Viewing profile — mithametacs

The withdrawals are fucking garbage from even mild abuse (3x prescribed). I passed out and cut my head. And was anhedonic. And lethargic. And I started taking it as an adult. So I …

I literally did the thing you’re not supposed to do. my psych kept giving me everything by Adderall. So I went to one of those online doctors and got Adderall through her. Then I j…

Awful take. Everyone is capable of murder in the right circumstances. That doesn’t make everyone a murderer.

Why didn’t I have you in my English classes peer reviewing my papers. Nicely done.

You just put a text file with the names of the team or developers who own the directory.

What research?

You don’t hold onto it. It’s just lost when you die. Heaven has no bitcoin ATMs.

[flagged]

now we have a benchmark

The dumber the technique, the less it should be used for this.

Not everything is a functional program though and side effects are important. Types can’t* represent this. *Not for practical programs

Sure code can be cool for the same reason hip-hop is more than just the meaning of the words. The typing is the rhyme scheme. The algorithm is the rhythm.

I don't want to write any code. I want to think about the design of the program and have it pop out of my head fully formed. The latter gives me dopamine. The former gives me carpa…

I’m satisfied bouncing between the free tiers of Claude and ChatGPT I usually only have like a few hard questions per day, where I have lots of unknown unknowns. If the LLM doesn’t…

I had no choice most of my career doing Rails. Now I do C++ and I would fight to the death to keep autocomplete. But Copilot I bought a license for a got a refund for after a few m…

they’re still bad for generating any significant body of code. They’re a little bit better about deciphering errors. They’ll still bullshit* you and send you on wild goose chases. …

The Senate is quite deliberately there to protect the interests of the wealthy and powerful.

But they should also have foreseen the routes for abuse. That's also their job. The DMCA is a disaster.

I/O is just built on top of the tape. Real computers reserve a map of memory to I/O. This is like saying a CPU isn't a computer. It's sort of right but sort of wrong, you know?

An algorithm designed for translating between human languages has now been shown to generalize to solving visual IQ test puzzles, without much modification. Yes, I find that surpri…

I've never thought of a micro-lookup-table! That's cool. What have you used those for?

I read that and the followup. It’s good writing but I slightly disagree. Imperative is actually a closer mathematical formalism for some things. I find imperative better for expres…

Sounds like a page worth another search if you don't mind. I'll give you Internet Points in return! -- my attempt: Imperative defines the order and semantics of each step. Declarat…

That's the hard part of project management. Is it worth spending a bit more time up-front, hoping to prevent refactoring later, or is it better to build a buggy version then improv…

I agree with the distinction in approaches. In other words, it sounds like you're distinguishing agile and waterfall. I just find it odd to analogize: > agile : waterfall :: impera…