awesan

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by awesan 14d ago
If it happens all the time and it's positive, you shouldn't need a news story to confirm it. People should just be able to think of examples. Certainly I'm able to think of plenty of terrible results from private equity take-
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by awesan 18d ago
Omarchy is all in on AI, if you look at the recent commits and the dev workflows they have set up you can easily tell no human is looking at all the stuff they are merging. It's not the same thing as allowing some AI contributions unde
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by awesan 2mo ago
It's not strange to ban chess computers at a chess tournament, and it's equally not strange to ban AI code on a code hosting platform. The costs involved with hosting a bunch of vibe coded stuff that no one is really invested in o
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by awesan 2mo ago
Realistically much of the most reliable software in the world was written in C. Robustness is more so a function of coding style and engineering practice than it is of the programming language chosen. Of course you could argue that on avera
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by awesan 2mo ago
Zig (like C) is simply not a good language to use if you're going to do many small allocations with uncorrelated lifetimes. To write robust Zig (or C) code, you must manage lifetimes yourself, for example by grouping allocations on an
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by awesan 3mo ago
OK, but that doesn't mean the comment I replied to is any less BS. What I pointed out is that if there was such a deep preference for short grass, you'd expect this globally. And this is simply not the case, empirically.
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by awesan 3mo ago
this is obviously bs, the lawn thing is mostly a north-american obsession. most people here in europe like shade and thus higher vegetation in their gardens.
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by awesan 3mo ago
How is using arenas complex? If anything it should make things simpler to understand to people who are not used to manual memory management.
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by awesan 3mo ago
Zig is adding native vectors including operator support, there are some recent issues/prs about this topic. The general technique of SoA is pretty useful both in games and other applications, but of course I cannot speak to the specifi
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by awesan 3mo ago
If a business legitimately needs such information to operate, isn't it borderline impossible to 100% prevent it from leaking? If the data is there, it can be compromised either by technical means or non-technical means. The primary iss
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by awesan 4mo ago
I can say at least for me at a small-ish company (~40 FTE) there has been a surge in internal productivity tools. Nothing to improve the end user product directly but a lot of tools to make processes easier and less error prone. What would
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by awesan 4mo ago
What a strange thing to publish.. just don't use it if you don't like it? What is this even attempting to do?
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by awesan 5mo ago
The obvious reason is that most file formats used by writers, accountants, etc. are binary files which do not very much benefit from git.
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by awesan 6mo ago
Seems like you need an account just to try it.
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by awesan 6mo ago
In Zig, dividing by 0 does not panic unless you decide that it should or go out of your way to use unsafe primitives [1]. Same for trying to allocate more memory than is available. The general difference is as follows (IMO): Rust tries to p
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by awesan 6mo ago
IMO rust started at this from the wrong direction. Comparing to something like zig which just cannot panic unless the developer wrote the thing that does the panic, cannot allocate unless the developer wrote the allocation, etc. Rust instea
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by awesan 7mo ago
I am sorry about that. What I am saying is that it's hard to trust the content given the context. And more so these articles are extremely verbose with a lot of BS in them, so it makes getting to the "content" a lot more work
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by awesan 7mo ago
It's nice that people are taking this up, and one of the main benefits of open source in the first place. I have my doubts that this will succeed if it's just one guy, but maybe it takes on new life this way and I would never disc
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by awesan 7mo ago
In general if you have the (IMO sensible) approach of taking as few dependencies as possible and not treating them like a black box, then for any error you can simply look at the call stack and figure out the problem from reading the code d
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by awesan 7mo ago
I'm kind of on the same journey, a bit less far along. One thing I have observed is that I am constantly running out of tokens in claude. I guess this is not an issue for a wealthy person like Mitchell but it does significantly hamper
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by awesan 8mo ago
I have done the monte carlo thing in practice with a team and it works well under some conditions. The most important is that the team needs to actually use the task board (or whatever data source you use to get your inputs) to track their
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by awesan 8mo ago
I don't think things have changed that much in the time I've been doing it (roughly 20 years). Tools have evolved and new things were added but the core workflow of a developer has more or less stayed the same.
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by awesan 8mo ago
It does make sense to highlight, because this kind of statistic is a very strong indicator that the market is not competitive. This is not a normal kind of profit margin and basically everyone except for Apple would benefit from them loweri
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by awesan 8mo ago
If the AI generated most of the code based on these prompts, it's definitely valuable to review the prompts before even looking at the code. Especially in the case where contributions come from a wide range of devs at different experie
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by awesan 8mo ago
A lot of Dutch government and government adjacent services run on Microsoft Azure as well. Which is not the same level of concern, but it does mean the US government has access to that data.
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by awesan 8mo ago
I understand the goal of the spec. In my experience once some spec document gets adapted widely enough, there's a strong incentive to add new features to it, which renderers would then be compelled to implement. Before you know it, MD
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by awesan 8mo ago
It happened a bit differently; Atwood and friends simply came out with a standard document and called it "standard markdown", which Gruber then refused to endorse. Eventually after the series of blog posts and some back and forth
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by awesan 9mo ago
I feel like no one serious uses the uncle Bob style of programming anymore (where each line is extracted into its own method). This was a thing for a while but anyone who's tried to fix bugs in a codebase like that knows exactly what t
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by awesan 9mo ago
People have forgotten this, but he did the same with Windows Phone for a while at the very start of his time as CEO. His motto was "cloud first, mobile first" where cloud meant Azure and mobile meant Windows Phone. After some time
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by awesan 9mo ago
It definitely depends but it's useful for me. In general I find AI pretty useful when you can do a guided search in which you are personally able to discard bad paths quickly before they start polluting the context too much. I have pre

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