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Cake day: February 13th, 2024

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  • Its a true language, you dont hand an illiterate kid shakespear and tell them to have at it, you start them with basic books, even guided readings, and have them read out loud, and then they advance through more complicated books until they get the hang of things and start making their own essays, they continue the process of moving from simpler to more complex books/code-projects until one day the developer becomes minted when they have an idea of their own and they realize they have the vocabulary and strong enough opinions already formed to just make the idea their own - and then the learning is self sustaining.

    Dont put the cart before the horse, shovel the shit for a while until you figure out where it lands - theres no workaround to gaining experience - just got to experience it


  • i havent really thought much about the massive cultural and societal coordination and effort required to clean up a bombed out town

    Ramma Damma feels like the tip of an iceburg - do you have any references (ideally translated to english, but ill try to make due if in their native language) of how a town/region dealt with the destruction and infrastructure reset?

    Like theres the vivid memory of first hand death and destruction to process, and likely the absence of many able bodied people whod traditionally lead the cleanup but were lost in the war itself, but then theres a collosal amount of work ahead to return to s steady state, and all the idealic potential of how to improve things once theres a blank slate, and the realities of how to reuse/recover resources like stones and pipes and such

    It seems such an intense era just thinking shallowly about it, and id like to understand more what that it was like, the problems that arose and how they resolved, and how it got organized








  • I was having this exact conversation with one of the archetects in my company - top down orders were to start integrating llm’s into our engineering workflows - so be it, they sign my paychecks and selfishly i want those to keep flowing - but beyond the quality and slop concerns i had already raised and were disregarded, i was realizing that i was losing my intuition about the code i was releasing under my name - it takes me longer to answer questions and i cant just wing my answers based on the intuition built during development because i didnt build intuition during development when development was outsourced to the llm - thats a liability im trying to highlight to managment and their risk analysis and also to myself for risk reduction

    Intuition isnt made in documentation (nor the slopdocs llms makes that no sane person will ever actually read) - its built by the effort of comprehension and theyll be no shortcut to that



  • I love meshcore, have a repeater and im building out my local mesh - such a shame about andy overstepping and slopping such an important thing - thanks for this psa

    Genuinely decentralized and resilient communication is fundamental to individuality and resistence against authority - for andy to try and assert himself and coopt larger authorities into this is frankly disgusting and i appreciate the explicit splitting off from him - hes acting dangerously wether he knows it or not.