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by pohl 3mo ago
What specific critical thought(s) do you wish were voiced?
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by pohl 3mo ago
deep cut
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by pohl 3mo ago
Is it useful to limit these thoughts to a dictator doing dictator stuff, though? What would be the material difference be between that and operatives of his political party astroturfing local school boards to remove books that teach about t
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by pohl 3mo ago
But will it help those baristas pay off the student loans that paid for their philosophy degrees?
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by pohl 3mo ago
None of that supports the claim that it "isn't controllable," though. A curious mind should probably find it interesting that it can be fallible in those ways yet still be useful for producing work, and ask how both can be tr
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by pohl 3mo ago
> because the outcome you get from AI isn't controllable. You can give it the best prompts and design suggestions and it'll still give you completely wrong or horribly written code. I don’t have a dog in this fight but it seems
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by pohl 3mo ago
It’s a tragedy. I feel the work they were doing was important. At least we got this talk from guy steele https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw6TaiXzHAE
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by pohl 3mo ago
If anything, LLMs make it easier to choose from a broad set of options. The tradeoffs are the same as pre-LLM days, but the learning curve is more favorable.
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by pohl 3mo ago
I was also tempted to offer GEB as a better example, although I’ve read it twice. Many bounce off of it.
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by pohl 3mo ago
I bought one a couple months ago. It feels strange to have a computer appreciate in value.
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by pohl 3mo ago
The government would need to sell their position in order to have gains.
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by pohl 3mo ago
Counterpoint: modern fighters need higher-performance engines not just for thrust but also to run and cool more and more electronics. Arguably both are underpowered from where they need to be.
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by pohl 3mo ago
We already know that he doesn’t read the PDB, and that they even tried sprinkling his own name throughout the text to hold his interest.
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by pohl 3mo ago
This should be an open standard like AGENTS.md or skills. What do other harnesses do?
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by pohl 3mo ago
It wouldn’t matter if they had. He’s doesn’t listen to anything he doesn’t want to hear. At this point one can safely assume that he was told exactly how this strategic defeat would play out, and it went in one ear and out the other.
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by pohl 3mo ago
I knew before clicking it was the 80 column card.
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by pohl 3mo ago
Part of that traditional naval success has come from having presidents not stepping on their own dicks.
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by pohl 4mo ago
Been wanting to play this. Alas, macOS support is table stakes for me.
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by pohl 4mo ago
What a great way to defang them long term.
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by pohl 4mo ago
It’s easy to imagine an organization with a paranoid security posture ending up with that configuration because they decided to only enable a minimum necessary feature set where they determined that JS was necessary while WASM was not.
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by pohl 4mo ago
I wonder why he didn't argue against the point by using an actual billionaire to illustrate. Instead he chose someone who is not a billionaire, and imagined them becoming one with nine and a half months of constant 93% growth. Couldn&
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by pohl 4mo ago
There’s no reason to invent your own head canon, the influence was openly acknowledged when Swift was new and it continues now that the language is developed out in the open (see Swift Ownership Manifesto)
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by pohl 4mo ago
My salary adjustment didn’t doesn’t keep up with inflation, but his ability to monetize his position in public office far outstrips it. Why would he care? He can point a firehose of public money straight into his own pocket with no conseque
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by pohl 4mo ago
Also, one of the session videos illustrated the content with an app for keeping track of one's fleet of paper airplanes.
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by pohl 4mo ago
So they’re taking advantage of the marketing push behind Disclosure Day hitting theaters to make a stupid “aliens” pun about immigration. What a bunch of dimwit fascist tools.
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by pohl 4mo ago
I overshot their requirements as well. I wanted them to have a clear view.
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by pohl 4mo ago
When one is talking about two things gradually diverging, isn't "drift" a natural, descriptive verb to reach for? I've heard it often when discussing an implementation diverging from a specification, for example.
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by pohl 4mo ago
People do delete their own comments after they've had a moment to consider what they've written. It's an honorable thing to do, IMO.
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by pohl 5mo ago
Great clip. Where was he going with the bit about physics? I didn’t quite follow.
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by pohl 5mo ago
Don't miss that you can click through to aperiodictable.com to see it live. Also: when did everyone stop calling this quasiperiodic and start calling it aperiodic? I feel like the almost-but-not-quite translational symmetry was a usefu

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