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You can somehow feel a beat

If you play in an orchestra, you might have the visual memory of the conductor and their time signature motions helping you along.

The somewhat jarring tick tock of a digital metronome can also be encoded into a sort of background track that plays more or less automatically in your head.

You're right to question my calculation.

Literally impossible to tell whether this is parody or an actual response any longer.

I challenge anyone to write something so stupid that an LLM couldn't possibly respond with it. I don't believe such limit exists.

A lot of interesting information here, but this one paragraph blew my mind:

Although the birds occasionally made mistakes, they more often confused calls with similar meanings rather than similar sounds. “Their responses indicated they have a mental imagery of the meaning of their vocalisations,” Elie said. “In other words, that they understand the meaning of their call types.”

Of all the fucked up things in this comment, giving a single Engineer lifetime responsibility for all bugs in code they wrote is probably the dumbest.

And it's slowly becoming the norm. The last place I worked at, a large and well known Tech company, didn't even roll with QA's. That just wasn't a role anywhere in the division. You are fully responsible for all the bugs in all the code you ever wrote

Cute at first. Unsustainable in the long term

Claude Fable 5 1 month ago

You haven't really lived until you've had to type this whole thing, aware of the fact that the all-caps doesn't change much, but they stay because the rage has to go somewhere

Bonus points if you find yourself actually saying it out loud while typing it.

I have used the word "shenanigans" way more in a couple of years of agentic coding than in 30 years of writing code with humans.

you will have to constantly steer to follow constant bearing paths

Is this why airline routes look like they are "hopping" on a map?

When I was a kid, I thought this was meant to represent the Z axis (so until today)

Very "60s movie cartoon credits". I absolutely love it.

(I guess saying "The Incredibles" would have been shorter, but it feels weird to credit them with this style)

Dopamine Fracking 1 month ago

The problem of 8yr olds watching too much YouTube is definitely not one for YouTube to fix.

We're quickly getting to a point where all parenting is delegated to people and institutions that have nothing to do with raising children.

And then we complain that our kids are not being raised properly. We don't even know who to blame for this any more.

Nothing about programming forces anyone to do anything.

That's never been a valid argument to dismiss criticism. It wasn't with Dreamweaver, any it wasn't with visual basic, and it isn't with Tailwind.

Patterns matter. Best practices matter. Path of least resistance matters. Those are all choices you make when you develop a CSS framework. Some of those choices are good and some are bad.

If none of those things mattered, them choosing a CSS framework would not matter at all.

can tailwind be used poorly? absolutely. but that's true of any tool

Can tailwind be a useful CSS framework? Absolutely, but that can be said of any of them.

Which is precisely why it makes sense to point out it's unique flaws, so that people can make an informed decision as to what works best for them.

If you have some unique feature to tailwind that you think makes it better than the rest, you should share that.

Everything you have listed is also accomplished by all the other CSS frameworks, so it almost sounds like tailwind is simply the main one you have experience with.

basically no "specs" - just giving it coherent sane direction

This is one variable I almost always see in this discussion: the more strict the rules that you give the LLM, the more likely it is to deeply disappoint you

The earlier in the process you use it (ie: scaffolding) the more mileage you will get out of it

It's about accepting fallability and working with it, rather than trying to polish it away with care

Is that sharks are an ancient species

For a shark lover, you should know that shark is not a species, but a taxonomy group.

From there, everything else you assume is incorrect (ie: some species of sharks have definitely gone extinct)