mox111's comments

I get that the whole "co-authored by Claude" thing is supposed to be future-facing. But it's a bit cringe, for want of a better word.

GPT-5 has used the phrase "heck yes!" a handful of times to me so far. I quite enjoy the enthusiasm but its not a phrase you hear very often.

Perhaps some package authors are more accepting of this than others. I stumbled upon this comment in the `json` package the other day:

// isValidNumber reports whether s is a valid JSON number literal. // // isValidNumber should be an internal detail, // but widely used packages access it using linkname. // Notable members of the hall of shame include: // - github.com/bytedance/sonic

Happy new years you crazy people. Hear’s to many failed ideas, to many outrageous schemes, to many goals gone amiss. I love you lot xx

This is great.

One thing that could be improved: sometimes when the AI gives a "fill in the missing word" task i.e a sentence with a "______" in it, the text-to-speech literally says out loud "underscore, underscore, underscore..."

"The Divided Self" by RD Laing is interesting on this

So much of this discourse is like: Act 1: Person builds a brand partly based on AI Act 2: Person achieves moderate success Finale: "I created a monster!!!"

The source code has the following comment:

For information about the theory behind this, see Electronic Circuit & System Simulation Methods by Pillage

This is really great and well executed. Well done!

One problem I'm beginning to notice is that the connection to the realtime transcription is failing (I just see a loading screen when I click to reply). Maybe it's due to heavy load?

I notice you are using Azure Cognitive Services for the transcription at the moment. Out of curiosity, did you consider any other services for this? (I'm building a transcription-based app myself and I'm worrying about the ability to handle lots of connections at once)

Yeah, it's a good point, there's no ruling that out, although the cycles would need some explaining

I noticed that if you plot just the counts of submissions each hour, it shows a very clear cyclic pattern, but _slightly_offset_ in time from the scores data

So the peaks in submission scores tend to coincide with the point at which submissions-per-hour are really beginning to accelerate for that day

thanks a lot! yeah I thought about that - it is a bit of a challenge on mobile to fit everything in with the lack of real-estate. I will keep that feedback in mind :)

Same. Also same goes for anything that has a lot of stuff going on in the same frequency register as the human voice (e.g. piano melodies) - I find that distracting too for some reason.

That's why my go-to concentration music is Kryptic Minds - basically just driving bass rhythms without too much melodic content.

Can imagine extending this to Oura Ring (or similar) data

"Sorry, your heart rate is already too high, no social media for you"

Umm because I looked it up didn’t I. Not that hard mate

There is some GOLD on this list, that I had never even heard of until now. Well worth the effort to go through it. Thank you.

Still reading it actually, but definitely "The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the transition to the information age" by James Davidson and William Rees-Mogg (actually the father of current UK politician Jacob Rees-Mogg)

Its main thesis is that the main driver of megapolitical change are shifts in the risk/reward payoffs of violence. Was written in '97 but still talks about cryptocurrency and things like that. Interesting book.

This is going to be an unusual answer for this forum, but... the Harry Potter series

Firstly, I read it as a kid, in my formative years, when it was most likely to have an impression on me.

But I remember reading the books and feeling completely enraptured by this magical world. I also remember feeling a a bit annoyed at what I perceived as Harry's laziness and ingratitude! I would think "if I was him, I would spend all my days in the library, learning all the coolest spells, potions etc., and make the most of all this magical power"

As an adult, this has unintentionally become the frame through which I view my job as a programmer. You can call me a romantic, but I've been doing this for years and I still think it's wonderful. At any time I can open a book or a man page and learn some amazing new spells.

With our computers, we _all_ have access to magic, it's just about learning to use it.

Why are you so obsessed with this "tech bro" construct?

If you are the kind of person that interprets everything as cliché, then you are liable to become one.

Jeremy, that you?

Nobody is forcing us to use this tech. If we all happened to agree that it was annoying or "super weird" then we would just opt out.

Fact is, that for now it feels valuable enough for us to keep using it (more so for social 'hangouts' than for things like stand-ups, which we still do via Zoom and where we can be as authentic and vulnerable as we like)