K0nserv

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by K0nserv 9d ago
Even outside of the current administration, isn't BLS data notorious for being adjusted after the fact, often downwards? Basing reporting on fresh BLS data seems ill-advised.
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by K0nserv 19d ago
I have a slightly different take on the loss of changelogs, although I agree with the version in this post. My gripe[0] is developers using GitHub’s “releases” feature in lieu of a CHANGELOG.md. This feels particularly pertinent in light of
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by K0nserv 20d ago
The critique is more that the average, or at least loud, C programmer is resistant to fixing these problems (for example via Rust) and often arrogantly claim it's just a skill issue.
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by K0nserv 20d ago
With the exception of the C++ case, these all seem to result in DDOS which, while bad, are barely security issues. It speaks to the difference between C and these other languages (Go, Python, Rust).
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by K0nserv 1mo ago
It's because everything Republicans say is projection. They want to cheat, so accuse the Democrats of doing it first. In actuality it's the current admin that's laying gound-work for election fraud in November.
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by K0nserv 1mo ago
Looks beautiful, congrats on the launch! I've been looking for a replacement for my Apple Magic keyboard. I would love to buy one, but ISO layout is a must for me, also would like blank or swappable keycaps.
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by K0nserv 1mo ago
I'm taking a slightly different approach. I've started a project where I intentionally don't use agentic coding. I use LLMs for researcher and to learn, but write all the code by hand. The goal is to maintain the taste, for l
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by K0nserv 2mo ago
Who is in charge of certifying implementers? What happens when I provide an implementation and don't verify anything at all?
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by K0nserv 2mo ago
How does this work if you use Linux or Graphene OS?
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by K0nserv 2mo ago
I don't want the market solving this. If we are going to do age checks it should be based on public key cryptography, be open source, and handled by the government. You verify with the government (or don't since they already know
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by K0nserv 2mo ago
Do all the writing yourself, use LLMs for research and as an editor only. When using an LLM as an editor never copy its verbatim suggestion into your prose.
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by K0nserv 2mo ago
> One sufficient policy would be to price everything in money + co2 equivalent currency. Every person in a country gets a certain co2 currency budget per year. Pretty simple actually (yeah yeah, the small print will still be long but the
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by K0nserv 2mo ago
Even if you are correct, in practice there's no way to put this particularly genie back in the bottle. It's the same as trying to argue that we should solve our energy problems by asking people to consume less energy. Outside of s
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by K0nserv 2mo ago
Yeah fair, having experienced Japanese trains I fully agree about the comfort. I'm not arguing that we shouldn't build high speed rail and try to shift more travel to trains instead of aviation either to be clear. I love trains an
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by K0nserv 2mo ago
I was saying a bit of both. megablast is correct that there are alternatives, but I'd maybe quibble with "viable". For example you can get from Stockholm to Umeå with a 1 hour flight or a 6-8 hour train journey, is the train
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by K0nserv 2mo ago
Flying is a bit unique in that there aren't really viable alternatives. It also accounts for a fairly small portion of emissions. Land transport (cars and trucks), power generation, and heating are where the big wins exist with viable
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by K0nserv 2mo ago
7+ years ago GPT2 couldn’t be released because it was deemed too dangerous[0]. It was, of course, eventually released. 0: https://openai.com/index/better-language-models/
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by K0nserv 2mo ago
I don't usually check in compiled artifacts myself.
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by K0nserv 2mo ago
I feel it's a faux pas to pass off work entirely or partially done with AI as your own. I make sure I leave those lines in specifically for that reason.
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by K0nserv 2mo ago
I'm not saying "never use C". The thing I dislike is the false dichotomy between "(Zig|C|Go) is simple unlike Rust, which is complex". A statement like that makes it sound like writing correct code in the former is
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by K0nserv 2mo ago
Of course Rust has a few footguns too, that's not my point.
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by K0nserv 2mo ago
> There is no sense pretending anymore that languages with as many gotchas as C and Zig are "simple". Quite simply, they are not. The complexities lie in what's left unspoken, unaddressed, and of course undefined; failure
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by K0nserv 2mo ago
The Dunning-Kruger thing wasn’t meant to disparage the developer and certainly not to call them stupid. It’s simply a reflection on not knowing what you don’t know and thinking you know more than you do. Everyone goes through that.
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by K0nserv 2mo ago
It's not uncommon it's used in France, which has a population of 66M (also Belgium). This is just a classic case of a developer situated firmly at the first peak of the Dunning Kruger graph.
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by K0nserv 3mo ago
> with rust you have 2x more ways to shoot yourself in the foot. The checking isn't how you shoot yourself in the foot, it's the absence of checking. Rust doesn't allow you to forget to check. This entire class of problems
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by K0nserv 3mo ago
You sound like people who claim AI is freeing because it has removed the gatekeeping of programming when programming was never gatekept, all you needed to do was dedicate time to learn. Your premise doesn't even make that much sense gi
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by K0nserv 3mo ago
That makes sense, but I would love to see the data on it. I don't doubt at all that capitalism in isolation is viewed more favourably in the US, but that doesn't preclude the intersection of AI and capitalism being viewed less fav
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by K0nserv 3mo ago
I don't doubt that's true for everyone who reads HN, but having seen the other side there are loads of people who don't make the effort and could've found their own answer in the knowledge base. I find LLM customer servi
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by K0nserv 3mo ago
Agree. I actually think we'll see a resurgence in art and graphic design as a consequence. At least for now people can spot AI generated artifacts and many immediately have a negative reaction to it. I don't read blog posts that f
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by K0nserv 3mo ago
I don't like AI customer service either, but having seen the other side it cuts down huge amounts of inbound queries (where the answer can usually be found in knowledge bases) and provides an answer faster than a human would. As long a

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