rjknight

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by rjknight 4mo ago
But then you lose the Jackson Pollock joke, which is what makes it compelling and memorable!
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by rjknight 6mo ago
It's not that you know the artist first and then say "this art is cool because I like the artist". The art is the means by which you know the artist. The more of their works you encounter, the closer you get to understandin
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by rjknight 8mo ago
Doesn’t that also create a kind of immunity, though? If what I see is a cacophony of differing views, then I am unlikely to be influenced by any particular sock puppet account. Whereas a community that tends towards groupthink might have a
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by rjknight 9mo ago
I wonder if it would be possible to have gone directly to Zed, without going through Atom first (likewise, Plan 9 would never have been the first iteration of a Unix-like OS). "Rewrite it in Rust" makes a lot of sense if you hav
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by rjknight 10mo ago
No, we are using this thing called a metaphor . What's being compared is the relationship between the hangman and the ropemaker, and the relationship between the app developer and the OS vendor. There is no comparison between taking
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by rjknight 11mo ago
Surely the answer is "the other side of the Gobi Desert".
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Study of 1M-year-old skull points to earlier origins of modern humans(theguardian.com)
124 points by rjknight 11mo ago|179 comments
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by rjknight 1y ago
I always think of it as the "Perez plateau"[1], but I will grant that this is less catchy. [1]: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Phases-of-the-S-Curve-Pe...
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UK and US line up string of deals to build modular nuclear reactors in Britain(theguardian.com)
3 points by rjknight 1y ago|0 comments
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by rjknight 1y ago
I think it depends a lot on the org. In enterprise software development, there's definitely a type of "business analyst" or "domain expert" who is capable of reading code, at least to the extent that the code resemb
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by rjknight 1y ago
The "domain expert" is the business-person who is, it is suggested, more capable of reading and comprehending the Clojure code than the Haskell code. Since there is an equivalence between types and propositions, the Clojure progra
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by rjknight 1y ago
One of the neat properties of base58 (and, strictly speaking, of base62 as well) is that it does not contain any characters that require special encoding to be used in either a URL or a filename. Nor does it contain any characters that are
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by rjknight 1y ago
"I want an end to corruption, or a chance to participate in it!"
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by rjknight 1y ago
It's weird, but LLMs really do gamify the experience of doing software engineering properly. With a much faster feedback loop, you can see immediate benefits from having better specs, writing more tests, and keeping modules small.
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by rjknight 1y ago
One thing I've noticed about working with LLMs is that it's forcing me to get _better_ at explaining my intent and fully understanding a problem before coding. Ironically, I'm getting less vibey because I'm using LLMs.
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by rjknight 1y ago
I think it depends on whether you think there's low-hanging fruit in making the ML stack more efficient, or not. LLMs are still somewhat experimental, with various parts of the stack being new-ish, and therefore relatively un-optimised
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by rjknight 2y ago
Some of these seem good to me: - "everything is an expression" is a nicer solution for conditional assignments and returns than massive ternary expressions - the pipe operator feels familiar from Elixir and is somewhat similar to
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by rjknight 2y ago
I would really like to know whether this feature gets any (non-accidental) use. It's certainly an important problem to solve, and I can see the technical merit in the solution proposed. What I'm left wondering is how this solution
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by rjknight 2y ago
Valibot is really nice, particularly for avoiding bundle size bloat. Because Zod uses a "fluent builder" API, all of Zod's functionality is implemented in classes with many methods. Importing something like `z.string` also im
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Interface design in the age of qualiatech: Do you want to be a button?(smoothbrains.net)
2 points by rjknight 2y ago|0 comments
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by rjknight 2y ago
It's also worth bearing in mind that much theology is an attempt to explain what the experience of God is like. The experience of God is not (for Tillich, nor perhaps for very many moderns) about finding a literal place and time in w
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Restoring Arctic sea ice by pumping water to the surface(theguardian.com)
4 points by rjknight 3y ago|0 comments
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by rjknight 3y ago
https://archive.is/AHFlh
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by rjknight 3y ago
It worked well for me - I was able to correctly infer a lot of information about the app from a single character, which was about as successful as a naming scheme could hope to be.
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by rjknight 3y ago
This is why I think if we're going to do geoengineering, we ought to do it sooner rather than later. The amount of geoengineering needed to offset the current level of methane release is going to be much less than the amount needed onc
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by rjknight 3y ago
I don't think this is really true. If by "emissions" you mean the absolute level of CO2 or other pollutants emitted, then the emissions required to build renewable infrastructure will be much smaller than the total emissions
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by rjknight 3y ago
I thought the same thing, but then "slack" also implies not working very hard, and that didn't seem to be a problem for them (though maybe the counterfactual is a world in which Slack had even more users with a better name).
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by rjknight 3y ago
Yes, but the A16 was a stopgap release, which only happened because Apple has to release a new iPhone CPU every year. The M-series does not update as frequently, and so it seems reasonable to imagine that the M3 is of the same "gener
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by rjknight 3y ago
If you're interested in the background, and th importance of technology in both the motivation for and the execution of the coup, this (opinionated, polemical) podcast might be good for you: https://the-santiago-boys.com&#x2
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by rjknight 3y ago
I think this misses a bit of what's going on. What Buddhism does when it encounters pre-existing religious traditions is that it relativizes them. Previously, the existence of the gods or mythic figures was considered an absolute tru

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