James Cox-Morton

I just want the computers to work properly

[James Cox-Morton @th3james]

No Speed Without Control: A disciplined approach to LLM-augmented software development
https://t.co/51uSW67fHS
Some thoughts on two years of LLM-assisted programming

[James Cox-Morton @th3james]

@eszter_cs @fabfrohlich It would be worth checking if any particularly esoteric software you require is compatible with the arm64 Apple Silicon architecture the newer machines use.

[James Cox-Morton @th3james]

@eszter_cs @fabfrohlich RAM is probably a bigger factor, but it’s hard to say without being familiar with the workload - sequencing can be demanding but the optimisation of the software is vary variable.

[James Cox-Morton @th3james]

@eszter_cs @fabfrohlich If you’re coming from an Intel Pro any of the M series processors will be a big step up. The Air does throttle under extended periods of very heavy load, but that’s not most use cases. What sort of code are you running?

[James Cox-Morton @th3james]

How important is it to understand the mechanisms behind our technology?https://t.co/PQZIAeg12J by @Noahpinion

[James Cox-Morton @th3james]

If you’ve not seen it already, this really is quite a compelling argument against peer-review https://t.co/hLnYdIh4N6 via @matter

[James Cox-Morton @th3james]

This is a great introduction to prediction markets, and includes an angle I hadn’t considered: they provide a skin-in-the-game answer to the challenge of trust in institutions https://t.co/SkTxRtCHZM via @matter

[Gary Bernhardt @garybernhardt]

Reminder: learn C, use it in anger, implement complex things that you know from other languages. Software will make a lot more sense afterward.

[John Carmack @ID_AA_Carmack]

I resigned from Meta, and my internal post got leaked to the press, resulting in some fragmented quotes. Here is the full thing: https://t.co/iUcr8TYMLD

[James Cox-Morton @th3james]

“Managers will say they want to make data-driven decisions, but they really want decision-driven data.” https://t.co/LcL3WJiz8Q

[James Cox-Morton @th3james]

@tokumin I can’t believe you’ve done this

[Stian Westlake @stianwestlake]

If you throw plastic waste in the bin in the UK, it ends up in reasonably safe landfill. If you throw it in recycling, it not infrequently ends up exported and thrown in the sea.

Eye-opening piece from @RoyalStatSoc award-winning writer @TomChivers

https://t.co/9Je7qBv0XG

[James Cox-Morton @th3james]

@willlord

[Lights Out ●●●●● @LightsOutF1Blog]

Hamilton can still win his 8th title this year. He just needs to win every remaining race with Verstappen scoring no more than 22 points in total

#DutchGP #F1

[James Cox-Morton @th3james]

> If Apple can’t make professional-looking settings panels with SwiftUI, how can anyone be expected to?

Given the threat to the platform from cross-platform JS apps, they can’t afford to be dropping the ball like this on developer tooling https://t.co/BNWwoGGTg7

[James Cox-Morton @th3james]

I wrote a post about “Don't Mock What You Don't Own”, trying to make explicit the benefits of what is often a subtle and difficult to understand system design principle. https://t.co/E55UpD8GRd

[Patrick McKenzie @patio11]

One core insight from it should be that you can trivially write a multi-billion dollar tax into society with a single sentence that sounds good to most educated people and will never appear on any list or calculation of taxes.

[James Cox-Morton @th3james]

Fascinating overview of Britain’s 19th failure to keep pace with American growth, and a reminder that there’s rarely one factor or methodology to growth which can avoid change happening. https://t.co/6YioV9ikxi

[James Cox-Morton @th3james]

This is because it’s far easier to write a test that asserts based on an expected data structure rather than a test that verifies a state change. Systems which describe their state changes before applying them are typically far easier to debug.

[James Cox-Morton @th3james]

Perhaps the most underrated benefit of TDD is that it rewards you for writing functions that return data structures that describe state changes, rather than binding the rules for determining the state change to the application of that state change.