This is a more normal English meaning in my opinion — you picture a sentry patrolling a border.
replyThat’s what I thought the original blog post was going to be about, pacing back and forth along the frontier. It’s a much more straightforward parse.
replyThat's when one is supposed to employ their common sense for semantic disambiguation. Spoken languages are not programming languages. I for one found it easy to parse.
replyPeople claiming they don't understand or are confused by relatively simple English is a surprisingly common genre of comments on HN. I wonder what causes the people here to have these feelings towards English; my guess is indeed that many people here judge English as if it were a programming language.
replyThat is certainly one possible explanation, but I think another likely explanation is that once your brain learn programming, especially logic, data structures & algorithms, you just start seeing the ambiguity in non-programmers' writing so much more clearly.
replyThis is because it is valley jargon and we are all saturated with it. You may not have heard it before, but it is structurally close to similar concepts, eg "frontier model", that you got there without noticing.
replyIt was still shit tier comms for communicating with the whole planet, but yes, for the inner loop, it was succinct and clear.
Valley neuralese
'Pacing' in the intended meaning is not valley jargon, it's almost the opposite in that it comes from athletics/sports.
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