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by riwsky 2y ago
Errr, help me understand where I'm diverging, here. The way you put "mechanistic" in quotes in your original comment strongly suggests that you doubt the experience can be mechanistically explained. Maybe that wasn't y
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I mean, yes: if we insist on putting all the sciencey words in “scare quotes”, instead of the Wikipedia search box, then we do not end up with much understanding or interest. But if we stopped doing that, we might learn, say, that the place
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You can’t imagine placebo.
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Two of the best books for software engineers are actually not specific to software engineering: * “The Design of Everyday Things”. Have you ever pushed on a pull door, or vice-versa, because it was unclear how it worked? Designers call
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It’s a mood.
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It is, however, about turtles.
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It’s a lisp, so arguably you can abstract away “actually writing the code” too, behind macros
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Market forces: the ultimate garbage collector
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Sure, comprehensibility is the terminal goal—but size reduction is relevant because it’s an easily measured, decently predictive proxy for that. No, code-golfing 3 lines down to one doesn’t help, but the bigger size differences are always o
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Artificial Intelligence changes; human stupidity remains the same
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We did that for tobacco, though? It was a huge public health win?
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“Someone autoformatted the whole thing under new settings at the same time as introducing a new feature” is hardly a monorepo problem. That could be a pain in the ass to review even in a single file. But the flip-side, of someone cleanly wa
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The support for remote or in-docker development has been an issue, personally. Terminal editors and VSCode are much more “it just works” in this regard, especially when joining codebases that used docker to isolate all the dependencies to a
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Mermaid even has experimental support for plantUML-format C4: https://mermaid.js.org/syntax/c4.html
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Share button does that, at least
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FromSoft would like a word.
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Remember when they tried to king George Washington?
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Yes. In particular, it means you can switch from depending on a concrete type (say, a whole S3Client) vs depending on just a much smaller interface (eg if you only want GetObject) without having to touch anyone else’s code. The compiler wil
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“jj commit” = “jj describe; jj new”. Basically, jj doesn’t force you to wait until you’re “done” with some work to write the VCS message for it.
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“There should be one, and preferably only one, obvious way to do it—xor it’s packaging”
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Engineering is tradeoffs; the whole concept of quality only makes sense in the context of a certain budget. If an engineer takes two weeks hand-crafting some one-off charts in d3 and react that could’ve been done uglier in some BI dashboard
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by riwsky 2y ago
I’m aware. The context of dataflow’s original inquiry is of some mechanism to prevent a large corporation forking a codebase and running away with users; Google didn’t need to close the Chromium source to pull that off.
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Darwinism, one might say.
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It didn’t: that’s the joke.
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I don’t think you’re pro-slavery, but I do think you picked a metaphor not for the light it sheds on the issue, but the heat—and then preemptively dismissed a strawman objection to it instead of, say, improving your own communication.
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What I’m hearing is that years of improv classes, telling me to avoid asking questions but instead yes-and to establish facts, has made me autistic?
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Cooking turkey in a vacuum… sous vide is your idea of easy? Props, dude!
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This again?
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Best practices
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Statistics has a semantics all its own

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