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I agree, the study didn't do that or have any thoughts on that.

1. Wait, in a category where the general failure rate is traditionally 75%, using a bleeding edge technology adds 20% more risk, what a shock. 2. This is an interesting study, but perhaps limited. Draws conclusions from a set of 16 developers on very large projects, many of whom did not have previous experience with the editor used in the study or LLMs in general. The study did conclude it added time in these cases. There is a reason for the large sense of value, this would be the thing of note to uncover based on these results. Study notes 79% continued to use the AI tools. Speed is not the only value to be gained, but it was the only value measured. (Study notes this.) 3. Author didn't read or used AI to poorly summarize the poorly thought out study it is based on. Also, it seems you didn't read the study.

This article was probably written by AI, because anyone with half a brain could not read the study and come to the same conclusions.

Basically, participants spent less than half an hour, 4 times, over 4 months, writing some bullcrap SAT type essay. Some participants used AI.

So to accept the premise of the article, using an AI tool once a month for 20 minutes caused noticeable brain rot. It is silly on its face.

What the study actually showed, people don't have an investment or strong memory to output they didn't produce. Again, this is a BS essay written (mostly by undergrads) in 20 minutes, so not likely to be deep in any capacity. So to extrapolate, if you have a task that requires you to understand the output, you are less likely to have a grasp of it if you didn't help produce the output. This would also be true of work some other person did.

I love Prelude and have been using it for several years. Thanks for all you do!

https://lagunita.stanford.edu/courses/DB/2014/SelfPaced/abou...

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Even if it lasts for 5 years, that is still a long time to maintain and so the advice in the book is solid. As a business, you may want or need it to last longer.

I've not seen this 'common' knowledge in the field enough to call it common.

While there can be a strategic value to just getting something working, the tough part is that many times that is used as a crutch to do no more thinking or design, quite possibly because they've never been called to. And refactors happen less than they ought to. The point is to be strategic about when to turn the quality/speed dial towards speed and know you are consciously taking on tech debt.

This was a fantastic book. It is definitely not for undergrads, or just undergrads. I think it even more important for people actually working on production systems. Even better, it provides some language for people to share when doing code review about how to design their APIs better.

The irony that he cites Harvard Physics is the vanguard of rethinking how to teach Physics, and possibly the root of this article come from Harvard Physicist Eric Mazur: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIFL0K184kg

It is usually on sale since it is older. Sometimes it is still perfectly good.

I was going to go for something funny, but you can't top this.

With regard to shibboleth, do you mean the common English usage, the biblical reference, or the SAML reference implementation?

Is dance an art? Is jazz? Is improv? How do they differ from a game like chess or basketball?

FYI: Halted project.

Providence proper is pretty nice, this restaurant, bar scene and music. Pawtucket, not as much so.

Realistically, Pawtucket will not attract many new residents while allowing some existing RI residents to improve their earnings marginally. There's nothing wrong with people making more money by commuting farther, but the increase in tax base is not likely to be large at the same time those individual increases are being heavily subsidized by existing RI businesses and citizens.

That would be true if people moved there because of the stop. I'm not sure Pawtucket is a big draw for either families or singles. I am sure that if there is parking, people who already live in RI will use it to commute to Boston to create real wealth for Boston companies while hoping for marginal trickle-down wealth for RI.

Yea, it is great for Rhode Island business to make it easy for talented people to commute to another city in another state to help their businesses grow. I bet they are thrilled their taxes fund that.

Maybe that is why the forced the latest update?

samccone works hard at this stuff, link to the original repo.

The Snow Man is quite good:

  One must have a mind of winter
  To regard the frost and the boughs
  Of the pine-trees crusted with snow;

  And have been cold a long time
  To behold the junipers shagged with ice,
  The spruces rough in the distant glitter

  Of the January sun; and not to think
  Of any misery in the sound of the wind,
  In the sound of a few leaves,

  Which is the sound of the land
  Full of the same wind
  That is blowing in the same bare place

  For the listener, who listens in the snow,
  And, nothing himself, beholds
  Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.

I used Stylus on a project a few months ago, this would have been handy to convert our existing sass.

A good life, yes. After that its mostly just changing diapers, paying mortgages , chatting about 401Ks, and dealing with loud music.

Good news: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2010/12/haskell-researchers-...

Isn't slate disrupting the use of disrupt?

I really enjoy Sinatra and am indeed using it for REST style API hosting, but the counter argument might be all the security stuff that is built into the Rails routes/controllers. this might be a great case for a stripped down rails app as opposed to a Sinatra app.

There is strong evidence that links sleep deprivation over time, even minor, to long term health problems.

As someone who cut sleep for years (6 hours was normal in twenties and much of thirties), I can attest that at some point, it becomes difficult to operate on less sleep. If all of your coping strategies involve putting in more time (essentially at the expense of sleep), when you can no longer cut the sleep, you may be in a bind when that is no longer the corner that can be cut. Though not always, that point in time often coincides with when your parental commitments are at their peek as well, and as a parent, you probably shouldn't cut that corner. So what then...

Something like the Pomodoro method helped me alot.

Or just be really rich.

I've been a subscriber for a few years and I'm mixed based on my personal learning style. I learn better by reading and find it tough to find time to sit through the screencasts (any screencast where the visual is not integral to the topic). I always learn something from Peepcode screencasts, but think that I could have read it in half the time.

I would rate the quality of the screencasts as high. If you learn well from "lecture", I would not hesitate to recommend their offerings.

Time is not a fixed unit of measure. I may be going closer to the speed of light than a project manager, so one week to me, might be like 5 years to them.