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by wwweston 1y ago
Anyone have this (or another linux distro) working with an nvidia rtx 5060?
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by wwweston 1y ago
No thanks to this level of evaluation which doesn’t even rise to “analysis”, it’s just a word salad association that picks two hobby horses and pretends they represent the apocalypse while ignoring all the measures on which many EU particip
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by wwweston 1y ago
“They are all crooks” is the motto of another kind of personal corruption: the kind where people abdicate any responsibility to detail or distinction for the sheer indulgence of moral posture without any of the work. Every time someone says
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by wwweston 1y ago
A 20k LOC PR isn’t reviewable in any normal workflow/process. The only moves are refusing to review it, taking it up the chain of authority, or rubber stamping it with a note to the effect that it’s effectively unreviewable so rubber s
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by wwweston 1y ago
What’s the tooling you’re using, and the workflow you find yourself drawn to that boosts productivity?
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by wwweston 1y ago
Might be worth asking: Why would “the media” do this? Over thousands of outlets?
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by wwweston 1y ago
Sounds like your Mac Plus died with covid (and really irresponsible customer property management), but not from covid…
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by wwweston 1y ago
Being very online, probably. Also, it’s writing code for a social product. Also, Wendell Berry isn’t exactly just a farmer but grew up one and kept as much as he could while becoming a fine writer who talks about life lessons. More people s
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by wwweston 1y ago
> It doesn’t seem to offer any of the “value” that social networks do, the prime of which being an easy-to-initialize profile with copious features. It might be this is a feature, not a bug. Making things easy did help a lot of people co
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by wwweston 1y ago
The fact that “Don’t think if an elephant” shapes results in people and LLMs similarly is interesting.
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by wwweston 1y ago
Past industrial and other productivity jumps have had their fruits distributed unevenly. Why will this be different? Most technology is a magnifier.
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by wwweston 1y ago
This is my experience. Code generation is OK if uneven, but debugging can be a big boost. It’s a rubber duck that’s pretty educated and talks back.
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by wwweston 1y ago
The crucial understanding is that incentives are cross aligned because the product is risk coverage. The more immediate/pressing your need for risk coverage, the worse it is for them to sell it to you. The less you need it, the better
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by wwweston 1y ago
no more turgid than the much of the boner for building boosterism, just more notes, which may not be a bad thing if some of the scope of consideration could stand to be inflated. before I check vital city, should I anticipate that they go b
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by wwweston 1y ago
The “it is not immediately clear” part should be taken to heart a lot more than it is. Right now I’d bet you could elect Ezra Klein president and he would be as unable to improve things as most, and he probably has a somewhat clearer pictur
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And it’s not only never done, it’s always on the verge of dying off. Like Bill Thurston said, mathematical understanding basically lives in communities of mathematicians, every one of them a cell in the superorganism that is the field. You’
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by wwweston 1y ago
Adobe has been thinking about GenAI longer than you probably have (probably added because this is HN and you never know). I got to talk to a product engineer about some of their work back in 2021, and he was describing generative (and even
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by wwweston 1y ago
Still keep a machine on Mojave to use FW CS 6 and will probably eventually have a VM running it to use it, it’s a distinctive combination of features.
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by wwweston 1y ago
Upvoted, bad user behavior isn’t the only factor incentivizing poor feedback systems, but it’s one of them.
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Having gatekeepers isn’t so much the problem — there’s stuff almost everyone agrees should be gatekept (and other things that maybe should be even when not everyone agrees). The problem is that we build these systems where no one seems to w
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by wwweston 1y ago
I think the SCSS and SASS implementations I used 5-10 years back had the capability but didn’t require any set variables, and I think one point of the argument is that this has more benefits than you’d think.
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by wwweston 1y ago
Heh, fair, not a super clear phrase. What I’m trying to evoke is that tailwind has a few merits that do produce a local elevation on a few points of front end dev experience… but not much (and for some the tradeoffs cancel it out) and that
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by wwweston 1y ago
This is a novel take that I think genuinely adds something to tired tailwind discourse: > I think the most important factor in Tailwind's success is that it does one thing very correctly: it demands the developer who installs it set
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by wwweston 1y ago
You’re correct in the sense that they’re both big noisy blobs that dilute semantic/functional signals. You’re neglecting the design system work that goes into tailwind classes. I don’t particularly like its choices (and generally consi
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by wwweston 1y ago
The more stuff is managed by algorithms, the more it’ll become important that there is a legal right to challenge them and even hold those who adopt or implement them some kind of accountable.
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The first rule of IAC club is that you do not hand modify your infrastructure. The second rule of IAC club is that you do not hand modify your infrastructure .
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Golf courses are semi-regular targets of concern for both people concerned about water availability and housing. So while I’m not sure what your purpose for looping them in is, their existence hardly absolves other water-demanding industry
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So your understanding is that the chief value a software engineer provides is experience utilizing a specific toolchain/compiler/language to generate code. Is that correct?
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This is more or less my actual point — people clearly find value in the amateur doing, and yet that value is limited, and if we do not figure out how to value and reward a class of dedicated educated invested professionals, we won’t receive
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~15-20 years ago, the popular wisdom was that we were entering the age of the long tail, where the open distribution opportunities of the internet combined with discovery technology would mean that it'd be easier for many artists to

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