IggleSniggle

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by IggleSniggle 2mo ago
Streaming HTML and Transfer-Encoding: chunked have existed since 1999 at least. I don't actually care about this argument one way or the other, but you can continue updating the site with HTML/CSS indefinitely, zero js required, s
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by IggleSniggle 2mo ago
Depends on the writer.
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by IggleSniggle 2mo ago
Speaking only for myself, I _love_ coding. But I haven't done refactoring by applying a needle (with a steady hand) to a roll of magnetic tape in _YEARS_ /snark. I love monkey-patching some python or js. But never have I ever sugg
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by IggleSniggle 3mo ago
I loved it. It was cathartic to read, too. It's really a rather short story. There's no accounting for taste.
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by IggleSniggle 3mo ago
Back in those times we made a distinction between nerds and geeks, with geeks really being a sort of subset of nerds that was just interested in the technicals.
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by IggleSniggle 3mo ago
Some artists use a brush, but others use a chisel. And then there's the bullshit artists. Just because we never had the option of a chisel before doesn't mean all chiselers are bullshit artists.
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by IggleSniggle 3mo ago
I apologize. I didn't mean to suggest it is a super power, and it has also been a struggle in my life. I find it useful to frame this way because the struggle is not only because of the way that I am, but also because of the way ever
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by IggleSniggle 3mo ago
For me, one of the big improvements is the ability to legitimately work via text message. That probably sounds dystopian in a bunch of ways to some people. But there are times that I want to work, but couldn't, previously. Now I can
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by IggleSniggle 3mo ago
I always thought of myself as merely ADD, but your comment is so incredibly relatable across all dimensions that I find myself wondering how far along the autism spectrum I am. Although, in my personal opinion, neither term is especially he
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by IggleSniggle 4mo ago
They are building them because they can ask an AI to spin it up. They could have asked it to spin up the public API just as easily. The MCP choice is a fashion choice vs an openapi spec with similar documentation (or any number of other hum
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by IggleSniggle 4mo ago
Right; isn't this already captured by an openapi spec with RBACs? Plus the benefit that your ai agent can keep using all the pre-AI tools that already interface with those specs. What is MCP bringing that an openapi spec doesn't?
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by IggleSniggle 5mo ago
Source?
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by IggleSniggle 5mo ago
Caveat emptor, I'm not a Haskeller, just an admirer. But Haskell let's you run functions over the type system itself very elegantly, so you can have a type that is derived from a type that composes three types that are derived fro
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by IggleSniggle 6mo ago
Great story thanks for sharing
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by IggleSniggle 7mo ago
Depends. Within the US, there are data export laws that could make the "whoever" part illegal. There are also conspiracy to commit a crime laws that could imply liability. There are also laws that could make performing/demon
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by IggleSniggle 8mo ago
What do you recommend if I've been regularly producing blog-length posts in Slack for years, no LLM present? It's where I write man...should I quit that out? I try to be information dense...
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by IggleSniggle 8mo ago
To me, you are describing a fluency problem. I don't know you or how fluent you are in code, but what you have described is the case where I have no problem with LLMs: translating from a native language to some other language. If you a
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by IggleSniggle 8mo ago
Totally agree on js, but it doesn't have the same easy same-language comparison that you get from compiled Lua vs LuaJIT. Although I suppose you could pre-compile JavaScript to a binary with eg QuickJS but I don't think this is as
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by IggleSniggle 8mo ago
I think it's worth remembering that this was a storage procedure that was also already abnormal/odd because of the specifics of the existing shielding. I think it's somewhat understandable for a technician to trust that the c
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by IggleSniggle 8mo ago
Compiled Lua vs LuaJIT is a major example imho, but maybe it's not especially pertinent given the looseness of the Lua language. I do think it demonstrates that the concept that it is possible to have a tighter type-system at runtime
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by IggleSniggle 8mo ago
I simply choose to believe that people do this out of a place of genuine curiosity / excitement to share knowledge. I believe this approach of assuming the best of intentions is even in the HN guidelines! Or maybe it was just the old R
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by IggleSniggle 9mo ago
In the broadest sense of the word, aliasing refers to a problem where an insufficient number of samples create a misrepresentation of an intended signal source. I was being a bit poetic, because in graphics programming, where the term &quot
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by IggleSniggle 9mo ago
But they said it sends them to Netfçix? That seems incorrect
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by IggleSniggle 9mo ago
Just because someone has different taste doesn't make it bad taste. Books have lower resolution still, and they evoke far greater imaginative leaps. For me, the magic lies in what is not shown; it helps aid the suspension of disbelief
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by IggleSniggle 9mo ago
That's good, because the "O" should never be dotted. You use slash OR dot for zero , unless you vaguely remember them both as useful for disambiguating but forgot that both marks are for zero and vary by typeface. Mostly dot
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by IggleSniggle 10mo ago
The Luddites weren't against automation, they were retaliating against the capital class. Their demands were to have dignified work, not for automation to go away. They attacked the machines because it was the tool the capital class us
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by IggleSniggle 10mo ago
Rivals of Aesther - like Super Smash Bros but with Steam Workshop support for player-made characters... TARS (interstellar) vs Ronald McDonald vs Obama anyone?? nidhogg - deserves to be in an arcade cabinet but honestly this one is ALWAYS a
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by IggleSniggle 10mo ago
This is why I've been all in on Steam for so long! The catalog is so huge, there's a massive number of fantastic couch multiplayer games. It is indeed a bit more fiddly... I've found that it's generally easier to connect
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by IggleSniggle 10mo ago
That's been me before. If you're wondering why people ghost at the technical when they seemed like great candidates: sometimes, at least, they like engineering because it's a discipline where they can get things "right&q
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by IggleSniggle 1y ago
It does if you do DNS over TLS or HTTPS, although I guess that information would still be knowable to your DNS provider if they terminate your TLS behind the scenes

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