michaelchisari

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by michaelchisari 4mo ago
Anyone worth their salt looked down on copy/paste from Stackoverflow, let alone blindly doing so. Where does this idea come from that good programmers were ever cool with that?
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by michaelchisari 4mo ago
My comment was more "all things being equal." Though the market so far has had a lower limit on "worse". We're finding out how low we can go before consumers start valuing quality again.
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by michaelchisari 4mo ago
I disagree. At some point of complexity, building it yourself is faster, better and (as we're finding out) cheaper. And more fun, although that varies person to person. Wrestling with a code generator also creates a sunk cost fallacy w
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by michaelchisari 4mo ago
Delighted to see a "brew install dusklight" option. Curious how this is different from a generalized emulator. Wouldn't this be able to run any GC game that used the same registers as Twilight Princess?
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by michaelchisari 4mo ago
You underestimate how easy it is to get someone who's into fly fishing to talk about fly fishing. You don't need to have known them for more than thirty seconds. Even NYC has a fishing meetup group with over 1000 members.
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by michaelchisari 4mo ago
Interesting. Where have they stated that?
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by michaelchisari 4mo ago
| a 60-90B model can outperform current SOTA My conspiracy theory is that Apple recognizes this.
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by michaelchisari 5mo ago
| Everything we do matters. Always. Yeah you get it.
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by michaelchisari 5mo ago
Most certainly but after two thousand years the Magisterium have mastered the art of universalizing the moment. A direct call out would age poorly. A hundred years from now, nobody will remember Thiel or Palantir (inshallah) but the sentime
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by michaelchisari 5mo ago
I'm not Muslim (an agnostic Catholic if anything) but I love the Hadith | If the final hour comes while one of you has a seed in his hand, if he can plant it before it takes place, let him do so. I take it to mean it is never too lat
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Software Engineering at the Tipping Point(io.google)
17 points by michaelchisari 5mo ago|38 comments
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by michaelchisari 5mo ago
Without proper training, what looks good may be trash. I always thought pixel art generated by diffusion models looked damn good. Then I started watching and reading reviews by actual pixel artists, and all they saw was flaws. And it wasn&#
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by michaelchisari 5mo ago
Posadism specifically. It's not mere historical determinism.
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by michaelchisari 5mo ago
TESCREAL reads like a right-wing Posadism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_International–Posadist Like Posadism, the future refusing to cooperate will burn them out along the way.
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by michaelchisari 5mo ago
Acquiring and managing crypto is its own form of friction though.
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by michaelchisari 5mo ago
An approach that might work is low cost yearly subscriptions. So $6 a year instead of per month. Cost to the consumer becomes $0.50 a month for services that scale well (like news), but avoids the service fee and money laundering problems
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by michaelchisari 5mo ago
I agree with the prediction but not the timing. We won't enter a more hardened era of software until after a long period of security vulnerabilities. Rivers caught on fire for a hundred years before the EPA was formed.
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by michaelchisari 5mo ago
The single writer is less of an issue in practice than it's made out to be. Modern nvme drives are incredible and it's trivial to get 5k writes per second in an optimized WAL setup. Way more than most apps could ever dream. And ev
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by michaelchisari 5mo ago
To clarify, AI should not do the design itself. You develop the design in conversation with AI. I come in knowing what I need to build and at least one idea or more of how it should be done. I present the problem, constraints, potential sol
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by michaelchisari 5mo ago
Debugging, sanity checking, testing, etc. are the best uses of LLMs. Much better than writing code. Developers should write their own code and use LLMs to design and verify. Better, faster architecture and planning, pre-cleaned PRs and no s
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by michaelchisari 5mo ago
Except "trad" households (full time SAHM in a nuclear home) are not traditional. Tradition is not something only the upper-middle class in a post-war boom attained for a short period of time. Throughout human history, it was rare
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by michaelchisari 5mo ago
"I did not have memory enabled, nor did I have information about me associated with my account; I did these tests in Incognito Mode. To make sure it wasn’t somehow feeding my account information to Claude even in Incognito Mode, I ask
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by michaelchisari 6mo ago
There is rent-seeking, rent extraction and the rentier class. All are a part of the process of enclosure. Landlords are included in this but it may not seem that way because enclosure happened so long ago.
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by michaelchisari 6mo ago
Nature is wonderful because it will relax and center oneself while making it clear why we created civilization.
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by michaelchisari 7mo ago
This is a trite response that doesn't engage with what was originally stated. The double edged brilliance/danger of capitalism is that it constantly opens up and moves into new markets. This is good, it means once the market deter
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by michaelchisari 7mo ago
Not op but if I’m being honest, I don’t feel as if that’s the case until I see a film whose special effects are limited to mise en scene and matte paintings and then I always have this overwhelming feeling that we’re all missing out. Films
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by michaelchisari 7mo ago
A standard library can help, but js culture is not built in a way that lends to it the way a language like Go is. It would take a well-respected org pushing a standard library that has clear benefits over "package shopping."
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by michaelchisari 7mo ago
| I had to look up Jeffrey Sachs Like I said, it's complicated. | I agree that American decline will not resemble Russian collapse. Then we are in agreement.
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by michaelchisari 7mo ago
| The collapse of USSR was 100% caused by internal causes. I wouldn't take the time to argue otherwise, although it's a question of what's considered an "internal cause." Afghanistan comes to mind. But generally,
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by michaelchisari 7mo ago
I put the collapse of Britain's empire at around 75 years, which is faster than the Ottomans or Spanish empires, but still nothing compared to the Soviets, which to reiterate, was an historical anomaly. As for the US, for all the curre

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