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Tony Hoare passed away.
This quote has stuck with me since I first read it as a teen. It sparked a decade-long obsession with simplicity later expanded by Rich Hickey's Simple vs Easy.
"I conclude that there are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies" https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/C._A._R._Hoare#The_Emperor's_Old_Clothes
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@WWeeta @AdrianRiskin Same! In my elementary school library, it was the first computer I wrote code on.
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"up the wazoo" is a precise unit of measurement
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@AdrianRiskin The first computer I ever used.
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@evan@cosocial.ca Totally agree, and I think that's actually the point the essay is trying to make. The split isn't “LLM users vs. craft lovers” but something more like “people with room to choose how they use the tools vs. people who don't have that room.”
@mitchellh@hachyderm.io is a good example. He's clearly using LLMs as a craftsperson. So am I, I think. But both of us are in situations where we're not being measured against a colleague's output every quarter. The workplace dynamic is what compresses all of that curiosity and exploration into pure throughput.
The craft probably does survive, just not evenly distributed.
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Quizzino della domenica: Cerchi e poi ancora cerchi
@matematica - Riuscite a calcolare la somma di tutte le infinite circonferenze?
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@dillyd beautiful!
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@eniko Same bedframe, different mattresses and sheets
(they require extra firm concrete and I desire clouds)
