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slcjordan··on Kotlin creator's new language: talk to LLMs in specs, not English
It actually makes sense that code is becoming amorphous and we will no longer scale in terms of building out new features (which has become cheap), but by defining stricter and stricter behavior constraints and structural invariants.
slcjordan··on Interviewing a software engineer who prepared with AI
With AI, the onus is entirely on you to prompt the AI to perform an ethical practice interview and avoid gaining an unethical advantage by having AI make up answers for you.

It just makes me wonder about the importance that an understanding and commitment to ethics will play as people start to use AI more and more in their daily life.

slcjordan··on Competitive Bass Fishing Cheaters (2014)
They definitely make line that is strong enough but it's thicker and fish that spot it are hesitant to take the bait. So there's a balance: strong enough not to lose fish but thin enough to gain an edge over the other competitors.
slcjordan··on Making a Go program faster with a one-character change
They should probably replace that with 2 if statements to make the error path and the non-error path obvious:

    if err != nil {
        return nil, err
    }
    if match {
        return rule, nil
    }
slcjordan··on Bolt Financial's loans come due
Perhaps they plan to lay off a lot more of those employees in the next round and they want to get the process figured out early?
slcjordan··on How We Went All In on sqlc/pgx for Postgres and Go
- generate code from running database and use a type-safe query builder (https://github.com/bokwoon95/go-structured-query)
slcjordan··on I don't want to learn your query language (2018)
Interesting. I've been looking at https://github.com/bokwoon95/go-structured-query but I'll have to look at reform too, now. Thanks.
slcjordan··on Parler’s de-platforming shows the exceptional power of cloud providers
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't some of the Parler violent content and speech that violated the TOS still on Twitter in the form of screenshots? Or have there been efforts by big tech to remove them too?
slcjordan··on Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler
Signed, Lorenzo Anderson
slcjordan··on Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler
At the very least, every company hosted on AWS should be evaluating whether they are liberal enough to stay in Amazon's good graces.
slcjordan··on YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread election fraud
I thought it was a good comment. I don't know why the left fears a legitimately impartial press instead of one that leaks debate questions to the Democratic candidate.
slcjordan··on Don't Terminate People's Internet Connections
I'm wondering what people's thoughts are on net neutrality in light of this new work from home situation. Would it make sense to offer a free tier with limited access?
slcjordan··on Wild monkeys with killer herpes are breeding like crazy in Florida
I remember reading "Summer of the Monkeys" in elementary school. I guess I didn't understand the level of foreshadowing in that book.
slcjordan··on YouTube's Copyright Protection System Is a Mess
The mess is simply a syptom of dated copyright laws applied in the modern era.