wry_discontent

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by wry_discontent 7d ago
Yes, I think it's a big deal if you worked for a big evil organization on purpose.
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by wry_discontent 9d ago
And you'll keep hearing that, because it's a marketing term.
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by wry_discontent 23d ago
How I interpreted their thoughts on "loops" and "graphs" etc, is that they 1. have unlimited token allowances, and 2. are working on problems where the solution itself can be described by code. It reminds me of property
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by wry_discontent 24d ago
What the hell am I supposed to be excited about? Endless slop? Career change from intellectually stimulating creation to bland gatekeeping? There is nothing fun about programming anymore. The joy is completely gone. I would switch careers
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by wry_discontent 24d ago
They work on research problems you can define a clear solution criteria for. The kinds of business software I work on don't have those characteristics. If I needed something like a utils library, I think I could easily have Claude wri
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by wry_discontent 2mo ago
You get over it really quickly once you start actually using it. I find it basically impossible to read Clojure outside the editor in any meaningful sense.
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by wry_discontent 3mo ago
Huge fan of the Voyager with home-row-mods.
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by wry_discontent 3mo ago
This seems totally reasonable. It is designed to be addictive, and they definitely target folks under 18. The article specifically mentions teens.
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by wry_discontent 10mo ago
The tools produce mediocre, usually working in the most technical sense of the word, and most developers are pretty shit at writing code that doesn't suck (myself included). I think it's safe to say that people singularly focused
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by wry_discontent 10mo ago
That makes sense given that it's trained on real world developers.
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by wry_discontent 10mo ago
I've always heard this sentiment, but I've also never met one of these newly skilled job applicants who could do anything resembling the job. I've done a lot of interviews, and inevitably, most of the devs I interview can&#x2
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by wry_discontent 10mo ago
This is great. One of the things I say to my wife all the time, which is taken from a Kurt Vonnegut quote, is that "I don't have to be good at my hobbies".
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by wry_discontent 10mo ago
It's my preference to a point. I think you can over-do it. I've worked in systems that didn't use it and worked just fine. I would bet most folks err on the side of too little, unless they have some kind of framework doing th
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by wry_discontent 10mo ago
Here will be a list of ... things I don't like about them. I did not see a list of things not to like. Just a set of vague thoughtless complaints.
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by wry_discontent 10mo ago
I see a lot of times people (read: me) are lazy and make a mock that does not have anywhere near the behavior of the original. It's more like a very partial stub. I will mock an api with 20 possible calls with the 2 that I use. Unsu
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by wry_discontent 10mo ago
This sounds great until one of your other functions calls that function. You're just describing dependency injection, but if you say that, people won't want to listen cause doing that all the time sucks.
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by wry_discontent 10mo ago
I've been working on a web framework in Clojure. There are already a few others, but they're, in my opinion, too focused on the Clojure community, and are much harder to sell to people I know who might otherwise use Clojure. I w
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by wry_discontent 10mo ago
I would say this does not work in any nontrivial way from what I've seen. Even basic scripts and UI components are fucked up all the time.
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by wry_discontent 11mo ago
I've been using NoBS toothpaste tabs for a couple years which are nano-hydroxyapatite. I find them effective. No issues at my dentist. In fact, a year ago, they wanted to put in a filling for a minor cavity, but I wanted to put it of
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by wry_discontent 11mo ago
I mean I hate low effort slop that's pushed from every vaguely technical source and tells me it's great. It's very clearly junk. I think what people hate is the sense of quality degradation. Everything feels cheap. Everyth
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by wry_discontent 11mo ago
This seems naive to me. There are plenty of things I work hard on because I like them, but there are also lots of things I have to work hard on because they need to get done. I have similar feelings about Ikigai, the overlap of what you lov
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by wry_discontent 11mo ago
Isn't that begging the question? If you just accept the presupposition that intelligence is tightly coupled to consciousness, then all that makes perfect sense to me. But I don't see why I should accept that. It isn't obvio
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by wry_discontent 11mo ago
But that's not an answer. Why should intelligence and not some other quality be coupled to consciousness? In my experience, consciousness (by which I'm specifically talking about qualia/experience/awarenesss) doesn&#x2
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by wry_discontent 11mo ago
What makes you think consciousness is tightly coupled to intelligence?
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by wry_discontent 11mo ago
"brain as computer" is just the latest iteration of a line of thinking that goes back forever. Whatever we kinda understand and interact with, that's what we are and what the brain is. Chemicals, electricity, clocks, steam
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by wry_discontent 11mo ago
I have found that chaining things in Smalltalk get immensely painful after just a couple elements. Unlike most other languages, I find myself reaching for silly little var names for lots of different things I would normally just let flow.
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by wry_discontent 11mo ago
I've used zippers a couple times. Once for navigating a collection of deeply nested routes in a webapp, and once for navigating deeply nested xml to grab very particular data. Both times it was pretty pleasant and nice to use. I wouldn
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by wry_discontent 11mo ago
If you use Emacs, there's a mode similar to magit that's under active development: https://github.com/bolivier/jj-mode.el
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by wry_discontent 11mo ago
Isn't git the only supported backend? I always introduce jj as a better git ui.
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by wry_discontent 11mo ago
React was such a simple and elegant solution when it started, and it's accreted so many quirks and weird behaviors that are clearly specific to the use cases of the companies leading development. At this point, I'm not interested

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