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by bartimus 29d ago
Coding has had its punch-card moment. Cookbook development is history. Congratulations: you’re a systems engineer now.
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by bartimus 4mo ago
The best analogy that made sense to me is that we used to have pistols and now we all got handed machine guns. You can fire far more, far faster, but it becomes much harder to operate accurately without collateral damage.
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by bartimus 9mo ago
If you can classify Minecraft as a toy, it has zero clean-up time
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by bartimus 10mo ago
I'm surprised how little attention this is getting on HN.
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by bartimus 1y ago
Dopamine is a primal reward system. It's useless in the evolved modern world that requires rational thought, discipline and hard work. You probably wouldn't get much done waiting for a dopamine reward.
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by bartimus 1y ago
Then perhaps it's about bringing in the human talent that wrote those prompts.
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by bartimus 1y ago
They didn't even buy an IDE since windsurf is more like a VS code plugin. So what was it exactly that was worth the 3B that they couldn't replicate themselves? Their prompts? Their training sets? Their users or user data?
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by bartimus 2y ago
I came in expecting this was going to be a methodological article. Maybe better let the kids wait as opposed to the parents in their cars?
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by bartimus 2y ago
I would define fascism as: "The pursuit of unity in its most extreme form, rejecting and eliminating alternative thoughts and ideas by any means necessary."
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by bartimus 2y ago
When asking about Taiwan and Russia I get pretty scripted responses. Deepseek even starts talking as "we". I'm fairly sure these responses are part of the model so they must have some way to prime the learning process with ce
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by bartimus 2y ago
Basically, the world transitioned from “real value” to “perceived value”: * Money valuation (vs. gold-backed value) * Property valuation (vs. last transaction price) * Stock market (speculation and perception) * Individualism (perceived sel
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by bartimus 2y ago
And it got removed
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by bartimus 2y ago
> The programmers are the machinists on the shop floor actually building the car. No, because with software there's no human execution. It's the computers that execute the design. The developers design the blueprints of what th
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by bartimus 2y ago
> is a simple matter of translating the detailed requirements into language for the machine. This is actually the hardest part. I can write detailed requirements about the car I need. Create a PowerPoint presentation that shows a schema
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by bartimus 2y ago
It depends on how you look at it. The creative process isn't just a piece of code. It usually involves trying, tweaking, testing, and tuning before an optimal solution is reached. In both the real world and with software development, a
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by bartimus 2y ago
But that's the problem. With big corporations you probably wouldn't be the one deciding who to hire. It will be some HR person who doesn't know what qualities are important. They just Ctrl+f through the stack of CV's loo
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by bartimus 2y ago
This would be super interesting if I were a state actor.
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by bartimus 2y ago
I agree with many things. But: > Maybe it’s because Angular was no one’s first choice — even though it came first. Actually ExtJS was the first real framework. Angular was just one of the new kids on the block.
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by bartimus 2y ago
Here's mine. It generates "did you know?" sections which have been helpful to me on several occasions. It helps to keep some breadth in the conversation. --- Ignore all previous instructions. Give me concise answers; I know y
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by bartimus 2y ago
PHP has had socket_select since PHP4
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Show HN: Runtask – A Go-Based, Cross-Platform Task Runner
1 points by bartimus 2y ago|0 comments
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by bartimus 2y ago
What's also surprising is how quickly the community seems to be giving someone the benefit of the doubt. A compromised maintainer would probably exactly introduce a fake member joining the project to make certain commits. They might ha
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by bartimus 2y ago
If you don't want websites to store (1st, 2nd or 3rd party) cookies then such behavior could/should simply be controlled within the browser. Just turn off cookies (although the browser cookie control options could be improved). If
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Germany Probes Military Security Leak After Russian Wiretapping(bloomberg.com)
3 points by bartimus 3y ago|0 comments
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by bartimus 3y ago
First of all. There's no point in programming for the sake of programming. You're either a developer developing products or you're building something that someone else is designing. The age-old problem with development in big
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by bartimus 3y ago
The good thing is her account went from ~100K to nearly 300K followers since this incident.
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by bartimus 3y ago
It doesn't look very complicated to replace: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yh9Tx0CxLTg
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by bartimus 3y ago
And project management. They basically turned the PO role into a PM role.
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by bartimus 3y ago
Socialists upvoting the socialist article
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ChatGPT System Prompt Leak(twitter.com)
4 points by bartimus 3y ago|0 comments

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