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Everyone* wants to talk about CMMI Level 3, when the first topic should be CMMI...
Everyone* wants to talk about CMMI Level 3, when the first topic should be CMMI Level -3. Non technical organizations, because of how senior positions are filled, will never be...
"The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and...
"The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone."
If you strip out the algorithm and engagement bait, I'm starting to think...
If you strip out the algorithm and engagement bait, I'm starting to think almost all platforms (rss, here, FB, everywhere) have content problems where there is a desire to read...
**Bread Haul:** - Lidl Olive bread - Lidl Seed bread - Rustik Sour dough -...
**Bread Haul:** - Lidl Olive bread - Lidl Seed bread - Rustik Sour dough - Pepperridge Farm raisin bread 5 hours until snow starts.
I dunno, kind of feel like going to the grocery story and buying everything I...
I dunno, kind of feel like going to the grocery story and buying everything I see. Wonder if anyone else has the same idea. Maybe people are hungry.
Thinking about "valid whataboutisms"- the internet was cool in part because you...
Thinking about "valid whataboutisms"- the internet was cool in part because you could find infinite material to read w/o paying for any of it. We collectively decided that text...
I want to kill the reverse chronological feed, mostly. It isn't an algorithm,...
I want to kill the reverse chronological feed, mostly. It isn't an algorithm, but it encourages slot-machine behavior. What to replace it with? I use this for ~3 things -...
Historical movie where people use these big sheets of paper instead of phones...
Historical movie where people use these big sheets of paper instead of phones to read the news. Coin operated phones mounted to walls. Weird stuff.
1/3 of the search results on Kagi for 'FastAPI router' are LLM splogs....
1/3 of the search results on Kagi for 'FastAPI router' are LLM splogs. (paywalled, because that is the whole point of kagi)
Do you have the regex for classifying posts into politics vs other? Or a 10GB...
Do you have the regex for classifying posts into politics vs other? Or a 10GB corpus of hand classified posts so I can feed it into sklearn? Is there anything that can solve this,...
The reverse chronological feed is the laziest algorithm. Puts the burden of...
The reverse chronological feed is the laziest algorithm. Puts the burden of filtering drek onto the user. The algorithmic feed that optimizes time-on-site and engagement is just...
Stackoverflow failed for two reasons - a culture among the asking people of...
Stackoverflow failed for two reasons - a culture among the asking people of 'plz do it for me, plz' - a culture among the answering people of 'you asked wrong and should feel bad'...
So if you are old you are stuck between wanting to down regulate the immune...
So if you are old you are stuck between wanting to down regulate the immune system (because of pervasive inflammation) and upregulating it (because you're trying to avoid...
Big org: "This application has no documentation! Where is the 500 manual on...
Big org: "This application has no documentation! Where is the 500 manual on linux? Where is the 500 page manual on Python? Where is the 500 page manual on gitlab? Where is the 500...
Team velocity is multiplicative, so 2/10 of your team is out sick, velocity...
Team velocity is multiplicative, so 2/10 of your team is out sick, velocity will go down more than 20%
My LLM workflow: - generate .md file of entire code base, minus noise - paste...
My LLM workflow: - generate .md file of entire code base, minus noise - paste into chat, ask bot to do something - Bot gives me new main.py and I create a m.py file, paste in new...
When interviewing, you don't need to ace the coding challenge (that an LLM...
When interviewing, you don't need to ace the coding challenge (that an LLM could do), you don't need to know all the knowledge questions (that could be googled), but you do need -...
Professional licensure and liability for software developers/engineers/coders?...
Professional licensure and liability for software developers/engineers/coders? (Like for civil engineers when they build bridges that could fall down & the engineer would have to...
What even is professional networking anymore? I've had the fortune of having...
What even is professional networking anymore? I've had the fortune of having jobs come to me instead of vice versa. Maybe 5-10% of my jobs or jobs of people I know came from...
I track several habits - sleep, running, github pushes, mastodon tweets Most...
I track several habits - sleep, running, github pushes, mastodon tweets Most interesting stat - time between habit. Some habits are Gamma distribution shaped, which is generated...
Yeah, there is a high costs of dealing with news that is out of my span of...
Yeah, there is a high costs of dealing with news that is out of my span of control. I'm tempted to come up with some policy like, paying attention to the news around voting time...
On one hand I want cognitive therapy to work because I mostly suffer from 1st...
On one hand I want cognitive therapy to work because I mostly suffer from 1st world problems, on the other hand, I feel like one of the cows that Temple Grandin was trying help in...
Day-Boolean-array database for habit tracking I kind of wish there were more...
Day-Boolean-array database for habit tracking I kind of wish there were more youtuber with full time jobs so I could relate to their schedule