One thing I haven't seen yet in all the comments here is "What should you do when your 3yo is the only girl at her daycare who doesn't even know what KPop Demon Hunters is, and literally everyone else came as them for…
"The ICE stuff" means what ICE is actually doing, not some abstract, lawful, policy that you could imagine instead. This is precisely the point. Many people who voted for Trump did not understand what they were going to…
The ICE stuff is extremely unpopular. Most of the people who voted for it did not understand they were doing so. If "the US" is the people, then no, they mostly do not want this. If "the US" is Trump, then yes, it is.…
The Silmarillion is riveting and concise! I will grant that it's not a novel.
I looked at applying there way back in 2020 and bounced off the application because it seemed like more work than I had time for.
oh you mean the thing where I randomly have to press 0 to get back to the normal interface?
And yet somehow it never predicts, "Wait, back up, three turns ago I said we wanted to do X. You did Y which is the opposite of X," which I write pretty frequently! Or "I have emphasized repeatedly that you're not to…
nitpick: I was fully engaged with this article until I hit > And a bonus point: you skim. Did you notice number 5? Then I bounced. The best readers skim aggressively. Most text is not worth reading. You skim to identify…
Alternatively, things that are not insightful can feel insightful to some people, because they triggered some different, tangentially related thoughts than what was being communicated — i.e., the reader substituted…
It really is important to understand the failure modes that the durability model accounts for and what it doesn't. It only accounts for "normal" failures, like an HDD reaching end of life. For example, you mention…
Aristotle thought some fish were spontaneously generated and others not (also all eels and Testacea). "This occurs in ponds, especially one near Knidos, which, so it is said, on one occasion dried up at the time of the…
> On the topic of Michael's comment, I think it's easy for programmers to not notice ads. Almost all programmers I know use an ad blocker and, in real life, their eyes seem to just skim over ads and not notice them. How…
The title of the article is misleading -- they're pretty clearly talking about philosophy PhDs here.
The implicit assumption is that these AI-company jobs were recently created and indicate the start of a trend. Chalmers is stating that there's more demand for philosophers with the right sort of training to work at AI…
What you're missing is that this is approximately at least a half-dozen more jobs than open tenure-track positions at research universities.
I came up an academic philosopher, before I switched careers. When you're surrounded by academic philosophers, you become very used to argument as a default form of interaction. People expect that they'll be asked to…
Given how often it's been mentioned here, it's likely that this is an urban legend that people are pretending to have first-hand knowledge of for karma. In a trade that's supposed to be led by people trained in…
Funny, I'm just doing my normal coding workflow with Claude Code, and after every change that compiles it keeps suggesting that we're at a good stopping point, and should pick up again tomorrow. It's done this before,…
Hate to be the one to drag AI into every conversation, but I recently switched to arch linux and it's been delightful -- largely because of Claude. I have leaned on Claude heavily to diagnose and resolve issues that I…
Indeed you can! I don't use IntelliJ at work for [reasons], and LSP doesn't support a change signature action with defaults for new params (afaik). But it really seems like something any decent coding agent ought be…
In the case I described no code changes have been made yet. It's still just planning what to do. It's true that I could accept the plan and hope that it will realize that it can't commit a change that doesn't compile on…
Indeed! You would think it would have some kind of sense that a commit that obviously won't compile is bad! You would think. It would be one thing if it was like, ok, we'll temporarily commit the signature change, do…
The version of this I encounter literally every day is: I ask my coding agent to do some tedious, extremely well-specified refactor, such as (to give a concrete real life example) changing a commonly used fn to take a…
I had a fun experience with my ISP where their chat bot couldn't help me (of course it couldn't, I don't call for "did you try turning it off and on again" problems), so it escalated me to a human agent. Said human…
I was a MS-DOS 2.0 user as a child. I have always preferred windows to OSX. I used WSL for years at companies where every other engineer had a MacBook. Last weekend I finally started dual-booting Arch Linux as a trial.…
One thing I haven't seen yet in all the comments here is "What should you do when your 3yo is the only girl at her daycare who doesn't even know what KPop Demon Hunters is, and literally everyone else came as them for…
"The ICE stuff" means what ICE is actually doing, not some abstract, lawful, policy that you could imagine instead. This is precisely the point. Many people who voted for Trump did not understand what they were going to…
The ICE stuff is extremely unpopular. Most of the people who voted for it did not understand they were doing so. If "the US" is the people, then no, they mostly do not want this. If "the US" is Trump, then yes, it is.…
The Silmarillion is riveting and concise! I will grant that it's not a novel.
I looked at applying there way back in 2020 and bounced off the application because it seemed like more work than I had time for.
oh you mean the thing where I randomly have to press 0 to get back to the normal interface?
And yet somehow it never predicts, "Wait, back up, three turns ago I said we wanted to do X. You did Y which is the opposite of X," which I write pretty frequently! Or "I have emphasized repeatedly that you're not to…
nitpick: I was fully engaged with this article until I hit > And a bonus point: you skim. Did you notice number 5? Then I bounced. The best readers skim aggressively. Most text is not worth reading. You skim to identify…
Alternatively, things that are not insightful can feel insightful to some people, because they triggered some different, tangentially related thoughts than what was being communicated — i.e., the reader substituted…
It really is important to understand the failure modes that the durability model accounts for and what it doesn't. It only accounts for "normal" failures, like an HDD reaching end of life. For example, you mention…
Aristotle thought some fish were spontaneously generated and others not (also all eels and Testacea). "This occurs in ponds, especially one near Knidos, which, so it is said, on one occasion dried up at the time of the…
> On the topic of Michael's comment, I think it's easy for programmers to not notice ads. Almost all programmers I know use an ad blocker and, in real life, their eyes seem to just skim over ads and not notice them. How…
The title of the article is misleading -- they're pretty clearly talking about philosophy PhDs here.
The implicit assumption is that these AI-company jobs were recently created and indicate the start of a trend. Chalmers is stating that there's more demand for philosophers with the right sort of training to work at AI…
What you're missing is that this is approximately at least a half-dozen more jobs than open tenure-track positions at research universities.
I came up an academic philosopher, before I switched careers. When you're surrounded by academic philosophers, you become very used to argument as a default form of interaction. People expect that they'll be asked to…
Given how often it's been mentioned here, it's likely that this is an urban legend that people are pretending to have first-hand knowledge of for karma. In a trade that's supposed to be led by people trained in…
Funny, I'm just doing my normal coding workflow with Claude Code, and after every change that compiles it keeps suggesting that we're at a good stopping point, and should pick up again tomorrow. It's done this before,…
Hate to be the one to drag AI into every conversation, but I recently switched to arch linux and it's been delightful -- largely because of Claude. I have leaned on Claude heavily to diagnose and resolve issues that I…
Indeed you can! I don't use IntelliJ at work for [reasons], and LSP doesn't support a change signature action with defaults for new params (afaik). But it really seems like something any decent coding agent ought be…
In the case I described no code changes have been made yet. It's still just planning what to do. It's true that I could accept the plan and hope that it will realize that it can't commit a change that doesn't compile on…
Indeed! You would think it would have some kind of sense that a commit that obviously won't compile is bad! You would think. It would be one thing if it was like, ok, we'll temporarily commit the signature change, do…
The version of this I encounter literally every day is: I ask my coding agent to do some tedious, extremely well-specified refactor, such as (to give a concrete real life example) changing a commonly used fn to take a…
I had a fun experience with my ISP where their chat bot couldn't help me (of course it couldn't, I don't call for "did you try turning it off and on again" problems), so it escalated me to a human agent. Said human…
I was a MS-DOS 2.0 user as a child. I have always preferred windows to OSX. I used WSL for years at companies where every other engineer had a MacBook. Last weekend I finally started dual-booting Arch Linux as a trial.…