cool beans
02.03.2026 03:22
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cool beans
eh, they didn't need radicalizing, they just needed permission
bah, game theory is just a theory
Answering your actual question, I'm pretty sure I've heard variants on "What is my purpose? You pass butter." in other contexts.
Huh, I never made the connection between "X with extra steps" and Rick and Morty
also, all the specific similarities people mention correspond to mediocre top-down management—which, I guess, is par for the course in industry :(
Haha, I was thinking about folks who have been at Jane Street since before Sandy, not New Yorkers in general
But also: yes :P
ask the old-timers there for stories about Hurricane Sandy :)
there are also a lot of plausible situations where there's an immediate shock that leads to gas shortages, but only lasts a relatively short time
even if it lasts longer, at least people's panic responses will be less concentrated over time :P
I've had multiple recruiter emails that start with "Build systems..." and then disappoint me because they're talking about building systems rather than working on build systems :P
whichever's actually register ought to be registest
I didn't think of it as a technique on its own but, now that you mention it, I am going to start seeing more places to try it out.
I've done similar things too!
Usually not in an explicit/organized fashion, but more like writing my thoughts + non-production code as examples in a throw-away file, or maybe pairing on some unstructured notes before working on a design document.
Yeah, that's definitely fair.
That's how I approached code review—shared theory building coupled with some tactical mentorship—but I'm increasingly thinking there are better ways to achieve both of those.
Still trying to figure out what those ways are though!
If you want a more comprehensive book, I can thoroughly recommend @cercerilla.bsky.social's Effective Haskell
I don't remember what it's like for the very basics, but it's definitely a great way to go from understanding syntax to writing non-trivial, well-organized programs
I had a good time starting with the (now old!) "Write Yourself a Scheme in 48 Hours", then adapting the Scheme interpreter into my own toy language.
Not sure I'd recommend that exactly, but starting with a guided project of some sort was great for me.
hilariously, auto-correct actually suggested "nothing's" for the last word, I just didn't catch it in time to take the suggestion :P
speak for your'self, I ain't learning nothing
it's also the country that invented the greengrocer's apostrophe :P
I really enjoyed talking about Haskell, OCaml and programming language communities on Day Two Devops.
Give it a listen if you're curious!
youtu.be/fylVXiYDcT4?...
relatable
me, sitting on a sofa in an orange flat cap with a black kitten on my head and a tortie kitten climbing on my chest
relatable
"text" and "editing" are merely pretexts to foist lisp on an unsuspecting public without needing an irb review
my text editor is a software realization of the lisp machine dream
cache invalidation vs cat validation
yeah, I mean, the books won't store themselves :P
It is so frustrating that there is a lot of government support to get companies into a VC pipeline, and almost none to help build collectives and cooperatives.
lots of things work better than they "should" because LLMs work better than they should—we can get away with bad taste, but it's still bad
...just like the Enterprise Best Practices of yesteryear succeeded because even bad software is commercially valuable!
one AI thing that seems clear to me but I haven't heard people talking about:
there are good abstractions and there are bad, arbitrary abstractions, and the popular stuff built on top of LLMs has largely been the latter—distinct Enterprise Java Design Patterns vibes everywhere