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by mckn1ght 6mo ago
What is your opinion on AlphaFold? Doesn’t that provide a speedup for one part of medication development and understanding disease?
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by mckn1ght 6mo ago
Yep that's how I do it if I have to deal with stacked PRs. I also just never use rebase once anything has happened in a PR review that incurs historical state, like reviews or other people checking out the branch (that I know of, anywa
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by mckn1ght 6mo ago
Exactly. Big “generals always prepare to fight the last war” energy.
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by mckn1ght 6mo ago
If you could reimplement Emacs in Swift that’d be great
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by mckn1ght 6mo ago
Any way to know how many buildings were demolished and a newer one built in its place over that 20 year period? Wonder what he used for a reference. Is the model representative of a single moment in time, or is there some clock drift?
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by mckn1ght 6mo ago
At an abstract enough level, not really. I treat them with care and try to give them whatever they need to do their thing. I want them to last as long as possible. But in asking this question you must have some differences in mind. Could yo
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by mckn1ght 6mo ago
I think humans are machines, they are just vastly more advanced than any machine invented by humans. This is something I thought long before the current AI hype cycle. What do you think are some important differences between machines and hu
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by mckn1ght 6mo ago
I like Tesler’s Theorem, which I recently heard about: > AI is whatever hasn’t been done yet
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by mckn1ght 6mo ago
Maybe just the circles I run in but these are not evergreen questions in my experience. I don't even know what "go back" is supposed to mean here, or for that matter what it would mean in a Windows application. Is there a sys
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by mckn1ght 7mo ago
I guess the unspoken part of a Mars colony is that it would be penal.
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by mckn1ght 7mo ago
I love playing lost and found: get yourself lost and then find your way back home without GPS.
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by mckn1ght 7mo ago
True, using a library in a cheap coffee maker you can maybe set it and forget it. I have an old TI-85 calculator that’s never needed to update its OS, while Apple has obsoleted multiple generations of applications in its never ending upgrad
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by mckn1ght 7mo ago
Software packages are more complicated than you make them out to be. Off the top of my head: - license restrictions, relicensing - patches, especially to fix CVEs, that break assumptions you made in your consumption of the package - supply
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by mckn1ght 8mo ago
It’s at least an option for consideration. I shouldn’t have spoken normatively. Is your position that compassion is only possible via religion?
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by mckn1ght 8mo ago
You don’t need religion for ethics or worldview. How about: we all appear here on this rock, none of us know why, we’re all in it together, we all struggle, none of us know if we’re alone in this universe or what the universe really is. Thi
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by mckn1ght 8mo ago
I use delta for quick diffs in a shell (along with the -U0 option on git-diff), but in my claude workflow, i have a 3 pane setup in tmux: :| where the right side is a claude session, the top left is emacs opened to magit, and the bottom lef
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by mckn1ght 8mo ago
What does this mean here? The first several cities outside the US that I tried on craigslist were direct hits, with postings. People could use craigslist, they just don’t.
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by mckn1ght 9mo ago
I still open Xcode for every branch after having Claude do an initial implementation, to review the changes using its version editor, step through code using the IDE’s various code navigation features, and build/run to manually validat
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by mckn1ght 9mo ago
IMO the ethical response should be positive disengagement with entities with which you disagree, instead of negative engagement. See something in the release notes of an app you don’t like? Go use a different app, give your money to a diffe
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by mckn1ght 9mo ago
The one where the google results page would open up and show an application to apply was cool.
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by mckn1ght 9mo ago
At least for me, I'd still rather mail a letter versus input all my personal details and job experience into yet another CRM with a crappy data entry interface.
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by mckn1ght 9mo ago
Do FAANG, FAANG wannabes, or startups do this for software development roles? I've never heard of that.
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by mckn1ght 9mo ago
It sounds strange that someone could go from lofty Apple engineer to homeless (though it certainly wouldn’t be the first fall from grace in human history). I read the brief wikipedia page about Smith, which states he has bipolar disorder an
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by mckn1ght 9mo ago
I assumed they were talking about the uncle’s fake hands: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UWVVLKZ56zM&pp=0gcJCTMBo7VqN5t...
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by mckn1ght 9mo ago
> If I had a child I'd rather have it watch porn than Cocomelon As a parent that regularly fears who my children will encounter in the world, I’m glad there’s an “if” at the beginning of this sentence.
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by mckn1ght 9mo ago
Is there actually a difference between transactions between humans in meatspace (getting a government ID, then using it at a store) and age estimation algorithms?
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by mckn1ght 9mo ago
The problem there is the boss, not the technology. If it isn’t an insane take on AI, it’d be on something else, and eventually will be. People quit bad managers, not bad jobs. If you have a bad manager, work on quitting them.
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by mckn1ght 9mo ago
There is now footage from the shooter’s cellphone you can watch, in which you can see the driver hand-over-hand turning away from the shooter while the car is still reversing, before it even starts moving forward. The tires were pointed tow
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by mckn1ght 9mo ago
Could we be thinking about different social situations? I’m not turning to people on the bus and asking what their hobbies are. And it’s not my first question of people visiting my office happy hour. If you’re at my home for dinner, I hope
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by mckn1ght 9mo ago
I’ve found asking “what do you like to do” vs “what do you do” to produce much more interesting conversation.

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