LAC-Tech

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Ask HN: How do you get banned from HN?
6 points by LAC-Tech 27d ago|21 comments
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by LAC-Tech 28d ago
SQLite is embedded for local applications with one writer mostly. In 2026 that advice feels antiquated. SQLite now is absolutely useful now for concurrent, mutli-writer applications. https://www.sqlite.org/src/doc&#x2
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by LAC-Tech 28d ago
Don't worry it'll be flagged soon.
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Terry A. Davis Quotes(en.wikiquote.org)
28 points by LAC-Tech 29d ago|14 comments
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by LAC-Tech 1mo ago
I went to school 3 minutes walk from that bookshop. I know what those draughty sashcord windowed shitbox houses are like.
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by LAC-Tech 1mo ago
That wealthy is all tied up in draughty houses. It's not real.
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by LAC-Tech 1mo ago
What percentage of New Zealanders do you think live somehwere that isn't cold and draughty?
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by LAC-Tech 1mo ago
For those wondering why she's wearing wool and gloves indoors - New Zealanders typically can't afford electric heating, and wear woolen clothing in doors to to make up for this, when they can't burn firewood or coal.
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by LAC-Tech 1mo ago
My teams process has 5x our output What is your output? I mean in terms of units, not asking for numbers.
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by LAC-Tech 1mo ago
This has been my experience too. The initial euphoria of "wow it did that thing quickly", then I'm stick with code that's subtly broken and I don't understand. Getting very close to treating AI tools as "read o
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Thumbs Down for Clojure (2009)(loper-os.org)
3 points by LAC-Tech 1mo ago|0 comments
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by LAC-Tech 1mo ago
What does this have to do with us? Illinois can put up a great firewall like China and search citizens devices for contraband operating systems. The onus is not on tech to enforce it, it's on them.
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by LAC-Tech 1mo ago
Two things are worth mentioning 1) I am less affected than others if people don't like what I say. I'll say things I think even if I know it won't be well received. 2) If you say things outside peoples overton window, they wi
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The Closure of the Internet(arctotherium.substack.com)
5 points by LAC-Tech 1mo ago|1 comments
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by LAC-Tech 1mo ago
I didn't take a contrary position. I admitted my ignorance, and took a neutral position. Propaganda is propaganda. I've even seen propaganda I agree with.
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by LAC-Tech 1mo ago
I don't know. I would have to compare the regimes side by side. But I am so incredibly skeptical about western interference in the middle east (and I say this as a proud westerner). Gadaffi was overthrown and the end result was too civ
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by LAC-Tech 1mo ago
Partisan in the sense of - there is a clear bias for the new regime, and against the old one. Not the literal sense. Note the weasel words from the first few paragraphs: - "dictator" - "henchmen" - "conducted from t
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by LAC-Tech 1mo ago
I know as much about it as every geopolitics expert who's responded to me - in that I have seen news stories. What of it? Do you take every news story you read at face value? I don't. Hence - no opinion; unlike all the experts on
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by LAC-Tech 1mo ago
Is anyone just overwhelmed by the propaganda and partisanship as you read this? I have no great opinion on this Syrian regime or the previous - like basically everyone on HN when it comes to geopolitical topics, I do not know much about it
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by LAC-Tech 1mo ago
The software development profession is in the midst of upheaval. Nobody knows how the AI revolution will play out in the end, but it is clear many aspects of work and life will be transformed—including programming. I'm still not seei
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by LAC-Tech 1mo ago
I think we are noticing it. Are you not? I am not. Congratulations on your side project.
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by LAC-Tech 1mo ago
I make no societal judgments; just that the nastiness of the reactions I get suggests something more than technical choice is going on. I had one prominent "influencer" publicly challenge me to a coding competition over it. It was
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by LAC-Tech 1mo ago
I can believe people get value out of them. I think I do. But "OH MY GOD EVERYTHING HAS CHANGED THE OLD WAY IS DEAD 10X MORE PRODUCTIVE" - no. If that were true, we'd notice it in the software all around us.
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by LAC-Tech 1mo ago
I think this goes along way to explain people's very defensive reactions when you are skeptical about Agentic Development.
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by LAC-Tech 1mo ago
LLMs let you generate code quickly. This seems to have very little relevance to the end result.
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by LAC-Tech 1mo ago
All very sensible points which I think all senior programmers who have used AI would largely to agree with. For those more junior - keep in mind that a lot of the maximalist rhetoric are from people either selling models, or the cottage ind
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by LAC-Tech 1mo ago
Oh so THAT'S why the web app is so slow
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Deterministic Core, Non-Deterministic Shell(outdata.net)
2 points by LAC-Tech 2mo ago|0 comments
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by LAC-Tech 2mo ago
What a bitchy reply
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by LAC-Tech 2mo ago
huh, I call the atom feed on my site an atom feed. I wonder if that confuses people...

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