Ron Burk
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Working away on The Pop Psychology of Programming. Likes and retweets are how I use Twitter to keep notes.
Redmond, WA, USA
Joined December 2008
When I started using FireFox+NoScript for security reasons, I accepted that normal people would never do this. The JS-enabled web has gotten so slow and spammy, I now think you could sell classes on doing this, motivated only by side-by-side comparison of with/without JS speed.
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Only thing that helped me finish the last Mission Impossible was hoping they were going to kill the Tom Cruise character off at the end. Disappointing. Still, how do you append to "every living organism will die because stuff and only Tom Cruise can save the world because stuff"?
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Have to remind myself periodically that LLMs are just as bad at everything as they are at coding.
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Indistinguishable from what an AI would have its pretend-human say.
"AI slop" people who complain about AI slop are often the same ones who struggle to create anything meaningful themselves even with AI helping. it's disappointing that we have tools this powerful yet some ppl still reject them and act proud of staying ignorant and mediocre
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Elon got all wound up by the imaginary "woke mind virus." He should have been worried about YAML instead, the kudzu of text formats.
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Another story you can't enjoy if you study too much thermo.
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"have a sense" That's the crucial gap between how the LLM makes you *feel* and what it's objective abilities to produce shippable code actually are.
The entire history of software engineering is one of rising levels of abstraction. This is as it was, is now, and always shall be.
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Correct answer is a half hour diversion on logarithms followed by "but that's not the kind of log you mean."
"What is a 'console'? Why would I want to 'log' to it? What is a 'log'?" Very good questions from my newest student
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Tell me you never worked on windbg without telling me you never worked on windbg.
I wish software had a zero defects standard. Among the first things I worked on in my career were debuggers, which obviously DO have such a standard. We should ask ourselves some hard questions about why software defects are not only not 5-alarm fires by definition, but are
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Keep the hearing aid turned down.
People who handle rejection like it’s nothing, what’s your secret?
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> It's not sure of what it is doing. That right there is where he forgot it's not a human.
When you watch grok-cli work, you'll see it make changes, run the tests, find errors, and then fix the errors. This implies that the changes it makes are NOT deterministic. It's not sure of what it is doing. It makes mistakes because it chooses to make changes without complete
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If they give a prize for largest distance between first and final drafts, I'll enter the contest!
I trust writers who admit they rewrote the first chapter ten times.
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EBS interrupts my truck radio with a real emergency notice, so I listen close. It's important alert about flooding. But the automated voice could not pronounce our funky PNW names, so listened twice and still couldn't figure out which river he was talking about. #TechnologyBites
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"a society that has largely satisfied its physical wants spends most of its effort on obtaining emotional experience." --George Ainslie, 2001 https://t.co/eBIS9GuzVk
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"In this book, the researcher who originally proposed hyperbolic discounting theory presents new findings that confirm its validity and describes implications that undermine our most basic assumptions
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