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·29 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Learning language is like learning poetry. Your appreciation of the thing grows proportionally with the practice. Which means you don't need to learn to fluency to appreciate Arabic. Even modest practice, just learning to write the alphabet, will increase your appreciation for the language if that's what you'd like to do.
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·2 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Yeah, saying "I don't daydream" sounds like "I don't have thoughts" to me. Am I always daydreaming, or have I never daydreamed?
jazzyb
·3 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
That sounds like the CCIE.
jazzyb
·3 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Stephen King said something similar (but I'm sure I'm misquoting): Every writer begins with one million terrible words inside them. The sooner you get those words out, the sooner you get to the good stuff.
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·5 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
That is so different than I expected. Thank you for the link.
jazzyb
·5 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
> How many developers are using VSCode? How does that number compare with Emacs/Vim?

Perhaps I'm in some sort of "TUI bubble", but I'd bet good money that Emacs/Vim users outnumber VSCode users by an order of magnitude. But maybe I'm just surrounded by *nix devs.
jazzyb
·5 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
My biggest concern with AI is that I'm not sure how a software engineer can build up this sort of high-level intuition:

> I still have to deeply think about every important aspect of what I want to build. The architecture, the trade offs, the product decisions, the edge cases that will bite you at 3am.

Without a significant development period of this:

> What’s gone is the tearing, exhausting manual labour of typing every single line of code.

A professional mathematician should use every computer aid at their disposal if it's appropriate. But a freshman math major who isn't spending most of their time with just a notebook or chalk board is probably getting in the way of their own progress.

Granted, this was already an issue, to a lesser extent, with the frameworks that the author scorns. It's orders of magnitude worse with generative AI.
jazzyb
·10 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
I recommend Paul Kingsnorth.

Insightful analysis of the modern world and the Christian response to it: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3hMSZqatHI

He also has a new book out, Against the Machine, which has good reviews, but I haven't read yet.