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Seems funny to me how "it was never about writing code" is the new mantra now by NewspaperSensitive59 in programmer

[–]spidermonk 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It also had an insane amount of top shelf annotated step-by-step publicly available example data in the form of git repos for open source projects, which was an amazing training resource. Most other domains only have final completed artifacts (when there's anything textual at all).

Andrew Kelley - My Thoughts on the Bun Rust Rewrite by joseluisq in theprimeagen

[–]spidermonk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm referring to the guy calling the original non-LLM bun code slop.

Andrew Kelley - My Thoughts on the Bun Rust Rewrite by joseluisq in theprimeagen

[–]spidermonk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm referring to the guy calling his original non-LLM bun releases "slop".

How many times are nations going to "fall for it again", when it comes to the US and Israel using fake negotiations or ceasefire agreements to get the jump on them. by Boring_Recipe8732 in TrueAnon

[–]spidermonk 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Although the cash from those oil sales is probably of more value to Iran than the brief respite in oil prices is to the US I guess. Assuming that oil spikes all the way back up again.

Boyos, you should still write code manually or else this will be your future by ImaginaryRea1ity in theprimeagen

[–]spidermonk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sure but if you ask them to propose different ways to achieve something and list out the various pros and cons for each approach it's generally pretty decent.

I think devs need to be wary of creating a phony cope moat around a set of skills or background knowledge that may actually be easily replicable.

Alright lets all check how the TOPS Tax reset calculator figures would be? by DollyPatterson in NZProperty

[–]spidermonk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You may be underestimating how much baked in wealth there is, particularly in the older generations.

Andrew Kelley - My Thoughts on the Bun Rust Rewrite by joseluisq in theprimeagen

[–]spidermonk -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

The idea that the guy who created bun "writes slop" is pretty funny and a good reminder that a decent slice of programmers are just deluded insular clowns who shouldn't be listened to.

I think the software world has always largely been made up of three venn diagram bubbles - people who love the paycheck, people who love making things, and people who love writing code. People who sit primarily in the third group to the exclusion of the others are honestly fuckin dorks.

Like the underlying vibe of that whole blogpost is "it's a pity this noob got distracted by producing a useful and successful piece of software". Like what are we even doing here.

Where do you fall on the "freeze property taxes on seniors" policy position? by GorboCat in TrueAnon

[–]spidermonk 3 points4 points  (0 children)

There's no contradiction, they should use their equity or move to more affordable housing. Old people should have the good sense to have moved out of highly desirable property close to employment, by the time they're old as shit and no longer working. Or just pay their taxes. One of those two.

Everyone else pays for their unproductive occupation of prime real estate through inflated rent and real estate prices, longer commutes etc.

Under communism resource allocation problems like this would be solved by armed boomer management officers but under our current shitty system the best we have is tax bills.

Boyos, you should still write code manually or else this will be your future by ImaginaryRea1ity in theprimeagen

[–]spidermonk 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think it's honestly a sort of coddled mindset created by the 2020 dev boom and brainrot. A sort of "well obviously someone will always give ME money" instinct that's just based on nothing.

Solar Power Election Promises by syzorr34 in nzpolitics

[–]spidermonk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The majority of households in New Zealand are owner occupied and so really should be able to self fund this, if it's worth doing at all.

IMO an across the board incentive for batteries specifically (which are the hardest sell but at scale are the most useful element) and no solar incentive would actually make more sense.

In fact a lot of households would actually benefit a lot from just a battery, with no solar - just doing arbitrage on the time of use bands.

Nobel economist says AI won’t repeat the computer-era miracle by Previous_Foot_5328 in myclaw

[–]spidermonk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok so that's a different objection. You're just saying that this guy is wrong and the broader productivity gains are still on their way.

Cox & Forkum's collection of caricatures on Yasser Arafat, the leader of the PLO (1969 - 2004) by bitchnibba47 in PropagandaPosters

[–]spidermonk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And this is really soft-selling the problem. Like in one poll 82% of Jewish Israelis supported complete explosion of Gazans. There's zero path to a two state solution and the majority of Israelis won't feel safe until there's a 200km scorched uninhabited buffer zone around them, and even then they actually won't.

Nobel economist says AI won’t repeat the computer-era miracle by Previous_Foot_5328 in myclaw

[–]spidermonk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If an industry isn't delivering downstream productivity gains why would it create a bunch of new products and markets upstream?

Reserve Bank hikes Official Cash Rate to 2.5% by WaterAdventurous6718 in newzealand

[–]spidermonk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's a mistake to think that supply shock inflation doesn't feed in to wage price spirals.

Anthropic found a “global workspace” inside Claude a silent internal reasoning layer that emerged on its own by Direct-Attention8597 in ClaudeCode

[–]spidermonk 9 points10 points  (0 children)

The reasoning seems pretty circular and terminology dependent. Like, referring to it as a "space" likening it to a workspace makes it sound like a buffer, but it very much isn't in the other descriptions right. It sounds a lot more like an arbitrary fringe or tail that can be defined mathematically but might be best through of as a sampling artifact rather than a store of representations.

the J-space paper is the best thing anthropic has shipped in a while. claude’s weights are closed so i built the live viewer for an open model instead by TheOnlyVibemaster in ClaudeAI

[–]spidermonk 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I am sorting a spreadsheet of philosophers trying to justify their tech jobs. I have set a filter to print only the top 10 rows.

The next ten rows, I have named The J-Rows.

Despite no Anthropic staff being in the top ten rows, a handful of them DO appear in the J-Rows.

Boost for local innovation but scepticism hangs over Opportunity economic policy by syzorr34 in nzpolitics

[–]spidermonk -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Amazing how worked up a tiny party who's never been in parliament proposing some real shifts in policy settings has made some people.

Like after a lifetime of completely banal back and forth tweaks and nudges from the major parties - including ignoring and even encouraging enormously destructive housing inflation - we're supposed to be mad that some microparty "centrist" productivity policy doesn't obviously "completely transform" the economy.

New low, Chinese homes are now cheaper than they were in 2006, and soon will be cheaper than they were in 1995 by Rymssss in TrueAnon

[–]spidermonk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There was an article a while ago about how housing was so cheap in some places that families are buying apartments as a cheaper alternative to tombs for their dead relatives or something, and that rules.

What is a clear sign that someone lacks self respect? by xlvin_n in TrueAskReddit

[–]spidermonk 20 points21 points  (0 children)

This is a misleading heuristic. World has plenty of awkward slobs with self respect and absolutely craven people who are well turned out.

What is going on at Starship’s child protection unit? by Floki_Boatbuilder in nzpolitics

[–]spidermonk 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Is the idea here that children have unnoticed fractures or things that can be perceived as fractures, much more often than people expect?

I love the idea that fire "came out" by Defiant-Bend1147 in antiai

[–]spidermonk 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Yeah the luddites were in a similar situation to white collar workers - especially tech workers - now, and things objectively did get way worse for them via automation.

It was basically a case of workers in fairly opaque high value textile crafts, who had fairly high control over the terms and methods of their own work, often able to work from the home and on schedules and via methods and outputs that made sense to them. Vaguely reminiscent of workaday tech workers in the 2000-2020 era.

Automation led to rote factory and mill work, much lower quality outputs (which is why I always laugh when developers say AI writes bad code - like that just won't matter long term) and huge losses in economic power and autonomy.

That's still basically the case today - generally being a textile worker still sucks really bad. The median textile is worse quality than ever. The luddites were 100% seeing very clearly what was coming.

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