Agingcoder

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by Agingcoder 11mo ago
So based on my experience teaching git ( I remember a cvs to git migration …) , reality tells me people find git difficult. Now, once you teach them it’s a commit graph with names, some of them floating, some people get it. The thing is, no
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by Agingcoder 11mo ago
It's stunning. I don't use these tools that much ( I tried and rejected Cursor a while ago, and decided not to use it ) but having played with GPT5 Codex ( as a paying customer) yesterday in regular VSCode , and having had Compo
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by Agingcoder 11mo ago
Why bother with Xwindow when you can have this ?
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by Agingcoder 11mo ago
FWIW I come from a non working class background ( but am not American ). My friends and I routinely debate in such a manner, and don’t see any problem with this. If confronted with a stranger we might be a bit more cautious ( basically we’l
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by Agingcoder 11mo ago
The way you express it is different from most other languages I’ve come across. It doesn’t make it bad in any way ( I’ve written Ada professionally), just unusual. Basically Ada already provides natively substantial capabilities relative to
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by Agingcoder 11mo ago
Pascal is not a low level language - quite the opposite. That being said, various implementations provide low level facilities, including turbo pascal back in the days , and free pascal which I did use in the early 2000s. If I were you, if
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by Agingcoder 11mo ago
Except that Libya never was a French colony I think.
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by Agingcoder 11mo ago
I had the same experience as you with Le Monde diplomatique. The language used in some of the articles felt a lot like propaganda ( hyperbolic language, us vs them, anger/emotional language, basic facts being ignored etc ). I was very
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by Agingcoder 11mo ago
Same here - I did consider buying a steam deck, then after experimenting with GeForce now on a small screen realized that pc game designers assumed larger screens. This is ok, but this makes many games unplayable on a small screen unless yo
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by Agingcoder 11mo ago
Yes - they told me quite specifically that until they launch their their sovereign cloud, the mothership will be around.
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by Agingcoder 11mo ago
What I want to know is whether people who believe in a bubble actually short AI/tech-related stocks.
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by Agingcoder 11mo ago
The increase is massive ( I’ve heard x5 over existing contracts in some places )
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by Agingcoder 11mo ago
To some extent it’s not that they don’t live up to the hype - rather that the gains are hard to measure. Llms have spared me hours of research on exotic topics actually useful for my day job However, that’s the whole problem - I don’t know
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by Agingcoder 11mo ago
I sometimes wonder whether there’s an eu vs us difference here. At least when it comes to tv, I found the hard way ( a long time ago ) that the amount of ads Americans are exposed to is simply unbearable. This extends to youtube and similar
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by Agingcoder 11mo ago
I like these bugs. They’re intricate, technical puzzles, that can take weeks to figure out. You need a proper strategy to figure them out, cannot rely on simple tactics, and when you finally understand what’s going on, it’s immensely satisf
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by Agingcoder 11mo ago
The fake anonymity journalists often give to sources (‘Richard D , from small town X, aged 34, works as a carpenter specializing in 16th century house renovation’) is something I find rather striking. What’s not clear to me though is whethe
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by Agingcoder 11mo ago
Fair question. Location primarily ( nothing in France ), and I’m not sure how ‘we’re looking for people who enjoy doing that kind of thing’( I very much do ) relates to the actual job offers, ie what job offer should I actually apply to. My
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by Agingcoder 11mo ago
Excellent article as always from the cloudflare blog - engineering without magic infrastructure and ml. One day I will apply ! Compiler bugs are actually quite common ( I used to find several a year in gcc ), but as the author says, some of
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by Agingcoder 1y ago
I think at least slow and expensive compilers back in the days, the defense and aerospace stigma, and in more recent times a common misperception that it’s closed source. And it’s never been cool stuff. And yes you’re right, it’s a very go
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by Agingcoder 1y ago
I don’t understand how you can get the same kind of reliability with C than with Spark - process or not, a formal proof is a formal proof. That’s much harder to get with C.
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by Agingcoder 1y ago
I don’t want to use google anymore - bad search results, too many ads.
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by Agingcoder 1y ago
You’re really saying that there is no starvation , and plenty to eat in Gaza ? ( I won’t debate the technical meaning and definition of the word famine, which I didn’t use ) There are enough Israelis who confirm this , and they’re hardly an
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by Agingcoder 1y ago
This is disturbing. You seem to imply that there are legitimate reasons to starve an entire population, which is to me so repulsive that you’re not even allowed to consider entering that territory.Under that reading, once you’ve crossed t
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by Agingcoder 1y ago
The Israeli military itself debunked it I think . The us said the same thing. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/world/middleeast/hamas-un...
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by Agingcoder 1y ago
Is there any way to starve people deliberately, and win a media war ? I’m not sure this has anything to do with Muslim vs Jewish population sizes.
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by Agingcoder 1y ago
I love your answer. It’s honest, and actually typical of this kind of problem space where what’s possible exceeds what was expected. It reminds me of what coders did with older atari st machines to achieve overscan and a whole bunch of othe
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by Agingcoder 1y ago
For the first time in a long time I don’t feel that old on hn ( and I do HPC so have a strong interest in the topic ) :-) I’m really enjoying the discussion here - thanks everyone.
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by Agingcoder 1y ago
There was a fundamental difficulty with ‘given a sufficiently smart compiler’ if I remember well revolving around automatic parallelization. You might argue that given enough time and money it might have been solved, but it’s a really hard
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by Agingcoder 1y ago
Yeah I gave up when I realized I didn’t understand what problem he was trying to solve
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by Agingcoder 1y ago
For 2) I guess that if you know you will die with high probability, you will search for ( if at all possible) an alternative treatment ( which might have side effects but at least you’re alive ) ?

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