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by NERD_ALERT 4mo ago
If you actually try and use frontier models with basic harnessing and skills setup, you can’t seriously make this claim. Agentic coding is getting extremely good when you take time to properly setup an environment for an agent to work in.
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by NERD_ALERT 5mo ago
I don’t disagree that social media has played a massive role in changing the world in a negative way. This is a very far reaching claim though and one that kinda misses the forest for the trees. The problem is that fundamentally capitalism
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by NERD_ALERT 5mo ago
I started college 10 years ago and all of my homework was computer based, including Calculus and Linear Algebra. Of course for those higher level math classes I had to use paper and pencil to get to the answer but absolutely everything was
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by NERD_ALERT 6mo ago
The name of the company is literally Meta. That’s why people call it that…
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by NERD_ALERT 6mo ago
It’s absolutely not a one time cost. Once you have it you need to hire people full time to maintain it and eventually upgrade it. Hardware fails constantly
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by NERD_ALERT 6mo ago
> I just don’t understand it Maintaining and updating your own hardware comes with so much operational overhead compared to magically spinning up and down resources as needed. I don’t think this really needs to be said.
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by NERD_ALERT 6mo ago
Peter Thiel owns a company called Palantir that designs its offices to look like Hobbiton. It might be less of a misinterpretation and more of an on the nose joke about being overtly evil.
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by NERD_ALERT 8mo ago
Why is Wayland a disaster? Most of the Linux community is strongly in favor of it.
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by NERD_ALERT 9mo ago
Hosting a developer environment remotely that you SSH into is very common. That’s how you would approach working with a monorepo that has any serious size to it.
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by NERD_ALERT 1y ago
You should use pyenv instead of relying on homebrew for your python version
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by NERD_ALERT 1y ago
What? Why would US taxes have anything to do with people in poorer countries?
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by NERD_ALERT 1y ago
Atlassian is well positioned to release a coding agent. If they leverage the integration with the rest of their cloud ecosystem it could turn out to be a very cohesive dev loop.
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by NERD_ALERT 1y ago
I felt this way with Github Copilot but I started using Cursor this week and it genuinely feels like a competent pair programmer.
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by NERD_ALERT 2y ago
What company is allowing employees to have so much data locally? Almost all work is stored in a cloud now. Documents, spreadsheets, design docs, code… If you really are constantly seeing this then that says a lot about the corporation using
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by NERD_ALERT 2y ago
Free will hasn’t been proven. It’s up in the air how much is predetermined, and how to even define “free” in the context of free will. Even if we do have free will it’s still influenced to some degree by our biology.
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by NERD_ALERT 3y ago
The Model 3 is not even close to the “best selling vehicle of all time” by any metric.
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by NERD_ALERT 3y ago
Which left wing governments has the US defended against right wing coups?
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by NERD_ALERT 3y ago
The US/CIA has a long history of inciting coups, rigging elections, and funding far right terror organizations across Latin America for matters similar or lesser than this [1]. I wouldn’t be so quick to dismiss this as unprovoked inter
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by NERD_ALERT 3y ago
The 2019 Bolivian political crisis [1] came right off the heels of Evo Morales negotiating lithium trade with Russia and China. Bolivia happens to have the largest lithium reserves of any nation. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org&#x
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by NERD_ALERT 3y ago
I’ve been a daily lazygit user for years and tried this out a few months ago. Seems like a case of rewriting a near perfect tool in Rust just for the sake of doing it. From what I remember this project didn’t have any features that aren’t p
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by NERD_ALERT 3y ago
Everyone in this comment section seems to forget that we are an extremely small minority of the entire population of people who use web browsers. A vast majority of people don't think about their web browser and simply use whatever the
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by NERD_ALERT 3y ago
I don’t see how this is relevant. The PC gaming market was niche and immature at this point in time and developers were trying to gain traction. Today the market is massive and virtually all of the users and money is in the PC platform. The
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by NERD_ALERT 3y ago
What does that mean?
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by NERD_ALERT 3y ago
ZSH is basically the same thing. For all intents and purposes it is basically the same thing. The best attempt I’ve seen to truly make a better shell is Nushell. https://www.nushell.sh/
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by NERD_ALERT 3y ago
It appears that way when the richest people in the country are able to avoid them and bribe politicians to use the working class tax dollars to bail them out every time their risky behavior causes problems. When it’s actually used to proper
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by NERD_ALERT 3y ago
I agree, but also I think it’s fair to say many FE jobs today are basically React dev jobs. I was really excited about Elm, but it seems like that’s not gonna take off.
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by NERD_ALERT 3y ago
React is an industry standard tool. If you want to have relevant frontend skills you should know React.
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by NERD_ALERT 3y ago
Yes because blaming mass shootings on marijuana is of course absurd. Why don’t any other countries with the access to the same marijuana have mass shootings?
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by NERD_ALERT 3y ago
In most cases I believe states are threatened with penalties or withdrawal of federal funding when they try and disobey federal law. Even with other drug laws like alcohol, states have been threatened with losing funding for roads if they w
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by NERD_ALERT 3y ago
Vimscript is a pain but these days you can use Neovim which supports Lua as a replacement. I’d recommend checking out what Neovim has to offer. ThePrimeagen has a great video on setting up Neovim as an IDE from scratch. https://m

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