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captaincaveman | 2 years ago | on: The Rise and Fall of GOFAI

Seems to be conflating GOFAI with Cybernetics, they are distinct with Cybernetics being far more aligned with the sub-symbolic approach (McCullock & Pitts for example).

captaincaveman | 2 years ago | on: The Absolute Beginner's Guide to Emacs

It would be great if emacs had a LLM co-pilot, I could have it look at my config (and tell me what I could improve). Also i could ask how to do things in emacs, it would have some knowledge of my setup, even my active modes etc, often I get stuck and not sure what key combo or even command I want (the naming of commands are a bit weird at times).

captaincaveman | 2 years ago | on: The fastest-growing countries for software development, according to GitHub

I agree with Git being overcomplicated, and the commands being a semantic mess, although they have improved somewhat over the years. I also didn't like how Github became some defacto self promotion thing. However, very few developers now don't use github to some degree in my experience (UK), bearing in mind so many new developers are/were being created each year compared to the past the more seasoned developers are becoming a vastly diminishing percentage.

captaincaveman | 2 years ago | on: US designates more Chinese tech companies as military collaborators

Well if US stops protecting Taiwan, and China invades, that will end that debate. The new debate will be, Taiwan WAS an independent state and now isn't, and some one will come along and "yeah well that was 70 years ago!".

Psychobabble or not, it boils down to how much anyone wants to get involved in a nasty fight to save someone else, which might end up causing more damage to Taiwan even if they do. I don't think this is right but is the world has always operated, not sure anything has changed.

captaincaveman | 2 years ago | on: US designates more Chinese tech companies as military collaborators

Yes they do, and like I said, think they should be left to get on with things on their own. However they are a break away geopolitical state that was only enabled to do so, by support from US to protect them, if the US hadn't enabled them the CCP would of invaded many many decades ago. You can brush this inconvenient fact under the carpet, but it's not a simple and clear cut as you make out. Both sides taking the extreme stance is why it can't be solved.

captaincaveman | 2 years ago | on: Only 90s Web Developers Remember This (2014)

oh it helps, it doesn't multiply my productivity, I wish it did!

It marginally increases my productivity and reduces some friction, honestly I'm more than happy for it to write as much code as it can on my behalf, it just can't.

I suspect those for whom it is a big game changer, were likely engaged in lots of activity which is cookie cutter.

captaincaveman | 2 years ago | on: The C4 model for visualising software architecture (2017)

In practice this doesn't work very well in an enterprise, the boxes end up a mix bag of different levels of things, some abstract some concrete, some just random.

So if you need to piece together larger chunks of architecture, a supply chain for example, you basically have to redo it all. There is a lot of waste in this, and no one has a sufficiently clear view of the overall architecture, which leads to other waste and quality issues.

For some reasons most engineers get very defensive about a more formal approach, I suspect mostly because it doesn't immediately benefit them or they haven't had too deal with large scale architecture and don't see the problem.

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