maxaf

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by maxaf 10mo ago
I view LLMs as a trade of competence plus quality against time. Sure, I’d love to err on the side of pure craft and keep honing my skill every chance I get. But can I afford to do so? Increasingly, the answer is “no”: I have precious little
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by maxaf 1y ago
We frame hybrid as RTO because hybrid is usually mandatory rather than flexible, and implies having to live in some wretched metro area close to an office. I want to live someplace where offices do not exist, which means hybrid is a non-sta
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by maxaf 2y ago
Parentification is never a solution. It’s merely a cruel way to spread misery to another person who doesn’t deserve it.
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by maxaf 6y ago
Are you writing a “Black Mirror” episode?
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by maxaf 7y ago
“They” (whoever they are) can torture more than one person at a time.
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by maxaf 7y ago
You're right: there are at least some good reasons for packaging to exist. So, I'm going to rephrase my original question: Why does every little thing come in packaging that is not directly reusable without further investment of
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by maxaf 7y ago
Recycling is the wrong, least efficient, laziest solution to the problem of packaging. Why does every little thing need to come packaged in its own cocoon of plastic or paper? Beats me. Consumers have become lazy: they expect purchasing and
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by maxaf 7y ago
> You should at least test drive it under controlled conditions [...] Who cares what the car does under controlled conditions? I'm sure the manufacturer did exactly that in their testing. Even when they test on public roads, there&#
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by maxaf 7y ago
Doxxing and stalkers and other abuse. Postings dredged up from years (and, eventually, decades) ago which can destroy careers. Phishing attacks that rely on knowing things about a person from their social media profiles. I can go on all day
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by maxaf 7y ago
Your “outcast” assertion is unsupported by facts. It turns out that not everything happens on social media. Within a group of friends even a single person who isn’t on Twitter/Snapchat/TikTok/etc tends to pull the entire grou
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by maxaf 7y ago
This article does a great job of articulating the principles of identity which I’ve been teaching to my daughter ever since she’s been old enough to understand what a Twitter account is. Even though social media is banned in our household,
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by maxaf 7y ago
I’m not buying your reasoning. Try putting a WKWebView into a SwiftUI view. This kind of thing is all sorts of messed up when multiple rendering systems - two of them declarative (SwiftUI and HTML) - collide in a single view. I’m sure someo
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by maxaf 7y ago
I should’ve known that it’s turtles all the way down. Considering how many years I’ve sunk into programming for other platforms, this shouldn’t have come as a surprise, but I got suckered into believing that mobile computing platforms repre
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by maxaf 7y ago
Wasn’t meant as a joke.
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by maxaf 7y ago
That’s how Twitter started for me too, but after a while degenerated to become the toxic mess which finally drove me away. My experience goes to show that people change over time: some, whose influence I formerly found enlightening, reverte
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by maxaf 7y ago
There’s “pair tennis” (I know nothing about tennis, so apologies if that’s not what it’s called) which seems to flow alright, but tennis is a much more tightly constrained activity than programming. There are only a few actions each player
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by maxaf 7y ago
> Half of engineers prefer to work at a company that does pair programming Well, I’m glad that it’s only half. Isn’t that neat? I wish this meme of “company that does pair programming” would die a slow and agonizing death. Not everyone’s
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by maxaf 7y ago
If you knew that no surveillance was being conducted, would you be acting any differently?
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by maxaf 7y ago
Don’t just leave us hanging! Would you mind listing some possible reasons to reject cancer treatment in favor of pseudoscience?
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by maxaf 7y ago
Or, you know, fathers. Half of success in fatherhood comes from simply showing up. Absentee fathers contribute to the generational erosion of the family fabric that is almost impossible to undo.
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by maxaf 7y ago
There’s power in negative space. People will maintain meatspace connections that won’t be mirrored online, which will create a sense of mystique and intrigue. People who aren’t immediately connected to off lines IRL will seek them out in a
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by maxaf 7y ago
But here’s the headline I’d actually like to see: > New York City unveils a next-generation human who never litters
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by maxaf 7y ago
In aviation “nm” stands for nautical miles.
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by maxaf 7y ago
Zillow.
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by maxaf 7y ago
I won’t even mention the anecdata from my own workplace. I’ll only say that within my extended network people are frantically rewriting Scala bits in other languages. Those who are stuck with it (because of, say, extensive prior investment
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by maxaf 7y ago
When I gave up on Scala in 2016, I did so because its future looked fragmented and uncertain. Fast forward more than three years, and the first release of Scala 3 won’t be out until another year from now. Compare this with the pace of devel
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by maxaf 7y ago
> I verify the data with LinkedIn profiles Lost me right there. Good luck with that. LinkedIn is notoriously a garbage dump of spam, recruiters and fake profiles. That’s on top of the fact that most people (myself included) don’t have a
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37-Year-Old Mom Spent Seven Days Online as an 11-Year-Old Girl(medium.com)
287 points by maxaf 7y ago|281 comments
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by maxaf 7y ago
I work remotely full time. Recently I’ve been running Twitch-like live programming sessions with an audience of coworkers. They get to see my workflow and interact with me as I build something from nothing. These sessions have become quite
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by maxaf 7y ago
Learning in a physical office seems easier for the person being taught because it's accomplished at the expense of a priority interrupt on the part of the person doing the teaching. You hit a snag in your work, you get up, walk to my d

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