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Reading this I realised I've kind of drifted away from the idea of refactoring for the point of it. The example with the for-loop vs. map/filter in particular - it's such a micro-f…

I'm a bit sceptical of the exponentially harder debugging claim. First it looks polynomially harder for the given example :p. Second other engineering domains arguably have additio…

For reference I think this probably partly explains my reluctance to use A.I. to help me code. If I ask e.g. ChatGPT to just code something for me then the code it outputs is a bla…

Headline reminds me of the recent crypto booms...

i think this is actively dangerous. well not yet. but getting there. i know - ai isn't meant to be sentient. but if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck... how do i know tha…

This seems particularly relevant: https://www.fastcompany.com/90965361/why-did-the-metaverse-d... (Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38110059 )

This is nonsense. The demand curve as a concept only deals with singular prices, and the slope of it is particular to a particular product. The Pareto principle (80% of good thing …

One might say that sites like reddit and hacker news are just archaic versions of the same recommendation engine, but the friction is actually an important feature, and keeps the e…