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New comment by yulker in "Writing by hand is good for your brain"

yulker — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 17:06:30 +0000

why not both? mark up the book while you're reading, reflect in your notebook on what you read

New comment by yulker in "Migrating a production AI agent to GPT-5.6: 2.2x faster, 27% cheaper"

yulker — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 06:19:52 +0000

this is probably sarcasm, but might actually try this. the visceral negative reaction i have to llm writing makes me instantly want to close the tab

New comment by yulker in "You're Not a Better Engineer Because You Type Git Commands by Hand"

yulker — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 17:38:52 +0000

How do you justify it against all the other abstractions you've accepted and no longer know how to do (or never learned in the first place). Why are the current set of manual steps the right level to be permanently aware of?

New comment by yulker in "Canada's only watchmaking school still ticking after 80 years"

yulker — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 15:12:48 +0000

There's something interesting in maintaining items built to last when the objects themselves are maintained and kept for entertainment reasons. (Entertainment in the broad sense for enjoyment first and foremost over utility or practicality). I guess it strikes me like a master of maintaining toy trains or something along those lines, both evoking a sense of respect and sense of humanity for the craft and art of the thing, while paradoxically feeling that this is not "actually important" (whatever that means). Like someone being a great soccer player or michelin star chef -- the seriousness of this kind of endeavor is both inspiring and comical at the same time?

Maybe it should be viewed like the sign of a healthy ecosystem; if it can support "exotic birds" like these, it's stable and healthy.

New comment by yulker in "We're extending access to Fable 5 on all paid plans through July 12"

yulker — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:52:03 +0000

it's incredible how volatile the product and pricing situation is right now. i struggle to find an equivalent industry that has been so all over the place and obtuse

New comment by yulker in "Multilingual experience linked to delayed aging"

yulker — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 16:58:14 +0000

there's also no substitute for the reduced inferential distance when two people speak the same language. the literal meaning of words encodes just a subset of the communication

New comment by yulker in "Farmer, marketer at odds over sales of white nectarines"

yulker — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 20:26:52 +0000

profit share, royalties, etc. many ways to structure economic benefit

New comment by yulker in "Supersonic flight returning to US after half-century ban"

yulker — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 13:25:45 +0000

supersonic flight is not significantly faster than regular flight relative to other modes of transportation. it's not anti progress to be clear eyed out about tradeoffs and costs, especially when the negative side effects primarily don't affect the user of a product but everyone around them.

just because you want to blast your music out loud on a speaker in the subway and i think that's antisocial, doesn't mean i'm anti progress for music technology

New comment by yulker in "Supersonic flight returning to US after half-century ban"

yulker — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 04:01:16 +0000

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New comment by yulker in "The 80% Problem: The Last 20% Is Where the Engineer Used to Live"

yulker — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 19:56:26 +0000

makes you wonder how much of the token economy is just this sort of circular slop triggered by slop

New comment by yulker in "The 80% Problem: The Last 20% Is Where the Engineer Used to Live"

yulker — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 19:54:11 +0000

You're right to push on that, and the suspicion is real. That type of sensitivity is load bearing, not exaggerated anxiety.

New comment by yulker in "A field guide to the modern front end for developers who hand-wrote HTML"

yulker — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 15:07:34 +0000

I don't know how else to put it, but it has this built in condescension that rides along when someone is hitting you with too many clever metaphors. Like it's TED talking at you or something, it just frames everything in a tone of authoritative/lecturing style. Very off putting just as if an actual person did it you would feel irritated by them

New comment by yulker in "A field guide to the modern front end for developers who hand-wrote HTML"

yulker — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 14:49:18 +0000

I'm having a similar reaction, and I wonder if because this style, tone, and tics are what I'm encountering while using AI tools, I instantly get a bad taste in my mouth when I see it in the context of something that's supposed to be written by a person. Like I reflexively discount it the moment I see its staccato little stylish flourishes and the same handful of "scar tissue" type analogies it seems to like to trot out again and again.

New comment by yulker in "Swiss parliament lifts ban on new nuclear power plants"

yulker — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:12:12 +0000

The term EU doesn't describe a geographic area. It is a membership. Just as if I'm surrounded by members of a book club, I'm not in it.

New comment by yulker in "Swiss parliament lifts ban on new nuclear power plants"

yulker — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:09:16 +0000

The term EU describes a membership, it doesn't describe a geographic area. Being in a membership means something different than being in a geographic area. So the term "in" does not have the same meaning across the two contexts.

New comment by yulker in "Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown"

yulker — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:04:11 +0000

because writing speed isn't the bottleneck for what is being tested

New comment by yulker in "Swiss parliament lifts ban on new nuclear power plants"

yulker — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 17:44:06 +0000

Just the opposite. It's literally not in the EU. It's literally in Europe but not in the EU.

New comment by yulker in "AI sticker shock hits corporate America"

yulker — Thu, 28 May 2026 12:43:58 +0000

It's sarcasm, obviously.

New comment by yulker in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

yulker — Sun, 24 May 2026 03:19:58 +0000

Go ahead and tell us what it means to be a real American then

New comment by yulker in "Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem"

yulker — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 02:00:08 +0000

Yes, I agree entirely. It has nothing to do with the emotion of surprise.