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pmarreck

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About pmarreck

Software guy (mainly focusing on Elixir, and... Bash?? and now LuaJIT and Zig?? Perhaps Lean 4 or Idris 2 next?), gamer (board/card/PC/console), philosopher, technologist, former Psych major @ Cornell, sailor, swimmer, biker, scuba diver, music lover (electronica, funk, classical, metal), sometime-partier, philogynist, USAF veteran, and fan of Apple, Tesla, NixOS, open-source, AI, and startups. And that's sort of just the beginning... my mind is fairly voracious. I lean liberal and libertarian, although I love debating anything controversial. Not particularly religious, and on the free will question I am a "metaphysical libertarian incompatibilist."

Physical location: NYC environs

I decided to switch to this more public account from my old alias here, which as of today (2/3/2016) is 2000 days old with 1369 karma.

I am @pmarreck on X/Twitter, https://www.linkedin.com/in/petermarreck/ on linkedin, github.com/pmarreck, peter@marreck.com, you can pattern-match the rest... my first and last names are basically a natural primary key, unfortunately

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49222673

    What a paper! And you missed an even MORE relevant excerpt!! Man and Slave The problem, and it is a moral prob- lem, with which we are here faced is very close to one of the great …

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    Comment #49222330

    There's also showering. (But I've taken to playing music in the shower with a waterproof boombox. Bluetooth'd from my phone, of course.) And of course, sleeping. ;) But there is so…

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    Comment #49211569

    > prentensious quote It's "pretentious." (said pretentiously, lol) Hey, at least we know AI didn't write it, lol

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    Comment #49205189

    I like your "who watches the watchers" reference, but AI's reviewing AI work, and notably, people reviewing people work, are subject to the same problem! The same principles that w…

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    Comment #49205183

    well, that's disappointing; someone needs to miniaturize that and reduce the cost massively

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    Comment #49204193

    The whole space is so scammy that I'd pay for a good USB-C cable tester

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    Comment #49201981

    A very useful concept to know!

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    Comment #49115242

    It says nothing about customer happiness or that if dishonesty is resorted to and customers OR owners find out, that will essentially seal the fate of the business.

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    Comment #49110975

    I have a lot of things that are built around git already- such as my very commandline, which shouts in bright red if we are on DETACHED HEAD. I know WHY detached heads happen when …

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    Comment #49104572

    I think you overestimate the number of photographers who are also comfortable with CLI tools, because doing this via web-facing UI's is quite less capable currently

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    Comment #49104531

    I was probably there when they invented that term, LOL (I first heard it in the Ruby startup space years ago, I think). I still think it's meaningful, along with "design smell". Wh…

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    Comment #49104048

    I've sadly had to back out of using jj after leaning into LLM coding assistance, as, even with an extremely well-written jj guide in its context (and literally blocking the use of …

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    Comment #49104010

    There's quite a difference in my experience between "using coding AI tools" and "using coding AI tools _well_", especially when it comes to editing code.

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    Comment #49104001

    It is almost exactly like the controls from the auditing world, except as applied to AI's instead of people. In fact, having worked at Deloitte in the past is what led me to make t…

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    Comment #49103996

    Or just make it so that the commit hook can't be edited or bypassed by Claude?

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    Comment #49103990

    this only checks whether the code is in compliance with CLAUDE.md though

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    Comment #49103720

    What's funny to me is that it doesn't bother me; it just seems like its personality.

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    Comment #49103201

    Just like humans, yes.

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    Comment #49102753

    We're going to use your preferred development method of TDD red-green and go at this with full belt-and-suspenders; first the belt:

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    Comment #49102652

    I now have a business idea: Curated Open-Source App Forks. Would you pay to have access to a service which tweaked the open-source software you use just enough to make it much more…

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    Comment #49097742

    You need to make the rule concrete somehow. I call it a "control". So for example, instead of instructing it "always run tests before committing", you (or you have it) make a git c…

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    Comment #49088273

    I live in the NYC vicinity (about an hour away by car, less by train, on Long Island)

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    Comment #49059485

    Out of employable curiosity, is there anything that pharma might need help with in terms of coding, pattern-matching, AI assistance, reproducibility, determinism, software controls…