taylorlunt

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   by taylorlunt 2mo ago

   Yes, there is a middle ground. Elixir's Ecto does this well. Database rows map to structs. But it doesn't try to figure out how to mutate the data for you to keep the struct in sync with the database. All mutations are explicit us
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   by taylorlunt 11mo ago

   This reminds me of the recent Claude Imagine, which passed quietly through most people's radars, but let you create web interfaces of any kind on the fly. There was no JS code generated. Instead, any time the user clicked a button, the
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   by taylorlunt 11mo ago

   I agree, prototyping seems like a great use-case.
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   by taylorlunt 11mo ago

   These seem like a lot of great ways to work around the limitations of LLMs. But I'm curious what people here think. Do any career software engineers here see more than a 10% boost to their coding productivity with LLMs? I see how if yo
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   by taylorlunt 1y ago

   I have a pet theory that LLMs being confused about what they just wrote is why they use so many em dashes. It's a good way to conceptually pivot at any point -- or not.
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   How I Made the Front Page of Hacker News with AI Slop(taylor.gl)

   8 points by taylorlunt 1y ago|0 comments
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   Big Tech Killed the Golden Age of Programming(taylor.gl)

   128 points by taylorlunt 1y ago|172 comments
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   Caveat Lector – A Generic List of Caveats for Any Essay or Article(taylor.gl)

   2 points by taylorlunt 1y ago|0 comments
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   by taylorlunt 1y ago

   Elixir handles all of this pretty well, for example differentiating between Date, Time, NaiveDateTime (a date and time), and DateTime (a date and time in a particular timezone). The Timex library is a great improvement too. JS has libraries
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    by taylorlunt 1y ago

    I have personally no interest in the actual debate the two were engaged in.
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    by taylorlunt 1y ago

    Ha, I'm certainly not expecting my writing to change human nature! I feel more like David Attenborough or something, watching nature from the outside and commenting on things for the edutainment of my audience. Maybe some of the people
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    by taylorlunt 1y ago

    I pointed out in the article that this is the system working as intended. Getting a meeting with a VC is not the same thing as getting an investment. And if you're getting thousands of emails, it makes sense to prioritize the most impr
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    by taylorlunt 1y ago

    This is a strange response for someone demanding generosity and charity from others.
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    by taylorlunt 1y ago

    Thank you!
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    You People Keep Contradicting Yourselves(taylor.gl)

    31 points by taylorlunt 1y ago|34 comments
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    Why You Found Crime and Punishment Boring(taylor.gl)

    1 points by taylorlunt 3y ago|0 comments
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    by taylorlunt 4y ago

    I stopped using Thunderbird on Linux when it deleted all of my RSS feeds.
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    by taylorlunt 4y ago

    Shopify is used for this sort of thing, supports payment with Stripe, and you can integrate it with Django. Should be straightforward.
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    by taylorlunt 5y ago

    The mean quality goes down, but the total number of games above a certain threshold goes up, which makes discoverability a bigger problem than it used to be, but, assuming we can solve that problem, makes the gaming industry better.
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    by taylorlunt 5y ago

    It isn't.
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    by taylorlunt 5y ago

    You've never spent much time around lower IQ people, I take it. The type of people who drive trucks, or bag groceries, and will never be able to do more than that. Good people, most of them, of course. But allergic to logical, delibera
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    by taylorlunt 5y ago

    Vivaldi has support for RSS feeds now. Vivaldi has been getting better and better. I urge anyone who hasn't tried it in the last year or two to check it out. It's the new Opera.
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    by taylorlunt 5y ago

    I wrote about this here: https://taylor.gl/blog/6/ It seems to be psychologically easier to justify adding things than removing them.
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    by taylorlunt 6y ago

    Note that a mouse does not need to solve the problem from scratch like a computer does. They are born with a general solution to the problem of movement in their brain, which has been arrived at by evolution. To replicate this, you can&#x27
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    by taylorlunt 6y ago

    Part of the problem with journalism is they're expected to publish regularly, even when they have nothing to say.
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    Stop Naming Adages After People and Calling Them Laws(taylor.gl)

    4 points by taylorlunt 6y ago|1 comments
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    by taylorlunt 6y ago

    It is, however, exorbitant on the scale of my wallet.
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    by taylorlunt 6y ago

    Is it possible that you have not yet formed the kind of temporal associations I mentioned in the article?
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    by taylorlunt 6y ago

    Here's a massive meta-analysis of tens of thousands of participants finding a reduction in mortality associated with vitamin D supplementation: https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD
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    by taylorlunt 6y ago

    Unfortunately, from what I've heard at least, it takes less than an hour to again return to your carbon dioxide equilibrium.