argee

hace 3 díasdiscuss

> One week. Three senior engineers. $10,000. We commit to a reduction target up front, and you pay in proportion to how much of it we hit.

Commitment ain't what it used to be.

argee

hace 3 díasdiscuss

Sorry, I chose to use the same terminology as the comment I replied to. Should I have started with the explanation you’ve posted, would that make my comment better?

argee

hace 3 díasdiscuss

You can read about why Ian made the new knot as an improvement over secure knots specifically here. [0] But hey, maybe Ian was unknowingly tying a Granny knot instead. ;)

    Comparison To Other Regular Shoelace Knots
    
    It was much easier to prove that Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot is more secure than any of the regular shoelace knots. Using a pair of shoes with round, slippery laces, I tied one with my Ian Knot and the other with my Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot. Despite tying both to approximately the same average tightness, the Ian Knot came untied two or three times a week whereas the Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot never came untied.

https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/secureknottech.htm

argee

hace 3 díasdiscuss

If you have round laces, Ian’s knot reliably comes undone. Ian’s secure shoelace knot is better in that case, though it’s slightly slower and trickier to do. The double Ian knot is interesting too, but it (and several other alternatives) won’t have the “pull just once to untie” mechanic.

argee

hace 4 díasdiscuss

We care indirectly through cost. Hydroelectric, solar, or wind power are often among the cheapest electricity sources, for example. Beyond that, no we don't care. That's why if people want change we leverage policy on cost, via subsidies, surcharges, taxes, tariffs, what have you.

To a consumer, an amp remains an amp — so they get the cheap one.

argee

hace 4 díasdiscuss

I just saw this video today [0], and I was thinking…this girl must be made of tokens if this is how she works.

[0] https://youtu.be/uGwDuvSqgYI?is=CRrIT31HITipIHXi

argee

hace 4 díasdiscuss

Indeed, as it gets more commoditized it feels more like swapping electricity providers. Who cares whether you get your electricity from IBM or the state of Texas? An amp is an amp.

argee

hace 5 díasdiscuss

Try it without "reasoning". As you can see in my example (and GP), it meanders to correctness eventually after emphatically being wrong, and most reasoning modes hide that from you.

If LLMs worked the way people want to believe they do, there’d be no reason to start in the wrong place — a computer should have the facts!

argee

hace 5 díasdiscuss

This repros nearly 100% of the time on most LLMs, even the most advanced ones: https://share.gemini.google/u9NwYu7lbgxe

argee

hace 5 díasdiscuss

> instead is like a stupid database of all world knowledge with the appearance of intelligence.

A "stupid" database would be better, based on what I get when I ask whether all of Oregon state is North of New York City. Indian English has a word for it: oversmart.

argee

hace 5 díasdiscuss

> Putting in at least as much effort writing as your audience will reading

This is the big one.

> Ideally not sharing generated content if you can't do the above. If you must, then explicitly disclaiming your use of AI

This is the reason why people get mad about AI generated open-source PRs and repositories. Rather than contributing thoughtfully to the commons, you make it a dumping ground when you do this.

argee

hace 6 díasdiscuss

That first Twitter testimonial they’ve clipped and featured (with # likes) is remarkable. They made a positive testimonial of Cursor that of course got retweeted by cursor and then quoted that retweet as if it were a testimonial by Cursor for themselves.

argee

hace 7 díasdiscuss

I’m a gamer, #1 is not my dream. Games, as with any other work of art, are also an exercise in curation on the part of the developers. Without that filter, and that common experience with other players, I might as well scroll reels and get an equivalent experience.

argee

hace 9 díasdiscuss

> I barely knew CakePHP, so every file looked wrong to me. I knew Laravel, and I loved working in it. So on my own time, unasked, I ported the thing piece by piece, swapping in Illuminate packages until the old framework was gone.

Title is somewhat clickbaity, because these actions are not what people are going to think of when they think of a rewrite in a corporate environment.

By the way, I was an early employee at Amazon.com and the website’s rendering engine was rewritten three times, each time unlocking a new level of productivity without which the site (as well as the velocity of teams) would have slowed to a crawl, and the company would have probably died.

argee

hace 10 díasdiscuss

I guarantee you've thought more about this than I have, but the first impression I had of the "second chance" pool was that it would essentially be a repost of the top-level post and not the comment threads. I think part of the reason people bring it up is because they see the same post PLUS the same comments with new timestamps and feel disoriented.

argee

hace 10 díasdiscuss

Strange, it opens just fine...as long as you aren't logged in (to X).

argee

hace 10 díasdiscuss

So, why now? Emojis have existed for a while, haven't they? Whereas Craigslist has been using images up until now (at least for the top nav items).

argee

hace 10 díasdiscuss

> unnecessary visual distraction

I think I personally see emojis used in this manner as unnecessary visual distraction, because it detracts from whatever self-consistent design system you had going on (when used for high visibility items like front page headings). Emojis don't even render the same on every platform, so its a move that dilutes your design language.

Even if it's a useful visual guide, I would wager nine times out of ten you'd be better off with a self-consistent icon set...depending on what you're going for, of course.

argee

hace 10 díasdiscuss

Nice sleuthing! So it's quite a recent change. It stands out to me that the items up top (faves, acct, etc.) which already had icons also got emojified.

Prior to that, they had already introduced emojis to draw attention to their Craigslist charitable fund: that probably made this a much easier decision.

argee

hace 10 díasdiscuss

I wouldn't find it remarkable anywhere else, but Craigslist has built a reputation on not doing this kind of thing.

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