CopyOnWrite

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by CopyOnWrite 28d ago
Nice article. I miss one of the most important points for me: C is a very easy to learn programming language (I explicitly do not claim that it is easy to write correct/bug free programs in C) and for me even more important: The mental
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by CopyOnWrite 1mo ago
By now I stopped counting the attempts to replace SQL. There is a lot of valid critic for SQL and I would be very happy if some things would have been designed different. OTOH the architecture and mathematics behind relational databases are
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by CopyOnWrite 1mo ago
I disagree. LLMs fail to produce bug free concurrent code even for very simple cases. Golang lacks the ability to build descent abstractions, not even mentioning the wild west of additional tools and libraries needed for non trivial micro s
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by CopyOnWrite 3mo ago
Thanks, we (Linux/BSD) users cannot bring up this topic often enough. I totally understand, that it cannot work unless money is there, which simply is not, in the Linux desktop world. Compatibility is expensive, hard work and not much
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by CopyOnWrite 3mo ago
Amen. It is so frustrating... in tech circles, it is widely known/understood for at least 2 decades, that an open file/data format is much more important than open source software. Just make ODF the mandatory file format and be do
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by CopyOnWrite 5mo ago
Thank you very much, and I also agree with your points: Electron Apps simply never feel right, even if I work within them all day (VS Code for example). I also agree, wxWidgets is quite great, although I have to also agree with the comment
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by CopyOnWrite 5mo ago
Nicely written and I totally agree with you. I like, that you also added backwards compatibility and ABI stability, two very important and valid points. There is to this day the joke, that the best way to write a binary GUI app for Linux is
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by CopyOnWrite 5mo ago
For the record: I have a terminal open at all times, my life is automated trough Bash scripts and I am a VIM / TMUX user. With that background, most TUIs are really two steps back compared to a decent GUI. (Wild west navigation/ho
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by CopyOnWrite 9mo ago
What really annoys me about Python, is that a lot of problems that the language/infrastructure/community has can easily be tracked back to well understood problems that have been solved for decades in other communities. Some of th
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by CopyOnWrite 1y ago
Does anyone know, how this compares to [autojump]( https://github.com/wting/autojump )? Could not imagine using regular cd for navigating file systems anymore.
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by CopyOnWrite 1y ago
Programmed over the years in almost all mainstream programming languages at one time or another. Saying this, Java was and is in many ways one of the best ecosystems to write software out there, if not the best (when it comes to server side
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by CopyOnWrite 1y ago
IMHO there are a lot of problems with the advice from Eskil. His ideas about abstraction of the platform made a lot of sense in the past decades, but IMHO are not that applicable nowadays: It is well understood to separate domain logic from
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by CopyOnWrite 1y ago
It is an Apple problem. Virtualization has been solved for good, even the cheapest consumer hardware has virtualization support since at least a decade by now and I sometimes run virtual machines on a 4GB netbook with an Atom processor jus
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by CopyOnWrite 1y ago
Running Trixie/Gnome on a machine with 4GB (3.6GB usable) w/o any trouble. Gnome runs better than ever, the problem is in my experience usually the web browser when it comes to RAM usage. Install ZRAM and the machine should be per
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by CopyOnWrite 1y ago
Tried to upgrade from Bookworm to Trixie for my desktops end of April. Only thing that was broken was the desktop background, everything else worked great w/o any issue and even solved some trouble I had to fix by hand for Bookworm (Wi
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by CopyOnWrite 1y ago
IMHO it is one of the big tragedies of modern IT history, that JavaScript and Python 'own' the market for scripting languages in the mainstream. From a pure technical perspective, I would guess JRuby or one of the JavaScript imple
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by CopyOnWrite 1y ago
I am happy to read your success story with LLM and thanks for sharing. Fully agreed, that LLMs/assisted coding is nice for these kind of contained tasks.
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Ask HN: Video showing LLM assitent coding on big code base
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by CopyOnWrite 1y ago
Fair enough. Still, I was out of luck for some fairly simple SQL statements, were the model knows 100% of the DDL statements.
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by CopyOnWrite 1y ago
Could you perhaps point me to a youtube video which demonstrates an experienced prompter sculpting code with Cursor/Clause Code? In my search I just found trivial examples. My critic so far: - Examples seem always to be creating a simp
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by CopyOnWrite 1y ago
Could you point me to a youtube video or a blog post which demonstrates how LLMs help writing code which outperforms a proficient human? My only conditions: - It must be demonstrated by adding a feature on a bigger code base (>= 20 LOC)
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by CopyOnWrite 1y ago
I have read somewhere, that LLMs are mostly helpful to junior developers. Is it possible the person claiming success with all these languages/tools/technologies is just on a junior level and is subjectively correct but has no poin
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by CopyOnWrite 1y ago
I do not rule out, that I am just very bad with prompting. It just surprises me, that you write you had massive successes with "java, js/TS, html css, go, rust, python, bitbucket pipelines/GitHub actions, cdk, docker compose,
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by CopyOnWrite 1y ago
Yes, I have the same feeling about the wall/hype cycle. Most of my time is understanding code and formulating a plan to change code w/o breaking anything... even if LLMs would generate 100% perfect code on the first try, it would
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by CopyOnWrite 1y ago
Most comments here surprise me: I am using Githubs Copilot / ChatGPT 4.0 at work with a code base which is mostly implements a basic CRUD service... and outside of small/trivial example (where the generated code is mostly okay), p