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Didn’t JWT have a similar thing, where you could specify the algorithm to use and that included “null”?

It’s not like it’s a lot of work to fill out permission slips. Probably easier than scanning the document. Receiving permission slips is the only way I’m informed about school trips anyways. I’m not sure this is a valid use case. Maybe for people who want even less participation with their families.

I have not heard of the Scots Wikipedia fiasco.

How’s that going to work when everyone turns one on and they’re all driving the profit margin to almost zero?

It’d be short sighted to not have a wrapper around which AI to use, even without implementation for them. Like, having an abstract parent class with a Siri implementation of it would be baseline good software engineering.

I think finding better systems with fewer false negatives and fewer false positives is very difficult and might even be impossible for many things. It might be my lack of imagination, but I often think about the measures taken to prevent child abuse. As I see it, you’re either going to get kids left in abusive situations or you’re going to have kids unjustly removed. Both are terrible. I’m not going to argue where the action bias should be. We live in an imperfect world.

I think preventing other crimes is similar. There will always be injustice on some side of the issue. And I’m not trying to argue that that means the status quo is great! But I don’t think we will eventually hone in a perfect system. Maybe just circle around some imaginary point, refining rules and processes until the whole thing breaks down.

Sounds great, but I'm not sure this will work well for individual contributors. Say the company is small, with a small team. Can you afford the amount of time it will take to find this bespoke unicorn engineer? Say the company is large, with a large team. Is this process going to scale to bring in, say, 50 new engineers?

Maybe it works better with management tiers where their impact is more indirect, and there are fewer of them, which mitigates the problems.

If I have a team in pain and we need more people on it, or different people, I don't know if I can wait six months for the one person I want to hire to become available and willing. Sometimes, you gotta go with who is available.

It does sound like you should have been investigated though. Like, this sounds like the (or a) system working. What would the alternatives be? Don't investigate for money laundering? Or have so much info that they can eliminate you as interesting without even having a visit?

Agreed, but it’s helpful for communicating to other musicians.

Now piano players will be able to join guitar players as not needing to read music or know theory!

I’m surprised that reading The Game hasn’t been added to the annual trainings for soldiers and DoD civilians.

Gaze upon my blogs, and despair.

I remember those. Trackbacks, right? Back when we were using MovableType?

Good. Kids need to learn how to think before letting other stuff do it for them.

Calling it a lie is pretty heavy.

You should see his book "Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies, which is entirely about his experiments with AI in The Fluid Analogies Research Group with his grad students. Although I wonder if those techniques could be paired with LLMs somehow.

When I was a pretentious high schooler with fantasies of being an intellectual, I considered going there. I ended up not even applying. It just seemed too far out of the norm.

How is it dated?

He wrote a number of follow-up books. I love GEB, but the follow ups were often disappointing in surprising ways.

He has another book about the beauty and challenges of translating poetry, but it’s actually about the sudden death of his wife and it's been too sad for me to finish.

Before they buy Dehorse?

Yes, a toy problem only needs a simple implementation. This is a straw man. And I don't even like Robert Martin's Clean Code, but the author is not addressing where this style actually provides benefits. When you're updating 23 if-statements because you had to add support for some new business workflow, you'll wish you had a conceptual entity that encapsulated the operations on the type of workflows so you just had to implement them in one place.

I love Ray Bradbury. My favorite short story author.

To-does. Just like how a butler buttles.

I would love to see an example of a proof for something like a text editor. How can people be expected to do this when the examples are always trivial toys, like array sorting? Show me a formal proof of something that in the trenches programmers can copy from. A proof of a basic todo list or something like that.

Yes, that is also gross.

Maybe he's suggesting it for Canada?

The thing about this that's so distasteful is that it removes the basis of enfranchisement from being the inherent worth of a human life and moves it more to "what have you done for me lately". It's pretty gross.

How long is a fable though?

There are several possible reasons for that, but I'll just say it's a very common use case. It's actually the one of the original use cases for SCSs. How else could you revert to a prior commit?

What does it mean to “obsessively craft every pixel?”