zoogeny

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by zoogeny 5mo ago
This is a classic debate in programming, literally: 2001: "Beating the Averages" (Paul Graham) [1] 2006: "Can Your Programming Language Do This?" (Joel Spolsky) [2] Both of these articles argue for the thesis that progra
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by zoogeny 5mo ago
> ... then you can fix it I recall working on a project that used (MSVC) VC++ and a coworker found a bug in the compiler. We reported the issue to Microsoft and they eventually patched it. You may find yourself arguing explicitly for ope
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by zoogeny 5mo ago
I think it is interesting, using your framing, to consider why people may or may not believe that one million lines of code could be reviewed. I mean, until very recently, the idea that one million lines of code could be written (rath
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by zoogeny 5mo ago
I think a more apt analogy (or cliche) is canary in the coalmine.
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by zoogeny 5mo ago
Who do you mean when you say "none of them"? At the least, my interpretation of deno lore is that they tried to ditch npm and found this limited their adoption so significantly that they had to patch it back in. That would provide
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by zoogeny 5mo ago
It generally has to do with risk models, especially in single tenant environments. What I mean is, say I am a b2b service provider and I have a single database for some subset of my clients. That is, multiple clients data are held in the sa
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by zoogeny 5mo ago
>... my first bet would be specifications ... and tests ... If I had to roll out such a development process today, I’d make a standardized Markdown specification the new unit of knowledge for the software project. I've found that ad
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by zoogeny 5mo ago
At this point in time, Musk can afford to ignore the stock price since he will retain sufficient shares (with 10x voting rights if I am understanding correctly) to outvote any board. However, some projections I have seen suggest even the pu
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by zoogeny 5mo ago
This feels apt in more than just science/technology. It matches my experience with culture as well, e.g. music and movies.
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by zoogeny 5mo ago
I think you might be overestimating how liberal the protesters were. Source: I was in Tahrir square during the protests and spoke with many Egyptians. Almost all of the complaints I heard while I was in Egypt were about corruption and lack
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by zoogeny 5mo ago
If I was OpenAI / Anthropic, I would see this as a massive opportunity. I mean, why wouldn't you want to consolidate git repos, a heroku/fly.io/vercel like container system and direct access to web-based coding tools. Th
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by zoogeny 6mo ago
As others have noted, this is avoidant behavior, not anti-social. Worth taking a look at the Wikipedia for Attachment styles [1]. The two types are Dismissive-Avoidant and Fearful-Avoidant. Either can be superficially mistaken for anti-so
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by zoogeny 6mo ago
I would argue it depends on the context. Of course, gaining enough experience on which contexts are worth persevering for which duration is it's own thing. The rubric I give to juniors is a bit more simple: if you get stuck, consider a
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by zoogeny 6mo ago
I use it for cleaning all the time. Whenever I have dishes, I always give myself permission to do as little as I want knowing that one clean dish is better than nothing. Most often I end up doing them all. The other saying I say is "co
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by zoogeny 6mo ago
It's worth noting that this is a kind of different "nit" than something that might be attached to a line of code. Like, someone might "nit" using a bunch of if statements where a switch statement might work, or if s
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by zoogeny 6mo ago
A saying I've come across is: "Don't let perfect be the enemy of good" I had a coworker who would always be diplomatic about code changes he felt could be improved but when he felt he was nitpicking, where he would say:
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by zoogeny 6mo ago
As an aside, I've noticed an uptick in the amount of YouTube ads for music artists and their live shows. The amount of faux-organic hype being generated feels like it has increased recently, with those same artists who I have never hea
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by zoogeny 6mo ago
There is some good analysis here, but your argument about the Vision Pro being a content failure doesn't hit for me. It isn't just Apple that has failed in this space, we have Meta, Valve, HTC and a few others who have all had pre
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by zoogeny 6mo ago
I've been critical of Cook at times because I feel his vision was a business vision more than the kind of futurism I felt from Jobs. Cook was the ultimate bean counter, hyper-optimizing Apple from a financial and operational perspectiv
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by zoogeny 6mo ago
I don't agree, in fact I would say if I was surrounded by people glorifying violence that would suggest I was in an extreme minority. It reminds me of similar late-stage-capitalism like activity, from the assassination of the insurance
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by zoogeny 6mo ago
That is why I question my own bias. One possible explanation is that I am AI positive. So when people test out "What do you think about AI?" my own responses are generally positive. That probably filters out people who don't
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by zoogeny 6mo ago
All I can offer is my anecdotal experience. One teacher was describing his usage to generate quizzes on material. He gets course material in the form of pdfs, uploads it to the AI and gets it to generate questions. On the flip side, one of
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by zoogeny 6mo ago
I often question my own bias on this because in my interactions with local non-tech people, the adoption of AI has pretty much affected everyone I know and it is by my estimation a majority positive reaction. I live in a fairly rural part o
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by zoogeny 6mo ago
Interesting idea. I suppose one could also have response settings (e.g. max response tokens) to ensure the model doesn't waffle on and run up costs. In a best-case scenario "ping" would be one or two input tokens and a "
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by zoogeny 6mo ago
As an aside, I built a tool to manage my own chat interface over the provider APIs. I added caching because the savings are quite significant and I have a little countdown timer that shows me how much time remaining until the cache is expir
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by zoogeny 6mo ago
The reason I have been pushing on this is that my own interest in attention shares a lot of features with your description. I see attention itself as exhibiting wave-like structures. On one end there is the totally holistic, the systemic vi
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The Building Block Economy(mitchellh.com)
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by zoogeny 6mo ago
I learned this way myself without being told. I was gifted a nearly ruined classical guitar that my mom took to a music shop and a guy got into working condition for $20. I then listened to every record, cassette and CD in our house looking
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by zoogeny 6mo ago
> intrinsic and intricate understandings This is the hand-waving I am talking about right here. We've stepped up from some kind of self-reproducing wave-like patterns in some combination of mediums/fields and somehow moved pas
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by zoogeny 6mo ago
> "I want a pre-made community" is just another way of saying "I am afraid of being alone." Do you think people join other communities out of fear? Someone who decides to play magic the gathering, join a dance class,

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