Robert Brewer

A four cell image of a dude holding a dog like a baby with a sad looking cat in the background. The shot zooms in on the cat as the cells progress. The first labels the person as developers and the dog as developer experience. In the third cell, the cat is labelled as users trying to load the website you built.

posted this 6 years ago and it’s still relevant

Did you ask if they're out of whack? At least then you'd be sort of sorted.

When hiring someone, I would much rather teach someone with a great attitude and curiosity a hard tech skill they don't possess than try (and almost certainly fail) to teach someone with hard tech skills to develop the great attitude and curiosity they don't possess. Every damn time.

The iPhone Air 2 Might Already Be DOA Well, that was fast.

No one cares about a thin phone.

Now try a smaller phone with a headphone jack.

gizmodo.com/iphone-air-2...

"Struwwelpeterian destruction!" I roar before shooting my opponents' trigger fingers off

This one's been in my mind for the past few days for all sorts of reasons:

"And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love." — 1Co 13:13, NIV

Love is the greatest thing.

YouTube video by The Pogues - Topic Worms

www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhGz...

Or more generally: maybe don’t pile on a researcher based on what you read in a newspaper article about the research!

On a poorly maintained large legacy codebase I finally explained to my manager. "By the time I'm sure what I need to do I'm basically done."

They wanted me to farm the work to other people, but that was MORE time consuming than just doing it once I'd worked out how, which was the hard part.

Some reasonable adjustments may have just become academic misconduct Lots of universities across the UK permit the use of Grammarly in reasonable adjustment plans for disabled students, and some permit it in some circumstances for those whose first language isn't Engli...

Grammarly is now an enemy of education

"Universities risk putting students in impossible positions where they’re simultaneously told they can use a tool and that using certain functions of that tool constitutes cheating."

Seriously, ban it. It's no friend of education
wonkhe.com/wonk-corner/...

Living in the Future benefit: the combination of Google Maps public transit directions and phone-tap onboard payment makes it SO EASY to take public trams/buses/metros when traveling now. It’s fantastic not to have to resort to taxis just for lack of easy access to the local transit ticketing system

I was thinking more hypermixolydianish.

I see a lot of people saying that a person charged with a crime deserves the chance to prove their innocence.

Please stop doing this because you have it backwards and this is really important.

It is ALWAYS the government's burden to prove a person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.

No Alligator Asylum

They should have just made level 10 cook half the time and added an 11 for the real sickos.

It seems that the press generally understands a politician's words as if they are true. Sort of like how the general public treats random output from an LLM.

Both outputs require interrogation to confirm their veracity.

The press fails us by being a mouthpiece for unchecked lies and mistruths.

I have moved from the “How am I going to write a paper on this topic” stage of research for my SBL paper and am now in the “How am I going to write a paper instead of a whole book” stage.

Mussolone!

After speaking with normal people about autism for the last 6-7 years, I have become fully convinced we need to give ASD 1, 2, and 3 separate and distinctive names because most people simply cannot handle the idea of a range of disabilities having a single name.

they should've called it the "martone"

43% of evangelical pastors won't end the sermon until the audience produces the desired emotional response. "Can I get an amen" has 1000 siblings.

ONLY FUMANCHU CAN BRING THE MANCHEGO FU

Sometimes the answer is to delete everything and start over. Sometimes it's to lean into the discomfort and see where it leads.

But the answer is never to pretend the discomfort doesn't exist.

Your words are a mirror. Are you brave enough to look?

7/7

this is the Terminator empathy for better killing

So the LLM synthesizes a result from various sources (that may be made up or misquoted) and then you "double-check" the sources?

Sounds like the LLM is using you as research assistant.

I'll settle for making the current and future states legible--seems 100x easier than making the politics legible 😂

YouTube video by fasterandworse Dispatch #26: General Purpose is an Accountability Loophole

Dispatch #26: General Purpose is an Accountability Loophole

If they don't say what it's for, we can't say if it works.

Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zs6...

Podcast: pnc.st/s/faster-and...

Yes!

Although it looks at first glance like that's a graph of Projects/Issues. My dream has always been a graph of Decisions, and any Project is then an alteration of the existing graph into one with a different decision or two.

Because the network is illegible, the rest of the business has little to no awareness of the network interactions. Often, the only point at which conflicts are found is while running the test suite AFTER modifying Code.

But Code still has to be written. That means programmers must divine the goal network, and the place they have been taught to make the goal network even partly legible is the test suite.