tikhonj

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by tikhonj 3mo ago
If you have even the remotest mental slop filter, I assume you are not really part of their target market.
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by tikhonj 3mo ago
It's interesting how people view software as a distraction and an annoying side quest/cost center, but never apply that to, say, 90% of what management does. None of that "directly" makes money either! That tells us a lo
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by tikhonj 3mo ago
Kicking out 2% of your existing customers in a physical venue violates people's expectations, so it's going to get you disproportionate bad reviews and word-of-mouth. Good thing that we've managed to keep everybody's exp
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by tikhonj 3mo ago
I mean, it has definite Borg Bill Gates vibes, doesn't it? It's totally reasonable for tech folks to be leery of a company using a strong market position from one system (Windows/Claude) to push mediocre complementary softwar
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by tikhonj 3mo ago
Which online stores? I don't see that in Steam.
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by tikhonj 3mo ago
Regulations aren't fungible, so this is not a particularly meaningful perspective.
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by tikhonj 3mo ago
It's an illustration for a blog post on a largely different subject, it really doesn't matter. Who would be looking up the integral of one of the most common functions in applied math in a random philosophical article aimed mostly
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by tikhonj 3mo ago
The US has a notion of "disparate impact"[1] that means you can be liable for discriminating based on a protected characteristic on the basis of correlation. This is why HR departments are very hesitant to use things like IQ tes
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by tikhonj 4mo ago
Property based testing is useful for finding bugs even in these kinds of CRUD heavy apps. There can be a surprising number of bugs and unexpected behaviors in the interaction of multiple sub-systems or APIs, and one way to find those bugs i
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by tikhonj 4mo ago
Ironic that this of all books got garbage collected prematurely.
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by tikhonj 4mo ago
The neat thing with Emacs is that the core concepts of the system are all first-class programming entities with their own documentation. So if you want to know what your current mode does, you can use C-h m to get a bunch of information inc
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by tikhonj 4mo ago
So, if FTX had managed to stay afloat a bit longer, they could have gotten away with it. Which is a much more interesting statement in the context of certain other crypto organizations than it is about FTX...
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by tikhonj 4mo ago
"Let's have more world wars" isn't a great thing to aim for.
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by tikhonj 4mo ago
Counterpoint: I absolutely give credit to Sonic for being a great ISP and recommend them to everyone. I got my parents to switch when Sonic finally rolled out to their neighborhood. If online comments are anything to go by, I'm not alo
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by tikhonj 4mo ago
You always have a choice. Sometimes the best move is not to play.
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by tikhonj 4mo ago
The point is that it's the same process with—much—better priors. This seems like a reasonable view to me. It's surprising just how much better priors matter and how we can develop those priors by training on a bunch of text. But i
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by tikhonj 4mo ago
This project isn't for running Haskell on the JVM, it's for writing a compiler that produces JVM bytecode. You'd use it if you wanted to implement your own JVM language in Haskell or maybe if you wanted to have some kind of J
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by tikhonj 4mo ago
Just because you can't get everyone to agree does not mean that the concept is not well-defined or clear. People can and do disagree over almost anything. That could just mean that one side is wrong and the other side is right, even if
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by tikhonj 4mo ago
There is a pretty clear and important difference between a program that does something wrong , and a program that just doesn't do something somebody wants. "You don't support printing", "pressing the print button d
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by tikhonj 4mo ago
DNS is a database.
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by tikhonj 4mo ago
I still believe Scrum is a fad and yet companies have been spending obscene amounts on to push it down developers' throats for decades now.
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by tikhonj 4mo ago
Because they think that a lot of people will want to get in on the historically massive and well-known companies, which would lead to outflows if the index doesn't pick them up fast enough?
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by tikhonj 4mo ago
That seems ≈impossible in a world where you're running arbitrary, Turing-complete code. A modern consumer machine can do so many different things—often a bunch at a time—that there is always a massive amount of space to hide bad behavi
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by tikhonj 4mo ago
Leaders can matter— a lot —even if they do not exercise granular, top-down control. They can provide the right context and motivation, articulate high-level aims, resolve issues and create the kinds of systems and cultures that do not need
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by tikhonj 4mo ago
What if it's interest rates? I'm amazing at how anybody can discuss any questions about the tech job market without addressing the end of zero-interest rate policy. "It's interest rates, stupid" ought to be the fir
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by tikhonj 4mo ago
Part of the idea—which requires non-trivial effort from the leaders to build up sufficient trust—is that people should believe that their proposals (for their own work) are accepted by default. People don't have to wait for their ide
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by tikhonj 4mo ago
Wartime is exactly when centralized control breaks down the hardest , because conditions start changing incredibly fast and communication breaks down. There's a reason the phrase is "fog of war" and not "fog of peace&qu
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by tikhonj 4mo ago
WYSIWYG pretty consistently leads to visual and structural messes. It's only going to "beat" everything else if you don't care about quality. Most people don't—and don't have to—care about quality for their sho
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by tikhonj 5mo ago
Haha, yes, meant to write "hotel management". I'll update the answer to fix that.
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by tikhonj 5mo ago
Living in a cookie-cutter suburb full of parking lots and strip malls is not, in fact, a higher standard of life than living in a small town in Europe. The fact that we've somehow convinced ourselves that it is says absolutely nothing

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