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by refactor_master 5mo ago
I only know chartreuse from the liquor. I thought it was green though.
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by refactor_master 6mo ago
If you’re an employee who can finish their work 25% faster but you’re not getting a 4-day work week, what are the incentives for not introducing creep?
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by refactor_master 6mo ago
Most people in dense urban areas would actually pay less. By going vertical you’re freezing a whole m2 that was otherwise necessarily occupied by the fridge. In most places, 300 kWh is much cheaper than an extra irrevocable m2 for your fr
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by refactor_master 6mo ago
> The real move for the autoworker was sideways, not upward: industrial maintenance, tool and die work, welding, industrial electrical work, construction trades, trucking, or logistics. But in an AI post-work future, all the sideways mov
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by refactor_master 6mo ago
To add to this, voicing is also a way for Japanese words to become more “coherent”, the same way you write “dislike-chopsticks” as one combined noun, and not “dislike chopsticks”.
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by refactor_master 6mo ago
Well that certainly depends on the establishment. I’ve picked out plenty of splinters here in Japan.
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by refactor_master 6mo ago
How does Zuban manage to be developed by what appears to be a single person without megacorp backing, yet be mere inches behind pyright at this stage?
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by refactor_master 7mo ago
I think it’s relevant to first read [1] to see why they’re doing this. It’s basically done as a meme. [1] https://motherduck.com/blog/big-data-is-dead/
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by refactor_master 7mo ago
If A vibes, and B is overwhelmed with noise, how does B reliably go through it? If using AI, this necessarily faces the same problems that recording all A's actions was trying to solve in the first place, and we'd be stuck in a ne
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by refactor_master 7mo ago
Here’s a talk about leaning into the garbage flow. And that was a decade ago. https://youtu.be/E8Lhqri8tZk I can’t imagine the number being economically meaningful now.
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by refactor_master 7mo ago
Yes, even ferries in Scandinavia can be roads when it makes for a better map… Or not ferries in the Mediterranean when it doesn’t. Honestly I think this part > The resulting images bring insights into the ways in which road infrastructur
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by refactor_master 8mo ago
Yes, that seems to hold for rocks. But that doesn’t shut down the original post’s premise, unless you hold the answer to what can and cannot be banged together to create emergent intelligence.
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by refactor_master 8mo ago
I think it's meant to be taken more in the abstract. Yes, LLM can refuse your request, and yes you can ask it to prepend "have you checked that it already exists?", but it can't directly challenge your super long-range a
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by refactor_master 8mo ago
It’s interesting then to ask if this will behave the same as big orgs? Eg once your org is big and settled, anything but the core product and adjacent services become impossible, which is why 23 often see a 50-person company out-innovating
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by refactor_master 8mo ago
But the code you’re writing is guard railed by your oversight, the tests you decide on and the type checking. So whether you’re writing the spec code out by hand or ask an LLM to do it is besides the point if the code is considered a means
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by refactor_master 8mo ago
Maybe I was stupid or maybe it just doesn’t hit the same way if you don’t grow up in the US, but I remember not being terribly fascinated by it as a 90s kid. In fact, I found it kind of uncanny that the world felt so… disconnected. I later
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by refactor_master 8mo ago
Hell, my bed is on the floor, and my sofa is now also a pillow on the floor.
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by refactor_master 8mo ago
I still get made-up Python types all the time with Gemini. Really quite distracting when your codebase is massive and triggers a type error, and Gemini says "To solve it you just need to use WrongType[ThisCannotBeUsedHere[Object]]&quot
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by refactor_master 9mo ago
I think this is a classic old-vs-new tale. I started my PhD in biochemical research where analyzing data by hand was definitely a "craft" in some aspects. Later I forewent going to the lab entirely and instead spent all my time on
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by refactor_master 9mo ago
But that’s more of a theoretical truth than a practical one, isn’t it? High quality novels are easily found. TikTok videos of equally high quality and depth? Perhaps not so, or exceedingly rarely. Infinite monkeys with infinite time could s
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by refactor_master 9mo ago
So now every fraudster with $5 appears legitimate? Remember blue check marks? The EU is not happy about those. https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_25_...
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by refactor_master 9mo ago
I’m interested in earnings correlating with feature releases. Maybe you’re pushing 100% more bugs, but if you can sell twice as many buggy features as your neighbor at the same time, it could be that you could land more contracts. It’s defi
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by refactor_master 9mo ago
I second the persistence. Some of the most persistent code we own is because it’s untested and poorly written, but managed to become critical infrastructure early on. Most new tests are best-effort black box tests and guesswork, since the c
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by refactor_master 10mo ago
The crusade against gluten probably did it. Tofu lives as un-refrigerated grey blobs and tempeh never even made it to the shelf, probably because of hormone-disrupting soybeans. But hyper-engineered single cell meat ? Now that’ll sell.
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by refactor_master 10mo ago
Gemini routinely makes up stuff about BigQuery’s workings. “It’s poorly documented”. Well, read the open source code, reason it out. Makes you wonder what 97% is worth. Would we accept a different service with only 97% availability, and all
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by refactor_master 10mo ago
I think group 3 is a bit of a reach. Most people just treat it as a commodity. You need a break after shopping? Coffee. Meeting someone to talk over something for 30 minutes? Coffee. Need a cozy place to sit and get some work done? Coffee.
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by refactor_master 10mo ago
> We shall be able to rid ourselves of many of the pseudo-moral principles which have hag-ridden us for two hundred years Still haven’t gotten rid of work for work’s sake being a virtue, which explains everything else. Welfare? You don’t
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by refactor_master 10mo ago
> Go to any Asian country and houses, healthcare and cars are priced like commodities, not luxuries. What do you mean? Several Asian cities have housing crises far worse than the US in local purchasing power, and I'd even argue that
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by refactor_master 10mo ago
If you've ever read a blog on trading when LSTMs came out, you'd have seen all sorts of weird stuff with predicting the price at t+1 on a very bad train/test split, where the author would usually say "it predicts t+1 wit
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by refactor_master 10mo ago
Originally I used Pandera, but it had several issues last * Mypy dependency and really bad PEP compliance * Sub-optimal runtime check decorators * Subclasses pd.DataFrame, so using e.g. .assign(...) makes the type checker think it's st

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