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by merrywhether 11mo ago
They did just (re-)add a section on that in response to community request: https://react.dev/learn/build-a-react-app-from-scratch
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by merrywhether 1y ago
That sounds like the market at work? Government doesn’t control what private companies stock, so it seems they’ve gotten some signal that the majority of their customers prefer energy-efficient products. If you’re a non-mainstream consumer,
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by merrywhether 1y ago
While we’re at it, why not let manufacturers reintroduce lead into paint and toys and let consumers choose what they want there too? The problem is that “consumer choice” is frequently a shield for amoral companies to take advantage of info
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by merrywhether 1y ago
I think there’s a difference in that this is about as good as LLM code is going to get in terms of code quality (as opposed to capability a la agentic functionality). LLM output can only be as good as its training data, and the proliferatio
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by merrywhether 2y ago
I did not get the feeling that the author was against AI, but rather was bemoaning that students were using it to avoid learning. Philosophy is a good example of a subject where the knowledge is a means to developing your own cohesive princ
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by merrywhether 2y ago
You would have to grade every user on every knowledge axis though. Just because someone is an expert in software doesn’t mean you should believe their takes on medicine, no matter how good faith their model interactions appear. I’d argue th
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by merrywhether 2y ago
Users can be adversarial to the “truth” (to the extent it exists) without being adversarial in intent. Dinosaur bones are either 65 million year old remnants of ancient creatures or decoys planted by a God during a 7 day creation, and a lar
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by merrywhether 2y ago
It’s all in the nuance. Currently the insurance companies have too much moral hazard, as they are able to extract profits during the “good” years (like AllState’s recent $3B stock buyback) and then deny or default during disasters. An extra
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by merrywhether 2y ago
Yeah, the solution isn’t divorcing risk (as communicated by cost) from reality. If the concern is usurious insurance rates, that’s where things like profit caps and other regulations come in. Society should want people to have fair insuranc
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Dartitis: The condition where you try to throw a dart – but can't(bbc.com)
2 points by merrywhether 2y ago|0 comments
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by merrywhether 2y ago
If I understand it?
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by merrywhether 2y ago
Or coming to temporary clarity? Things like the “culture wars” are distractions pushed by the elites to keep the lower classes fighting amongst themselves and not their true enemy. But extractive robber barons are the real problem behind ev
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by merrywhether 2y ago
> Sniff-test-wise… Penny-wise, pound-foolish isn’t a saying because it’s a total rarity. Plenty of people follow “common” practices that seem positive but are actually negative. Cash is much easier to steal from your employer, let alone
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by merrywhether 2y ago
Are action or horror movies exploitation of the biological adrenaline drive? Every leisure activity is appealing to more than just hyper-rational thought.
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by merrywhether 2y ago
The name football comes from the fact that it was played _on_ foot by the commoners, as opposed to the equestrian sports played by the nobility.
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by merrywhether 2y ago
IMO that blog series misses the point. Knowledgeable motivated developers can make great experiences with any technology, and conversely there are bad experiences built with every technology. That series blames the people involved for not b
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by merrywhether 2y ago
Or it implies that society and technology have advanced in the meantime, expanding the scope of what the government is expected to do. For instance, at the end of WWII we did not have the federal highway system but the nation is much better
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by merrywhether 2y ago
Isn’t anything a government does ostensibly classified as working to improve collective welfare? That’s the basis of the social contract.
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by merrywhether 2y ago
That’s a pretty glib stance. Plenty of people have difficulty finding a friend group and not everyone can be an island until they do (see the loneliness epidemic). Perhaps consider that there are other people with different life situations
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by merrywhether 2y ago
You need app Foo on your phone for work (like Slack, maybe). Foo is in the App Store and worked great on your iPhone but decides they want to install via their own store so they can monetize employees’ data (location, whatever) to make more
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The Making of a TypeScript Feature: Inferring Type Predicates(effectivetypescript.com)
3 points by merrywhether 2y ago|0 comments
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by merrywhether 2y ago
I’d always thought “power users” toggled this type of stuff off by switching to Lineage or similar and having full control.
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by merrywhether 2y ago
Given that GraphQL makes much more sense for big orgs, I wouldn’t be surprised if much of that code is locked up in private repos that LLMs can’t get to.
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by merrywhether 2y ago
In my experience, nothing other than nullable DB fields should be nullable in the GQL schema. Everything else like inter-service problems, auth problems, etc, should be modeled as “result boxes” via union types (somewhat equivalent to Maybe
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by merrywhether 2y ago
This is one of the reasons for the broad popularity of TypeScript, where “[specifying] in the contract of the function that it can return null” is foundational to the experience. Meanwhile thrown errors are unmodelable COMEFROM statements i
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by merrywhether 3y ago
What if the AI explicitly required users to include the desired race of any prompt generating humans? More than allowing the user to control it, force the user to control it. We don't like image of our biases that the mirror of AI is s
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by merrywhether 3y ago
WBD is a public company, can the shareholders sue or otherwise punish the board/CEO? I'm not sure where those boundaries are, just top of mind because of the recent Musk action. That seems like the appropriate source of any enforc
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by merrywhether 3y ago
This is the kind of intractable bureaucratic inertia people were worried about regarding the EU’s USB-C mandate. It remains to be seen how that plays out (partly given that the current state of USB-C implies it could Frankenstein forward fo
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by merrywhether 3y ago
> choice for the user I find it ironic when this is framed as user choice when it is being lobbied by massive corporate interests for their own benefit. Epic wants to give you the “choice” to download Fortnite from exactly one place, for
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by merrywhether 3y ago
It should be, but I’m not holding my breathe for the US to suddenly start ancting like a functional government (and there are probably other countries where a legal fix is less likely as well). Until then companies are free to offer private

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