Susanna

all quiet on the frontal lobe

no this has a lot more nuance than 100-300 lines, which is meant to be a proxy for "smallest cohesive change" anyway! in general i begin with a plan of stages/steps in a granularity i feel comfortable with, and make commits according to that. i just found naturally that after enough speccing and breaking down the architecture things naturally fall in the 100-300 line range and yes, every commit should be shown to "work" in some way. otherwise there's 0 point to breaking it down to commits :p this is where it gets interesting though. would i trust browseruse agents to manual qa a commit? hmm..

i try to commit on the order of "smallest cohesive change" like break the ideas down as small as they can be and then commit one idea at a time ideally every commit compiles individually (or the app runs without error in the case of non-compiled languages) if the commits would still be too large, then that's my indicator to make a branch instead of just a single commit then I squash merge so that one commit => one idea anyways, ramble to say LOC is not a rule of thumb I'd use, but my actual rules of thumb on commits I'm still figuring out how to communicate succinctly and clearly

Seeking additional "Rules of Thumb" from great engineers I can add to this file to make my agents and future employees smarter.

the point is people who steal aren't rebelling in any valorizable way. they are doing asocial acts that pollute how they views themselves in relation to others stealing is saying to yourself "I abandon conventions of trust and the benefits that come with it for gratification." those benefits are: group belonging, being worthy of protection, etc. very self harming. all acts of theft are like this, klepto or not.

@lavabisme Ah to be super clear, kleptomania is not something I'm endorsing or valorizing here. Sorry for your struggle.

I'm going to come out as pro-shoplifting, at least from big chain stores. Not for any moral or economic reasons. It's more the aesthetic I appreciate. It's a symbolic act of defiance, a tiny human "fuck you" directed at an amoral juggernaut.

as a recovering compulsive shoplifter i disavow any "solidarity." it was never an act of rebellion against anything except loving myself and respecting other people. people who do it always have mental problems, i've never met another klepto who lived a normal, much less joyful life. i am leaning on any gravity this experience offers me to say shoplifting is bad and the author is correct in describing it as a vice for losers.

@lavabisme x.com/owlthatissuper…

@FU_joehudson i love you joe.

I regret to inform you that personal growth rarely comes from acquiring new knowledge and almost always from: > Speaking your truth, even when it's scary > Owning your wants, even when they're scary > Embracing intensity, even when it's scary

@confusionm8trix i'm interviewing for this rn lmao

ain't no way

@BowTiedCaudillo Wow outsourcing takes to moots I see :P I personally feel like he draws a lot of unjustified ire. This could be due to ethnic in-group effects. I think one could do much worse than being a grifter, when grifting can turn out massive rewards at only soft (reputational) cost

@lavabisme I followed him on Instagram like 5 seconds ago and searched TL to see what my mutuals thought of him LOL

it makes me sad when people hate on roy lee.

@ZubinJain1 my sister in law at stanford told me that she tried to set up a guy with her friend and the guy responded "i really want a girl who's so hot that she'll impress at any party, and your friend is not it" lol

I have been informed of the existence of an individual in the NUS CS department who straight up tells you he doesn't talk to anyone who isn't a pretty girl or in some way offer him money. I don't think he has mad success with that approach to life

@demiurgently this is the affliction of the boomer class ...hubris?

there should be a special kind of sin for attributing to skill what was really just luck

this is a list of desires i have for myself.... e.g. I really want to exercise 4 times a week and be able to make delicious meals and fruit juices... im the worlds first asian female jeffery epstein

i actually want to try the jujutsu kaisen ramen at the chain sushi restaurant... #consoomer #libtard #gay

@sonyasupposedly i'm job searching for swe now, i landed an offer in about 1 month. not very happy with the comp, but good culture + lifestyle fit (mostly remote+async) and very good people to work with. debating whether to accept rn

last time you were job-searching, how long did it take you to find something? did you have to lower your standards or did you hold out for a great fit?

@mosscircle the other day in the sauna i overheard 2 ladies casually discussing one of their sisters having purchases a west village townhouse "just to have a place to stay in new york" on top of their other properties about SF and London 🥲

@AlexNoonan6 🤮 im hoping AI spam+cheating will accelerate the collapse of these inane hiring practices

@lavabisme I've heard of 9 rounds at pwc for an internship

This seems about average for early career with limited network

@sagharborcap His name is Sal Khan. Why'd you have to call him the "khan academy guy" when his life's work is already obsolete... you had half the name there

The saddest thing about all the AI stuff is that it’s rendered the Khan Academy guy’s life’s work totally obsolete

@amritwt thank you. people like to act so superior for not using cursor. it's a genuinely good tool for pointed dev work, even if less ergonomic

absolutely none of the terminal coding agents have even matched the planning mode from cursor they have done something magical there