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Are we talking about structural things or about individual perspective things?

At individual perspective - AI is useful as a helper to achieve your generative tasks. I'd argue against analytic tasks, but YMMV.

At the societal perspective, e.g. you as individual can not trus anything the society has produced, because it's likely some AI generated bullshit.

Some time ago, if you were not trusting a source, you could build your understanding by evaluating a plurality of sources and perspectives and get to the answer in a statistical manner. Now every possible argument can be stretched in any possible dimension and your ability to build a conclusion has been ripped away.

I think the first sentence of the author counters your comment. What you described works best in a familiar codebase where the organizing principles have been maintained well and are familiar to the reader and the tools are just the extension of those organizing principles. Even then a deviation from those rules might produce gaps in understanding of what the codebase does.

And grep cuts right through that in a pretty universal way. What the post describes are just ways to not work against grep to optimize for something ephemeral.

It's not actually saying that. It's saying, that the N is not really relevant technologically enough to be worth evaluating every damn time. It maybe relevant organizationally to fit your org chart. Also, putting a barrier to creating a new service is a feature of monolith. Other types of partitionings are still there. They just might require some insight into existing arch.

How does a shared car not need those items? It is just not under your management and is accounted somewhere else. But they are needed and you are paying for it. The only advantage could be that you're not paying with your own time and then it depends on what is cheaper, your work time or that maintenance time.

PG and Jessica 6 years ago

I call BS on your claim about everyone being in. For anything to work only a particular type of people must be in especially at the start. To be honest most of PGs writings are dedicated to defining that, including your quote.

At least that's what I take from it. Cultism is just something that follows success.

Well, to be honest, we don't have any kind of language for that. It's as if these serializer-of-an-imagined-state things which we call languages are not good for communicating our intentions, or anything really. Godel or Wittgenstein for references here, probably.

We had this joke.

A meeting of faculty heads is taking place. The topic - funding. The chairman says: "Hey, physicists, why are you so expensive? You need all those gadgets and materials to perform your experiments. Look at the mathematicians. All they need to produce a research paper are a box of paper, a box of pencils, and a trash can." "We don't even need trash cans, sir." announces the dean of Philosophy.

What problem if you don't mind? I have a Garmin that says I'm 94ish, though it's accuracy is questionable. Haven't had a chance to test with a proper one.

That's what I've been saying as well to those who ask. The last good one. Even though it was the staingate one. Typing this on a banged up 2015 13inch. It's seen MacOS, Win for a year and now is on Kubuntu. Battery doesn't hold an hour, but I have yet to overcome the reluctance to pay for something not as good.

Can I decide what is essential to me and you decide what is essential to you? And then if there are not enough of me, maybe I have to pay more? And maybe if there are not enough of you, you pay more for those that provide those essentialities? Hm... This reminds me of something.

What needs to be noted clearly here I think is that he says it's something more than Dunning Kruger overconfidence but rather an absolute con-man level gamble they are taking as they don't seem to have a downside on this bet. And I guess we have a perfect moment to start providing that downside.

How is that different from what happens now with links being added?

Also, journalists (or let's call them news media agencies) often abuse this by reporting of "claims by this" on the topic rather than the topic and in that way refusing any iota of responsibility for what they put on the spotlight.