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by refactor_master 2mo ago
But your choice of funny variable names is not a craft, and you’re not a craftsman if you think it matters. What matters is extensibility, maintainability and value delivered. I care how the food tastes, not that the chef has a really cool
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by refactor_master 2mo ago
This reminds me of the Go Grandmaster speaking out after losing to AlphaGo, that the model has no sense of "aesthetic play", as long as it would lead to a win within the rules.
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by refactor_master 3mo ago
What properties does this have that somehow allows one to essentially predict the market or a proxy thereof, when seemingly nothing else can? Or did I get that part wrong? It might take you from nothing to technically—a-market-fit, but from
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by refactor_master 3mo ago
Is that why their laptops routinely beat the competition year after year in reviews and reliability surveys? Because they “look cool”? I’m going to need some more numbers on that one.
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by refactor_master 3mo ago
I still remember one course where the lectures were basically just 1:1 summaries of the textbook, so I said "This is a waste of time. See you at the exam", and many of the more traditional showing-up-is-half-the-battle crowd were
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by refactor_master 3mo ago
Some years ago people also said “Japanese bears are harmless, shy and fear humans” and now the country is experiencing a slowly approaching bear-pocalypse, with bear attacks occurring in densely populated suburbs. I don’t see how wolves in
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by refactor_master 3mo ago
> why romaji is actually good It isn't. It falls slightly apart in the `s` column, and completely in the `t` column which contains both "chi" and "tsu". It also breaks for godan words that end in "u" wh
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by refactor_master 3mo ago
> Google is your friend But really, it's more like tolerated business partner, right?
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by refactor_master 3mo ago
Yes, the most of its safety comes after you compile the graph. In that sense, it's "compile-safe" strictly speaking, which puts it on par with DuckDBs validation step. But you don't need to load any data to validate the
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by refactor_master 3mo ago
The better question is, why is DuckDB so popular when one can use Polars which has a sane, lintable, typesafe API compared to the mess that is SQL: WITH lagged AS ( SELECT *, LAG(event_time) OVER (PARTITION B
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by refactor_master 4mo ago
The level of nested ifs is just pure insanity. Is this COBOL forcing this kind of style?
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by refactor_master 4mo ago
It's like when Bill Gates tried to guess grocery prices. "How much memory does a regular computer have? I don't know, 50 GB? Like a small EC2?"
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by refactor_master 4mo ago
> So, if we had an AI demonstrating symptoms of consciousness and suffering, how long would it take for you to accept that it is? Could an AI one day be suffering while plowing through some nasty legacy code? Well, who cares, I'll s
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by refactor_master 4mo ago
> We don't act like this in society Did you miss the part where the convention was ratified by 180+ countries, because clearly society can't just take a seat?
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by refactor_master 4mo ago
If I log into my system it's safe. If someone reads my password off my screen post-it and logs into my system it's quite thoroughly compromised. How would you demonstrate which of the two sessions are compromised, during the act?
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by refactor_master 4mo ago
It's actually even simpler than that. The airplane isn't just a "private business, and you shouldn't mess with their space". They're protected and empowered by broadly ratified conventions (which includes virtu
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by refactor_master 4mo ago
Before LLM you could sum up the web as the hamburger menu, bootstrap and materialize. Even Apple threw everything in a hamburger at some point.
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by refactor_master 4mo ago
If anything, China proves that 996 is not sustainable as it simply leads to involution and attrition. At best the populace benefits in a few hyper-focused industries such as take-out and e-commerce, but average life quality is still far beh
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by refactor_master 4mo ago
After a refreshing walk it suddenly occurred to me - I had forgotten to add "make no mistakes".
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by refactor_master 4mo ago
I've found programming books good at what the internet isn't always: a cohesive story/presentation meant for a broad audience. I've enjoyed reading some more style-oriented books, largely ignoring beyond the gist. Learni
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by refactor_master 4mo ago
In the realm of statistics, not so. If you're right on the limit of detectability, robust experimental design is necessary to avoid assigning meaning to noise.
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by refactor_master 4mo ago
Especially with a bug. Why think about it when you can just feed a stack trace to AI and wait 2 more minutes?
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by refactor_master 4mo ago
We're already having coffee breaks when AWS and CloudFlare are down. What's another break in the mix? If anything, we might be lucky that they're down at the same time, so we can consolidate the breaks.
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by refactor_master 4mo ago
> Don't forget that very very detailed spec is actually the code The tests, sure. But certainly not the code itself, as that sits far too close to the implementation (i.e. it is the implementation). An almost infinite number of impl
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by refactor_master 4mo ago
Maybe humanity will have more babies when AI takes over, capitalism implodes and we’re all farming and crafting things from scratch, since we’re forced out of the “economy”. The house always… wins?
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by refactor_master 4mo ago
Some of the figures are downright atrocious quality and are found in better quality on Wikipedia. It’s almost an insult to paying subscribers and contributors of Springer.
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by refactor_master 4mo ago
Surely you mean grab a coffee and sit back down at your desk in your corporate office, because working remotely while your agent also does so is just preposterous.
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by refactor_master 5mo ago
Still baffles the mind that Apple solved this issue some 20+ years ago, and others _still_ haven't. I remember being basically surrounded by jet engines running Word in school. A few years ago in an old job I got a monster-specced Dell
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by refactor_master 5mo ago
Is there any other editor that comes close to JetBrain's Git integration? All I see is forks of forks of VSCode, and I'm wondering what the incremental gain of yet another does-the-basic-text-editing editors we need. This is in no
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by refactor_master 5mo ago
Can someone give me a sound argument for why, when these things supposedly hold: - LLMs scale with amount of data on the subject - Even frontier labs themselves have a hard time gauging exactly how well-performing models are, across a qu

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