Seamus
@combinatorial.bsky.social
Long deep exasperated sigh-er.
Terrible message and damn not even a bit of alt text - really drives home trying nothing and being all out of ideas.
January 15, 2026 at 5:46 PM
Terrible message and damn not even a bit of alt text - really drives home trying nothing and being all out of ideas.
Are the features of comparable complexity? How many did they do before, etc. I get it, people want to believe in it, but self-report data is absolute garbage in these scenarios (ask any social scientist). We're inundated with useless anecdata. The METR study remains the only reliable-ish study.
January 14, 2026 at 3:44 AM
Are the features of comparable complexity? How many did they do before, etc. I get it, people want to believe in it, but self-report data is absolute garbage in these scenarios (ask any social scientist). We're inundated with useless anecdata. The METR study remains the only reliable-ish study.
Truly one of the worst metrics in software engineering: lines of code, coupled with the dubious "errors haven't occurred" - with the ever present caveat "yet". LoC is just... so bad, and it highlights the "haven't thought about a useful metric". I get it though, it's not easy.
January 14, 2026 at 3:44 AM
Truly one of the worst metrics in software engineering: lines of code, coupled with the dubious "errors haven't occurred" - with the ever present caveat "yet". LoC is just... so bad, and it highlights the "haven't thought about a useful metric". I get it though, it's not easy.
"Rigor" is not a word I would use in reference to them other than in the negative.
January 13, 2026 at 11:52 PM
"Rigor" is not a word I would use in reference to them other than in the negative.
Nice, I think that's what we have as well. Once you have it you wonder why they're not everywhere.
January 13, 2026 at 11:46 PM
Nice, I think that's what we have as well. Once you have it you wonder why they're not everywhere.
"Cool, I can turn this into 500 stupid yeti tumblers in this company rewards 'store', or I could, through another set of hops, turn it into something for me to poop on, in the immortal words of Triumph the insult comic dog".
January 13, 2026 at 11:24 PM
"Cool, I can turn this into 500 stupid yeti tumblers in this company rewards 'store', or I could, through another set of hops, turn it into something for me to poop on, in the immortal words of Triumph the insult comic dog".
Hmm. Soundtrack so far: Not as good as Daft Punk's, but not bad. "Atmospheric".
January 13, 2026 at 4:45 AM
Hmm. Soundtrack so far: Not as good as Daft Punk's, but not bad. "Atmospheric".
Oof. Bad news right out of the gate, the opening news sequence is far worse than Legacy.
January 13, 2026 at 4:07 AM
Oof. Bad news right out of the gate, the opening news sequence is far worse than Legacy.
Reposted by Seamus
It really do recommend making your shitty day the problem of your shitty senator's voicemail every night, it doesn't have to be a chore. It is a actually cathartic
January 9, 2026 at 4:20 AM
It really do recommend making your shitty day the problem of your shitty senator's voicemail every night, it doesn't have to be a chore. It is a actually cathartic
When we found Lego has just about all their build manuals online it opened up a lot of post-build fun (once you have the inevitable massive collection of Lego).
January 9, 2026 at 3:10 AM
When we found Lego has just about all their build manuals online it opened up a lot of post-build fun (once you have the inevitable massive collection of Lego).