nilirl

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by nilirl 4mo ago
Beyond doing the best research you can do, given the conditions, there is no apolitical norm for what makes a researcher legitimate or illegitimate. There is no bad cutting or good cutting, there's only politics. Meaning, an argument f
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by nilirl 4mo ago
Well, your deduction was unsound. And continues to be unsound. You can critique anything as long as you know you can be wrong too. > Yes yes. What's "normative" is now "political" (for some reason), and my standa
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by nilirl 4mo ago
> How exactly do you think that scientific grants are evaluated right now? I have some bad news for you A problem of authorization can be solved with delegated authority. I'm saying your use of it is as evidence for your reasoning i
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by nilirl 4mo ago
> thanks to years and years of advanced training That's a laughable argument based on a claim of authority. Unfortunately, advanced training is not unique to you, and so, you don't get a singular say on what's good or bad.
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by nilirl 4mo ago
From your original post, > repeating things we already know Not a terribly scientific stance. > while legitimate researchers have to scrimp and wheedle to do anything novel There isn't a normative standard for good research beyon
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by nilirl 4mo ago
As someone who uses these tools extensively: they're extremely productive and extremely idiotic. Detail-oriented work with lots of output that can cover up the noisy bits of thoughtless garbage? Sure, great. Analysis-oriented work wher
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by nilirl 4mo ago
Does that mean all of the co-founders would become billionaires? And they're, what, like 20 year olds? And I'm here trying to get something to make a $1000 per month. What a world.
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by nilirl 4mo ago
I understand people need to make arguments for things they like but provide more please. What were some of the downsides? Illuminating the tradeoffs would elevate this post from good to great.
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by nilirl 4mo ago
Am I the only that doesn't "get" Linear? Even if speed is the killer feature, isn't an issue tracker a relatively low-frequency application for a dev? Whenever I use it, I don't feel like I'm doing anything new
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by nilirl 4mo ago
Ok, that's empirically useful by argument of popularity. By that same measure: correctness, maintainability, and efficiency are not that useful. I wasn't saying usefulness is not important, I'm saying this post conveniently c
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by nilirl 4mo ago
The adjective 'useful' is doing a lot of the heavy-lifting here. What kind of 'useful'? Normative? Empirical? Prescriptive? Pragmatic? 'Useful' is a very subjective north star.
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by nilirl 4mo ago
> The self-driving company brain Made me think this was for companies working on self-driving.
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by nilirl 4mo ago
Yup, and last week I brought down GitHub when I fell down and asked a friend to pull me up. At my weight, that was a bad pull request.
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by nilirl 4mo ago
Oh, that's funny. Just an hour ago I decided I'd make a Shopify app and see if there was any money to be made there. Now this.
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by nilirl 4mo ago
Site is gross to scroll on mobile
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by nilirl 4mo ago
How do you do this? I really struggle to get the agents to follow my architectural invariants and coding conventions. I use Cursor and Codex but the agents keep making regressions and breaking rules. They'll even take shortcuts sometim
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by nilirl 4mo ago
You have clearly not read my post. Your points do not address my post. You are no moral arbiter. You engage in personal attack without grace. We're done.
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by nilirl 4mo ago
Author here. I try and make a case for the offense being permissable for certain members of society. Unsolicited commercial email is legal in many jurisdictions. There are some good reasons for it being so. Your moral stance is fine. But it
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Consider Sending Earnest Spam(nair.sh)
1 points by nilirl 4mo ago|4 comments
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by nilirl 5mo ago
That line stuck out to me too. Engineers have known that bad engineering cultures cause tiny errors and imprecise code to compound into systemic problems. Why is this suddenly not a problem? If your AI agent is wrong 5% of the time, what do
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Show HN: I wrote a book that teaches writing for marketing from first principles(nair.sh)
1 points by nilirl 5mo ago|0 comments
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by nilirl 5mo ago
HN has influencers like any other community. In this case, the upvotes are for the author and not the post.
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Why you should consider sending earnest spam(nair.sh)
1 points by nilirl 5mo ago|1 comments
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by nilirl 5mo ago
> AI excels at both discrete task execution and determining how things fit together, and every single one of your company's workflow components becomes ripe for optimization or elimination. Why? On what basis is this claim made? The
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by nilirl 5mo ago
Syntax is the least of my concerns. Modelling a problem is what I'm concerned about. And I'm currently better than any AI agent at doing that, given enough time.
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by nilirl 5mo ago
I agree that I can write better code than an agent. But it can write working code much faster than I can. And in a lot of cases, unfortunately, faster beats better.
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by nilirl 5mo ago
The writing felt fun but the final message escapes me. Is the conclusion that growing anti-AI sentiment is a good opportunity for political organization?
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How to Use a Spreadsheet for Combinatorial Creativity(nair.sh)
2 points by nilirl 5mo ago|0 comments
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by nilirl 5mo ago
I love the book cover! Great job, Bojta.
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by nilirl 5mo ago
Hi, this looks really powerful, in that it seems to have many use cases. One question I had: Does every sandbox change end (when ready for production) in a pull request? If marketing sends me a pull request and I hate the code, what's

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