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Are rose colored glasses pink?

are pink coloured glasses rose?

The pendulum has swung far in the direction of favouring machine generated content over that from actual people. I wonder when it will swing back?

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What pendulum? The algorithms’? I don’t think any human is happy about their feeds filling with slop.

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It's Monday. Coffee is barely working and so am I.

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Dear alerts-that-interrupt-the-restarting-of-my-computer: haha the harassment filters in this site won't let me post what I think of thee

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First of the day <3

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sometimes I can feel the nerve endings on the ends of my fingers and it hurts really bad! my fault though, I am a serial nailbiter..

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An interesting thought: historically, a major consideration for companies choosing what to use is how many engineers use it (because that will make hiring much easier/harder). Going forward, this becomes "how big of a corpus of this code is out there", because it impacts how proficient are likely to be at using it.

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کوئی نجراجہ لیکر آیا ہوں میں دیوانہ تیرے لئے

I have brought some Najraja, I am crazy for you

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آپ کے دیئے گئے کی درست اور معیاری اصلاح "کوئی لے کر آیا ہوں، میں دیوانہ تیرے لیے" ہے۔ اس جملے میں 'نجراجہ' کی جگہ درست لفظ نذرانہ (تحفہ) ہے، 'لیکر' کو الگ الگ لے کر لکھا جاتا ہے، اور 'لئے' کی درست املا لیے ہے۔

The correct and standard correction of your given is "I have brought a , I am crazy for you". In this sentence, the correct word for 'najraja' is 'nazran' (gift), 'lekar' is written separately, and 'lay' is spelled correctly.

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az Ubuntu pedig a sandboxban fut, fut, futrinkázik, de egyelőre csak hollandul hajlandó velem kommunikálni

and Ubuntu runs, runs, and plays around in the sandbox, but for now it only wants to communicate with me in Dutch

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Well this looks very nice indeed. Just dipping a hoof into the river for now ...

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Which river? Asking because most rivers are contaminated these days. Be careful!

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ty and welcome!

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mandelbrot show code

for y in range(10):
 s=''
 for x in range(25):
  a=[]
  for q in range(2):
   z=c=x/25*3-2+1j*((y*2+q)/10-1);n=40
   while n and abs(z)<2:z=z*z+c;n-=1
   a+=[n<5]
  s+=" ▀▄█"[a[0]+2*a[1]]
 print(s)

                         
               ██        
            ▀▄████▄▄     
       ▄   ▄████████     
       ███▄█████████     
 ▀▀▀▀▀▀████████████▄     
       █▀▀ █████████     
            ▀███████     
            ▀ ▀██▀       
               ▀▀

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working on permanent.sh a coding agent for the growing and seemingly permanent underclass of people that are left behind by the unbelievable pace of progress in ai the big labs are fighting over felonybench (exploitbench) and google deepmind ceo left to work on drug discovery

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Problem solving: Two steps forward, two steps forward, two steps forward... Coyote, look down.

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How do you define slop in relation to ? For me, it is how quickly you get to an unmaintainable state- the acceleration into something that becomes difficult to work. I talk more about it here: hellodavid.dev/blog/slop

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Not that I think we're close to a canonical definition (as if we'll ever all agree on one) but my team has defacto adopted the definition of code that the developer responsible for it doesn't understand, approve of and essentially has now honestly reviewed. Basically anything which leads to cognitive debt.

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I agree, I don't think that there will ever be one canonical definition, but I like this definition as well, as it places the onus on the actual person creating the slop. Thank you for sharing!

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I really needed a quiet microblog. This looks like exactly what I'm looking for.

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Same. I really wish this platform would last a long time... I've seen so many cool initiatives get posted on HN, only to be taken offline a few months later.

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kiss, chainsaw, stitches, lucky

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Returned after a ride on bikes around the lake with the boy. Did stop for workout, 🏋️‍♂️ did pull-ups, push-ups and squats. Love the place we live in.

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code quality is about coupling. coupling is not a technical property of the code bytes. code acquires its meaning in contact with the cultural environment, and coupling is about meaning. two constants with no semantic relationship are nonetheless coupled in pragmatics if they refer to the same domain concept. if your goal is to minimise the time integral of future work, you must understand your domain: it decides which lines will need changing. to carve up a codebase is to carve up the world.

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I think you're right but executing on that idea requires a lot of care. It's similar to how functional programmers pathologically fear state; sometimes coupling/state are a necessary evil in order to keep the theory simple.

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true! i might have been wiser to say: code quality is about managing coupling across the whole system. extracting a coupling sometimes requires you to introduce complexity beyond that which the extraction reduces.

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Trying out a new place for Friday happy hour. Local pizza place with cheese slices

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weekend plans are:

attend to the pending work that I am avoiding around home
improve my understanding of using agents in claude code and codex cli
dig into navier stokes equations from the first principles (I am excited for this)

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