nlawalker

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by nlawalker 12d ago
If you’re inclined to add any more, consider Outer Wilds! “Black holes technology” is a major plot point and shows up as a neat gameplay mechanic in a couple places.
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by nlawalker 12d ago
Been a meme for a long time! Mongo DB is web scale https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs
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by nlawalker 17d ago
Gift link: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/08/ai-use-college-che...
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by nlawalker 17d ago
>This is attribution. I think a lot of people interpret it as trying to foist additional burden on reviewers. As in "here's my PR, I would like to take credit for this idea, it's now on you to review. If you find a probl
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by nlawalker 18d ago
Sounds like credit card sites. Most everything is pretty creaky; “redeem rewards” is broken or offline for maintenance; “pay bill” is greased lightning all the way through.
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by nlawalker 18d ago
I think a bias towards inaction often creates better outcomes for everyone, but a bias towards action creates better career results. Most of these places evaluate performance based on impact, and it's way easier to spin any kind of a
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by nlawalker 21d ago
I see “this matters,” “XYZ matters,” “the last two are what matter” etc. everywhere now in all sorts of workplace documents.
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by nlawalker 22d ago
My favorite is the info icons that show a tooltip on hover, but if you click them, they disappear the tip if it’s showing and never show it if it hasn’t appeared yet.
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by nlawalker 27d ago
I can’t hear what they’re saying, they drop the mic every other sentence!
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by nlawalker 1mo ago
It’s the TED Talk playbook: the crafting of a lecture given by an expert to laypeople to maximize attention, engagement and satisfaction. Every piece of prose is built to pack in as many TED Talk mic-drops/expectation-subverting insigh
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by nlawalker 1mo ago
> Both of these examples demonstrate a process, or a decision made in advance A decision made in advance is not a process. Unlike all the other real-world examples of committed processes in the article, premade decisions don't req
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by nlawalker 1mo ago
We should have called it smog .
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by nlawalker 2mo ago
It’s #3, it’s a disclaimer, you’re helpful if it’s right and not to blame if it’s wrong. When I see it, it always makes me want to respond “weird, I asked Claude too and it said <different answer>”.
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by nlawalker 2mo ago
Please post some kind of visible change notification (and something here) when you do!
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by nlawalker 2mo ago
Reasoning, external context, compaction, subagents, etc. are all things that these service providers don't really want you to know about, care about or have any insight into, they want them to be implementation details. It's incre
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by nlawalker 2mo ago
This is what Windows Explorer does when you cut a file, except it does also place it on the clipboard. >pressing ctrl+x fades the selected text and makes it inert [...] Nothing is placed in the clipboard at this point >What if you wa
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by nlawalker 2mo ago
Yes, this right here. Generated content that's based on sources that readers already have access to has no value beyond what they can ask an LLM to generate themselves. Now, if you write it with tender loving care and bake all that stu
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by nlawalker 2mo ago
My problem with passkeys is that "don't have to" is actually "don't have to, and couldn't if I wanted to ".
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by nlawalker 2mo ago
> handwriting docs adds less value than writing high quality instructions to your agent Are the instructions not docs?
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by nlawalker 2mo ago
And that’s a net win for a lot of people in a lot of situations; that’s the part that needs acknowledgment and study, sociologically. You can’t say it didn’t warn us, it’s on the tin: “AI might be wrong.”
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by nlawalker 2mo ago
Software engineering has always been kind of a game for the people who love it; it turns out that making it a game-as-a-service with lootboxes is just as effective for driving engagement as with other kinds of games.
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by nlawalker 2mo ago
Humans working on documentation who are not set up for success and not incentivized to do the right thing exhibit exactly the same behavior.
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by nlawalker 2mo ago
Proving care still leaves the audience to determine if the care is in the message or in attracting attention.
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by nlawalker 2mo ago
The premise of understanding a codebase distracts from the actual issue in the debate about AI in software engineering, which is how well you have to understand the problems you're solving . I think most people who advocate for unde
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by nlawalker 2mo ago
> Each individual digression from our core competency like this can probably be measured positively on ROI when considered locally. But I believe they collectively add up negatively. I’d love to see the official internal leadership sta
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by nlawalker 2mo ago
I prefer adding the detail; if it's going to turn into a phone call anyway I might as well have a script ready to go.
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by nlawalker 2mo ago
The LinkedIn feed was Moltbook before anyone had the idea for Moltbook.
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by nlawalker 2mo ago
I’ve always wondered what the major industry players’ theoretical price would be for offering transferable licenses, and how many people who say they want to be able to resell would pay it. It’s also interesting to me that we got all the wa
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by nlawalker 3mo ago
Honest question, what are the advantages of an integrated system? These three things are kind of the whole game for me, but I also don't have a very sophisticated taste when it comes to cars.
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by nlawalker 3mo ago
>grades have long been inflated to a point we might as well just give everyone an A and let companies figure out how to select people. Between this and a decline in junior hiring, this is sorting itself out in the form of sharply decli

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