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by scubbo 2y ago
> more like an attack on DOGE "More like" that than what? That's exactly, explicitly, what it is.
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by scubbo 2y ago
No, that wasn't what I was saying. I was asked a tangential question about which language I preferred; and considering the language _itself_ rather than the ecosystem, I find that Python is the one that typically "just works"
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by scubbo 2y ago
Be thankful you haven't encountered the clusterfuck that is the Go Language :P
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by scubbo 2y ago
> Is “noop” the special case you are referring to? "Well, yes, but actually no". It's _not_ a noop - to publish a new version of a library in GoLang requires tagging a commit in the source code repo. This, in turn, is tric
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by scubbo 2y ago
Hard to pick between Python and TypeScript - they have different strengths. TypeScript's type system is more useful (you'd hope, given the name!), but Python "just works" more often for simple use-cases IME (though I hav
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by scubbo 2y ago
After dealing with constant build issues with Go, I hate Go so much. The fact that they've conflated "source code" with "consumable library" means that you need a special case in your CI to publish new versions of a
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by scubbo 2y ago
How so? (Genuine question, not a challenge - I hadn't heard the terms "distilled/distillation" in an AI context until this thread)
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by scubbo 2y ago
The choice of criteria is left up to the answerer. Pick your favourite(s)!
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by scubbo 2y ago
For two reasons, both related to the Principle of Least Astonishment: * Because the likelihood that someone entering `echo --help` _actually_ wants to print `--help` is staggeringly low * Because it's not the "single solitary stri
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by scubbo 2y ago
"Simple language" is often used as shorthand for "a language in which it is simple to express ideas", rather than "a language with few features". A language can, in fact, have many features and still be simple(
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by scubbo 2y ago
Exceptions to rules cause mental overhead and maintenance headaches. Why should `echo` be the single solitary tool that responds differently to invocation with `--help`?
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by scubbo 2y ago
> I've used one such treatment What brand? I've been wanting to figure out a squirrel deterrant for my bird feeder, and personal recommendations are always greatly preferred to ads.
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by scubbo 2y ago
"Informative" and "entertaining" are both valid goals for non-fiction writing (and, indeed, fiction writing, if you squint enough to recognize that it can convey "information about how people think/feel/ac
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by scubbo 2y ago
I genuinely can't tell if this is a joke or not. I've only _once_ in my life encountered a tool that didn't have `--help` support (and that was a script written by the worst coworker I've ever suffered), but plenty of ti
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by scubbo 2y ago
Great write-up, thank you! I used Zig for (most of) Advent Of Code last year, and while I did get up-to-speed on it faster than I did with Rust the previous year, I think that was just Second (low-level) Language syndrome. Having experience
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by scubbo 2y ago
That's entirely contrary to my understanding and implementation of GTD - which is to have daily "scans" of my inboxes to see what tasks have come in since the last scan, bucket them into the appropriate categories/lists&
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by scubbo 2y ago
To anyone else who's puzzled by how this could be possible to beat - after fighting an enemy, you need to click the square _again_ to collect the diamonds ("XP", I guess?) to allow you to level up.
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by scubbo 2y ago
I'm a Brit who's lived in America for ~8.5 years. There are plenty of differences in language usage that I've observed, but this isn't one of them. Curious to know what they meant by this.
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by scubbo 2y ago
Grrrr, this is such a bugbear for me. I was so excited to read "A Fire Upon The Deep" because hackers talked up the concept of "software archeology" that the book apparently introduced. The concept is briefly alluded to
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by scubbo 2y ago
I, too, hate this future. This[0] might be a satisfying way to fight back. [0] https://zadzmo.org/code/nepenthes/
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by scubbo 2y ago
Thank you for explaining that phrase! I couldn't find it with a quick Google.
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by scubbo 2y ago
Hmm, fair, my definition certainly doesn't apply to CCD ("we do it because Google does it") - but I still maintain (as a child commenter elaborates) that there's a difference between "the reason I'm doing this
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by scubbo 2y ago
Right, yes, exactly this. Using a tool or process without full understanding of its operation, or how to use it in different ways, is not _ideal_ - but it's a different thing (similar! but different) from "doing something just bec
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by scubbo 2y ago
> a cargo cult works But...it doesn't? That's the whole definitional point of it. If action A _does_ lead to outcome B, then "if we do A, then B will happen" is not a cargo cult perspective, it's just fact.
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by scubbo 2y ago
> It's timely that Oxford 'academics' have no idea what 'brain rot' means but Urban Dictionary (A wiki) gets it right. I have never seen Brain Rot used consistently with any of the UD definitions, and always cons
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by scubbo 2y ago
That is true _in general_, but not in this specific case (hence why I specified "not over the timescale being explored here"). A modern cigarette-lighter would indeed have been a life-changing tool to a caveman but is indeed dispo
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by scubbo 2y ago
Could you elaborate on this statement? It sounds like you're implying something, but it's not clear what.
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by scubbo 2y ago
Holy false-equivalency, Batman! The definitions of "useless toy / lifechanging tool" are _not_ changing over time (or, at least, not over the timescale being explored here), whereas the expectations and requirements of proces
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Frankly, I could care less
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by scubbo 2y ago
Personally, I can say that I just gained a whole _ton_ of respect for you for your ability to learn a lesson, to admit that you made a mistake, and not to double-down on insistence that LLMs are Good, Actually. I hope my message didn't

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