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by gregates 14d ago
Aristotle thought some fish were spontaneously generated and others not (also all eels and Testacea). "This occurs in ponds, especially one near Knidos, which, so it is said, on one occasion dried up at the time of the Dogstar and all
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by gregates 19d ago
> On the topic of Michael's comment, I think it's easy for programmers to not notice ads. Almost all programmers I know use an ad blocker and, in real life, their eyes seem to just skim over ads and not notice them. How do you
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by gregates 2mo ago
The title of the article is misleading -- they're pretty clearly talking about philosophy PhDs here.
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by gregates 2mo ago
The implicit assumption is that these AI-company jobs were recently created and indicate the start of a trend. Chalmers is stating that there's more demand for philosophers with the right sort of training to work at AI companies (whate
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by gregates 2mo ago
What you're missing is that this is approximately at least a half-dozen more jobs than open tenure-track positions at research universities.
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by gregates 3mo ago
I came up an academic philosopher, before I switched careers. When you're surrounded by academic philosophers, you become very used to argument as a default form of interaction. People expect that they'll be asked to give reasons
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by gregates 3mo ago
Given how often it's been mentioned here, it's likely that this is an urban legend that people are pretending to have first-hand knowledge of for karma. In a trade that's supposed to be led by people trained in sciences, no l
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by gregates 3mo ago
Funny, I'm just doing my normal coding workflow with Claude Code, and after every change that compiles it keeps suggesting that we're at a good stopping point, and should pick up again tomorrow. It's done this before, but usu
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by gregates 4mo ago
Hate to be the one to drag AI into every conversation, but I recently switched to arch linux and it's been delightful -- largely because of Claude. I have leaned on Claude heavily to diagnose and resolve issues that I probably could ha
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by gregates 5mo ago
Indeed you can! I don't use IntelliJ at work for [reasons], and LSP doesn't support a change signature action with defaults for new params (afaik). But it really seems like something any decent coding agent ought be able to one s
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by gregates 5mo ago
In the case I described no code changes have been made yet. It's still just planning what to do. It's true that I could accept the plan and hope that it will realize that it can't commit a change that doesn't compile on
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by gregates 5mo ago
Indeed! You would think it would have some kind of sense that a commit that obviously won't compile is bad! You would think. It would be one thing if it was like, ok, we'll temporarily commit the signature change, do some related
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by gregates 5mo ago
The version of this I encounter literally every day is: I ask my coding agent to do some tedious, extremely well-specified refactor, such as (to give a concrete real life example) changing a commonly used fn to take a locale parameter, beca
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by gregates 5mo ago
I had a fun experience with my ISP where their chat bot couldn't help me (of course it couldn't, I don't call for "did you try turning it off and on again" problems), so it escalated me to a human agent. Said human
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by gregates 6mo ago
I was a MS-DOS 2.0 user as a child. I have always preferred windows to OSX. I used WSL for years at companies where every other engineer had a MacBook. Last weekend I finally started dual-booting Arch Linux as a trial. Yesterday I deleted m
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by gregates 6mo ago
VisiCalc didn't do this, though. It just recalculated once, and if there were errors you had to notice them and manually trigger another recalc.
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by gregates 6mo ago
> Since the formulas did depend on each other the order of (re)calculation made a difference. The first idea was to follow the dependency chains but this would have involved keeping pointers and that would take up memory. We realized tha
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by gregates 8mo ago
https://gregat.es
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by gregates 9mo ago
Indeed — the only reason I personally still use steam is that a few of the games I want to play are not available in any other (legal) way.
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by gregates 9mo ago
Alright you badgered me into reading the original and the linked post does not misinterpret it. > Previously, we could @cursor and ask it to modify the code and content, but now we introduced a new CMS abstraction in between. Everything
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by gregates 9mo ago
> Lee's argument for moving to code is that agents can work with code. So do you think this is a misrepresentation of Lee's argument? Again, I couldn't be bothered to read the original, so I'm relying on this interpre
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by gregates 9mo ago
It seems like the argument is roughly: we used to use CMS because we had comms & marketing people who don't know git. But we plan to replace them all with ChatGPT or Claude, which does. So now we don't need CMS. (I didn't
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by gregates 9mo ago
Indeed, it's still not exactly clear what the right place of social media in society is. Perhaps we could even get rid of some of its pernicious aspects without throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Even food is not unregulated! An
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by gregates 9mo ago
And the reason is that those products are (rightly) regulated. Would there be beer marketed to kids if it were legal? Would it be fine if it were the parents' sole responsibility to ensure their kids weren't drinking beer, includi
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by gregates 10mo ago
Also ironic is how the post about having a unique voice is written in one-sentence-paragraph LinkedIn clickbait style.
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by gregates 10mo ago
The idea that there is some significant, load-bearing distinction in meaning between "ethical" and "moral" is something I've encountered a few times in my life. In every case it has struck me as similar to, say, &qu
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by gregates 10mo ago
I really don't see how it can save you time if you have to summarize the same source for yourself every time in order to learn whether the AI did a good job in this particular case.
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by gregates 10mo ago
Do you go through the haystack yourself first, find the needle, and then use that to validate your hypothesis that the AI is good at accomplishing that task (because it usually finds the same needle)? If not, how do you know they're go
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by gregates 10mo ago
Funny to me how many of the replies to this comment are assuming you mean all these "punk" startups will be possible because of AI, when your actual comment says nothing of the sort.
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by gregates 10mo ago
Not to mention that there's already a small market for software products that work just like existing products that were once good, only without all the AI getting in your way at every turn. You're just not going to be making huge

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