jmbwell

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by jmbwell 13d ago
Thanks for this.
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by jmbwell 29d ago
I’ll explain later
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by jmbwell 29d ago
I forget where I read it but I have not forgotten that sometimes, a task reads as a threat. like, physiologically. Stack of unhandled tickets: menacing workload, guilt for being behind, internal judgment, fear of external judgment … fight
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by jmbwell 29d ago
I was confused for half a sec also, as someone who often finds I will do anything other than what I need to be doing I think it’s meant to be an example of a more, “see problem → fix problem” kind of approach The number of times when someth
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by jmbwell 29d ago
Procrastinators HATE this one weird trick!
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by jmbwell 29d ago
Hear hear. Although being great at something and being a great parent do not have to be mutually exclusive. You can work yourself to death with or without kids. You can also have a successful career and a great relationship with your fami
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by jmbwell 1mo ago
Solaris family kernels move this problem to run/allocation time, instead of waiting for the system to become unusable before trying to do something about it. Kinda nice
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by jmbwell 1mo ago
Okay. Well so if the model will tend to converge on the median of a user’s interests as measured by engagement… the user would have to depart from the recommendations to increase the odds of being recommended something surprising, no? It’s
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by jmbwell 1mo ago
I wrestle with this also. A colleague pointed out that LLMs reduce language choice to an implementation detail… don’t have to know assembly to write python, and now you don’t have to know python to write a functional app. So why stick with
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by jmbwell 1mo ago
Someone with questions about this excerpt of Sontag on taste would do well to read the rest of the work, which does a fuller job of drawing distinctions between sensibilities like taste, and systematic ideas like good/bad, morality, re
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by jmbwell 2mo ago
One characteristic that differentiates contemporary design from all our grandparents’ houses is transience rather than permanence. Design immediately following WWI was largely about calm and comfort; the emergence of the den, cottage-cozy,
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by jmbwell 2mo ago
Yeah this is all very regional too. Row houses in London and brownstones in New York or whatever won’t have front lawns as a function of density, but may have back yards or gardens, which may or may not be a function of producing your own f
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by jmbwell 2mo ago
I guess I mean treat it as a clear first class feature. Right now most browsers treat it as an arcane error. I’m thinking more “This is the first time you’re connecting to this site. Do you trust it?” And later if something changes, then th
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by jmbwell 2mo ago
I don’t know much in this space, but I find myself wishing there was a dead simple self hosted CA solution and also that trust on first use (à la ssh) was A Thing for self-managed root certs in client implementations. TOFU is such an elegan
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by jmbwell 3mo ago
I’m so almost here. The thing holding me back is projects that don’t do their own migrations reliably. Through no fault of their own, perhaps, though at this point I would argue LLMs should eliminate any good reason not to have alembic inte
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by jmbwell 3mo ago
I just caught myself thinking Pantos shouldn’t have answered the phone. Not in a blame the victim way, more in that never answering the phone is just good opsec at this point. The phone, the door, just don’t talk to a cop without a lawyer.
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by jmbwell 3mo ago
Who benefits from all this brilliant deal making who doesn’t already have plenty of money? If we are going to invent money out of paperwork maneuvers, you’d think we could invent a way to fund healthcare and schools.
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by jmbwell 3mo ago
I might argue that generating and decoding an actual NTSC signal, as the OP project does, would be true in ways that a generative model based on all of that would not be.
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by jmbwell 3mo ago
I sincerely appreciate this fidelity to fidelity
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by jmbwell 3mo ago
One of my favorite artifacts of the pre-platform era of the web. Valuable stuff presented clearly … all clearly handmade with care. Not a monetized journey conversion experience in sight
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by jmbwell 4mo ago
Exploring and at times debating is how we figure things out and share ideas. What’s pointless is doing so in pursuit of winning rather than understanding
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by jmbwell 4mo ago
There’s the other direction too. You only get a couple toggles, and something you actually need is behind both, so you can’t not get all notifications
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by jmbwell 4mo ago
I find this really effective. Also, “ask me questions about this one at a time until I say to stop”
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by jmbwell 4mo ago
I’ve also moved all mine to Europe. There are ample alternatives to us-based commercial cloud. The regulatory environment is different, so it’s worth understanding the ramifications as far as what’s expected of you if you’re operating in a
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by jmbwell 4mo ago
Indeed. Understand the principles, you can work with just about any tool
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by jmbwell 5mo ago
I’ve been finding it difficult to hand things over to an LLM completely, and I wonder if this is part of it. I’ll let it help me organize at the beginning, and then I’ll have it come through and refactor or review, but the crafting part is
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by jmbwell 5mo ago
The language of drama and import without meaningful substance. Words statistically likely to be used in a segue, regardless of the preceding or subsequent point. Particularly effective when it seems like you’re getting let in on a secret. R
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by jmbwell 5mo ago
It does seem like an LLM’s ability to see a constraint and just say “I’ll write a quick helper to work around it” kinda wrecks some older-world assumptions. We know how to deal with remote human attackers, remote bot attackers, and to some
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by jmbwell 5mo ago
I understood it to mean, GitHub is being crushed by LLM/AI/Agentic code review and submission, not GitHub’s code itself What I’m not seeing here but I am seeing with the Linux kernel is, most of the automatically submitted code is
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by jmbwell 5mo ago
These days, I’ll take Mad magazine

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