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by uludag 2y ago
There's something in this argument about national security, that if taken to its logical conclusion, would result in a world most people would consider upside-down: If social media owned by foreign companies is a national security thre
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I totally agree that the Arab spring ended in near complete failure, and is not an ideal in and of itself, and violent revolution is in no way desirable for societies like the US. Maybe I should have connected the analogy fully: Suppose th
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I actually think that the used car salesman qualifier needed to be added to add the element of dishonesty to the character. I feel the middle-eastern name does plays into the trope of non-westerners's reliance on informal networks of k
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So I'm definitely not saying that TikTok itself provides better checks and balances, but TikTok, in an ecosystem of other media providers under different governments, would be a much healthier for civil society. For example, US social
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Ironically this is exactly why I think TikTok is so important. Obviously every media site is used for manufacturing content, from NYT to Facebook. Also, obviously the US government has a say in what gets published and promoted. Wouldn&#x
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> That the private-sector can trigger crises that have no political or technological fix is on very few pundits' radar. Interestingly, there seems to a number of cultural solutions to this problem. Like, imagine if the people of LA
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I originally thought the headline meant "we don't care about using professional coders at our company anymore and will rely fully on AI," but it looks to actually mean "we don't want our product to focus as being a
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I think this may be just due to unfamiliarity. Like, if that mess you shared was written as follows: { start: makeForkexecConstructor(["…/bin/ntpd", "-n", "-c", "/…/…-ntpd.co
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This article reads like a just-so story. Sounds plausible, but there's so much wiggle room for the narrative. And the "solutions" to wokeness he wrote left me puzzled, questioning whether the issues he paints were thought t
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So I've been doing a lot of thinking and I've gone through a rollercoaster of feelings concerning AI and becoming redundant. Recently though, I've had a different "oh fuck" moment: what if the period of general glob
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To further this point, while the vast majority of people could go without such skills, there are jobs where such skills are valuable. So developing skills pretty much everyone has given up on allow one to carve a unique niche for themselv
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I totally get this point. My impression was that the complete instrumental understanding was predicated on the metaphysical understanding, making the instrumental understanding almost incidental. So like, the resolution to the cargo cult wo
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> VS Code managed to by-pass the qualitiy and amount of extensions/plugins in a fraction of time Emacs took decades. I get the impression that the VSCode has a rather fractured, limited, malware-infested[1][2], JavaScript-churn inun
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I actually liked this article. It brings to light that cargo cults were much more about metaphysical beliefs, rather than a simple lack of cause and effect. If a cargo cult wasn't "mimic the paraphernalia of air transportation to
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by uludag 2y ago
Completely solved? I'd say exacerbated beyond recognition. We have tools to let us get by so much farther without understanding anything, so it probably becomes less of a problem in more cases. But it basically guarantees that all but
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Wouldn't there be so many more possible futures though? Geopolitical conflict, economic crisis, the clime crisis, civil strife, demographic collapse, the end of globalization, an unexpected black-swan event, etc. Any one of these, eve
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I think there's a big selection bias on hackernews that you wouldn't get elsewhere. There's still "elite" software developers I see who really aren't into the whole LLM tooling space. I found use in the autoc
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I prefer this style. I primarily use Emacs as someone else mentioned. I feel like it's sort of similar to editor tabs vs buffers. Like, once you have a good way of switching between buffers, separate editor tabs seem like a superfluous
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by uludag 2y ago
This game is truly a work of art. I literally got a migraine playing this game though and couldn't finish it unfortunately. This is the second piece of media to do this to me behind Koyaanisqatsi... now that I think of it, this seems l
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> No New Features as a Feature No new features is such an underrated feature. It's funny sometimes when people see some Common Lisp or Clojure library with no commits in the last X period of time, and people immediately come to the
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What your coworkers are experiencing could be signs of Luddism. This Luddism could be a very natural and human reaction. The life situation of your coworkers could vary widely: maybe some are financially insecure living paycheck to paychec
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I was reading the book "How Big Things Get Done," which is immensely applicable to the field of software engineering. The book is about how and why big projects fail. The book mentioned that IT projects were among the worst in c
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I have a question about LLM tooling that I would love to hear others thoughts. So I'm currently using LLM-lite tools such as ChatGPT and simple copilot completions. These tools obviously provide utility. I have yet to play with more ad
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> The reality is that those tools are POWER TOOLS best used by engineers very well versed in the domain and in coding itself. I'm starting to get a feeling of dread that our entire engineering organization is digging itself into a h
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Some reasons come to mind: You'd almost need to impose Emacs as your companies "blessed" code editor, which, as we know in cases of editors, is extremely hard. Emacs users are very willing to provide support at no cost. Emacs
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This article touches on a tension I've been feeling too with the rise of LLMs. I feel that analogies can be drawn to time management and systems of productivity, like GTD. Like in a GTD system, you almost need the various projects, ta
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I believe networks of human individuals can solve this to a good degree assuming a particular topology exists. Like, imagine a group of professionals of decent sized, all specializing in a similar field, and having lots of strong connection
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I find this article spot on and resonates with what I've experienced. The article mentions Zach Tellman's newsletter "Explaining Software Design" ( https://explaining.software/ ) which I highly recommend r
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Emacs maximalism is the way to go. I spend most of my free time at my job re-implementing all of the companies internal tooling in Elisp, along with integrations using the Jira/Gitlab API, and also random automations that I need/
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The AI stuff these days is probably the easiest type of thing for Emacs to replicate, since all of the APIs are essentially just passing in and parsing strings of text. May more easy than IDE-like features and easier than LSP. Like, no one

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