nilirl

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by nilirl 4mo ago
I think you're discounting people's reaction of not liking it. That is communicative. Not everything has a well established model to communicate efficiently using words. And being a trope is not enough of a defense; tropes can d
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by nilirl 4mo ago
That's how conversation works. Things can be implied when it's obvious. And if it's not, the onus is on you to ask why.
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by nilirl 4mo ago
> but you are implying that people read him to feel smart or that they need to put a great amount of effort in reading Yes, I did imply that. Maybe my experiences have been more challenging than I expected. Ok, I will try Crime & Pun
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by nilirl 4mo ago
Ok, I've added "A Young Doctor's Notebook" to my list. Thanks! Funnily enough, I'm currently reading a book by a Russian author. 'Metro 2033' by Dmitry Glukhovsky. It's post-apocalyptic and set in the
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by nilirl 4mo ago
Oh, I like the features a lot but I don't like the aesthetics. Maybe that's just the examples but the animations are not appealing to look at.
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by nilirl 4mo ago
As someone who only gets time to read when tired at the end of the day: I can't get past the first 50 pages of any Dostoyevsky work. Why are the classics classic? I doubt being a great read is sufficient or necessary; I struggle to r
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by nilirl 4mo ago
It's not being "picky" to those whose lives get worse. How do you have such confidence for what works in a complex adaptive system? Do you think society can be reduced to a model of functions and metrics? You can only afford
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by nilirl 4mo ago
Why not? What if it did bad?
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by nilirl 4mo ago
Maybe it's not that valuable? No snark, but how much confidence do these evals provide?
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by nilirl 4mo ago
And here I am huffing and puffing because the latest models keep adding nonsense to my codebase. Have you seen the decisions LLMs make? They write code like the worst developers I know. They're lazy, short-sighted, and impossible to te
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by nilirl 4mo ago
I like this author but this post was only weakly intriguing. More importantly, I'd like to know how long it takes to write a post like this. Everything I write, I try to research and publish in under 2 weeks. This post looks like it gr
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by nilirl 4mo ago
The 'reading effort : meaning' ratio of this post is a bit painful. There are about 3 named concepts in every paragraph. There are about 15 claims about named concept being the solution to a problem that's never explained.
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by nilirl 4mo ago
> conditioned on verified success Thank you! That made it clear to me why it's an useful caching technique.
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by nilirl 4mo ago
I read this post thinking "Finally! Finally someone will explain to me what I've been missing because 'skills' just seem to be re-usable text that help make prompting faster." Nope. Still the same.
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by nilirl 4mo ago
A bit much.
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by nilirl 4mo ago
Go is a very unique language in that it is the only language designed to make you understand the frustration of online dating. First, seduction, and then as it reveals how little it cares about you, eventual disappointment.
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by nilirl 4mo ago
What's funny is that if you go to the linked site that's meant to be a showcase of the design agency's design skills, you'll see that it's ... pretty shit. Ugly. Random. Thoughtless.
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by nilirl 4mo ago
What's your point? That it's not a skill? Having a system behave acceptably as it grows does not count? Getting paid for it does not count? Fine. Don't do it. Wait till you get a certification. No one's forcing you to th
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by nilirl 4mo ago
I don't know but I'm less wrong than I used to be. More focused, better at reasoning about context. Maybe good architects learn by starting as awful architects? Consider giving them more time.
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by nilirl 4mo ago
I meant any institution where such cost of delay can be absorbed more easily. The cost of one day of that kind of work in a startup is probably more expensive than in a more established firm.
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by nilirl 4mo ago
Relative to my technical skills. One of the PRs was some data visualization code in the Elm language. They explained the solution so beautifully, showing how the problem lay in how the Elm compiler compiled to JS and how JS managed memory.
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by nilirl 4mo ago
I've met maybe 1-2 people in my whole life who were clearly beneficial 'A' from the get go. There's also a weird 'A' that tries very hard but causes more pain than inspiration. Meaning, they're clearly sma
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by nilirl 4mo ago
Thank you for illuminating the realities of real business. It made me realize I've only had the misfortune of being employed at fake ones.
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by nilirl 4mo ago
Your argument has many, many leaps but I infer your point. The lack of attention does reduce the overall correctness of the system. But, and unfortunately, in most situations the loss of correctness is more than made up for by the speed gai
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by nilirl 4mo ago
Relatedly, this is Plato on writing: "They will cease to exercise memory because they rely on that which is written, calling things to remembrance no longer from within themselves, but by means of external marks"
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by nilirl 4mo ago
Yes, and I struggle to give junior developers feedback because of this. The code they submit for review no longer represents their thinking or their skill. The feedback loop for beginners is a bit broken. What is their skill now? How is it
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by nilirl 4mo ago
I haven't written a full function of code in over a year. That being said, I've been spending a lot more time thinking about architecture and system properties. So, yes, I do feel like I've lost some of that very low-level sk
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by nilirl 4mo ago
> isn't that what we're supposed to do in science? Listen to the folks who have the expertise? No. We look at the best model that explains and predicts the most observations. > Nothing that they've said has appeared to
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by nilirl 4mo ago
I may have moved some of the goal posts but you refuse to engage with your own bias. I think we can move on.
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by nilirl 4mo ago
Maybe they've been more consistent but the strength of their position is not measured by my inconsistency. Look at how much "trust me, I've got training, I know what's good, I know what's already right" is in t

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