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I have a kid in high school who uses LLMs to get feedback on essays he has written. It will come back with responses like "you failed to give good evidence to support your point th…

I guess my point is that the argument being made is "if you lift dumbbells with a forklift, you aren't getting strong by exercising". And that's correct. But that doesn't mean that…

Plato's _Phaedrus_ features Socrates arguing against writing; "They will cease to exercise memory because they rely on that which is written, calling things to remembrance no longe…

I worked at a supercomputing facility for a few years. The codes are typically decades old, maintained by hundreds of people over the years. By and large, they understand their per…

The story I read ( https://andrewdamitio-92271.medium.com/the-decline-of-the-am... ) says that there was a shift post-WWII that encouraged building real estate, the accelerated dep…

Yup. I have an Erdős number, but despite being a Bacon, no Bacon number to my great dismay.

You might enjoy http://whatever.scalzi.com/2010/10/02/when-the-yogurt-took-o... as a hypothetical walkthrough of your scenario.

You might enjoy http://www.iquilezles.org/live/ where he live codes some ray-marching using some kind of opengl editor. It's not quite what you're talking about, since it's just ru…

Yes, absolutely. They did something like this at the Sun Microsystems field office outside of Chicago while I worked there. You would log into a sunray with your smartcard and pick…

Truth be told, I don't think I'm calibrated on the question yet; I've only used it twice. In one org, there was a shining star who attracted all the answers. In the other org, some…

My favorite interviewing question as an IC was "Tell me about someone on your team you admire". It let me learn about what people valued based on why people were admired, and gave …

Regarding "theoretical best", I think that is "in the absence of mitigations". I think you can build a service with a higher SLA than one of its dependencies, but only if you recog…

See also a very nice video from ClojureWest about queues in system architectures: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bNOO3xxMc0 The queue are everywhere - your messaging queue, the t…

Fortress ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortress_(programming_language) ) and X10 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X10_(programming_language) ) were the other two languages that came…

I clicked on this topic in order to make this suggestion. To expand on it a little bit, I was a math major and read Spivak's 'Calculus' after I had already taken real analysis. I f…

I can't leave that hanging - what is the _least_ sexy part of enterprise security?

The Graded Go Problems for Beginners ( http://www.amazon.com/Graded-Problems-Beginners-Beginner-Ele... ) has four volumes of increasingly difficult tactical problems. For the strat…

You might also enjoy http://www.youtube.com/user/kingscrusher He comments on professional matches, but the part of his feed that I enjoy are the 1/3/5 minute time control games he …

See also the economist at Valve, who had an article about the Team Fortress 2 online economy: http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/economics/arbitrage-and-equil...

I mean, the J Software app is basically that, although J instead of APL. The terseness makes for a pretty good programming environment despite the slow input speed of the virtual k…

The esotropia was diagnosed when I was a kid. In fact, the "visual specialist" I visited as an adult was actually a pediatric doctor, because they're the ones who have the most exp…

That lines up with my experience. The alternating esotropia means that at any time one of my eyes acts as dominant, but it will change based on which direction I look and is also u…

Super fun stuff. I have alternating esotropia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esotropia ) and also cannot see in stereo in normal life. 3D movies that rely on filters or polarisatio…