recursivedoubts

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by recursivedoubts 7d ago
why is there no scroll bar in this article?
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by recursivedoubts 11d ago
We are too rich to be able to afford things like Sears Roebuck houses now.
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by recursivedoubts 17d ago
It is an age of consolidation.
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Ironies of Automation [pdf](static1.squarespace.com)
6 points by recursivedoubts 21d ago|1 comments
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by recursivedoubts 21d ago
This 1983 paper on ironies of manufacturing engineering was referred to me on twitter, and I think it makes many excellent observations that apply to post-AI coding, e.g.: > By taking away the easy parts of his task, automation can make
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by recursivedoubts 21d ago
I intentionally try to foster friendships with all sort of different people with obviously different political positions. Many of them are very far left and very far right and very far in a third direction i have trouble articulating, in w
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by recursivedoubts 23d ago
> Why it matters Continue to pray to Yellowstone. Concentrate on the magma chamber. We can end it here, we can end it for all time.
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by recursivedoubts 27d ago
you can check out fixi if you want to see a minimalist take on it: https://github.com/bigskysoftware/fixi/blob/master/fixi.js
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by recursivedoubts 28d ago
40 series landcruiser
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by recursivedoubts 29d ago
We will see. Changing things around a bit (especially flipping attribute inheritance to explicit by default) may confuse a lot of models. Oh well, it's the right thing ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Thank you for your kind words!
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by recursivedoubts 29d ago
Proof it wasn't AI generated! Thank you!
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by recursivedoubts 29d ago
this guy gets it
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by recursivedoubts 29d ago
great library, we link to it on our alternatives page
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by recursivedoubts 29d ago
htmx is based on the ideas of hypermedia, you can read the first chapter in our book on the topic here: https://hypermedia.systems/hypermedia-a-reintroduction/
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by recursivedoubts 29d ago
There's definitely something to this: I expect LLMs to hurt the adoption of htmx and most smaller web libraries. That's fine: it's always been a labor of love and is BSD 0, so I hope the ideas are interesting and that the pe
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by recursivedoubts 29d ago
with enough eyes all typos are shallow (it was a long night)
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by recursivedoubts 29d ago
Yep, fixed
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by recursivedoubts 29d ago
lol sorry about that, had a fix sitting in four-dev, merged to four and pushed, should be updated
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by recursivedoubts 29d ago
oh man that's embarassing, someone made that on twitter I didn't realize it was from omarchy, I've removed it, my bad
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by recursivedoubts 1mo ago
Even w/the pricing spike, inflation adjusted we are back to roughly the prices of a new Mac SE/30 for something that can beat a turing test w/o sweating. I yield the floor to no one when it comes to pessimism, but that's
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by recursivedoubts 1mo ago
can you please use your mysterious new AI model to fix the back button on your webite?
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by recursivedoubts 1mo ago
Also keep in mind a 50% bonus in tokens is hiding the issue for many people and it's going away on the 30th: https://support.claude.com/en/articles/15910845-claude-code-...
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by recursivedoubts 1mo ago
If voting made a difference they wouldn't let us do it. Stop blaming the victims.
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by recursivedoubts 1mo ago
Jury nullification ain't sounding so bad anymore, is it?
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by recursivedoubts 1mo ago
I have created a be-terse plugin that appends > respond tersely in Simplified Technical English to every prompt to deal w/claudes insanity: https://github.com/bigskysoftware/be-terse*
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by recursivedoubts 1mo ago
Then everything includes itself in power, Power into will, will into appetite; And appetite, a universal wolf, So doubly seconded with will and usury, Must make perforce a universal prey, And last eat up himself.
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by recursivedoubts 1mo ago
I have a 2021 M1 pro and see no reason to upgrade it... ever? I do web & general java work on it and it's plenty fast even using a memory hog like IntelliJ (which is typically disk bound anyway). Claude tells me that a new macbook
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by recursivedoubts 1mo ago
This is one reason why I am very passionate about the debugger for teaching students CS: interacting with the language dynamically, seeing how function calls "stack" etc all make things much more tangible and allow students to con
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by recursivedoubts 2mo ago
I think the US helped Japan so that they wouldn't start dumping US treasuries to support the yen, making our already bad situation worse. I don't expect it to work as we are sitting down to a banquet of consequences.
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by recursivedoubts 2mo ago
"not x, but y" emdash through out if you can't be bothered to write it why should I bother to read it?

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