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by meken 5mo ago
Love the story and the article. The only nit I have with it: > “His answers are… understandable, and maybe in some ways more digestible than we would get from an expert,” he said. This does not reflect his actual responses? The interview
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by meken 5mo ago
I was curious to get a sense for the overall "success rate" at a glance, so I uploaded the author's data as a spreadsheet and color-coded the conversations based on length (short=red, medium=yellow, long=green) with the help
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by meken 5mo ago
> but part of me wonders if a lot of their success is attributable to the place just being well run in general That was my sense reading the article - that the author would be running a successful engineering org using any language reall
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by meken 5mo ago
I’m not sure how that was your takeaway..? > We retired the “Nerdy” personality in March after launching GPT‑5.4. In training, we removed the goblin-affine reward signal and filtered training data containing creature-words, making goblin
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by meken 5mo ago
There’s a difference between a relationship with a person and an organization. I think the difference is large enough that the analogy doesn’t really hold.
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by meken 6mo ago
Just some feedback - I would love to see some screenshots in your GitHub READMEs!* *I saw the second project has a partial screenshot, but not a full one.
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by meken 6mo ago
> “What’s beginning to emerge is that the problem was maybe easier than expected, and it was like there was some kind of mental block.” Even if AI never progresses past this point, it still seems like a huge win for math research to “cle
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by meken 6mo ago
I love Kernighan’s Law: > "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it"
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by meken 7mo ago
Wow that's a really good point. The style of the videos did become quite repetitive.
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by meken 7mo ago
I had so much fun making videos with my mom when it came out. During the first two weeks, we made over 100 cameo videos together - we were constantly running up against the upload limit. It unleashed tons of genuine creativity, joy, and lau
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by meken 7mo ago
Fascinating. Thanks for the explanation.
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by meken 7mo ago
> After all, that's how I tend to treat SQL databases early on. Ah, that’s a very helpful analogy/parallel that didn’t occur to me. Thank you!
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by meken 7mo ago
I understood it as the latter.
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by meken 7mo ago
> Current Common Lisp implementations can usually support both image-oriented and source-oriented development. Image-oriented environments (for example, Squeak Smalltalk) have as their interchange format an image file or memory dump cont
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by meken 7mo ago
> what is this actually used for If you're interested in LeetCode, Racket is one of their accepted languages.
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by meken 7mo ago
I was using Apple Notes for some “math thinking” the other week. A killer feature for me would be an easy way to input various math Unicode characters (I was just copy and pasting them).
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McNamara Fallacy(en.wikipedia.org)
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by meken 8mo ago
Oh, my mistake. I'm using Spacemacs and it looks like it's just using racket-mode..? https://www.spacemacs.org/layers/+lang/racket/README.html
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by meken 8mo ago
For sure. I just meant having some motivating purpose to write Racket.
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by meken 8mo ago
> The biggest downside of Racket is that you can't build up your environment incrementally the way you can with Common Lisp/Sly. When you change anything in your source you reload REPL state from scratch. I don’t quite understa
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by meken 8mo ago
I learned recently that Racket is an accepted language on LeetCode, which solved the problem “when am I ever going to write lisp in real life…” for me. It’s provided a great excuse. I have really been enjoying writing it! Paredit and SLIME
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by meken 8mo ago
Get the best of both worlds by having it be Ctrl when held down + pressed with another key and Esc when you press and release it by itself.
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by meken 8mo ago
Very cool. Though the 01 column is a bit unsatisfying because it doesn’t seem to have any connection to its siblings.
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by meken 8mo ago
I’m in a similar camp to the OP. For me, my joy doesn’t come from building - it comes from understanding. Which incidentally has actually made SWE not a great career path for me because I get bored building features, but that’s another stor
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by meken 8mo ago
> But for me, it was missing something I didn't know how to name until I found it: the chance to be technical and connected. I genuinely throught this was impossible for a very long time. In my SWE roles I’ve mostly felt disconnecte
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by meken 8mo ago
Can relate a lot. I started off as a SWE but am pursuing a support role for similar reasons.
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by meken 8mo ago
I was wondering the same thing.
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by meken 8mo ago
Love it. Only feedback I have is when I click into an image then hit back, it brings me to the top of the page which is kind of annoying. I wish it held my place.
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by meken 9mo ago
Great, thanks!
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by meken 9mo ago
Side note - is this post accessible from the site somewhere? I don’t see where you’d find it (along with the C is Best post [1] shared here recently). [1] https://sqlite.org/whyc.html

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