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by steve_adams_86 5mo ago
Why would I extend the creative energy to figure out how to look punk when I can get the shirt for just $49.99
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I’ve been finding I can mitigate the sense of being overwhelmed by trying to keep my tasks within the same domain or part of the code base. I know it’s not always an option, though. I guess the goal is to stack context rather than spread it
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by steve_adams_86 5mo ago
Location: Victoria, BC, Canada Remote: Flexible Willing to relocate: No Technologies: TypeScript, Node.js, Deno, Go, SQL (mostly psql, duckdb, sqlite), React, Vue, Docker, Full-stack, AWS Résumé/CV: https://steve
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by steve_adams_86 5mo ago
I think the competition will be incredible for bringing new idea and new challenges into the field. I’m all for it. I’ve never had to think harder about what’s worth doing and what’s possible, and I love it.
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by steve_adams_86 5mo ago
You’re right. I have a friend who works in landscape architecture and he’s getting up to really cool things involving parametric modelling tools. Stuff he couldn’t easily do with off-the-shelf software is now attainable and he’s going wild
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by steve_adams_86 5mo ago
My very limited experience in this space is that measuring uploads is actually quite a bit trickier and harder to nail down than download speeds
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Apparently it takes roughly the same amount of time as raising a child
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Such a good example of this I encountered recently: I was on a fishing trip. I asked the charter if he’d want to check out a free app I work on ( https://oceanconnect.ca ) in case it might be useful for his work. I don’t know how
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by steve_adams_86 5mo ago
I’m not convinced my demographic is discriminated against so much as the playing field is levelled to some degree, because discrimination already occurred in our favour. The nice thing about regulated discrimination is that it can be an edi
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My hope is that people working with less resources will need to push on ingenuity to do more with less, leading to innovations. But there’s certainly no guarantee of it
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I would say this is exactly where you want that kind of policy. At the bottom, where you’re cultivating what will end up at the top. You want the diversity of ideas for exactly the reasons you stated. People get upset as though this policy
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We could have just stopped at Backbone. It had everything you needed, if you were a real engineer.
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I got nothing out of working like that 10/15 years ago but my employers certainly did. I may have thought it was cool and in line with my passion and desire to learn and ship cool things, but I was plainly taken advantage of. I’m willi
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by steve_adams_86 5mo ago
> engineering in video gaming is generally more complex This tracks with my experience. Games present so many unexpected challenges. Or, known and expected challenges that are challenging nonetheless. The other place I've had my ass
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I absolutely love deterministic, reliable, robust software so I find the challenge of non-deterministic agents completely fascinating and exciting. Programming for the user has always been a challenge (especially in the browser where the en
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by steve_adams_86 5mo ago
I suspect you're right, but the alternative is finding better cookbooks I suppose. I've found incredible books in the last 5 years or so that have transformed my kitchen. I don't think an LLM could do that. To be fair, I have
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by steve_adams_86 5mo ago
Haha, no, not at all. Maybe I've been spending too much time with the robots.
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I use it for triaging my messages and emails and reminding me how all of it ties together. It uses Obsidian to know where to put stuff and how to connect information. It isn't perfect. It's very slow (using a 32GB M2 Max) but fast
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by steve_adams_86 5mo ago
This was great. I think about this a lot and have for years now. When LLMs first showed up I thought “but doesn’t this take away a little bit of what my life is? Don’t I like programming and solving the problems and learning the unexpected
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by steve_adams_86 5mo ago
> I'm writing this post at the time when AI is able to write code on a par with a senior developer, which is something that forces me to consider these systems to be much more sophisticated beings than mere stochastic parrots. I can
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In a way the brevity of the dive is what makes the experience so special to me. Each time I go back down I have the sense that every moment counts, I need to be connected to the experience, and my senses take in every detail. I'm truly
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Return To Office
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It's a typical colonial take on agriculture. People flourished without it but we seem to be stuck with revisionist history around the topic. People also seem to think hunter-gatherers were always struggling, and while it did happen, th
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by steve_adams_86 5mo ago
From my perspective, they aren’t making it. It have a sense of relief that I’m content with so much less. Yesterday I made some sourdough bread and it was so gratifying. They cost around 70 cents CAD when you break down the costs for flour,
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> and that's pretty important to me The older I get, the more I realize what a critical component of personal and social relationships it is, and how deeply it reinforces virtually everything good in society. There's never a go
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> I think that it's not a multiplier on skills. I'm not sure. It's a reducer on time to refine and adopt skills, if you're interested. I know that's somewhat pedantic, but there really is a skill multiplier if th
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> Works like a Swiss clock It really is such a pleasure. It feels almost like a blend of JS and Go. Fast, flexible, slightly saner package management with more powerful capabilities than other JS/TS alternatives, a better security m
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There are still some points of friction, but I'm content with it otherwise. The problems Deno resolves for me far outweigh the problems it introduces these days. I think the inflection point was roughly a year ago for me. Prior to that
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I want to agree, and I do in part, but I don’t believe Smith is a particularly democratic actor and there’s more happening here that shouldn’t occur in a democracy.
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> These things do not work without institutional and military support, and the left trying to make this out to be a serious threat played a big part in their loss of credibility. I don’t think it was a threat in that sense; I think it sp

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