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by maegul 3y ago
Yep! It’s something some aren’t seeing. The AI coding assistant is now part of the abstraction layers over machine code. Higher level languages, scripting languages, all the happy paths we stick to (in bash, for example), memory management
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by maegul 3y ago
My experience in grad school was similar. IMO it decelerates the shift from undergrad to grad work, as you have to overcome the knowledge gulf by immersing yourself in the essentially confusing sea of primary literature. Arguably unnecessar
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by maegul 3y ago
> it's turtles all the way down with nostalgia. And yet golden eras do occur, or so it would seem. I’m sure it’s hard to tell when you’re in or near one, which is an interesting topic in its own right, but it doesn’t mean we should
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by maegul 3y ago
I haven’t read Illich, but I like both. Obviously the original from the article is more verbose, and if one doesn’t like that or finds it difficult or distracting, I am by no means going to hold it against them and in fact sympathise. But t
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by maegul 3y ago
I just came out of reading the article surprised at how little it had to do with gender. The point is there, and reasonably made IMO, but the article is mainly about the culture of front end dev. Honestly, I ponder whether reacting to the m
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by maegul 3y ago
You forgot the next clauses that are a tad fairer than that: > and just hear me out, I am going to explain that.
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by maegul 3y ago
That’s a neat idea there with the FM3! Generally though, it makes total sense that there should be a pressure sensitive or at least continuous press foot switch with the footprint of only a normal foot switch.
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by maegul 3y ago
So they’re conflating AI with pure rational intelligence. Seems false to me. A more likely scenario I would have thought is that proper general and conscious AI will be made in our image to some extent at least being influenced by our behav
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by maegul 3y ago
Can’t help but contrast it to ObservableHQ ( https://observablehq.com/ ), which is basically front end notebooks with reactivity and other niceties. Leans right into “dynamism” while also allowing for simple document authorin
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by maegul 3y ago
For sure! Though I'd also wonder if it's a tad more than a hypothesis given what we already know about memory both scientifically and, perhaps, from practices people have developed over time to aid memory. I don't know all t
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by maegul 3y ago
Nice! As an old Simon Posford (shpongle etc) fan boy … can anyone explain why exactly I’m not seeing his projects here? Too old, wrong genre?
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by maegul 3y ago
Well like I said above, I think the spatial details of where you’re writing and where the thing you’re writing on is located and the details of the spatial arrangement of your writing itself are all part of it.
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by maegul 3y ago
Superficial take IMO. Don’t need a selective pressure for a cognitive process to work in a particular way. You just need a selective pressure for the cognitive skill and for the way that skill works to at least not have a pressure against i
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by maegul 3y ago
Funny talking about the toxicity of social media as a factor behind recent incidents and bleakness when every other language or professional community has exactly the same social media landscape presumably without the same issues or to the
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by maegul 3y ago
From what I’ve gleaned it’s a link aggregator v microblog division where Wordpress is targeting the microblogs because, largely through mastodon, that’s where the majority are. Technically, AFAIU, this comes down to whether a platform is ba
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by maegul 3y ago
I know what you’re talking about, but I don’t think the confounding factor of who and why home schooling parents choose to home school can be easily dismissed. The simple fact that social activity needs to be fostered in a different, but no
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by maegul 3y ago
Great insight! I wouldn’t have made that connection back to reactive runtimes. Excited to see what you can do with ipyflow!
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by maegul 3y ago
Development seems not to have dropped at all from the contributions page: https://github.com/google/jax/graphs/contributors Don’t know about usage and uptake though.
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by maegul 3y ago
Absolutely agree. Part of the problem though is that this would reveal that undergraduate education and the universities that provide it can be thought of as merely a certifying process/body. Not quite the same glamour and prestige.
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by maegul 3y ago
Well, do you use GitHub or an equivalent? The point of this, as the article states: > These additional capabilities are available for Git as 3rd-party add-ons, but with Fossil they are integrated into the design, to the point that it app
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by maegul 3y ago
I share similar feelings. <armchair anthropology time> I recall a recent genetics study[1] concluding that the homo sapiens (or direct ancestor) population bottle neck was ~1000 people for about 100,000 years. My mind immediately wond
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by maegul 3y ago
Interesting on (1), I’ve always used vi mode (like I don’t even know those commands, maybe they work in vi mode too?) and from memory Xonsh had as good a vi mode as bash along with some baked in improvements over vanilla bash. I’m more or l
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by maegul 3y ago
I mean par for the course for tech blogs/articles right.
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by maegul 3y ago
So, genuine question, how much of Reddit is archived? If there’s a lot on the internet archive, say, could that now be bundled up similar to how the Usenet stuff is on Google groups?
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by maegul 3y ago
Too many tankies is the argument, most likely. But from the few arguments I’ve seen, it really does seem to be driven by the virality that purity and tone policing can acquire.
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by maegul 3y ago
It's main format, it seems, is a youtube video essay, which is the appropriate format, IMO, not a blog post, linked in this thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36151612
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by maegul 3y ago
Yep ditto. I don’t believe the hype was all that real until I heard random people having conversations about it while out and about. And then south South Park made an episode about. Pretty clearly gone mainstream.
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by maegul 3y ago
As nice as WFH is for many of us (or society at large), the truth is I think that many of us and society at large isn't really set up to do it well. For working from home to be balanced with also living at home, you need some physic
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by maegul 3y ago
Nice! From what I've gathered this has been in the works for a while(?) Thoughts ... 1. Yea, the Readme could do with a bit of polish. Your hero feature, AFAIU, is the automatic reactivity. This is in your second GIF, put this front
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by maegul 3y ago
Yea it’s gotten to the point where it’s a sub-domain of expertise in Python being on top of the various performance extensions/runtimes/hacks. Intuitively, numba and cython still feel like the most interesting/relevant. I rec

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