allknowingfrog

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by allknowingfrog 5d ago
Or maybe it reflects a genuine desire from some subset of regular HN readers? Is it spam when three different articles about the latest Anthropic model make the front page? Or the latest Apple product release?
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by allknowingfrog 6d ago
I was taught somewhere along the way that the term "Orient" for the East comes from the idea that maps were once oriented in that direction.
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by allknowingfrog 12d ago
That's fair. REST isn't much of a standard. MCP can be just as badly designed and documented as REST, but at least there's a standard for authenticating and listing the options. Reading through other top-level comments, this
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by allknowingfrog 12d ago
A layer than honestly doesn't do much, as I understand it. What does MCP as a protocol actually solve? Is it more than a bandwagon?
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by allknowingfrog 21d ago
You're making an argument about self-control in a conversation that is explicitly about factors other than self-control.
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by allknowingfrog 21d ago
If The Cuckoo's Egg is one of the best ones, I can skip the rest. It's a fun story, but not particularly well-told in my opinion. Cliff Stoll is a cool guy who does cool things. I guess I just don't appreciate him as an autho
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by allknowingfrog 1mo ago
Have the Rust and Zig communities been outright lying to me? I know very little about the details. I genuinely thought that the overhead of GC was a well-established tradeoff in language design.
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by allknowingfrog 1mo ago
The quoted text says "slower". It does not claim that GC makes those languages slow overall. Are you arguing that GC is not inherently slower than other memory management strategies (e.g. the Rust approach)? Or just that the cost
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by allknowingfrog 2mo ago
It's a long-standing tradition. Our forefathers famously said "NIMBY" to taxation without representation.
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by allknowingfrog 2mo ago
Is this something that the authors of SQLite actually claim? I don't think anyone else can decide what something is meant for.
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by allknowingfrog 2mo ago
Isn't Wright sort of famous for designing structures that leak when it rains? My understanding is that Falling Water House is a beautiful money pit.
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by allknowingfrog 2mo ago
There's a whole spectrum of employment between faceless corporations and personal side projects. AI will replace humans because giant business believe they can do the same work, not because they will actually be able to. The correctnes
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by allknowingfrog 2mo ago
This was a discussion about LLM usage patterns. I'm not opposed to lunch breaks. I'm opposed to being required to take the equivalent of 12 lunch breaks a day while I wait for slow responses.
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by allknowingfrog 2mo ago
This thread started with me saying "we clearly have different goals" and then being told that I just need to hold the screwdriver differently...
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by allknowingfrog 2mo ago
How do you maintain a flow state during a lunch break? I'm looping with Claude on a scale of minutes. While you're waiting, I'm iterating.
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by allknowingfrog 2mo ago
We clearly have different goals. I want an LLM to review my code, not the other way around.
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by allknowingfrog 2mo ago
Have you heard of TigerBeetle? Being smart enough doesn't seem to be the primary factor. It's about having a strategy and the discipline to follow it. No type system will ever free you from the burden of doing the actual engineeri
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by allknowingfrog 3mo ago
If you're confident that Linux machines aren't going anywhere, the pass utility is a nice option.
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by allknowingfrog 3mo ago
I really appreciate the "it's okay to be weird" sentiment. It has never been easier to try out a crazy idea. We may as well embrace it and try to learn something.
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by allknowingfrog 3mo ago
Sure, just like AI enthusiasts seem to be unfamiliar with the concept of local maxima...
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by allknowingfrog 3mo ago
I've hiked in the mountains and I've swam in the ocean, and I'm perfectly content to live amongst the hills and streams of the Midwest. I suppose it's relative. I live on the east end of the state, and I find the west en
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by allknowingfrog 3mo ago
If you're reviewing the code yourself, then I don't think this article is about you.
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by allknowingfrog 4mo ago
I feel like I'm missing something here. Was this supposed to be a game? I just kept clicking and reading and clicking and reading. I finally gave up. If the goal is to tell a non-interactive story, I'd rather just scroll...
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by allknowingfrog 4mo ago
It's awfully literary. It reads like James Joyce attempting to convey advice about effective leadership for technical teams. In my opinion, it's an obnoxious, pretentious approach to writing about practical subjects, but I may be
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by allknowingfrog 4mo ago
I think "because they are helpful" is OP's point of contention. Tobacco isn't helpful, but it's a product that people spend money on.
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by allknowingfrog 4mo ago
SO has always had a pretty strong stance against opinion-based questions, but this is maybe the niche they should be exploring now. Humans still have a lot to say about the "best" solution to a given problem. The whole idea of an
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by allknowingfrog 4mo ago
Claude is just a tool. My team members are each free to choose the text editor or IDE that they are happiest with. In the near future, I hope to be able to say the same for coding agents. I really like Claude, but I don't track Claude
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by allknowingfrog 4mo ago
Yeah, this was yesterday in the web version. I only did the one run, and only for a couple of levels, so I don't think I can give you any help reproducing it.
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by allknowingfrog 4mo ago
I did a quick run on the web version. I was able to sneak attack everything on the first two levels, which felt like a bug, but I'm honestly not sure. When I found a spear, I kind of expected to be able to throw it, but I didn't f
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by allknowingfrog 4mo ago
Because the goal isn't "keep this exact version of the app alive and running". The prototype is never the whole application. If your only metric is incidents, then yeah, don't ever touch the code again. You can get a few

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