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It seemed preposterous to put notes in something I can't back up or "CTRL+F" search, but I've found that yes, sometimes I spend two minutes looking for a note, but when I do I generally never have to look up that information again... as opposed to things I'd search Obsidian for constantly that seemed to never get stored in my brain.
On it's face, it seemed insane to not utilize this instant resource.
After a year I could no longer write for shit.
Now we're getting studies coining words like "deskilling" and "cognitive surrender", and I felt both acutely and personally despite guardrails I thought could keep me from those traps.
Now I don't even write near a computer.
An increasing number of studies are indicating a reliance on "AI" leads to deleterious cognitive effects. I felt this acutely myself.
I've noticed a significant boost to my recall since shunning "AI" as much as possible.
At least for now there's too much lag to do a real time conversation with a cloned voice.
Speech to Text > LLM Response > Generate Audio
If that time can shrink to subsecond, I think there'll be madness. (Specifically thinking of romance scammers)
also the skeptics are really hung up on semantics of "intelligence" and not addressing the model's output, much less where this is going to be in upcoming years.
like, take home coder test is probably just dead. today.
i mean: https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1598745129837281280
As a programmer with a problem, you first instinct is to start at the solution.
TDD pulls you back, and you first have to write the api and decide how you verify it.
If you're doing it well, you make both of those things as simple as possible, first. Reduce dependencies and inputs, etc.
That's actually the most important part, an easily consumable api that's easy to verify, not the implementation, and TDD forces you to do it first.
Also, a pet peeve of mine is seeing a line or more of code that doesn't do anything. With TDD, such detritus is impossible as you can't write production code unless it's making a red test turn green.
About once an hour a motorcycle would drive by so loud it would set off multiple car alarms that would then blare for ten to fifteen minutes.
This might sound very annoying.
But after countless months of this your mortal coil just dissolves into an entity of pure hatred and you completely transcend the material plane.
The responsiveness and web experience of the first iPhone was just, a generational leap.
Same thing with Universal Control. I've used Synergy, ShareMouse and basically every clone, and I've never seen close to this same precision as Universal Control which Just Works out of the box.
I'm actually upgrading to a new Mac right now, and Universal Control is an absolute game changer for that workflow.
(i think i'm only half joking)
also then just move everyone to GMT for the hell of it.
Also, one thing with those in person interactions is you have no artifact of the interaction. Slack or tickets are great for documenting how decisions are made.
But ultimately, I have no desire to waste an extra 5 to 10 hours of my life just driving back and forth to sit at a different computer.
I do think it's great to meet your coworkers so they're more than faces in Zoom, but I am absolutely never going back to rotting away in a car and office most of my waking week.
being able to turn the heater or defrosters on without looking is a pretty big upside when driving.
tesla changing where that is in updates and making you look for it in a new design just makes a bad problem worse
Maintaining it is.
we had an emergency AMP project after our traffic dropped 35% due to a smaller competitor implementing AMP and google rewarding them by boosting them in the search results.
So unless you can survive getting bumped off of the first page of results, not implementing AMP isn't optional.
The one to two weeks lead time always made a lot of sense to me.
(And yeah, you don't need to tell me how horrible everything about that process is... but it worked and no one's motivated to fix it. I wouldn't be surprised if that's the same process they're using today)
It's kinda' not, because of practicality. There's enormous risk and time involved to get that one erroneous vote. Who's going to do that for a vote that has a smaller chance of swinging an election than you have of winning the lottery?
If you have a stray actor doing that on election day they maybe vote 10 times if they're a logistical genius doing an Ocean's 11 of voter fraud. That's enormous risk of actual jail for still almost zero chance of actually swaying an election. That's why no one does that.
And the idea that you're going to coordinate that effort? You've increased the odds of possibly being statistically significant a tiny iota but have exponentially increased the chances of being caught.
This is why voter fraud arguments are complete bullshit and just cover for voter suppression.
There's a lot of down time while everyone else takes their turn. You have to set aside one to three hours to play uninterrupted. In real life, you have the benefit of hanging out with these people as you play.
However, I've become a huge fan of http://www.yucata.de/ and http://boardgamearena.com recently and not playing games in real time. Making one or two turns a day means there's no down time, and I can be much more flexible making my move(s) fit into my schedule.
Weird annoying notches in your screen better not be the future.
"The Senate" didn't vote for this. The Republicans did.
A new living space to heat, cool, light and manage just to live up to our culture's view of success is incredibly wasteful.