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> By enforcing a single, standardized format via the built-in gofmt tool I'd read about this many times before I started with Go so I was particularly disappointed to learn that it…

> By enforcing a single, standardized format via the built-in gofmt tool I'd read about this many times before I started with Go so I was particularly disappointed to learn that it…

> How to Write English Prose > There are few if any passages in the works of Sir Thomas Browne that I do not find thoroughly delightful; but two afford me particularly intense plea…

I'm sure you're right that there's poor terminology, and Wikipedia math is certainly daunting. But in general the many mathematical exposition PDFs scattered across the Internet ar…

That's not because the nomenclature is bad, it's because the concepts in advanced mathematics are further from our familiarity zone. In other words because it's hard.

> the stochastic parrot. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49010345

Crikey. It even bound Shift-Cmd-G to the filesystem picker thing.

Thanks, your noun/process suggestion is interesting. Perhaps that is indeed a good way of characterizing what happened in biology. It's clear that biology has stumbled into a lingu…

Hi, two answers: Firstly, > how do you conclude that these two populations can still interbreed? I'm saying that people shouldn't spend time asking that question of allopatric popu…

Yes I completely agree with every word of this. I hope I didn't give the opposite impression. Clearly the sexual organisms living in one place belong to discrete groups, defined by…

Thanks, I've looked at that before, but I don't think I've ever read it properly. Are you sure it's not missing the simple answer? Give up the idea that the question of whether pop…

It's an allopatric population. It's one of the great embarrassments of biology. The question "is this population part of the same 'species' as this other population" is simply not …

You could reorder so that the test comes in a commit after the fix rather than before if you want to be able to use plain git bisect, so that no commits are failing. The important …

For me, "key", and "critical" merely say it's "important", but don't convey the sense that "out of the mess of connected concepts we're discussing, the one that is actually interac…

Sure but the question is why "load" after X?

You don't think me using "honest" there might have been a tiny bit of (on-topic, and therefore appropriate) trolling?

Ah right, you don't like AI and don't care to understand how it works.

You don't think it's possible that an LLM's internal machinery could decide that an underused-by-humans word should be used more frequently in output than it sees in input because …

I like to think that the reason it's so noticable is that Claude has recognized some important semantics that we ourselves lack a good word for or at least under-appreciate. What t…

Fair. I think what I'd say is that we don't have to use plain git bisect -- it would be quick to make a bisect script that doesn't land on the failing-test commits. Especially seei…

One good reason is to keep your tests separate from the fixes that make your tests pass. That way you can check your test fails before the next commit makes it pass, eliminating th…

The article was clearly written by an LLM. Please say so at the top.

You don't need to know the words since 3 out of the 4 definitions are silly.

The string "writ" only occurs once in an article about how to develop ones ideas on non-trivial subjects. Pretty telling.