zjp

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by zjp 19d ago
No kidding. After years of all offices and no housing I wouldn't put it past this place. What other city on earth hates its citizens more?
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by zjp 19d ago
Build more housing.
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by zjp 2mo ago
It's more than reading. Peoples' patience for long-form anything is dying, and I'm guilty too. Too often I'm on my phone with a movie playing in the background. When it ends, I can't even tell you what happened. It
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by zjp 2mo ago
You know it never occurred to me I could look things up before. Everything I've ever known I learned orally. Even C. I remember sitting on pappy's lap, watching him wave his hand to draw out an asterisk in the air. "A pointer
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by zjp 2mo ago
Acronyms I can handle. What I've always hated is aNz style compressions. a11y, a16z, stuff that you can't even guess at a decoding unless you know it already.
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by zjp 3mo ago
Derrida was worried that people were merely imitating his style of thinking without the substance, but it's fine for AI to do it to humanity-in-general. OK.
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by zjp 4mo ago
Yeah I'm from Kansas and none of these meanings were new to me.
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by zjp 5mo ago
Different models, similar number representations. Different models for different languages, similar concept representations. They have to learn all of this from human text input, so they're not divining it themselves. It all makes a st
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by zjp 5mo ago
This is the Hemingway Editor by another name, and I have the same complaint about it that I have about the Hemingway Editor. See: https://zjpea.substack.com/p/an-llm-will-never-say-thou
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by zjp 5mo ago
What if we turned the regional love for megaprojects into something actually useful like a canal from the UAE through Oman, to permanently weaken Iran?
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by zjp 6mo ago
At some point you just have to spend spare cycles on ideas you think matter. What's harder than rejecting an idea is rejecting a finished, working product. And if your team says "I wish you had worked on something else", that
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by zjp 6mo ago
Just anecdotally, you should always ask things in the third person. I feel like it sidesteps LLM sycophancy somewhat.
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by zjp 6mo ago
Also, nothing has changed! Claude will still yes-and whatever you give it. ChatGPT still has its insufferable personality, where it takes what you said and hands it back to you in different terms as if it's ChatGPT's insight.
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by zjp 6mo ago
'Fuck' is every part of speech simultaneously because it doesn't mean anything. I just want it to be clever and load bearing. Back to the food lens: like an ice cream shop called Daddy's Ice Cream, stylized as Daddy&#x27
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by zjp 6mo ago
This is clever but it’s self defeating because it’s tasteful. It’s a good joke. I felt like John Waters was saying it to me. And the painful thing to me is the tastelessness.
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by zjp 6mo ago
Firefly, Dr. Who, Sherlock, on repeat. My own personal circle of hell.
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by zjp 6mo ago
They’re exactly as cringy as each other actually, but your self-righteous point is well taken. Sure, agreed. I have class consciousness now. I am awakened. As if I would ever make this some random cashier’s problem.
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by zjp 6mo ago
I don’t really think that’s a proportionate solution to a minor annoyance. So far the advice I’ve gotten has been: - restructure my relationships - say something psychotic like “let’s go to a different neighborhood so I don’t have to say tw
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by zjp 6mo ago
Fucking performative fucking profanity is fucking gratuitous and is fucking clearly only fucking there so you fucking know I fucking smoke fucking Camel Lights. It’s not fucking musical. It doesn’t fucking enhance the fucking thought or it’
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by zjp 6mo ago
Wait no, I see what’s happening. I am sorry. Deeply and I mean it. I was cruel to you. When a person does what you just did it is itself typically a dominance move. Those questions scream passive aggression. They are too close too early to
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by zjp 6mo ago
As God said to Abraham. What illuminating advice.
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by zjp 6mo ago
"A little childish"; Bob's your uncle.
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by zjp 6mo ago
No.
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by zjp 6mo ago
I think the cost of having to say something humiliating is at least equal to the cost of the cookie, so I want it for free. Of course I had fun with my sister in law, even if I rolled my eyes at the business. That's beside the point. M
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by zjp 6mo ago
Cheems will be to millennials what the Grateful Dead logo was to Boomers.
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by zjp 6mo ago
You don’t always get to choose the restaurant. Sometimes your friends drag you places. Sometimes your sister in law wants to go take a photo of the Castro Theater and then get a cookie, and you find yourself in Hot Cookie calling a chocolat
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by zjp 6mo ago
Millennials delenda est. Or maybe Gen X. But definitely millennials. I am stockpiling champagne for when performative profanity goes to the grave with the silent generation against which it is still rebelling 70 years later. I do not want t
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by zjp 6mo ago
That isn't my experience. My code and bug tracker are public, so I have the privilege of being able to paste URLs to tickets into Claude Code with the prompt "what the fuck?" and it usually comes up with something workable on
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by zjp 6mo ago
There is no such thing as "after coders": https://zjpea.substack.com/p/embarrassingly-solved-problems This excerpt: >A.I. had become so good at writing code that Ebert, initially cautious, began letting it
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LLMs Will Never Say 'Thou'(zjpea.substack.com)
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