anon35

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by anon35 17d ago
Exactly. No need to get cynical about this being news. Maybe not news to you (or me, I'm old) but it could be really interesting news to others. See also: https://xkcd.com/1053/
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by anon35 19d ago
https://cursor.com/origin
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by anon35 4mo ago
You seem to be attacking a different statement that no one says: "if the product isn't free, you aren't the product". There's no "if and only if" in the maxim. Pretty sure you agree that if the product is
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by anon35 4mo ago
Great example of what we used to call: "default definition changed". RSI 20 years ago = Repetitive Strain Injury RSI today: Recursive Self Improvement
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by anon35 5mo ago
You don't think a human using an LLM to generate content that convinces another human to press the launch button is a concern? Sure seems like there's more than one thing we need to do.
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by anon35 11mo ago
> Tend to like a lot of formal rules about everything. I would amend to: what Americans don't like to accept are what they see as preventable mistakes. The least American sentiment of all is "shit happens". Americans somet
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by anon35 11mo ago
> there's not really a destination. There is only the process of improvement Surely you can appreciate that if the next stop on the journey of technology can take over the process of improvement itself that would make it an awfully
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by anon35 1y ago
"Until then" means others will pay for your decision to ignore policy when it happens. It's never on the person who -- with every good intention, full of an instinct to "build a better world" -- willfully ignores th
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by anon35 1y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSzoDPptYNA&t=53s
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by anon35 1y ago
This is an extremely important question, and you’ve phrased it nicely. We’re either handicapping our brightest, or boosting our dumbest. One part is concerning, the other encouraging .
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by anon35 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XEDIT https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VM_(operating_system)
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by anon35 2y ago
Try to keep in mind that your attention to detail is almost certainly perceived by them to be fastidious, and that quietly your seniormost colleagues and leaders may well muse: "Man, if only sublinear would loosen their standards, just
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by anon35 2y ago
"Short-lived" depends on your perspective. Cloudflare owns the rights to that trademark now; because they believe their mission furthers that vision: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Network_is_the_Computer
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by anon35 2y ago
Wahlberg lampooned himself in a follow-up appearance with Samberg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYcHxF_cO8o . So: "and" is also correct.
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by anon35 2y ago
> the vast majority of Kubernetes clusters are just hanging out on the public How does the author know that? Doesn't "not public" mean not visible, and therefore not countable?
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by anon35 3y ago
“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they fly by.” - Douglas Adams
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by anon35 3y ago
This 2021 New Yorker article: How Your Family Tree Could Catch a Killer ( https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/11/22/how-your-famil... ) was incredibly illuminating and changed my perspective on our sen
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by anon35 3y ago
See also good podcast dedicated to this topic: Why can't we turn all the empty offices into apartment buildings? https://pjvogt.substack.com/p/why-cant-we-turn-all-the-empty...
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by anon35 3y ago
OK but then what is the thing in the middle, between documents and applications? There are fantastic, beautiful interactive experiences (for lack of a better word) that are obviously not documents (they can't be represented on paper, t
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by anon35 3y ago
I think what you're picking up on is that people in leadership positions have to communicate to very different audiences. As a first approximation, just think of the size of the destination audience: - if it's a few people, the la
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by anon35 3y ago
It sounds like you already have exactly the right perspective. It _is_ a nightmare. That $200M isn't their money, it's not in their pockets, and it's far short of what it was hoped to be. You framed it perfectly, and so did t
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by anon35 3y ago
Yup, all those. Also, at least for me: - it was slow - it wasn't consistent; not unusual that thread replies would be out of order - it was text only (essentially) - posting and downloading binary files was even slower and cumbersome)
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by anon35 3y ago
Made a list of all the revision control tools I've used over the decades, the year they were created, and the year I last used them: sccs 1973 2000 rcs 1982 2000 cvs 1990 2004
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by anon35 3y ago
Great to see. More generally: I feel like playgrounds are grossly underused in our industry. It's possible the issue is in the name -- it immediately connotes that whatever you're doing isn't real work, it's just a place
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by anon35 3y ago
I think we've already seen the first shoots from that nascent new system: https://webassembly.org/ . And this hilarious talk will continued to be viewed by future generations for marking the 2013 inflection point: http
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Geek Code(en.wikipedia.org)
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by anon35 3y ago
Great observation. I found myself thinking it reflected the famous quote: "“Watch your thoughts, they become words; watch your words, they become actions; watch your actions, they become habits; watch your habits, they become character
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by anon35 3y ago
Monitor and measure the boundary jumping. Treat it as any other business metric you want to improve.
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by anon35 3y ago
Surely you can appreciate that the language you're using isn't always your choice.
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by anon35 4y ago
An excellent tutorial that takes exactly this approach (building up to a novel Emacs mode for NYT Crosswords, of all things) is the O'Reilly book "Writing GNU Emacs Extensions, by Bob Glickstein.

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