ChrisMarshallNY

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by ChrisMarshallNY 3d ago
> unintentionally be being a nuisance. As opposed to intentionally being a nuisance?
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by ChrisMarshallNY 3d ago
I won't link it, here (the last time I did, it got flagged), but look up Guy Macon's Insult File. Not a single word that would have tripped the content filters of the time.
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by ChrisMarshallNY 3d ago
This seems to be changing, in the year of heavy LLM use that I’ve done. When I started, I had to review every line, and frequently found bugs, but lately, I’ve been impressed with the quality of the code. I don’t think that I’ve had to make
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by ChrisMarshallNY 3d ago
I have had the same experience. I’m still in the process of revisiting and refining the many hand-coded dependencies that I’ve created, over the years. Most of the issues found, were corner cases, that would likely never be encountered, but
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by ChrisMarshallNY 4d ago
My understanding was fewer storms, but the ones that do happen, are stronger.
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by ChrisMarshallNY 4d ago
> Whew, so not Ice-nine Ice 8.9? I don't see what the problem i**** For those that don't know, this is Ice Nine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice-nine It actually scared me more than Stephen King's
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by ChrisMarshallNY 4d ago
Yeah. The other app doesn’t copy the user data part of my app, so they get a pass.
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by ChrisMarshallNY 4d ago
I scoped out exactly that. The issue is that I store user data. Also, the users of the app are a very privacy-sensitive demographic. That raises the stakes, considerably. I can't just "vibe code" an app that does the same t
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by ChrisMarshallNY 4d ago
For the last couple of years, I've been crafting and shipping a free app that Serves a particular narrow demographic. It works extremely well, but is a native iOS app (I don't write Android). When I first developed it, I worked
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by ChrisMarshallNY 5d ago
Used signal drums.
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by ChrisMarshallNY 6d ago
I'm a cable hoarder. I have cables for technologies that have been dead, for decades. I need help.
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by ChrisMarshallNY 6d ago
Sounds like it's something that must have been painful, all around. Boards really don't like doing things like this, as it signals instability, and shareholders hate instability. That's why so many boards leave clearly no
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by ChrisMarshallNY 6d ago
I have a friend that was in the music industry for decades, and listening to music was a significant aspect of his job. To this day (he’s retired), he won’t use wireless (even ones with bespoke connections), or ANC headphones. I use AirPods
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by ChrisMarshallNY 6d ago
Eh. As a Mac user, my AAA choices are limited. I mostly play Borderlands 2 & 3, and NMS. I’m not a huge gamer, and these have been enough for me. I just play in bursts, when I’m taking breaks from coding. I don’t like playing with other
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by ChrisMarshallNY 6d ago
I’ve seen that happen a couple of times. I know there was an infamous Microsoft one, where the demo BSOD’d on Bill Gates (Not WWDC. I wasn’t there, but I’m sure there’s video). Microsoft used to demo real unstable stuff. I remember one WWDC
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by ChrisMarshallNY 7d ago
From what I hear, Larry Ellison has no detectable sense of humor. Something about a lawnmower...
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by ChrisMarshallNY 7d ago
Absolutely none of the announcements today, make me want to go out and get something. I am giving the Duo a year or two, to work out the bugs, and get more capability. The extra screen space isn't really interesting to me. The only one
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by ChrisMarshallNY 7d ago
> So, us serial HN users and commenters are the extreme minority Words to live by.
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by ChrisMarshallNY 7d ago
That can be applied to anything, including tech. I don't think bringing in extremes, improves the conversation. I seem to remember a guy living in a cabin, writing manifestos, and mailing bombs to tech people and academics.
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by ChrisMarshallNY 7d ago
> And then, in the extreme case, you might get blown away on the street and have your murderer canonized. Ahem That was health insurance. Different beast. Not excusing pharma, but that bit of extreme casting doesn’t really belong in
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by ChrisMarshallNY 8d ago
I have been informed that a common HN practice, is to have your sense of humor extracted, when getting your first colonoscopy.
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by ChrisMarshallNY 8d ago
> We especially want to thank our parent company Paramount -- a Skydance Capitulation. Sick burn.
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by ChrisMarshallNY 8d ago
You'll notice that this was not a popular discussion. HN users don't like it when billionaires are dissed, as many want to achieve that, for themselves. Very much a reflection on the demographics of this site. Maybe not a bad thin
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by ChrisMarshallNY 8d ago
> Did you see how much hatred the business community directed at Lina Khan Lina Khan truly has the interests of consumers at heart. The hatred was not just right-wing. Many lefties hated her, too. The common thread seems to be billiona
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by ChrisMarshallNY 8d ago
A classic Yes, Prime Minister : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahgjEjJkZks
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by ChrisMarshallNY 10d ago
I find that hard to believe. My experience with Apple (as a developer), is that they are absolutely brutal about data collection, and being an Apple developer, means toeing a lot of lines, wrt privacy-related stuff. It seems that every ti
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by ChrisMarshallNY 11d ago
Eh. I've found a "happy medium." I generally restrict comments to headerdocs at the function and property level. I use descriptive names, and keep the functions relatively small and task-oriented, so they do a fairly decent j
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by ChrisMarshallNY 11d ago
One of my first jobs, was as a maintenance engineer, on a 100KLoC+ codebase of 1979s-era FORTRAN IV. No comments. No subroutines (what we now call “functions”). No variable name longer than 4 characters. Fun. The most effective debug tool,
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by ChrisMarshallNY 11d ago
It also makes you crazy. I have a friend that took it for years . It certainly made him buff, but it also made him divorced, friendless, addicted, and unhealthy.
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by ChrisMarshallNY 12d ago
Interesting. AI may be pretty good at managing the gazillion different things that make up circuit boards. Frankly, I am surprised that it isn't already a solved problem, as we've had silicon compilers, for many years, and I alway

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