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@thdxr Dno who said it but someone once described this as “enfeeblement” - a few generations of this and many humans won’t be able to complete basic tasks for themselves any more

i landed on a somewhat disturbing vision for how LLMs + coding might play out the past week i've been using opencode as much as possible to stress test before its launch - think there's a cursed set of properties here that hasn't been seen much with other tech i've talked before about how the key thing with vibe coding is that it is low exertion - asking an LLM to build something allows you to turn your brain off while it executes it's often slower, it often does it wrong, it costs literal money - but it lets you be lazy even if it takes 30 minutes and 5 prompts to do a task that should take 10min of focus for a human - you get to spend 25 of those minutes with your brain idling we were talking about this as a team and everyone had an unflattering example of kicking some work to the LLM so they could watch youtube - it's less efficient but it feels better we of course had cases where it let us parallelize work but these lazy scenarios are undeniably a real thing - they are replacing moments where you'd be in flow state LLMs seem to have a weird combination of properties - they are - less efficient - lower quality - allows you to be lazier any tech with the last bullet point always wins - it's impossible to fight but it's usually paired with efficiency or quality but in this case it looks more like a future where everyone is mindlessly prompting so they can spend more time scrolling tiktok the output will be worse and everything will take longer and we lose all the second order benefits of doing focused work

@aboodman Just put the condition inside the hook, no?

So the conditional hooks thing. Is it really just a matter of using an index as an identifier? If hooks had names instead (local to the component) would that have allowed conditional hooks? If so any chance of getting this in a future version? Lack of conditional hooks is such. a. pain.

@elonmusk @waitbutwhy Anthropic principle at work

@waitbutwhy Physics is just right

Most liquids become more compact when they freeze. Water does the opposite, expanding when it freezes, because H2O's shape crystalizes into a structure with large open spaces. If not for this odd quirk, ice would sink, freezing the oceans over long ago, and we would not be here.

@kentcdodds 200m downloads / month and only 1.2k stars is wild

I have exciting news to share! After years and years and years of being one of the most popular packages on npm, npm.im/cookie has finally reached a stable 1.0.0 release!

@leeerob Great stuff Lee, thanks

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@elithrar The Years of Lyndon Johnson read by Grover Gardener are extremely hard to beat

What are some *great* audiobooks? I always struggle with them vs. reading, and after listening to Bourdain narrate his own (Kitchen Confidential, Medium Raw) I feel like I’m ruined for anything else. (prefer biographies, geopolitics, sci-fi)

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@tlakomy @mattpocockuk Pragmatic Programmer is really good

@mattpocockuk My top 3 recommendations: A Philosophy of Software Design - a *must* read The Pragmatic Programmer - a bit longer, but also excellent Phoenix Project - a novel (!), but definitely worth reading. The sequel is noticeably worse

Alright, let's do it. Best coding books: GO. Especially looking for the meta-level stuff. Languages and frameworks come and go, but some lessons are eternal. Which books capture them?

@mattpocockuk Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann is excellent

@adamwathan Reaper is amazing software, had no idea it was such a small team!

Another one is Cockos, who make a digital audio workstation called REAPER. It's clearly a for-fun project initially developed solo by Justin Frankel who you may recognize as the creator of Winamp, but had spawned an enormous and passionate community. You can download it and evaluate it for free, and even after the trial period the only effort they put in to stop you from using it is a nag window that goes away after a few seconds. It's just two people right now, and profitable despite that clearly not being a major motivation. reaper.fm

Who are your favorite tiny product companies? Say less than 10 people.

@aarondfrancis How long are each of the videos Aaron?

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@thdxr switch (true)

i found this code in our codebase tbh i think it's fine but i imagine some of you will want to yell at it

@aarondfrancis Leonard Susskind lectures from Stanford if you’re into physics… 10x 2hr courses on classical mechanics, quantum mechanics, general relativity… absolutely top drawer

What are the best long form lectures on YT? Like esoteric stuff. Stuff about time travel, ancient civilizations, weird math, deep computer science, engineering, quasi woo woo self development, that kinda stuff. Bonus points for deep cuts that no one else has heard about

@TimeTriping @AMAZlNGNATURE Assuming this is russels viper - it’s venom is used in medical diagnostic tests for clotting en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilute_Ru…

@AMAZlNGNATURE The speed at which snake venom can clot human blood

The Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake, the world's largest rattlesnake species

@VicVijayakumar Children of Time is a great, weird novel

okay first two purchases. one of these is…a little longer than the other 😅

crap i've accumulated 12 audible credits, please recommend me audio books! i've already listened to the entire bobiverse novels and enjoyed them VERY much

@0xgaut The Strangest Man by @grahamfarmelo

What book is so good you’ve read it more than three times?

@meganphelps @meganphelps did an epilogue episode ever happen? Or will it? This series was fantastic.

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@PaulMarsh111 @WKCosmo there is no "actual" velocity in QM - just a probability that it is travelling at a certain velocity when you measure it.

@WKCosmo How does knowing the uncertainty in velocity say anything about the actual velocity?

Getting a lot of replies making various claims that this is not a quantum mechanical result, and you can't assign a velocity to electrons in atomic orbitals. Nonsense! This is ALL ABOUT quantum mechanics. Allow me to explain. 1/

Hey @SEED_run - is anyone around to pick up a support chat on your site?

@cmeeg Fantastic! Thank you, I’ll take a look

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