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by zem 3mo ago
I think the line is between AI-generated and AI-assisted - I have AI assisted projects that I have happily been developing for several months and they are going fine, I feel just as engaged with them as I did with my hand coded projects, bu
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by zem 3mo ago
brings back fond memories of idlerpg
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the problem is not the people who want impulse satisfaction, comfort, and convenience - these are all perfectly normal human desires. the problem is that we as a society have allowed predators to tie these needs to surveillance and addictio
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by zem 3mo ago
I was lucky enough to have Morrison and Boyd as my undergrad ochem textbook. they built the material up really well from first principles.
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Casual Viewing: Why Netflix looks like that (2025)(nplusonemag.com)
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by zem 3mo ago
https://www.anildash.com/2024/11/19/dont-call-it-a-substack/ is a persuasive argument for the opposite
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by zem 3mo ago
the claude giveth and the claude taketh away. I could definitely use claude in a tightly directed manner to clean up a slopified codebase (and I would enjoy doing so), you just need to think of it as closer to a power tool than an agent.
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by zem 3mo ago
imagine not 2% of users not being able to use the site, but any given user not being able to use the site 2% of the time, and see if that changes the calculus for you.
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by zem 3mo ago
I know what they meant, I was saying that imo the ergonomic name is has_not_been_viewed_much. it's directly expressing the property you are interested in, as opposed to expressing the negative property and comparing it to false.
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by zem 3mo ago
why, though? the current version is the interesting property
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by zem 3mo ago
wow, that really is lovely. my favourite one so far.
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by zem 3mo ago
this is a really nice looking language! the central focus on using effects to get zero cost abstractions is a very attractive one; I really hope the language makes it out of the experimental toy compiler stage.
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by zem 3mo ago
i have very fond memories of mir books from my childhood, especially yakov perelman's outstanding maths and science for fun books.
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by zem 3mo ago
I think cory doctorow had the best lens through which to view the issue: "who does this technology do things for and who does it do them to ?" even tech enthusiasts can see that a major chunk of the populace is increasingly fal
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by zem 3mo ago
the swedish song has an english version: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itsy_Bitsy_Spider
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by zem 3mo ago
my speculation is that not having written the original text means you don't have a mental history of all the decisions that went into writing it, and the context from being immersed in the work, making it a lot harder and less motivati
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by zem 3mo ago
surprised to see that, I've long held tree balancing up as practically the poster child for ML syntax being the best way to express certain algorithms. it directly says what shape of nodes goes to what other shape.
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by zem 3mo ago
in order to use third party code within google it needs to be copied into the monorepo, and projects that depend on it need to import the internal version. this requires at the very least setting it up to build via blaze (google's inte
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by zem 3mo ago
it's useful for cases like google's, where they mirror internal code to github or vice versa, and the two versions need a bit of mechanical work every time they are synced (e.g. slightly different tree layout conventions, internal
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by zem 3mo ago
genuine american culture!
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by zem 3mo ago
"Before explaining my setup in more detail, I want to clarify, that I still use a second phone. It is an older stock Android phone, with all Google stuff on it. I need still need to use banking and other apps, that don't work on c
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by zem 4mo ago
there is, the original hackers built thinks, they didn't attempt to destroy or coopt them
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by zem 4mo ago
sad, I didn't realise that because their website has an "install from f-droid" link. it does reinforce my point that android is a proper platform with a viable distribution mechanism though, if they can self host a third part
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by zem 4mo ago
they do, but it's on fdroid too - at that point the play store is simply a nice to have. if google does anything they don't like they can just say okay and keep publishing on fdroid, they have not lost whatever efforts they have i
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by zem 4mo ago
I'm pretty sure there is no way for them to supply an ios version without having to go through some sort of apple approval process. hardly boycotting to say that you're not about to put up with that crap.
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by zem 4mo ago
if you like sudoku, you owe it to yourself to check out the "cracking the cryptic" youtube channel and get introduced to the delightful world of variant sudoku.
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by zem 4mo ago
none of those accidental wigglegrams actually work in the sense of looking convincingly 3d though, unlike the more deliberately created examples that introduced the idea.
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by zem 4mo ago
there's an epidemic of authoritarianism in a lot of countries these days. didn't use to be quite this bad in the last couple of decades.
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by zem 4mo ago
it's not the exact opposite, saying that the technical aspects are more important than the political ones is an emotional stance, not a logical one.
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by zem 4mo ago
the reason ghosting is offensive is that it keeps you waiting to hear back, with the probability you have been ghosted gradually increasing over time, rather than just letting you close that mental channel.

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