jimmux

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[–] jimmux 4 points 1 year ago

I'm not a big beer drinker, but there are few things as disappointing as finding a bar that serves stout on tap, then discovering it's been all hopped up.

[–] jimmux 12 points 1 year ago

Sounds like communism.

/s

[–] jimmux 10 points 1 year ago

Unit test dummy data is full of it. Need an arbitrary date? Pick a special birthday. Location? Wherever you first met.

Not the most public dedication, but perhaps more impactful than yet another song about the one that got away.

[–] jimmux 4 points 1 year ago

As an industry, we like to think of ourselves as supremely rational, but we can't apply even the most basic scientific principles. So much conventional wisdom has never actually been tested or proven, so we keep reinventing and flip flopping on best practices.

[–] jimmux 3 points 1 year ago

So much. When I'm trusted to find the right balance of productivity and quality, I enjoy the work more. When I enjoy the work, I'm more productive and write better code. It's a positive feedback loop.

[–] jimmux 20 points 1 year ago

If you replace the quality parts with manure bricks, at what point has it become the shit of Theseus?

[–] jimmux 10 points 1 year ago

The building I live in has started doing this for the private parking spots. Any vehicle not within the lines is hit with $80. Their hand was forced since some started parking trucks that leave the entire bed hanging out.

[–] jimmux 0 points 1 year ago

They will be generating it themselves soon enough. I contributed some stock photos in the past. They recently sent me info about their new contribution pipeline, for content that may not pass the usual quality threshold, but will help train the models. If they do it right, who knows, maybe they can get better results worth paying for.

[–] jimmux 3 points 1 year ago

Hey, he could just be taking inspiration from Wim Hof.

Ok, yeah probably fetish.

[–] jimmux 9 points 1 year ago

You think he would just turn this company into an X-rated - oh no that's what he's doing isn't it?

[–] jimmux 2 points 1 year ago

Programming typefaces with ligatures are a step in this direction.

I would try this in something like Haskell, where some of the more exotic character sequences get tricky to recognise.

Unison might be the best language to test this in. Having identifiers separate from the actual definitions, you can call anything whatever you want.

[–] jimmux 0 points 1 year ago

While still expecting to get paid.

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