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But at least there are jobs in tech! Oh wait.

I'm so relieved this is a parody and critique. I only clicked through out of morbid curiosity: the software architecture version of watching a train wreck.

Lol. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44091037

A card game in Ruby on Rails, with an emphasis on deep reaction trees, and where the resolution order of action trees depends on whether actions resolve before or after their trigg…

I'm glad we can agree. I also like communicating with people using a shared understanding of the words being used, i.e. their definitions.

Just in case you're talking about descriptivism vs. prescriptivism. I'm a descriptivist. I don't believe language should have arbitrary rules, like which kinds of words you're allo…

We should not bend over backwards to use language the way ignorant people do.

And yet the low quality of the front page is an indictment of the site as a whole. It's just that some internet extremophiles have managed to eke out a pleasant existence.

LLMs are terrible at writing hip-hop because they can only move forward. Hip-hop is just natural language with extra constraints like rhythm and rhyme. It requires the ability to e…

Tests are one of the areas where it performs least well. I can ask an LLM to summarize the functionality of code and be happy with the answer, but the tests it writes are the most …

In Rust, the `todo!()` macro will fill in type holes without needing to be finished. Surely you can't be against putting a TODO in an unfinished part of the code?

I once went into a LessWrong IRC server. I posted a question where I referred to something by the wrong name. Someone said I was confused / wrong, so I corrected myself and restate…

Dynamic languages are definitely easier to use for highly dynamic problems. They are not necessarily easier to use for statically-knowable problems. Static languages get benefits i…

Indeed, reasoning in the small and reasoning in the large are different skills. Architecture abstracts over code.

PDX Rust, yes.

Shawn from PDX, I'm also from Portland. I'm also unemployed. Let's be friends. Come to the next Rust meetup and hang out.

... or say they don't know.

What do you think about this? With XR, I feel less hyperfocus and more sleepytime disruptions. It's less strong so I take more, but it lasts longer so I get its effects when I don'…

I'd be interested in your thoughts more here. The problem with amphetamine is you pay for every benefit: focus now, lethargy later; energy now, anhedonia later. But taking a small,…

I would unironically say this is the how of how adderall works for me. I am distracted from work by anxiety. With medication, I'm not distracted.