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by jsdalton 12d ago
Simon do you have a page somewhere that shows _all_ of the penguins created by various models across time? You’ve been doing this public service for so long (well, for so long in “AI hype” years anyway) that it’d be fascinating to see the e
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by jsdalton 2mo ago
I’m likewise baffled. Healthcare spending is a major cost for all employers. Decoupling healthcare from employment would theoretically remove this cost immediately. Shouldn’t pro-business groups have long been lobbying for this? The fact th
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by jsdalton 3mo ago
I strongly agree with this take — and that’s partly why the article posted here leaves me scratching my head. PRs are already the gate, right? I don’t care what an agent does or doesn’t do within the confines of its workspace assuming their
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by jsdalton 3mo ago
Permanent DST is just a synonym for "let's all agree to wake up an hour earlier." The same change could be affected by e.g. schools and businesses agreeing to open at 8am instead of 9am. (Of course that would be wildly unpopu
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by jsdalton 3mo ago
It seems to me the parent commenter is saying the opposite: looking exactly like each other _is_ the point. It's a form of social signaling, to indicate that a project "belongs" to the in group of high-flying successful AI hy
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by jsdalton 4mo ago
I’d much, much prefer people were honest about AI answers and text and had the decency to cite it explicitly when they use it. What I hate far worse than what this article complains about is just blatant AI writing in articles, comments, vi
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by jsdalton 4mo ago
It’s aggressively AI written. I’d rather just read the prompt. It’s unfortunate because many of us are going “full AI” when it comes to coding. And there are some true gives and takes that are interesting to explore. Sadly, this piece reads
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by jsdalton 5mo ago
Yes, and it immediately called to mind for me the phrase “the map is not the territory.” Put another way: no matter how detailed or “perfect” you make a map, it will never be the territory, ie the thing that is mapped. Computers and AI are
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by jsdalton 6mo ago
It’s AI.
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by jsdalton 6mo ago
The metaphor that’s popped into my head recently is baking bread. You can learn to bake good bread. It’s not _that_ hard. And it’ll probably taste better than store bought bread. But it almost certainly won’t be cheaper. And it’ll take a mo
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by jsdalton 7mo ago
I was more bothered by the extraneous word spacing on the second line, between “and” and “the.” Is it just me?
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by jsdalton 7mo ago
Which model did you get, and how much did it end up costing per square foot (if you don't mind me asking)? Just curious how much the real costs end up comparing with the sticker pricess on their website.
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by jsdalton 10mo ago
Start with SICP!
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by jsdalton 10mo ago
That all sounds very interesting. As someone who has synesthesia, I’d be interested if you still maintain those tests you refer to?
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by jsdalton 11mo ago
I simply don’t agree with the conclusion though I appreciate the approach to thinking about products. I recently chose to take the train vs driving and the factors behind that decision were: * Time, yes. Train was approximately the same but
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by jsdalton 1y ago
I’ve often thought this would be useful for version control and change review, since it allows diffs to be a lot less noisy. I’m imagining how much easier it would be to review a PR with significant README edits if the file was already stru
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by jsdalton 1y ago
My father had his eyes fixed like this about a decade ago and purports to be happy with it. IIRC they did actually require that he wear contact lenses that replicated the effect for some amount of time (a month or so I believe) because ther
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by jsdalton 1y ago
Agreed. Many animals without language show evidence of thinking (e.g. complex problem solving skills and tool use). Language is clearly an enabler of complex thought in humans but not the entire basis of our intelligence, as it is with LLMs
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by jsdalton 1y ago
Much of this post was spot on — but the blind spots are highly problematic. In this agentic AI utopia of six months from now: * Why would developers — especially junior developers — be assigned oversight of the AI clusters? This sounds more
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by jsdalton 2y ago
Does it operate by translating your higher level AI methods into lower level Playwright methods, and if so is it possible to debug the actual methods those methods were translated to? Also is there some level of deterministic behavior here
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by jsdalton 3y ago
Yeah I was thinking similar. And/or a separate shortcut key that opens a new block at the very top of the page (regardless of where the current cursor is positioned).
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by jsdalton 3y ago
This is just outstanding. It's so exactly what I wish for out of a scratch pad. My feature request to add to your pile (possibly a lonely one, since maybe it's just unique to how my brain works): I really want a scratch pad like t
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by jsdalton 3y ago
This is where feature flags come in. When you use feature flags to support development you ship code straight to production — but your work is hidden behind that glad while development is under way. So in practice you merge your PRs immedia
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by jsdalton 3y ago
My advice to you (at least what's worked for me on several reasonably well-functioning teams using stories and Jira in a similar manner as you have described: Decouple users stories (customer/product outcomes) from tasks (units of
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by jsdalton 3y ago
For people who live in Seattle, the perception that homicides are increasing is actually the reality: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/law-justice/seattl...
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by jsdalton 4y ago
Do you have an induction stovetop now or a regular convection? Because in my experience induction is vastly superior to both convection and gas stoves. It provides far more and faster heat, cools nearly instantly and the nice ones at least
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by jsdalton 4y ago
Same chart, including Cypress: https://star-history.com/#microsoft/playwright&SeleniumHQ/se...
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by jsdalton 4y ago
Probably “heuristics” is a better term to describe these. “Mental models” refers to something quite different, which is the simplified representation we form in our minds of the world around us that helps us better comprehend and navigate i
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by jsdalton 5y ago
This article from Martin Fowler explores your point in greater depth. It's a good read: https://martinfowler.com/articles/is-quality-worth-cost.html One concrete problem with technical debt the article highlights
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by jsdalton 5y ago
You might consider providing a link, since Google returns absolutely nothing about management relating to “Auntie / Uncle” as a search term.

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