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  • because people look for indicators they recognise to assess intelligence and you don’t fit their mental model as easily.

    you could be cynical and say much of that presentation is manipulated and not a reliable indicator of intelligence, it’s just that intelligent people are usually better at controlling their signals - unless they have difficulties with social nuances like us. you could also just shug and say you’re different and they don’t get it for a while, and that’s fine too.

    everyone is lazy and uses shortcuts to interpret a complex world. when you’re different the shortcuts don’t work and people make mistakes. they’re also being lazy 🦥


  • I work in a company with other people. it’s not a good idea to have an idea where you have to specialise in a range of things to be successful. I specialise in programming.

    also, those benchmarks translate to better user experience which means they actually use our product, and lower hosting costs.

    frameworks and patterns reduce bugs and let us create features quickly. it’s important, if you think it’s pointless maybe it’s not for you. if you want to go do a startup instead, good luck.










  • if they run a mastodon instance, you’d be federating with them just as much.

    are you sure these comments are somehow protected by copyright and they can’t use them? when I post publicly like this I have no expectation of control over use.I’d be very surprised if I could somehow sue a company using this comment to train AIs.

    I’d also be surprised if that status changed somehow if the server was then connected to threads?






  • I just made a github action that merges anything updated in master into feature branches automatically. you get pinged if there’s a conflict but the automerge keeps drift to a minimum so it’s less common and fixed sooner.

    better than merging poorly tested/reviewed code.

    and yeah, a small team of superstars doesn’t need reviews so much, but most teams have a range of devs with different levels of experience and time working with particular parts of a large codebase. Someone more senior or more expert derisks people picking up tickets and improves code quality.

    it also leads to plenty of good conversations about the best way to implement, so overall it’s a win.