o_nate

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by o_nate 2mo ago
I think its easy for us to think we can understand what a program is going to do when we're dealing with high level abstractions. I think if we really came to grips with everything the program is doing all the way down to the hardware
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Progress: Real and Potemkin(scottlocklin.wordpress.com)
4 points by o_nate 3mo ago|0 comments
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by o_nate 3mo ago
I think there are two ways to interpret this question, not sure which one you meant. Question one: if you don't remember being conscious, were you actually conscious? Seems the answer should be yes. Just because you don't remember
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by o_nate 3mo ago
There's a lot of wisdom in this. In addition to reserving some capacity for when true high-value work comes along, I think software engineering is not the type of job that you can do well if you're constantly busy. Trying to write
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by o_nate 3mo ago
If students are allowed to use AI to accomplish their goals, then I think the real question is why should they go to an expensive university for four years to learn how to ask AI to do something?
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by o_nate 4mo ago
The title may be needlessly aggressive. I think Rovelli could have framed this better by acknowledging there is a hard problem and then arguing that we have a better chance of resolving that problem by seeking a better understanding of conc
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by o_nate 5mo ago
I'm currently reading (and enjoying) "How Life Works: A User's Guide to the New Biology" by Philip Ball. It proceeds from the bottom up: the first half is all about cells and smaller structures. Pretty readable but doesn
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Small Engines(scottlocklin.wordpress.com)
2 points by o_nate 6mo ago|0 comments
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by o_nate 6mo ago
Yeah, I guess what goes around comes around. Bad if true though.
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Coding Assistant Experience(scottlocklin.wordpress.com)
2 points by o_nate 6mo ago|0 comments
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by o_nate 7mo ago
I don't think the author is missing this distinction. It seems that you agree with him in his main point which is that companies bragging about LOCs generated by AI should be ignored by right-thinking people. It's just you buried
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by o_nate 7mo ago
Between this and the debate about ideal method length with Ousterhout, my respect for Uncle Bob is plumbing new depths.
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by o_nate 7mo ago
This is a cool idea. I wish something like this existed for C#.
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by o_nate 7mo ago
Lots of good observations in this article. I think that barring the possibility that LLMs become able to generate perfect, bug-free code, the question of how AI-generated code can be integrated with TDD is an important one. And as the autho
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AI-Generated Tests as Ceremony(blog.ploeh.dk)
3 points by o_nate 7mo ago|1 comments
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by o_nate 8mo ago
It's not a paradox, because there is nothing logically inconsistent in my definition, unlike the Berry paradox.
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by o_nate 8mo ago
Whatever largest number you can express in your system, I can represent a larger one in only one bit, using the following specification. 0=your largest number 1=your largest number + 1
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by o_nate 9mo ago
Feels like the answer is probably uncertainty about inflation?
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by o_nate 9mo ago
It depends on the specifics of what was said. As the complaint states, OpenAI has yet to release the full transcripts.
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by o_nate 9mo ago
Encouraging someone to commit a crime is aiding and abetting, and is also a crime in itself.
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Facts I Heard This Year(zhengdongwang.com)
3 points by o_nate 9mo ago|0 comments
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by o_nate 9mo ago
Perhaps it would be useful to define what we mean by "commoditization" in terms of software. I would say a software product that is not commoditized is one where the brand still can command a premium, which in the world of softwar
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by o_nate 9mo ago
I guess I'm lucky not to have worked at a place with a role for software architects who don't actually write code. I honestly don't know how that would work. However, I think I can appreciate the author's point. Any suff
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by o_nate 10mo ago
Inheritance is not necessary, but then very few programming constructs are absolutely necessary. The question is does it help program clarity or not. I think that in some cases, used sparingly, it can. The main danger of inheritance is not
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by o_nate 1y ago
Two of the three Starbucks locations in my home town removed all of the seating. Across the street from one of them, an independent coffee shop opened up with lots of seating. Whenever I walk by the Starbucks is empty and there are a lot of
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by o_nate 1y ago
The Starbucks near me doesn't even brew coffee any more. They switched to these automatic machines that "brew" a cup in about 15 seconds (ie. vending machine quality). Its undrinkable now. In future would only order espresso
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by o_nate 1y ago
I had a similar issue recently. I used the Windows Photo app to import & delete photos from my iPhone. When it finished, I realized that a significant fraction of the photos had been corrupted. Not sure where in the pipeline it happened
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by o_nate 1y ago
It would be interesting to explore further why this topic is still so sensitive for a lot of people, and why the metaphorical talk is still so appealing. I feel like the reasons given in this article couldn't alone explain its enormous
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by o_nate 1y ago
The problem itself is at least centuries old, if not millennia. In his "Essay Concerning Human Understanding" (1689), John Locke phrased the same problem clearly, using different words: "How any thought should produce a motio
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by o_nate 1y ago
What with this and your previous post about why sometimes incompetent management leads to better outcomes, you are quickly becoming one of my favorite tech bloggers. Perhaps I enjoyed the piece so much because your conclusions basically tra

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