Agingcoder

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by Agingcoder 7d ago
The lack of faceid is very surprising - it’s by and large one of my favorite features esp in winter.
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by Agingcoder 23d ago
At least where I live there’s a shortage of doctors so you can’t negotiate with them . There’s a shortage of nurses too, but if you lose 1 nurse because they’re striking it’s bad but things don’t collapse. With 1 fewer doctor who also know
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by Agingcoder 27d ago
So that’s what I thought - but if I hadn’t been exposed to it early I don’t think I’d have gone back to it as an adult. So I think it’s useful.
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by Agingcoder 1mo ago
I got bitten by that one - I remember my 3d engine going all wrong because I hadn’t realized I couldn’t mix mmx and fpu registers unless I was willing to pay for the extraordinarily expensive EMMS (?) instruction
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by Agingcoder 1mo ago
Yes im reading it now. I find that the total lack of formalism makes things difficult from time to time just like his insistence on using basic geometry when there are easier ways. That being said, its an excellent book.
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by Agingcoder 2mo ago
Ok so stl here is not standard template library. I was very confused for a minute.
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by Agingcoder 2mo ago
Doesn’t work for me. I used to be able to read in cars but over the years I’ve reached a point where I last maybe two minutes, except if I’m on a straight road where it takes longer. I was really hopeful this would work but clearly it does
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by Agingcoder 2mo ago
Yeah I tried to have a conversation about security yesterday with Claude and it immediately stopped me - I was taken aback, I didn’t expect it at all. This is highly problematic.
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by Agingcoder 2mo ago
Indeed and I’m not American, and don’t work in the US. It is however fairly obvious to me. We agree to disagree.
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by Agingcoder 2mo ago
Models are treated as weapons with export controls - if they can do this it’s with the blessing of the Chinese government who’s getting something out of it. It’s fairly obviously about being a nuisance to the US.
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by Agingcoder 2mo ago
I know but I’m not sure it actually matters. To many people the internet and internet explorer ( or edge ) are the same thing, and for almost everyone I know , the daily driver is the phone or tablet OS not the laptop/desktop OS. And I
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by Agingcoder 2mo ago
Linux has gone mainstream a long time ago - from dvd players to android phones. It just hasn’t succceeded on old preexisting markets ( personal computers ) but has taken large parts of most of the newly created ones ( servers , mobile devic
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by Agingcoder 2mo ago
Do you have references ?
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by Agingcoder 2mo ago
Compiler bugs are surprisingly common - most people simply never notice them. Whether these bugs are major or not is a different topic. If you have a very large scale test suite for your application, a large codebase, and exert most compile
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by Agingcoder 2mo ago
Yes. Most people don’t actually understand what a program proof is - the answer is usually ‘I have very good tests’. Now, go write the code for an artificial heart , and sleep at night thanks to strong testing !
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by Agingcoder 3mo ago
Physics is an endless source of frustration to me. It feels like a mix of random tricks, most of which I don’t understand. I find math and compsci reasonably understandable, can read research papers in both fields ( and have published paper
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by Agingcoder 3mo ago
Formal methods allow you to prove that it works for all inputs, and not just for the small subset that will be sampled by property testing It’s a proof, not a successful experiment.
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by Agingcoder 4mo ago
I have found that asking an llm for an Eli 5 ( along with the important follow up questions ) usually works out
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by Agingcoder 4mo ago
Yeah this is willy wonka
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by Agingcoder 5mo ago
Well, I’ve been writing code for decades so I know because there was a time ( when I was younger ) where I did just this. I also know that these days, for all kinds of reasons, I do not have the time to write the tools I’m writing now witho
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by Agingcoder 5mo ago
Agreed I’ve already started writing software for myself using Claude. I would never have done this if it weren’t for AI - I simply don’t have the time otherwise . I now have tailor made apps with all kinds of bells and whistles that commerc
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by Agingcoder 5mo ago
I didn’t find that many - you can find graded readers, but very few ‘graded novels’ ( as in a full novel where chapters are progressively harder, not multiple independent tiny stories ) if I may say so
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by Agingcoder 5mo ago
For those interested in learning old English, I’ve been going through Oswald Bera by Colin Gorrie - https://colingorrie.com/books/osweald-bera/ Basically it’s a full blown story/graded reader with no modern E
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by Agingcoder 5mo ago
À lot
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by Agingcoder 5mo ago
It is unfortunately very heavy (2.4kg vs 1.5 for my mb air 15) I take note though that the 13 inches framework is bigger than it seems because of the aspect ratio
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by Agingcoder 5mo ago
This looks suspiciously like something I could buy : a lightweight well made Linux laptop, with long battery life. I currently use a MacBook and won’t get near a windows machine. Two questions 1/ will there be a 15 inches version ? (
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by Agingcoder 5mo ago
I understand his frustration : I have a similar issue with video games - Xbox gamepass games sometimes leave the service. So I built an app that takes all my games across the various gaming services ( steam etc ) including the Xbox gamepas
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by Agingcoder 6mo ago
You do but you then make a career out of it : you become the fixer ( and it can be a very good career , either technical or managerial)
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by Agingcoder 6mo ago
I tried subscribing to pcgamer ( as in, I literally paid for it ) two years ago but this didn’t seem to change structurally the amount of ads i was getting. I also tried to contact them directly but couldn’t find a relevant email address to
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by Agingcoder 6mo ago
I work for a mega corp, and our global overlord( who is ex dev) has tried Claude code at home, and figured out that generating large amounts of code comes with its own challenges - they explicitly don’t want this to happen so there’s no suc

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