mekoka

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by mekoka 6mo ago
I've written thousands of notes with just vim and the file system for over 20 years with little protocol. It's worked out great for me. Simple short text files that eventually graduated to markdown. I have folders and subfolders f
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by mekoka 6mo ago
> saying "what else is new?" is nearly "this does not disgust me" which is essentially condoning it. That's an amazing stretch.
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by mekoka 6mo ago
GP's point is not that only heroes should tell the tale, but rather that in this case the whistleblower was also an active part of the problem, but sought to distance herself from her then behavior by swapping it down instead for a m
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by mekoka 6mo ago
That's a strange outlook. How often do you still get shocked that a politician lied? Do you cultivate the surprise effect by fear of feeling complicit if your reaction instead is "what else is new?"
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by mekoka 7mo ago
You feel pain? Doctor says it's probably in your head because statistically you shouldn't. -- Based on countless true stories. Data is map, not terrain. It can explain some of the quantifiable world, not all of it. Common sense ca
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by mekoka 7mo ago
Apologies, I should've been more obvious in my attempt at sarcasm.
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by mekoka 7mo ago
A typical outlook from 21st century human thinking. We love to draw from our still rather actual history of fear and addictions to zero-sum games, to extrapolate the far advancement of other civilizations. As millennia go by, species can ob
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by mekoka 7mo ago
You seem to be agreeing, not arguing, with the person you're replying to.
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by mekoka 7mo ago
Are people still under the impression that testing candidates with coding challenges is in preparation of a job where real world problems are described like "invert the binary tree"? There was never any value in simply the ability
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by mekoka 7mo ago
Do some people really believe that SaaS margins are dropping because the public at large has discovered that to save 20$/month on some app they can instead vibe code their own and use that instead? My current guess about the future is
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by mekoka 7mo ago
> it's failing to keep up on the skills that keep you employed. I judge "failing to keep up" by my ability to "catch up". Right now if I search for paying courses on AI-assisted coding, I get a royal bunch for an
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by mekoka 7mo ago
> I also conveniently erased ie6 Also known as PTSD-induced amnesia, haha. We all tried to forget.
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by mekoka 7mo ago
The discussion is centered around the idea that "adopting early" provides some future proofing in a rapidly evolving (and largely non-standard) terrain. I share the FA's position that it does not. > The web is special in t
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by mekoka 7mo ago
> The best professionals did not fall for insanity of the modern front-end dilettante and continued hacking shit without that insanitity. "Front-end professional" and "no tooling" have been exclusive propositions sinc
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by mekoka 7mo ago
"It will grow more complex" is never a good reason to get into things early. It's just your mind playing FOMO tricks on you. Many developers who picked up the web in the early years struggle with (front-end) web development t
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by mekoka 7mo ago
> It is an AI error The software identified the person as Angela Lipps. According to the court documents, the Fargo detective working the case then looked at Lipps' social media accounts and Tennessee driver's license photo. I
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by mekoka 7mo ago
This LLM ability is directly proportional to the quantity of encoded (i.e. documented) knowledge about software development. But not all of the practice has thus been clearly communicated. Much of mastery resides in tacit knowledge , the s
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by mekoka 7mo ago
> empty stadiums You mean full of AI spectators.
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by mekoka 8mo ago
> what POSWID actually means The phrase does not make more sense even if we go all the way back to Beers. I certainly don't feel alone in not understanding how he went from his (fair) observation that "[There's] no point
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by mekoka 8mo ago
> Are the AIs stumbling into these mental models? Seems like it. Since nature decided to deprive me of telepathic abilities, when I want to externalize my thoughts to share with others, I'm bound to this joke of a substitute we call
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by mekoka 8mo ago
Slavery itself required the belief in lesser humans to absolve its beneficiaries. Guilt is one hell of a party pooper.
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by mekoka 8mo ago
Is this not a discussion about a web application? Order of magnitude matters. If Python is slower than Rust by 2 orders, but faster than IO by another 2 orders, are you not haggling just to shave off a few dimes on your 100 dollar bill?
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by mekoka 8mo ago
They don't compare exactly. Author is mistaken in thinking that UNLOGGED means "in memory". It means "no WAL", so there's considerable speed up there, but traded in with also more volatility. To be a viable alt
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by mekoka 9mo ago
It doesn't need to be made into something other than logic. Anyone can do a bad deed. Anyone can also be a good person to someone else. If a bad deed automatically makes a bad person, those who recognize the person as good have a harde
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by mekoka 9mo ago
Connecting people's characters to their deed is a double edged sword. It's not that it's necessarily mistaken, but you have to choose your victories. Maybe today you get some satisfaction from condemning the culprits, but you
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by mekoka 9mo ago
It's a simple narrative, one which increasingly looks like very convenient scapegoating as the cover is being blown with the ongoing divorce. It may be time to take a closer look at the other, more insidious, culprits. Europe has had i
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by mekoka 9mo ago
AI is like flossing. You waste more time listening to other people's opinions on whether it's helpful, than just trying it out yourself for a few days.
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by mekoka 10mo ago
The explanation is one sentence prior. > I started using a Windows machine fairly recently for work.
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by mekoka 10mo ago
I think it's worth framing things back to what we're reacting to. The top poster said: > I really really want this to be true. I want to be relevant. I don’t know what to do if all those predictions are true and there is no nee
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by mekoka 10mo ago
Indeed, discussions on LLMs for coding sound like what you would expect if you asked a room full of people to snatch up a 20 kg dumbbell once and then tell you if it's heavy. > I think the real risk is that dumping out loads of boil

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