nico λ
@nicomeemes
just a hacker tryna survive
nico λ
nicomee.com
The qualities that make someone a dependable source of excitement are generally the opposite of those that make him or her a dependable source of stability. Seeking both in one real human isn’t much less absurd than dreaming of a partner who’s both six and five feet tall.
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
This is arguably the most foundational principle of productivity. Make fast decisions with limited certainty.
Daniel Kazandjian • Minimum Viable Productivity
One thing I'd argue as a starting point is there is no "theory" or a "model" of addiction as a disease. The arguments associated with that claim are actually not that cohesive. A common position associated with addiction as a disease is that it is an essential category, which is an idea we can get our arms around a bit better and which I discuss... See more
Toward a Unified Field Theory of Human Flourishing
- This is gonna be game-changing for the next 2-4 weeks before they nerf the model.
Then for the next 2-3 months people complaining about the degradation will be labeled “skill issue”.
Then a sacrificial Anthropic engineer will “discover” a couple obscure bugs that “in some cases” might have lead to less than optimal performance. Still largely a user
HackerWeb
A large fraction of the flaws in software development are due to programmers not fully understanding all the possible states their code may execute in. [...] No matter what language you work in, programming in a functional style provides benefits. You should do it whenever it is convenient, and you should think hard about the decision when it isn’t... See more
Arend van Beelen jr. • Post-Architecture: Premature Abstraction Is the Root of All Evil
All mathematics exhibits in its conclusions only what is already implicit in its premises,
Herbert A. Simon • The Sciences of the Artificial
I am looking now for software that insists I make choices rather than whispers that none are needed. I don’t want my digital life to be one shame closet after another. A new metaphor has taken hold for me: I want it to be a garden I tend, snipping back the weeds and nourishing the plants.