouds mostly. These air driven gyroscopic contraptions were fine engineering for their time, but trusting one’s life to one of these when we can have a multiply redundant solid state alternative? No thanks.
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by lovecg 1y ago
Forget mixture, carb ice keeps killing people in 2025. Even just moving everyone to dumb mechanical fuel injection will be a big step forward at this point…
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by lovecg 1y ago
Not only it took a focused training campaign to get people to use the chute, all the increased training did was take the plane from having some of the worst safety statistics in the first decade to somewhere around average to slightly bette
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by lovecg 1y ago
> Yes, some of that is pilot error which can be mitigated to a substantial extent by computer controls, but it’s also a result of the lack of redundancy and hard failure modes of a light aircraft compared to a car. Most of it is, and has
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by lovecg 1y ago
Could the vibe be due to the fact that HHHH… seems like the coin could not just be biased - it could be completely broken and come up heads every time. There are two distinct possibilities here: 1) the coin is broken and is always H 2) the
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by lovecg 1y ago
I know, someone should really point out that following the rules of a religion blindly can go too far! Might start a movement of some sort.
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by lovecg 1y ago
I’ve filed a VFR plan by phone (more than a decade ago), don’t know for sure if it works the same for IFR but I’d imagine so. You’d call up and basically read out the form fields in one long monologue.
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by lovecg 1y ago
The analogy I heard was that if you take a golf ball and enlarge it to the size of the Earth, the atoms in the enlarged golf ball would be about the size of the original golf ball.
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by lovecg 1y ago
> I’ve stopped caring about these competition wins on resumes a long time ago Some of the best engineers (I mean that in the broad sense, not just “were good at coding up algorithms”) I had the privilege of working alongside with scored
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by lovecg 2y ago
Wouldn’t he have to get on the ballot in all the swing states at least? What if some states refuse to let him run? I can’t see California registering him for example, but that wouldn’t really matter of course.

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