mattchew

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by mattchew 3mo ago
This is the best essay on agentic coding I've read. Clear thinking and writing, pragmatic about the future of agent-led coding. If you usually skip straight to the comments, you might want to actually read this one.
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by mattchew 10mo ago
I had pretty much written off ever my credit card to Google, but a better billing experience and hard billing caps might change that.
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by mattchew 3y ago
I'm not crazy about SOLID principles either. They don't feel like useful, practical ideas to me. They were born to be memorized for a classroom test or a job interview. SOLID does come up in interviews, though. Most companies don&
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by mattchew 3y ago
If you can't imagine how politicians could endlessly fight over a UBI you haven't tried hard enough.
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by mattchew 3y ago
The implication is that Amazon was fully aware that this was happening and didn't care. That's what most people would think "let" meant here. Yes, equivocating over the meaning of "let", the headline is technic
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by mattchew 3y ago
I get where you're coming from. The free content is possible because of the advertisements, and you are sort of consenting to the ads when you choose to visit the site. It's not an explicit agreement but it is at least an understa
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by mattchew 3y ago
Our family started taking Vitamin D at the start of the pandemic. We've all gotten sick a lot less than we used to, despite one of us working at a drugstore constantly exposed to sick people. Of course I don't know for sure that t
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by mattchew 4y ago
It's pretty dated at this point (and I don't know of anything recent like it), but playing M.U.L.E. is a little education in microeconomics all by itself. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.U.L.E . Ok, I see that
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by mattchew 4y ago
This game is on my radar, but as I understand it it really wants a lot of players at the table and my group is typically capped at 4. Glad to hear it referenced though.
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by mattchew 5y ago
A degree can be a valuable signal to employers and also be a terrible waste of time and resources. It can be both at once. It would be better if we found ways to let young people get into white collar and middle class professions without sp
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by mattchew 5y ago
Oh, I dream of a day where there are multiple useful search engines, specialized for different purposes. You're doing God's work here. Thanks and good luck.
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by mattchew 6y ago
I think this is a sincere question. It's quite possible this ends in a global depression that's worse than what we had in 2008, maybe even worse than what we had in the 1930s. There are a lot of states that are not very solvent: s
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by mattchew 6y ago
Freedom of speech has always meant the idea that different points of view should be aired, not suppressed, and that people should decide for themselves what is right or what is correct, rather than authorities deciding for them. A society w
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by mattchew 6y ago
A little older than you, but same basic experience. I also don't understand how the tide turned so swiftly against freedom of speech, and in favor of authorities deciding what people should be allowed to hear or read. But it did turn,
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by mattchew 6y ago
Same with us.
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by mattchew 6y ago
Also interested in the answer to this question.
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by mattchew 6y ago
There's a lot of differences in risk appetite (and actual risk) from state to state. Maybe the feds could allow states to get a waiver from FDA regulations if they want to try things like variolation. This would still require someone a
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by mattchew 7y ago
This seems like a fairly common view to people who have come late to the topic. If you have been paying attention for a while, the way the USA has handled this is horrifying. Compare the outcomes in Italy to those in South Korea to see what
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by mattchew 7y ago
Probably they would. WHO could also provide the USA with tests. We could do more testing domestically. Not only could we open up more testing now, but we could have opened it up weeks ago. We've chosen not to do this. Yes, it is utterl
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by mattchew 7y ago
I second this. If I have rapport with a supervisor, I'm pleased if they take a sincere interest in my well being, but this needs to be done one on one. If there is no rapport, I don't trust a supervisor trying to poke at my feelin
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by mattchew 7y ago
I've always assumed it was mostly spam, and the bulk of new users preferring other discussion formats. I appreciate the correction.
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by mattchew 7y ago
I'm hoping one of the ActivityPub Reddit-like projects takes off. (yeah, I know, someone else make what I want . . . ) (or, we should have just fixed spam on Usenet . . . )
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by mattchew 7y ago
Yup. Unschooling has some tendency to become an ideology instead of a practical point of view, and people get stuck in it. When all your homeschooling friends are stuck in it too, it becomes hard to get out of it even when it's not wor
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by mattchew 7y ago
It's worth contemplating. We homeschooled our kids and it was a good choice for our family. I'm sympathetic to unschooling, but I've also seen it go wrong. If you decide to unschool, don't be dogmatic about it. Feel free
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by mattchew 7y ago
The ideal of free speech is a Western ideal. It is part of the individualist tradition going back at least to the Enlightenment. Back when I was in college (early 1990s), respect for free speech was almost universal among educated people. E
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by mattchew 7y ago
It's very upsetting how quickly the West is abandoning the ideal of free speech. 20 years ago I would not have believed it was possible that we would have a significant fraction of educated people who were opposed to free speech. But h
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by mattchew 7y ago
I can't agree with this at all. Our family has four people in it. We've spent plenty of time and money on medical care in the past 18 years. Almost everything we've done medically, we could have made use of price transparency
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by mattchew 7y ago
Nice! I hope this gets traction.
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by mattchew 8y ago
You can always make up a story where your project brings intangible but wonderful benefits that no decent person could be against. This is normal . If you can paint a rosy picture of community, or the happiness of children, or the safety o
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by mattchew 8y ago
Using lung cancer fatalities to generalize to everyone in the US is fallacious, because most lung cancer occurs in high risk groups (primarily smokers). If you are not a smoker, looking at total fatalities from lung cancer including smoker

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