Winsaucerer

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by Winsaucerer 7mo ago
This was a great read, thanks. Definitely provides evidence for my fears about vibe coded projects built by people who lack expertise to guide AI well. And if these are the issues you can see, it makes you wonder about what's hard to
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Show HN: Spawn – PostgreSQL migrate/test build system with minijinja (not vibed)(github.com)
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by Winsaucerer 8mo ago
Some database tests can't be done within transactions. With postgres, I create a copy of the database via WITH TEMPLATE, and each test runs in its own copy of the database. Then it can use or avoid transactions as it pleases, because
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by Winsaucerer 1y ago
That makes sense. The rest of us left ST a long while ago, and the rest remain because they're happy with it and have been for a long time.
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by Winsaucerer 1y ago
I heard they are targeting Andromeda with the next round of tariffs.
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by Winsaucerer 1y ago
I hate Imgur. Even with the app installed I find it doesn’t work well. I don’t understand why people use it — does it just work for them in a way it doesn’t for me, or are they more tolerant of its terrible usability?
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by Winsaucerer 1y ago
What sort of code are you writing? I find a lot of my stuff requires careful design, refactoring an existing system to work in a new way. If the code I was writing was, say, small websites all the time for different clients, I can see it b
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by Winsaucerer 1y ago
I'm one of those people who thinks simultaneously that (a) current AI cannot replace developers, it just isn't good enough (and I don't think it's good for it to write much code), and (b) AI is simply an incredible inven
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by Winsaucerer 1y ago
Presumably more questions can cover a wider variety of skills/techniques/topics. If the student doesn't know in advance which 10 will be selected, they either have to pray they're lucky, or work diligently on all proble
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by Winsaucerer 1y ago
I would love someone to do some research on attitudes towards how self-driving AI is, compared to factors like: - Type of dev work (infra, frontend, backend, etc) - Programming language - Level of experience - Quality expectations of projec
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by Winsaucerer 1y ago
The main problem I have with auto-suggestions is that they distract my flow of thinking. Suddenly, I go from thinking about my code carefully, to reviewing someone else's code. To the point where I get a bit stressed typing, worrying
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by Winsaucerer 1y ago
Is AI genuinely that good for you all? I can't leave it to its own devices, I have to review everything because (from experience) I don't trust it. I think it's an amazing technological advancement, perhaps will go down as
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by Winsaucerer 1y ago
I am also a fellow human.
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by Winsaucerer 1y ago
Without having RTFA, I'd guess/predict that it will be possible to learn to only do this intentionally, much like we can think about raising our arm without actually raising it.
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by Winsaucerer 1y ago
My own view is an idealist style one, where I think God impresses experiences upon us, and the experiences we have are determined by physical states. On this view, it's impossible to have a religious experience without there being app
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by Winsaucerer 1y ago
There's a difference between reviewing code by developers you trust, and reviewing code by developers you don't trust or AI you don't trust. Although tbh, even in the worse case I think I am still faster at reviewing than wri
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by Winsaucerer 1y ago
This kind of thing is my main use, boilerplate stuff And for scripts that I don't care about -- e.g., if I need a quick bash script to do a once off task. For harder problems, my experience is that it falls over, although I haven&#x27
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by Winsaucerer 1y ago
Some people really do act like that, in my limited experience. Trump's opinion changes and lo and behold their beliefs have updated to the same view as Trump's.
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by Winsaucerer 1y ago
I actually do think of him as a candidate for wealthiest person to have ever lived.
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by Winsaucerer 1y ago
That's definitely a reasonable way to think about it. Another though is in terms of social status and ability to direct human labor, in which case most people are not more wealthy.
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by Winsaucerer 1y ago
> we still have potholes to fix, t-shirts to fold and illnesses to cure Only one of these things interests me. The hype of AI is threatening to kill something I actually enjoy doing. If the hype actualises, I'll likely find myself
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by Winsaucerer 1y ago
The title.
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by Winsaucerer 1y ago
Interesting, I had a similar approach while studying philosophy. I much prefer to think and write than read, so I'd often think through a philosophical problem first, and then read others on the topic. I'd find that this order h
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by Winsaucerer 1y ago
We had an experience not as bad as that, but cancelling on us a week or two before we were due to fly (and had booked everything else). They wanted US to cancel, but I saw no advantage to us in doing so. I assume it was to maintain some r
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by Winsaucerer 1y ago
I've experimented (i.e., not used in anger) with doing something similar to this, except by placing the authorisation logic in the database via things like row level security and stored procedures. So if you run the query using the &#
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by Winsaucerer 1y ago
Sounds like the real challenge is experience/skill then? Easier to find people who know how to use AWS/Azure/GCP, than know either (a) your colo'ed setup, or (b) how to do a good appropriate modern colo setup. (this is
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by Winsaucerer 2y ago
There was a point where I started to dive more into specs, docs, and code, and less relying on finding the answer I'm after. But in defence of those spending hours on forums, sometimes a project is not well documented, and the code isn
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by Winsaucerer 2y ago
Timberborn also does this.
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by Winsaucerer 2y ago
I like how scriptable it is.
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by Winsaucerer 2y ago
This might be an ignorant question, but are these therapies likely to help chronic fatigue that predates Covid-19?

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