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by riwsky 4y ago
obligatory: https://xkcd.com/2617/
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by riwsky 4y ago
Under your definition, humans don’t have world models either. If you just gave someone the move sequences, and no other knowledge of Othello, they too would have no way to be 100% sure that other moves won’t show up. It’s not a very useful
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by riwsky 4y ago
is sad to see it go
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by riwsky 4y ago
“Functional Programming—When and Where”
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by riwsky 4y ago
3x spend may well be impossible for some places—but maybe that means great UI is impossible for them, too. The fact that I can’t afford a Ferrari does not magically make “the best car I can afford” be as good as a Ferrari.
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by riwsky 4y ago
Respond to my skywriting on the subject of error-handling, you coward! That plane was expensive and my opinions are important!
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by riwsky 4y ago
What a coincidence—this is also the year of the Linux desktop!
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by riwsky 4y ago
Article not what you were hoping for? You probably wanted: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_eponymous_laws Samples: Hofstadter's law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account
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by riwsky 4y ago
Frameworks being imperfect doesn’t mean devs can do better without them. The libraries a-la-carte approach makes it very easy to mess up cross-cutting concerns like security, a fact the clojure community has known for a while now: https:&#
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by riwsky 4y ago
A close analogue is medical records; when HIPAA says patients should be able to access data for 10 years, that means “even if you go out of business”. Companies need to set up escrow that’d cover the cost of later retrieval.
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by riwsky 4y ago
Read “On Writing Well”, by William Zinsser. Journalism schools often assign it to first-years. I speak English natively, and have no trouble with grammar. It still made me better at my job. --- Would not be interested in paying for the app.
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by riwsky 4y ago
"They are vulnerable to reproducing poor quality training data" (Peter Norvig, in the article)
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by riwsky 4y ago
ahhh, but you forgot the axiom of choice! now something exists, but we have no idea what it is!
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by riwsky 4y ago
> I’m usually the smartest guy in the room Taking you at your word, here: being the smartest in the room might be making things harder for you, not easier! If you’re regularly figuring stuff out in the first five minutes of a meeting to
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by riwsky 4y ago
Back in the nineties, I walked out of a training session on animal capture and flew to a little island in the south. I was surfing its eastern shore, when my vision began to flash. W̴̯͊̉̄͗̇͛h̷̻̯̗̖̝͖͓͗̇̆͒̈́̏͑͛͜a̶͉͔̗̖̘̹̾̓̂̑̈́͗̈̅͋̎͜t̷̼͓̋̈́̓̑̉̔̚͝
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by riwsky 4y ago
I wonder how many years we have left until a given comment on any web forum is more than likely bot generated
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by riwsky 4y ago
If by “technology”, you mean just “web services and browsers thereof”—then yes, sure.
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by riwsky 4y ago
Too much work. At that point, it’s easier to just hack the LastPass servers.
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by riwsky 4y ago
Knowledge like this used to spread naturally—physically sitting with a junior engineer, muscle memory would make any shortcut-fu gaps painfully clear. That’s not as visceral in remote pairing, and doesn’t show up at all in async processes l
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by riwsky 4y ago
Also data structures, don’t forget.
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by riwsky 4y ago
How dare you suggest adding more engineers to a slowing project, now of all times?
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by riwsky 4y ago
what stops you from reviewing the sed one-liner that created the diff, instead?
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by riwsky 4y ago
> where you do everything right everything except for, as Suhail points out, picking the wrong side of a technical trend to bet on. All the technical wizardry in the world can't save you from bad strategy.
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by riwsky 4y ago
breaking news: local pig cannot fly, more at 11
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by riwsky 4y ago
[Immediately sees another comment point out that the author is a high schooler.] It's still bullshit! But the infraction is not severe enough to merit trial as an adult! I hereby remand the case to juvenile court! [Gavel: Bang! Bang!]
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by riwsky 4y ago
From the desk of Harry G. Frankfurt: The liar cares about the truth and attempts to hide it; the bullshitter doesn't care if what they say is true or false, but cares only whether the listener is persuaded.
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by riwsky 4y ago
They’re out there—but I just ran EXPLAIN ANALYZE on my company’s search for them, and the query planner’s not too happy. It has to scan the entire resume heap before doing an on-site join with candidates, all while dealing with resource con
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by riwsky 4y ago
Database: slow. Ruby: not slow. Our next steps are clear: we must reimplement the database using ruby.
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by riwsky 4y ago
“40% replicability” of a field doesn’t distinguish between “4 100% replicable studies + 6 0% replicable studies” and “10 40% replicable studies”, full-stops notwithstanding.
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by riwsky 4y ago
Legit. You can do nicer than that in Helix’s defaults, but you're right that it won't match d-8-up’s concision: instead of 8-up-9-x-d ("8-move up-9-select whole lines below-delete"), you can do v-9-up-x-d, ("select-

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