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by tpmoney 1y ago
> We were talking about writing, not about vibe coding. We don't use calculators for writing. We don't use API requests for writing (except when we make an LLM write for us). We do however use them to summarize and transform da
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by tpmoney 1y ago
One thing missing from the reddit story is how the author knows their sister is using ChatGPT to obtain the answer as opposed to validating work. I'll often punch a calculation I've already done in my head into a calculator to con
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by tpmoney 1y ago
> Today I can ask ChatGPT to write me a 4 pages essay about a novel I've never heard of and call it a day. There's no value gained in the process. If we take the original article at face value, no you can't do that. ChatGP
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by tpmoney 1y ago
I would argue that while tech is the easiest to get into without a degree: 1) The cultural zeitgeist around higher education (at least in the US) is and has been "you must go to college and get a degree". It's been over 20 ye
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by tpmoney 1y ago
It's not inherently contradictory to hold both positions, if your overarching position is that the schools are in a weird in-between state that serves neither well. My time in school was marked with both forms of frustration. I wanted
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by tpmoney 1y ago
> Improvements rarely start with "I'm satisfied with this". Writing off complaining because one conflates complaining with misery is silly. I've found improvements rarely start with complaining either. Or maybe it&#x2
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by tpmoney 1y ago
It's easy to feel like you have a responsibility to be informed, and as a result you have to be drinking from the fire hose all the time. I noticed myself getting into that habit and that it was dragging me down to places I didn't
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by tpmoney 1y ago
Similarly you can rsync a Postgres data directory safely while the db is running, with the caveat that you likely lose any data written while the rsync is running. And if you want that data, you can get it with the WAL files. It’s been year
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by tpmoney 1y ago
> The words "it's a miracle it works at all" routinely popped up in those conversations, which is... something you don't want to hear about any sort of power generation - especially not nuclear - but it's true. F
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by tpmoney 1y ago
> It's whether you're punching up or punching down. I think the problem with the “punching up/down” perspective of comedy is that power is relative so the same exact humor and joke can be both punching up and down at the e
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by tpmoney 1y ago
> It's so hard to to believe in people or have a positive opinion of them when much of my interactions are negative. Or when people who embody the opposite of goodness are promoted and have status. It's like we live in a societ
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by tpmoney 1y ago
Feeling good about things has nothing to do with liking or disliking something though. I dislike things about the Rust language and the larger ecosystem around it (things like async/await as the dominant concurrency model, or the separ
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by tpmoney 1y ago
> We have too much fake-niceness, and we are over-enthused quite often on things that turn out to be nothing, at least in the U.S. We don't need more of it, at least IMO. I don't think the original article is advocating for &qu
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by tpmoney 1y ago
The more I learn about how the bigger companies do business, the happier I am my dreams of working for them never materialized. I encounter enough stupid things caused by businesses trying to measure difficult things. I would hate to work i
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by tpmoney 2y ago
Two things I try to do in every code review: If I’m doing the review, I try to find at least one or two items to call out as great ideas/moves. Even if it’s as simple as refactoring a minor pain point. If I’m being reviewed I always ma
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by tpmoney 2y ago
> The person who paid for the sdk is the person who bought the iphone. Are they? Then why did companies previously charge per seat annual licenses for their SDKs? Were the people who bought the computers and products back then not also p
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by tpmoney 2y ago
> Would it increase the cost of phones (maybe only in the EU) to compensate the missing revenues? Probably not "fair" since the EU seems opposed to their "core technology fee", which is (supposedly) a fee to the devel
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by tpmoney 2y ago
The "free riders" aren't developers in general, they're the developers not paying for their portion of the upkeep. Like I said, someone has to pay for the dev work that goes into making the platform, building the SDKs an
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by tpmoney 2y ago
To steel man the policy, one thing it helps avoid is the free rider problem. Apples store terms are than free apps don’t pay a commission to Apple. But someone has to pay for the costs of developing the SDKs and the platform. We no longer l
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by tpmoney 2y ago
I think we’ve forgotten over the years just how expensive tech can be. The original iMac was 1299 at launch, inflation adjusted that’s $2500 today, for what even at the time was considered a cut down machine. The iBook would launch the next
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by tpmoney 2y ago
Come on. USB-C has been shipped on MacBooks since 2015, and most of their other systems since ~2020. Heck they caught a bunch of flack when they killed MagSafe on their MacBooks and went USB-C only (not just for the lack of mag safe, but al
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by tpmoney 2y ago
So then like I said, the sheep will be eaten. One then must hope they aren’t on the menu, and suddenly the “deafening silence” of various people makes a lot of sense. If the only answer is to wait until enough sheep are eaten for the villag
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by tpmoney 2y ago
You seem to have missed the point. For one, I’m not telling you this is a good thing or that this is how it ought to be. For two, even in the fable the wolf was real in the end. The problem is, the wolf wasn’t real the last time, or the tim
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by tpmoney 2y ago
> But what is more horrifying for me is that apparently this administration remains representative of a large section of the US population - with seemingly unshakeable approval by between 40% and 50% of the US adult population according
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by tpmoney 2y ago
I’m not sure where this idea in the NYT article (and now this article) that the purpose of ADHD medications was to improve learning. My own experiences (and the experiences of other people I know) was never that ADHD was significantly hinde
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by tpmoney 2y ago
> Yes, why didn't Democrats change our system and model of governance that was working fine, anticipating the Republicans. It's a shame they didn't stop them in... check 1789. 39 years before their party was founded. Was i
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by tpmoney 2y ago
My issue is we're still talking about the GOP as it is behaving now. My question is how were we allowed to get to this point? Trump is declaring national emergencies and using emergency powers, but where did he get those powers from? W
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by tpmoney 2y ago
> This is not merely a machine that can be misused if desired by a bad actor, this is a machine that specializes in infringement. So is a xerox machine. It's whole purpose is to make copies of things whatever you put into it with no
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by tpmoney 2y ago
Sorry, I lack a lot of context for Haskell and its terms (my experience with FP is limited largely to forays into Lisp / Clojure), but if I'm understanding right, you're saying because the collection is being lazily evaluated
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by tpmoney 2y ago
And my point is somehow the GOP managed to advance their agenda time and time again even when they didn't have total control. So why is the GOP an effective minority party and capable of disrupting the DNCs efforts even when they lack

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