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No, and Jeffries' analogy suffers the same strawman fallacy. The proper analogy would be if no one knew the rules of football/baseball and everyone ended up playing Calvinball inst…

Ha. Just did almost exactly that, but with a Go script--I wanted my Docker Compose to auto-update when I built on my CI server. I found Watchtower, but polling just struck me as th…

In Colorado you get an email when they mail a ballot to you, another email when they receive your ballot, and a third when it's counted. Colorado came out way against Trump, though…

It's easier to know where you're going when you've gone to similar places a hundred times. I just think about a problem for two seconds and then have the entire path mapped out.

Nah, it was something unrelated to databases. I can't even remember the details. It's like trying to remember nonsense sentences; they don't stick because they don't really make se…

Funny that you should say that. Just met with a group of very senior engineers today and two of them said they weren't using VS Code any more. Instead they used: 1. https://www.try…

I saw some code in a job I was just starting where they had added several abstractions that I found...confusing. After taking an extra long time to understand what the code actuall…

I am actually surprised that there are thousands of people working on Alexa. WTF are they all doing?! It's pretty much unchanged from the outside in any way that's relevant to me c…

It's not a TypeScript mistake. You could argue that it was a C++ mistake. It makes parsing harder, but otherwise seems to work as expected, so I don't consider it a mistake, but yo…

As long as Node understands to use the project-specific version of TypeScript (i.e., the one in node_modules or the PNP equivalent), that should be fine. But it would be a step bac…

Agreed with pretty much everything. I couldn't agree with the article on almost any point. One additional point: You can get "mildly dynamic" websites by using services. I have a c…

> Which version of node? Latest LTS. Why wouldn't you? > Which version of npm? The one that comes with Node? Duh. Or just `npm update -g npm` to bring it up to the latest. > ...a d…

Well, I think you could say I've worked in games too. [1] In fact, it's in games that the artists, especially when working with 3d, had the hardest time getting the precise kinds o…

No company I've worked for in the past decade has told me what kind of computer I should work on. Even the W2 gigs have allowed me my choice of Mac/Linux/Windows. I work for tech-s…

I'm stuck with CorelDraw X8 which dates to 2016. If they were selling a buy-it-once license in 2020, I wasn't aware of it. I swear they had switched to subscription-only by then? B…

> I don't know why you wouldn't ask the artist to make the edit. Have you ... worked with artists? To get them to produce technically precise artwork? The point would be that somet…

> ask them for the files exported into a format you can open They already do that. That's not the problem. If the original Photoshop file has 200 layers, and 60 of those layers hav…

Realistically, I'm looking for artists that are good first. And 98% of them use Photoshop. Not going to restrict myself to non-Photoshop artists.

But not all of us make a living off of Photoshop. I'm a programmer. I periodically need to make a tiny tweak in a file that's been created by a real artist, or I want to edit a pho…

CorelDraw is great, but for years they were also subscription-only. In the last six months or so they finally started offering a single-price license again--at a prohibitive level.…

I'm not confusing anything. I'm familiar with the Chinese Room Argument and I know how LLMs work. What I'm saying is arguably philosophically related, in that I'm saying the LLM's …

> LLMs can form new memories dynamically. Just pop some new data into the context. No, that's an illusion. The LLM itself is static. The recurrent connections form a soft-of tempor…

There's no way brains have the "right answers" fed into them as required by backpropagation.

No. We know how current deep learning neural networks are trained. We know definitively that this is not how brains learn. Understanding requires learning. Dynamic learning. In ord…

LLMs are good at tasks that don't require actual understanding of the topic. They can come up with excellent (or excellent-looking-but-wrong) answers to any question that their tra…