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> allowing low-skilled operators to drag blocks of code together in their editor — without any need to understand what the underlying code blocks do or how they work. We're called …

I'm a volunteer court watcher for DV court and I haven't gone six months without seeing a cop in there for using state surveillance tools to stalk women or abuse a domestic partner…

It's a factor in "shallow water blackout" a fairly common death for experienced swimmers. Caused by hyperventilating prior to a long breath hold flushing too much CO2 out of your b…

cgi bin with extra steps.

Well yes of course I was using a harness lol. We're talking about the application of tools to engineering problems. Getting an LLM to cold start on a completely novel to it languag…

> or you need some way to get your dsls examples in the training data for the llm, or feed it in the prompt. I'm really not sure this is true. Recently for work I've been making ch…

Unfortunately apple accomplished their goal of killing that entire idea. The time for it to take off was 10 years ago. They begrudgingly support it now but it's too late. gg

If you keep them distinct unification is a weapon to be used against you. You're writing your own blackmail someone just has to call you on it. With prose fingerprinting, sophistic…

Commit messages now do double duty: log of the changes, but also signing off that you've read and understand the code, are taking responsibility for it under your own name. The sec…

I'm pretty sure that's the general trend and it will continue. But I do think what benefits LLMs is the speed and accuracy of feedback. Type systems cover the accuracy part, but ha…

It sounds neat when you phrase it that way but my decade of professional experience in typescript has not shown it to be the case in practice. ymmv I guess.

Algorithm W is 40 years old and HM has vastly better ergonomics than TS's types. Why certain approaches didn't catch on until recently, or ever, is an interesting thing to think ab…

Algorithm W is like undergrad level of sophistication. People who like HM more (and I am one) don't like it because it's "advanced" and to some extent exactly because it isn't. It'…

I don't think I learned this skill from the sat.

I was self taught and went back for a bachelor's after ten years working and then a masters after another four. There was a lot of wasted time in the BS (ie the trade-school-for-pr…

A lot of times it is simply following some geographic boundary that is obvious locally but not on a map like this: a river or whatever. Even if the boundary isn't itself a major ob…

Font shaping rules are actually turing complete. An incredible amount of engineering effort has gone into this not being a total disaster everywhere at all times.

It's more like asking what editor and keyboard layout they use. Highly relevant to the user but you should simply assume someone describing work is using a setup for it they find p…

> Policing, especially in the United States, has developed a reputation for cruelty in the last decade or two. Kris Kristofferson was writing songs about the petty cruelty of cops …

I’ve done it over less.

Probably coulda used an example that isn't itself a fourth amendment violation that essentially requires perjury to accomplish. Also less euphemistically called evidence laundering…

I had to get into an old tcl program for work recently and had the same thought. I wouldn't necessarily pick it today but it was kind of nice in a way that's unfamiliar to me from …

It assumes $44/kg to launch into orbit. Idk where that came from if it's a musk claim or what but it's ludicrous against current costs. Currently still at thousands/kg and dropping…

> Many will tell you a story about how their family desperately escaped on a row boat, are lucky to be alive and blame Castro. Many will also not want to tell you any stories about…

Bullshit I just pasted random shit from google in until it worked and then instantly forgot which combination of the 20 things I tried got it there.