thisoneisreal

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by thisoneisreal 7d ago
I'm not convinced by the doomsday scenarios either, but I think there's a keyword in your post: "sense." These things don't have "sense." They do nonsensical things all the time, often almost immediately w
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by thisoneisreal 9d ago
Lots of thinkers throughout history have pointed this out (David Hume and Seneca are the first 2 that spring to mind, but I'm sure there are hundreds more). Our mind doesn't work correctly when it's constantly focused, and as
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by thisoneisreal 11d ago
My favorite book about this is "The Happiness Trap," because it makes the simple point that we didn't evolve to be happy all of the time. It makes a really good case for learning to live with the range of emotions and suggest
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by thisoneisreal 14d ago
The person "watching" should be actively engaging and helping to build the "theory of the program" (in the Naur sense) through questions and conversations. If they're just sitting there silently they aren't doi
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by thisoneisreal 1mo ago
Alfred North Whitehead talks about the notion of "Importance" as fundamental to the human (and all other living things) way of being. Living creatures first and foremost select information that is important to them from the broade
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by thisoneisreal 1mo ago
It was created by a journalist and a cop, who both had long careers in Baltimore before working on the show. Not surprising how realistic it is. (Also a beautiful work of art beyond the realism.) If you find the show interesting, David Simo
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by thisoneisreal 2mo ago
Check out mineral based sunscreens, I have sensitive skin and I find them infinitely more tolerable.
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by thisoneisreal 2mo ago
One thought I had is that you could use FPGAs to get hardware performance but maintain the ability to dynamically update. I don't know enough about hardware to consider trying such a thing but I'm curious if that could be made pra
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by thisoneisreal 2mo ago
Can you explain more about how the front end aspect works? I'm not clear how the front end code could by TypeScript without a build step, unless I'm misreading.
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by thisoneisreal 2mo ago
Even before LLMs I used to joke with my traditional SE coworkers that "philosophy is very practical." On nearly every project we'd have to talk to stakeholders and ask questions like, "But when you say X, what do you me
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by thisoneisreal 2mo ago
One thing I've never seen discussed on this topic (possible I just missed it, I only read popular accounts) is whether speaking multiple languages is a proxy for higher sociability / stronger social ties. That's a known dimen
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by thisoneisreal 3mo ago
You're ignoring the core analogy. The author's point is that someone (or something) can be verbose and articulate about a topic without having any real knowledge or experience of it. I can talk at length about war because I'v
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by thisoneisreal 3mo ago
It's a really fun philosophical exercise to ask what it means for them to be "wrong." My perspective is that they are fantastic at association and generalization (of language and symbols in particular), but whether they'
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by thisoneisreal 3mo ago
I think I've done a good job straddling the delivery/maintainability line thus far. In the near future I'm likely going to have to downshift into smaller, higher quality changes and refactors, but I've been careful to k
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by thisoneisreal 3mo ago
I hesitate to say this because I think the AI hype is generally overdone, but I was contemplating the other day how much I would recommend my employer spend on AI tooling for me based on my salary and it's got to be in the tens of thou
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by thisoneisreal 3mo ago
I mean in the Big 5 personality model sense. Someone who is neurotic is sensitive, more prone to negative emotions including fear. Someone who is low in neuroticism is less fearful and sensitive on average. So for example you could put two
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by thisoneisreal 3mo ago
I agree it's counterintuitive, but it makes sense when I think about how, for example, it's the least neurotic people who do high-risk activities like base jumping or mountain climbing. Fear drives you away from threatening things
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by thisoneisreal 3mo ago
This is one of those classic "sounds dumb / doesn't play well on TV but is actually smarter than most of the other people babbling about it" things. Nassim Taleb has written for example about how maddening it is to watch
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by thisoneisreal 3mo ago
I grew up solidly middle class, even went to a good private school. A couple of my friends got ripped off by an addict that ran in our social circle who had the same background. They couldn't find the person, but they were so angry tha
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by thisoneisreal 4mo ago
Thanks for following up, really interesting and appreciate you sharing.
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by thisoneisreal 4mo ago
I found it very useful running a TDD workflow the other day. It created a test plan, generated tests, documented them, implemented and modified existing code, and added structured logging. It also identified really good refactor candidates
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by thisoneisreal 4mo ago
How did you get into that line of work? Sounds really interesting.
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by thisoneisreal 5mo ago
Bought a Kobo and decided I'm just going to stick to Ebooks.com DRM-free section from now on. Tired of not owning what I buy. I did the same with music, using an Innioasis iPod knockoff + buy MP3s from Amazon Music, cheaper than Spotif
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by thisoneisreal 6mo ago
Hadn't heard of this book. Picked up a sample based on your comment and I'm really enjoying it, thanks.
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by thisoneisreal 7mo ago
I'm not buying into this vision at all, but, hypothetically, they could use money to optimize whatever reward function they're trained on. They could perceive it like any other resource to achieve those ends. You can also imagine
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by thisoneisreal 7mo ago
Just yesterday one of my junior devs got an 800-line code review from an AI agent. It wasn't all bad, but is this kid literally going to have to read an essay every time he submits code?
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by thisoneisreal 7mo ago
I had some of my own struggles but I really started noticing this more broadly in the last 2-3 years. I'm not sure if Covid did it, the end of ZIRP did it, or what, but there was a shift where suddenly almost every SE I would talk to s
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by thisoneisreal 8mo ago
I've been looking into Ada recently and it has cool safety mechanisms to encourage this same kind of thing. It even allows you to dynamically allocate on the stack for many cases.
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by thisoneisreal 9mo ago
Daniel Nettle gives a great layperson's explanation of the Five Factor model in his book "Personality," and the first thing he explains is in line with exactly what you ended on. We exhibit a variety of personalities because
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by thisoneisreal 9mo ago
I'm an avid reader (several dozens of books per year at least), and one of the things that bums me out is all of the morality around my hobby. 3 or 4 times out of 5 when I talk to people about it the reaction is "oh man I'm s

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