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by nlawalker 3mo ago
Honest question, what are the advantages of an integrated system? These three things are kind of the whole game for me, but I also don't have a very sophisticated taste when it comes to cars.
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by nlawalker 4mo ago
>grades have long been inflated to a point we might as well just give everyone an A and let companies figure out how to select people. Between this and a decline in junior hiring, this is sorting itself out in the form of sharply decli
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by nlawalker 4mo ago
> no one else seems to find this to be quite damning for the AI services being offered, preferring instanced to be wowed by the convenience and speed at which they can be delivered unreviewed and unproven information "Be wowed by
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by nlawalker 4mo ago
What if you label standing still as 0 mph and start moving 10 mph, gaining x energy, then call that zero and start moving 10 mph from there? It's just as intuitive to say that you would gain x energy in that case, but you don't.
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by nlawalker 4mo ago
> We know intuitively that a ball atop a 20ft ladder has twice the potential energy of a ball atop a 10ft ladder. What makes this intuitive? The foundation of the asker’s question is that it seems intuitive that kinetic energy would in
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by nlawalker 4mo ago
> common sense, discernment, good judgement I feel like the whole point of all the experimentation with AI right now is determining whether any of these things actually matter to the end result, over various timeframes.
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by nlawalker 4mo ago
This isn’t sufficient, it needs to be “if you are asking for assumption of accountability , demonstrate human effort.” In my experience, people who make requests like this don’t care about your attention, they only care about getting you o
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by nlawalker 4mo ago
Not a better publicist, but: A) a newly-receptive audience - engineers who have discovered that they very much enjoy and appreciate the tradeoff of proximity to the code for amplified velocity and impact, now that it's possible to achi
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by nlawalker 4mo ago
My concern is less about knowledge and more about the ability to communicate and make good decisions . I'm not sure how well it holds up against technology that can sometimes make a good showing at it, but is most importantly automa
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by nlawalker 4mo ago
> It's profoundly facile to think that only first order effects matter. Yet this is an incredibly popular folk belief in software. Why? > So I think partly it's an ego defence mechanism. I don’t subscribe to the idea that
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by nlawalker 4mo ago
The headline on that section, "Static sites are for people who can still read", caught me off guard.
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by nlawalker 5mo ago
>If you are sure --force-with-lease exists for the scenario where you are sure, but wrong.
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by nlawalker 5mo ago
Talk about burying the lede, headline should be "Instagram gives arbitrary account access to anyone who asks their support AI nicely."
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by nlawalker 5mo ago
Have you ever had someone else edit your work, comment on it and provide alternative phrasings or organization? LLMs are pretty good at that, available any time and give instant results, as long as you understand that they work differently
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by nlawalker 5mo ago
Yeah that's a really stiff interview to publish, it reads like the interviewer pulled up to him while he was eating lunch and peppered him with questions.
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by nlawalker 5mo ago
Yeah, you're not an outcast if you're the one rejecting and cutting off other people.
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by nlawalker 5mo ago
If you haven't tried Animal Well, give it a shot. The whole game and its custom engine are like 35MB and it's filled with really cool visuals and physics powered by fluid equations. https://store.steampowered.com/a
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by nlawalker 5mo ago
Yeah my comment was maybe a bit too snarky. I am personally a huge believer in assuming good faith and intent and giving people the benefit of the doubt, it’s just that when it comes to this, I’ve been in many situations where I have enough
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The Biggest Tell That Something Was Written by AI(theatlantic.com)
19 points by nlawalker 5mo ago|10 comments
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by nlawalker 5mo ago
Gift link: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/05/how-to-tell-a...
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by nlawalker 5mo ago
>Also I just find it a little insulting if someone sends me an AI response. I don’t know why, maybe because it feels not genuine. It's because it's a pretty safe bet that the prompt either implicitly or explicitly says "
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by nlawalker 5mo ago
>But almost all output outside that space is at risk of AI displacement. I don't necessarily disagree, but I would also argue that there's art in a lot of that output, in the form of intent, decision making and communication.
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by nlawalker 5mo ago
Heh, I work in documentation, and using that particular image in the introduction is an absolute masterclass in confusing people and giving them the exact wrong impression about the entire thing. The water doesn't actually travel throu
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by nlawalker 5mo ago
Not by output, for output - as in, not paid per unit of output, but paid for achieving a sufficient level of it, the definition of which frequently changes. That's baked into the definition of salaried .
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by nlawalker 5mo ago
Salaried employees aren't paid for their time, they're paid for a combination of their output and their availability . Availability used to be strongly coupled with time but technology has introduced some flexibility there.
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by nlawalker 5mo ago
> They are all just variations of "insert a canned prompt", varying only along the dimensions of (a) how and where the prompt is installed and from where it is sourced, and (b) which context or contexts the prompt runs in. Ye
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by nlawalker 5mo ago
I never took tokenmaxxing to be about improving productivity directly; mundane feature work that comes out of it is just a side effect. I always saw it as a race between these big tech companies to get a generational advantage by being the
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by nlawalker 5mo ago
A general thought on children and computers, not directly related, but that I've always wanted to communicate here: One of my strongest-held opinions is that children need to be taught, explicitly and by example, that there is nothing
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by nlawalker 5mo ago
> To me > I'd prefer This is exactly my point. To some people, direct communication, especially "no", is extremely rude. To some people, a head bob (easily confused for a "yes" in other cultures) merely mean
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by nlawalker 5mo ago
I've decided that I'm done being pissy about this kind of response, or thinking that it's something that can be coached away. I choose to look at it like any other cultural communication difference - something that you learn

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