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by 0xpgm 4d ago
Yet as a programmer myself, I've been in situations where I'm artificially separated from the customer against my will. I want to build something useful for them but if they let me be too close to the customer, I'll be making
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by 0xpgm 4d ago
> Did you enjoy the crafts, or did you enjoy the compliments? Did you enjoy the difficult puzzles or the identity derived from a career that gives you the reputation and perceived value of someone who can do a thing most people can’t? I
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by 0xpgm 5d ago
Whole civilizations fell when people forgot how to do important things
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by 0xpgm 5d ago
> Even better, discovery was through human recommendations rather than algorithms designed to keep you hooked on the platform. Yeah, that's one thing that is definitely noticeable. Online social services basically became data-driven
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by 0xpgm 6d ago
Sometimes I wonder what the tech ecosystem would look like without the ZIRP era. I look back over 15 years and with the exception of increased smart phone usage, everything else still looks mostly familiar. Maybe a bit more slick, but also
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by 0xpgm 6d ago
I don't think this is a counterpoint. An established codebase is already the best kind of context you could give an agent. It has all the patterns baked in so the agent simply follows established patterns. Such a codebase probably cont
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by 0xpgm 16d ago
> they launched Brave Orion I think you mean Brave Origin. It's the minimal version without the extra services. Free on Linux and purchaseable on other platforms. I think that's a fair compromise, since the company needs to som
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by 0xpgm 16d ago
It's been working great for me as the primary browser for a couple of years now. Prior to that I was on Firefox (for the sake of browser engine diversity) but left as soon as they announced they were turning into an AI powered advertis
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by 0xpgm 18d ago
Perfectly fine for personal servers that matter. Its better IMO to risk having a rare breakage than to stay behind security upgrades.
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by 0xpgm 18d ago
Experts don't want to 'gatekeep'. Experts have been producing FOSS for the benefits of everyone, and liberally answering questions on mailing lists, stack overflow etc for free. Experts have been badly bitten by poorly writte
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by 0xpgm 20d ago
Explain why you think it's a myth. Also I'm basing my argument on common sense. And I didn't speak about my 'world view' in the comment.
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by 0xpgm 21d ago
Exactly. Henry Ford made sure his own employees could afford the cars they were making. These people making these kind of grand pronouncements either have an embarrassing blind spot, or are not making sincere, but carefully calculated state
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by 0xpgm 1mo ago
US investors are desperate for the next hypergrowth opportunity. From what I can tell the US economic strategy is to outgrow its debt.
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by 0xpgm 1mo ago
Hey, are people not allowed to self select as smug Lisp weenies anymore? Even on HN? What Lisp enthusiasts lost in terms of actual status in the programming world they make up for themselves in their niche corners and everyone is happy at t
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by 0xpgm 1mo ago
From my understanding (I may be wrong) what is happening now is that frontier labs are doubling down on doing RLHF on their models using the user interaction with their own tools e.g. Anthropic making their models better at producing code w
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by 0xpgm 1mo ago
This. When programming meant you get just a decent enough salary and enjoyed your work, and could prioritize technical excellence it was fun. But once it became a ticket to millionaire status it attracted the kind and of people who would ha
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by 0xpgm 1mo ago
AI to some extent learns APIs. If they are doing new things they are probably introducing new kinds of interfaces.
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by 0xpgm 1mo ago
Are AIs good enough at doing novel work that they have yet to encounter? My guess is that the GNU/HURD people are doing a lot of novel work that doesn't yet exist.
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by 0xpgm 1mo ago
Android basically ran a long bait and switch game. It came out as open source, achieved wide adoption, important online services like banking and government-related moved to it. Now they are locking it all down.
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by 0xpgm 2mo ago
I've never done it, but now that you say it, it makes a lot of sense. Using Django just to manage the database and do migrations, even behind other language stacks. You also get the Django admin interface for free. I once tried using S
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by 0xpgm 2mo ago
The r/programming subreddit is what you may be looking for.
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by 0xpgm 2mo ago
Would you explain farther how China winning the AI race would result in world war 3 deaths?
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by 0xpgm 2mo ago
How is it unprofessional when it is simply someone giving their honest personal opinion on an issue that involves something that is valuable to them, on their personal blog nonetheless. Is everyone a walking and talking brand now so that th
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by 0xpgm 2mo ago
I'm glad LLM coding exists for people who want to move at an insane superhuman speed (perhaps they're trying to achieve escape velocity and launch into the stars or something) so that they don't grind down their fellow humans
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by 0xpgm 2mo ago
On the bright side however, one can easily vibe code a browser extension that automatically hides comments that are not aligned to one's needs, whether its American politics or comments complaining about it :-)
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by 0xpgm 2mo ago
Generally, it seems like if you are not getting returns that outweigh your token spend, you are merely paying to train AI.
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by 0xpgm 3mo ago
One annoying thing is how long it takes for things to sway back into equilibrium. It's getting quite exhausting having to endure all these major events of the 21st century and their consequences - 9/11 and the Iraq war, the 2008 f
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by 0xpgm 3mo ago
You can find some video material from O'Reilly Media
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by 0xpgm 3mo ago
Yeah, makes a lot of sense.
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by 0xpgm 3mo ago
From what I've read from people with relevant experience, the only way to get a large organization change direction is to issue imperative decrees lacking nuance, because large organization by nature tend to be process heavy and are to

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