no, more mr. nice guy!

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i want to talk to nice people about music, film, tv, books, and computers <3

if you ever want to see a film i've mentioned and we know each other, please don't hesitate to ask me. some of these are hard to find

pronounsthey/them
codehttps://github.com/solson
musichttps://www.last.fm/user/sco50000
filmhttps://letterboxd.com/tsion
no, more mr. nice guy!Jun 1
Brian BucklewMay 31
not many software development challenges have biblical parables about why they're direct curses from god for man's arrogance but localization is one of them
no, more mr. nice guy!May 21
Show threadJon SterlingMay 21

I was so terrified of the Humanities job market that I became a computer scientist. (Not kidding.)

If there were justice, I'd be a working Assyriologist today. I do love my job and my research—I have found a part of computer science that is worthy of love and devotion.

But I want to have these colleagues who know more than anyone else in the world about a 50 year period of Antiquity. I want that knowledge to survive, but more so, to be brightened by successive generations of youthful scholars.

no, more mr. nice guy!May 21
Jon SterlingMay 21
Spent an evening with the Classicists and my god, the job market is really terrifying in the Humanities. When we need it more than ever.
no, more mr. nice guy!May 11
doll!May 11
there is some yugioh shit happening in baseball
no, more mr. nice guy!May 6
IrisMay 5

Well, I tried Claude Code. It's less bad than GLM, but alas, I didn't get the "Hallelujah! I see the light" moment that would let me become an AI grifter. Pity, really.

I did notice an interesting thing though: the people who get the best results from coding agents tend to be the people who think they're awful, which says some interesting things about engineering judgement. Read the article here:

https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/engineering-judgement-claude-paradox

Engineering judgement and the Claude Code paradox | deadSimpleTech

Looking at my peers, this seems like a consistent pattern: the people who get the best engineering results out of coding agents are not only *not* the boosters, they're the people who think the whole enterprise is dubious and that basically everyone who manufactures these tools is deeply morally compromised. This is a downright *weird* phenomenon: while a similar thing has happened with other technologies before, it's surpassingly uncommon, and for most technologies, the people most excited about them are also the most adept at using them effectively. What the hell is going on?

deadSimpleTech
no, more mr. nice guy!May 2
MagicalGirl Gleaming MoonlightMay 2
I think about this image all the fucking time
no, more mr. nice guy!Apr 5
Show threadSamantha KeeperApr 5
living in society right now and being of a certain level of awareness and state of mind is like just seeing black mold on every wall everywhere and if you try to bring it up everyone looks at you like 🤨
no, more mr. nice guy!Mar 6
you never hear anything about cat burglars these days
no, more mr. nice guy!Mar 2
Samantha KeeperMar 2

was listening to a description of how selective breeding has transformed corn into an industrial crop and got emotional, like legit weepy, cause the idea of humanity fighting the eternal scourge of famine through an ingenuity that can unlock the potential of the natural world is so beautiful

imagine that capacity, collectively directed by workers who control and direct all production... from each according to her ability, to each according to her need...

no, more mr. nice guy!Feb 17
IrisFeb 17
You know, for all that so many people on social media are supposedly collectivist, they sure don't like it when you express collectivist ideas, or even really just say things from the perspective of a collectivist society.