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nevertoolate··on What happens when clergy take psilocybin
I see this differently. Your worldview is “normal” but not “healthy”
nevertoolate··on O3 Turns Pro
On the other hand I only see downvotes and _never_ an answer on how you are using llms. The anecdotal 8hours to 30 minutes PR sounds great, but in my experience it just won’t happen. How can you set up llm to work autonomously for _hours_? If it is continuous “pair” work I just don’t see the 30 min work solving a beefy PR. In 8 hours coding with a well thought out plan / re-planning, testing one can finish quite interesting stuff. 30 minutes is basically nothing - and this is kinda what you get with an llm in my experience. How do you do it?
nevertoolate··on O3 Turns Pro
Can you give an example what claude works on autonomously for hours? I only use the chat, maybe I’m just not prompting well, but I throw away almost everything claude writes and solve it in significantly less lines of code using the proper abstractions.
nevertoolate··on Human coders are still better than LLMs
How do you measure this?
nevertoolate··on Human coders are still better than LLMs
Question is, how autonomous decision making works, nobody argues that llm can finish any sentence, but can it push a red button?
nevertoolate··on Why Algebraic Effects?
When I see a new (for me) idea coming from (presumably) category theory I wonder if it really will land in any mainstream language. In my experience having cohesion on the philosophical level of the language is the reason why it is nice to work with it in a team of programmers who are adept in both programming and in the business context. A set of programming patterns to solve a problem usually can be replaced with a possibly disjunct set of patterns where both solutions have all the same ilities in the code and solve the business problem.

My question is - can a mainstream language adopt the algebraic effects (handlers?) without creating deep confusion or a new language should be built from the ground up building on top of these abstractions in some form.

nevertoolate··on AlphaEvolve: A Gemini-powered coding agent for designing advanced algorithms
If I squint I can see some connection between Go (game) and (Software) Engineering (field).
nevertoolate··on AlphaEvolve: A Gemini-powered coding agent for designing advanced algorithms
It is not that you get downvoted because they don’t understand you, it is because you sell your opinion as fact, like an apostle. For example what does it mean that software engineering is solved?
nevertoolate··on I gave up on self-hosted Sentry (2024)
I was born 400 years ago in the Highlands of Scotland. I am Immortal, and I am not alone. Now is the time of the Gathering, when the stroke of the sword will release the power of the Quickening. In the end, there can be only one.
nevertoolate··on Vacheron Constantin breaks the world record for most complicated wristwatch
What item on a wall would have more utility I wonder.
nevertoolate··on Less Htmx Is More
Nobody gets fired for buying IBM, I guess :(
nevertoolate··on Amazon to kill off local Alexa processing, all voice requests shipped to cloud
funny how?
nevertoolate··on China tells its AI leaders to avoid U.S. travel over security concerns
I don't even get why I'm downvoted or why you linked this. The number is in the millions obviously so what is the point?
nevertoolate··on Programming with chronic pain
I also have loose joints, had chronic back pain for years with periodic inflammation episodes. I also had quite a bad period with a herniated disk in my lumbar spine. I spend significant amount of my time with physical exercise. Training with a personal trainer and practicing yoga with a mentor - I'm training for yoga instructor exam also (Iyengar) The good news is that you most likely can cure yourself. On the other hand you have to realize, that you won't be the same person you were before the pain. Pain is (usually) your friend, will keep you on your way.
nevertoolate··on I am rich and have no idea what to do
Hey,

You are talking about money. You are talking about girlfriend. You always think about possessing.

If you are fishing for some suggestions I’d first find a good personal trainer and fix the body. At the same time join a career change counseling group workshop.

Don’t let others do things for you. Walk everywhere, use a bicycle. Also cooking kills some time.

Good luck

nevertoolate··on World conker champion found with steel chestnut, cleared of cheating
I told rules of a strange game of chestnuts to my wife and she decided I’m making this up, the game doesn’t exist. Even after showing the video in the linked article she was suspicious that I might have generated the story with AI.
nevertoolate··on Programming with ChatGPT
You are a rubber duck, so don’t answer my questions.
nevertoolate··on On Being a Senior Engineer (2012)
I like to introduce some form of ADRs (Architectural Decision Records) with some kind of decision making process based on consent decision making flow (stolen from Sociocracy)

Implementation details of the process changes from context to context but clear communication is needed in all workplaces, making the implicit explicit.

nevertoolate··on Markov chains are funnier than LLMs
You're watching a stage play - a banquet is in progress. The guests are enjoying an appetizer of raw oysters. The entree consists of boiled dog.
nevertoolate··on My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website
Funny how?
nevertoolate··on A bunch of programming advice I'd give to myself 15 years ago
For me the paycheck isn’t enough so I decided to not to overextend myself at work so I can spend time with family, learning, cooking, etc.

I still have the urge to fight but I also have realized that fighting is more nuanced than pushing all the time. Maybe the best course of action is to push a bit and wait for the next opportunity. Find people you can trust in the org. Play the game. Or sometimes just do like the others, and chill, put in the minimal amount of work.

nevertoolate··on How Waymo outlasted the competition and made robo-taxis a real business
They have a fairly big weakness. If someone takes over their control these taxis are basically weapons. You have to admit that the question is not if this is possible but how will it pan out.
nevertoolate··on In Praise of Idleness (1932)
It is hard to talk about leisure, when definition is not clear. I’m not sure what yours is, but I try to stick with the one I think the article is using, namely energy to spend on top of survival efforts. I understand that you have energy to spend, but you are stuck in the city dweller passivity the article talks about. Being mindful of the situation is the first step to take action changing it.
nevertoolate··on Programming Is Mostly Thinking (2014)
I think OP means that problems are just too hard to solve without thinking Before starting to type. So basically the typing in part is decoupled from the real thinking, and just about picking up half ready ideas from the queue and deserialize it, so to say, as code.
nevertoolate··on We need technology that is less immersive, not more
They’ve reached tabletop game quality and peaked there. Proves the point that we don’t need more immersive games than real life tabletop games, as our creative brain fills in the gaps.
nevertoolate··on Life lessons from the death bed
It is great that you’ve found your passion.

I believe a blissful life is possible, even if it seems implausible.

I’m OK with my words causing some discomfort, even some hate towards me if people become happier in the long run.

nevertoolate··on Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment?
Teaching.
nevertoolate··on Life lessons from the death bed
I bet it felt good to feel superior to other’s who don’t see what you can :)

And if it felt good why other thoughts or lack of thought couldn’t make you happy?

And of course if you are happy why couldn’t you find a way to be happy all the time?

Makes sense?

nevertoolate··on Using Prolog as the AST
You want to learn or to debate :)
nevertoolate··on Leaving the Phone at Home
I have a hunch that the underlying problem is “too much love”.

Micromanaging children is the norm, although we kind of have an understanding that it creates less capable adults. Phones are great tool to control people especially as somehow it is the norm that we _should_ answer phone calls at random times during the day. Children of today suffer this. Also who were grown up before the mobile era, like me, we feel responsible to answer the phone because we love to be loved.

Maybe we should think about how we give and receive love more :)

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