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I was thinking something like the Spirit Halloween of the SaaS world.

> Santa isn’t real

Well I just swyped it into this comment, and double checked in iMessage, although hilariously, it types “isn’t” correctly, but then when I type “real” it “corrects” it by removing the apostrophe.

and all I wanted to do was make a bad joke about how I’m thankful Apple won’t let me ruin my five-year-old’s dreams by sending her an accidental soul crushing text.

On a real note, though, if they could just find a way to fix the issue where every time I type an “i” to say “I“ it instead types an “o” all by itself like I’m some kind of 17th century bard, and then anytime I want to type “a“ as an indefinite article, it will type a single “s” by itself, which almost never makes any grammatical sense in the English language unless you’re talking about the letter “s” itself.

Producing a gas powered car is just as stinky and nasty, so they cancel each other out. Once the EV is made, that can be the end of it.

Not a fan of touchscreen on inclined surfaces, personally. I think the ergonomics of this will be bad for shoulders/elbows.

Like the iPad when it’s docked to its smart keyboard, I don’t like touching it at the point, it’s better to use the trackpad that’s laying flat.

It also wobbles when you do touch it. The macbook may not do the wobble, but it will constantly push further open and this may weaken the hinge mechanism over time.

> it's so much harder to sift through what isn't worth paying attention to. I wonder if this speaks more culturally to how we consume

I think it’s culturally how lots of people treat many things in their lives.

People always want the best X, whether it’s a place to eat, or hike, or vacation, or get a selfie. It leads to pathological situations where the neat little backstreet spots become overrun, popular hikes get trashed, and people sit around mulling which restaurant to go to for so long that they go way too late or just give up.

People are afraid of a diversity of experience. I understand that time is limited and the desire to not waste it. But, many times the experience is what you make of it, and there’s some good to find most places, not just those with 4.98+ stars.

I hear what you’re saying but let me offer an alternative perspective. Before I started professionally programming I worked in kitchens.

I see way more happy, healthy, financially secure folks past middle age in software than I did in restaurants. I sometimes miss the fun but it’s mostly grueling.

Also, watching what working in the trades did to family and friends.

Take up a physical hobby to stay in balance, and/or learn a musical instrument, if you are able. Hope you hang in there.

And on topic, for some light viewing material for young children, go right now and download all the Mr. Rogers episodes you can get your hands on, while we still can.

I have fond memories of Disney but as an adult there’s not much I appreciate. The oldest stuff is gauche and a lot of the newest stuff is cracked out. There are just a handful I think are really appropriate for my kids, and I’ve retained digital backups of those.

And I spend a lot of time reading to the kids. They constantly beg me for it. It’s hard to do at times but harder to disappoint them.

By that point there will be enough digitized entertainment already produced to last a lifetime. We’re just on the long tail of diminishing returns now.

There’ll always be community theater!

Haha, I thought a well meant free water, until a pinhole developed on the pipe right above the pump, about 250’ below ground.

And like you said, hard to get anyone out to even fix it. We had to wait 6 months for the snowpack to thaw and scheduling to line up. So that meant an extra thousand or so bucks just to build a workaround system in the meantime.

Same boat here. I installed my own ground mounted array at double the capacity for half the quoted price from the local installer, even with an electrician coming in to do last mile hookup. Learned a ton. Got a couple fun new tools. Already have my next spot picked out.

Is it though? Markets may be perfect, but humans are not. There’s plenty of laziness, incompetence and corruption, even in capitalism.

I guess it’s the least worst option we’ve found. That doesn’t mean it doesn’t need any guardrails at all though.

I came here to say something similar. We won’t need to understand the implementation. But we will need to understand the requirements. The tests, or some higher level DSL they’re (deterministically! not via LLMs) generated from, will still need to be human verified.

Personally I don’t like using nil to represent specific states in my domain. I try to only judiciously use it to represent the lack of knowledge about some state, like if I need to reach out to some external service I don’t control, that may or may not give me an answer for my query (and conversely, I don’t like putting “unknown” cases into my enums).

I’d say don’t bother trying to parse it alone. Have a meeting where the person that created it presents it, and drill into anything weird.

If you can back them into a corner and force them to admit they don’t even understand something they supposedly wrote, use that as an opportunity to remind people it’s not acceptable to generate design documents that you don’t understand and then push them off onto other people.

That’s possible to do without also sending all the captured data to police.

According to the wikipedia article linked at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49559416 this discovery is from around the same time as that video came out. This submission should be tagged (2023).

ETA: Oh I just looked at the linked article again and it was just published. Weird.

Using LLMs is basically rolling a huge number of weighted dice.

Two things here. First, you have to know what to ask an LLM. A book on a subject is already organized with all the information that could be returned by the same prompts that would lead to it. The prompting effort was essentially already done by the author and publisher.

Second, you’re getting a more compressed and lossy form of that information from an LLM, unless you go to such efforts that it’s be easier to just read the book. It’s akin to a conversation where a friend asks you about a book in finer and finer detail until you either recite the book for them word for word or direct them to just go read the book.

So, I don’t think LLMs are replacements for reading books. They’re complimentary.

I went from “regular” keyboard to kinesis freestyle 2 to kinesis advantage 360.

The switch to the freestyle 2 was basically seamless. Switching to the advantage 360 was brutal, but I can tell you that i have not only fully recovered my typing speed but have even improved on my historical ability.

I used monkeytype.com for a couple years before the jump to the advantage 360 and still to this day, and you can see the deep trough my speed went through while i figured out the ortholinear layout and thumb clusters, and the new all time high records i’ve recently set.

Someone made a video based on the paper, if you want to see the cards being used and a little more explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdmODVYPDLA

I was wondering what kind of metric could be used to visualize a nation’s ability to project power. Maybe some ratio involving the furthest distance from the capital city to the nation’s border?

I’m curious why the sqrt of the population in the denominator?

I’m not following here. Marathons are very much actual races. They even give out 1st/2nd/3rd place awards and everything.

There’s a lot of possibility in between hunting and eating fast food. Buy some healthy food at the grocery store and pack a lunch to bring with you.

I like using conventional commits but I’ve often wondered if some sort of tagging/labeling using git-notes wouldn’t be better: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-notes

I’m just unsure that the short title is the ideal place to put this kind of tagging info: the kind of fix, and optionally, the relevant component(s). I find sometimes that can take up the majority of the title.

A forge could consume the git-notes and decorate a commit/pr accordingly. Heck, GitHub PRs already have a labeling system in place, just have to add some glue.

Being able to play music doesn’t imply consciousness. It implies intelligence. We’ve had player pianos for ages. It’s an ability, not a phenomenology.

Being able to appreciate and enjoy music is closer to consciousness. Now how would we go about proving that an LLM does so, versus merely generating sentences that imply it does?

You do still actually need the credential process though, in order to demonstrate that a person has in fact received that education.

Those countries are usually quite strict about who they will subsidize though. Not a bad thing IMO.

Especially when “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." – Upton Sinclair

Wasn’t Concorde like 20-50% more expensive than a normal first class ticket for the same itinerary?

So any hacker considering a SST flight should also be able to afford the first class cabin.

You can also essentially work remotely in an airplane now. I haven’t tried videoconferencing, but I easily do all my other software work on trips. So a couple extra hours might even be a benefit: more time with no distractions to wrap up that slide deck, maybe a 1:1 or two, get your free drinks from premium/business class, doze off to a movie, wake up for an early start at your destination.

But buying from scalpers only really works when they’ve already bought out the supply. Couldn’t people just go right to the ticket site instead of through a scalper? The only way this would work is if the scalpers got all the tickets into the temporary hold, but that would be a huge coordination problem to do that and connect with potential buyers in the 7 minute window or whatever.