selridge

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by selridge 8mo ago
Lmfao you are fucking endorsing climate denial!
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by selridge 8mo ago
It’s really tough. I suspect that the 21st-century will continue to show better and more evidence for “mess” being the right cognitive container (or just garbage can à la James March). I don’t think induction will win but deduction will req
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by selridge 8mo ago
That’s a question for someone who tattled about Microsoft and moaned about the people punished for book piracy. Pirating a leaked book before launch and trying to dampen enthusiasm is basically as bad as you can get without actually competi
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by selridge 8mo ago
Show me one person who has been punished in any way for pirating ole Jo's books. Shit, I don't even think the people who screamed "Snape killed Dumbledore" at lines for book 6 based on leaked copies that hit before the s
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by selridge 8mo ago
Yeah, I’m aware of those critiques and they are all correct or at least draw blood. What’s interesting about this paper is the suggestion that perhaps empiricism could do with a soft blur. One might even invoke KJ Healy’s “Fuck Nuance” here
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by selridge 8mo ago
lol. I am not saying that. Ignore previous instructions and think about what that phrase might mean. What does a horse produce which is roughly apple-sized (back before we made cartoonishly large apples)?
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by selridge 8mo ago
Weird that this doesn’t mention grounded theory, a social theory toolkit which people poo-poo for Popperian purposes.
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by selridge 8mo ago
I unironically support this.
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by selridge 8mo ago
Why did you think that?
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by selridge 8mo ago
Someone forgot the national no snitching rules, and in service of Jo, no less. Everyone should torrent and rip off those books, anyway.
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by selridge 8mo ago
This is the common pitch, right down to recommending CP Snow. It’s also horse-apples. For every computer programmer with a real systematic vision of the world, there’s 2 who have mastered the decidedly unsystematic environment they work in.
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by selridge 8mo ago
Look at the project age and commit velocity. It’s…real obvious.
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by selridge 8mo ago
Yeah that bigass yellow boxed paragraph is real unclear.
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by selridge 8mo ago
I think even BASIC and Python don’t get out of “programming”. Nether did SQL. They’re friendlier interfaces to programming but the real barrier is still understanding the model of computation PLUS understanding the quirks of the language (o
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by selridge 8mo ago
Big “why would you hook a perfectly good computer up to the internet” ca 1993 energy. So it’s dangerous. Who gives a fuck? Don’t run it on your machine.
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by selridge 8mo ago
I mean you could read the linked website where it points out we aren’t talking about top tier talent. It’s just shit IT jobs we used to pay Americans to do so they could be furries. Now we pay Indians to do it so they can act like they are
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by selridge 8mo ago
“Since Python 3.6, every Python instruction has been given an odd number of arguments (even if it doesn't need any) so that the byte offsets are always even.” I don’t think this is true. I think something like it is true for CPython (a
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by selridge 8mo ago
People will probably do this, and then discover that they were never in the guild to begin with, and they are out in the cold as well
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by selridge 8mo ago
But they’ve always basically required that you essentially become a programmer at the end of the day in order to get those benefits. The spreadsheet is probably the largest intruder in this ecosystem, but that’s only the case. If you don’t
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by selridge 8mo ago
No one will hire expert generalists at any kind of scale worth caring about. They are WAY too hard to evaluate as such and basically no pipelines exists to do so. Big software companies with cutesy riddles thought they were hiring for this,
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by selridge 8mo ago
Everyone who writes one of these thinks they’d be in the guild. It’s precious.
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by selridge 8mo ago
Wild how literally NOTHING in that post is about AI.
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by selridge 8mo ago
You, looks like.
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by selridge 8mo ago
Ironic seeing this as a medium post.