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by t-writescode 2mo ago
The last time we got similar results in the data (but not the text) was a Koch-backed study that a bunch of economists reviewed and went “so you’re saying we’d save 2 Trillion over 10 years relative the alternative?” https://pnhp
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by t-writescode 2mo ago
Is this quality improvements including or ignoring the 30-ish percent rejection rate of the most popular healthcare system, including such gems as insulin and pre-authorizations refusing surgery for necrotic tissue when “maybe they could PT
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by t-writescode 2mo ago
Honestly. They’re already performing miracles with RoR. How many non Ruby apps and all the databases and systems behind could climb their traffic 14x when they probably only perf-tested for a sustained 2-3x and, and paid for a profitable
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by t-writescode 2mo ago
Indeed. If you’re going to have an essay on top of a function or anywhere in code, earn the essay. That code better be operating on a ton of assumptions or using some creative logic to get to how it is that a simple reading doesn’t make sen
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by t-writescode 2mo ago
I mean, sometimes I don’t know how I want to write something until I’m finished. Huge refactors are often like this. So, just like you said, rewrite the whole thing, THEN break it apart into bite size chunks that tell the story and feed i
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by t-writescode 2mo ago
How? If one PR builds off another, won’t either: PR 1 is size 400 PR 2 is size 400 + 400 new PR 3 is size 800 + 400 new If they’re truly disjoint, would it be so bad to get them as unique? Because otherwise, when PRs depend on ea
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by t-writescode 2mo ago
AI passed the Turing Test empirically long ago. Further and more practically, they consistently convince millions of people that they are a real person with real intentions all the time, every day. They are so convincing that an emergent pr
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by t-writescode 2mo ago
Good point, I suppose conservative is the right word there. Its broader meaning has been a bit louder lately, so I didn’t think of it the right way there.
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by t-writescode 2mo ago
Why? They went to medical school and passed all the exams. Maybe they just like art.
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by t-writescode 2mo ago
Cringe is too powerful of an anti-motivator. Reminds me of when people wouldn’t listen to others because they had tattoos.
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by t-writescode 2mo ago
Is it obvious? Those existing APIs have known performance characteristics and deep integration into several other libraries. The moment you custom-roll your own root library, you break integration with all existing other libraries that depe
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by t-writescode 2mo ago
How many times have existing APIs made by experts in their fields had bugs. How many of those are you willing to let your own services and your customers’ data be hit by whole classes of bugs that battle-hardened APIs have already fixed? Yo
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by t-writescode 2mo ago
That’s definitely not true, and I’ll give two incredibly common examples: 1: arraylist. A library will probably do better than you. It’s already written and common. 2: webservers. Sure, you can write one yourself with sockets and a bunch of
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by t-writescode 2mo ago
It’s not about conservative vs progressive but about “safe, battle-tested, stable” vs “could be amazing future-tech”; and the idea of having a small number of innovative technologies, in particular where they matter, is about allowing yours
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by t-writescode 2mo ago
They already have a system for “prepaying”, but it can’t be used to put more credits into your account, they just sit there, waiting to be used by a future subscription.
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by t-writescode 2mo ago
That is an option for sure, but a very disappointing one. And it comes with a meaningful danger of ending up with 2 subscriptions: one yearly and one monthly. They really, really need to finish their “pay as you go” system. I don’t know why
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by t-writescode 2mo ago
Kagi does have AI too, for what it’s worth. I found it pretty damn good, but I wish I could give them more money. I have a year subscription so I’m stuck without being able to give them *anything* until it’s done.
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by t-writescode 2mo ago
No argument here.
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by t-writescode 2mo ago
If we cared enough to be effective, we would be subsidizing / encouraging local manufacture of all of those at a competitive, non-luxury price.
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by t-writescode 2mo ago
I guess I’m weird. I like refactoring ugly mud and doing performance improvements. I like working on the slow, intentional, process-driven flow of actually migrating services between versions safely. I don’t hate those and hope I get to kee
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by t-writescode 2mo ago
But then you end up in a state, 2 years down the line, where every single person that works in that code base haaaates it and adding any new functionality takes weeks or months. Compare that to clean, organized code where patterns and exten
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by t-writescode 2mo ago
Young people cringe too much. Personality is good. Why does everyone want to find themselves on a safe, but boring, ranking system? (I know why. It’s way safer and we’re in dangerous times. Conservative personalities grow in times of pain.
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by t-writescode 2mo ago
And by making it so that an employee can safely quit at any time without losing their ability to, you know, not get blasted by insane surprise bills - e.g. healthcare.
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by t-writescode 2mo ago
You have to have enough liquid to be able to invest. If basic needs aren’t being sufficiently eased, there’s no money left to invest.
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by t-writescode 2mo ago
And much of the time, that friend is the online friend.
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by t-writescode 2mo ago
Goodness, how is that being tolerated? I guess it can’t be stopped without a lot of political capital; but 16k lines of code is HUGE, and I cannot imagine that it’s actually 16k lines of value - I’ve written whole new subsystems of a produc
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by t-writescode 2mo ago
> Ditto for stuff that's simple. A JSON endpoint that runs a SQL query and returns some JSON? If it works and a glance at the tests looks OK then I trust my agents wrote it properly. That is *exactly* the sort of area I *wouldn’t* b
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by t-writescode 2mo ago
Are you intentionally invoking the same style of argument of Ancient Aliens and rejecting all public - that is, *in the open* work that thousands of scientists have done over the last 50 years and instead preferring to create a scenario whe
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by t-writescode 2mo ago
The only way one can claim that the middle class isn’t shrinking is to have a floating definition of the middle class. If you lock it in any way to something like “home ownership and simple vacations once a year” (which was absolutely possi
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by t-writescode 2mo ago
I struggle to imagine that all 50 years have been wholly blocked from all international research students. That seems highly implausible. Edit: for a comparison, it took the Soviet Union 4 years to have their own Atom Bomb after the US drop

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