brhsagain

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Show HN: Invoker, an IDE for orchestrating massively parallel agents(invoker.build)
1 points by brhsagain 4mo ago|0 comments
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by brhsagain 2y ago
I agree that the word “just” carries that connotation but I disagree that it’s a bad thing. When I ask if we can just do something my intent is exactly to communicate that I think the thing is simple, that the details are unimportant (to me
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by brhsagain 2y ago
I've never seen so many epicycles in my life...
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by brhsagain 2y ago
Back when I was building an IDE with a custom text editor, I initially used embedded Neovim thinking I would get the entire vim feature set out of the box for free. Unfortunately this became a never ending source of bugs. I think the fundam
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by brhsagain 2y ago
I've always heard "auth" to mean authentication and "perms" to mean authorization.
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by brhsagain 2y ago
I dunno. On the one hand I hate “web dev” more than anyone. I think it has led to such an astronomical decline in software quality that if you described it to someone from the days when computers were 1000x slower, they straight up wouldn’t
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by brhsagain 2y ago
Why are financial crimes morally exempt in a way that, say, violent crime is not, even if the aggregate damage from the financial crime is greater? Unless you’re arguing that this isn’t possible?
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by brhsagain 3y ago
What’s wrong with that argument? Doesn’t getting more money from the user mean that the user is choosing to pay more, which reveals their preference?
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by brhsagain 3y ago
Do the cops “breaking procedure” know for certain if the accused are guilty? How can they?
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by brhsagain 3y ago
Politicians know the electoral vote is what matters, so they adjust their campaign strategy to optimize for it. Theoretically, after everything washes, the electoral vote is what the people want, because it reflects which of the two candi
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by brhsagain 3y ago
Having an existing example showing that something difficult is possible causes everyone else to replicate it much faster, like how a bunch of people started running sub-4-minute miles after the first guy did it.
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by brhsagain 3y ago
Thought experiment: what if you copied and restored the backup into two bodies, and both bodies were a state continuation of the original? Would the two existences be simultaneously the smae person? I think it would make more sense to say t
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by brhsagain 3y ago
Someday we may be able revive the brain itself by connecting it to a body, in which case you would experience falling asleep and waking back up.
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by brhsagain 3y ago
The biggest difference I’ve seen in how people learn is whether they learn things top down or bottom up. I generally prefer to just have the main idea or concept explained directly to me so that’s how I try to teach people things as well. C
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by brhsagain 3y ago
> Splitting a system into subsystems allows each team to focus on their piece of the puzzle while minimizing the amount of peer-to-peer coordination. This does not happen at all. When you break a system into subsystems, all the previous
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If 50% of people choose blue pill, everyone lives, otherwise blue pills die(twitter.com)
4 points by brhsagain 3y ago|7 comments
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Show HN: CodePerfect, a fast, lightweight IDE for Go(codeperfect95.com)
48 points by brhsagain 3y ago|63 comments
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by brhsagain 3y ago
The flaw in this point is, there are really only a handful of measures that actually matter: writing performant code, shipping quickly, delivering business requirements (really this is an official sounding way of saying "doing the actu
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by brhsagain 3y ago
I don't think the structure of the "business requirements" argument is correct, and I will try to explain why. To a first approximation, the reason modern software is slow isn't due to failure to optimize this algorithm
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Performance excuses debunked(computerenhance.com)
141 points by brhsagain 3y ago|125 comments
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by brhsagain 3y ago
That feels like a bit of an edge case. I mean, I take your point that you can definitely have no social skills and run around interrupting people's conversations and going "hey, did you know that animals are tortured every day?&qu
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by brhsagain 3y ago
I don't think I disagree with point #1. What you're describing is just not stating the truth. I'm sure "you can't handle the truth" is wheeled out in all kinds of situations where the person saying it is the
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by brhsagain 3y ago
I laughed out loud when I read it too.
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by brhsagain 3y ago
I'd argue that telling someone the truth does absolve you of responsibility, because if the truth upsets someone, what they're actually upset about is the reality of the universe. Or if it's a truth about them, then the rea
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by brhsagain 3y ago
The obvious implication is that this conservative machismo culture is to some degree what women want. Presumably you disagree with that, so why not just tell us why?
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by brhsagain 3y ago
I wonder if this has to do with the Steve Jobs/Apple-ification of software, followed by a bastardization of those principles. It feels like during the "computers as the intersection of art and technology" era, it was understo
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by brhsagain 3y ago
That's fine, but we should compare apples with apples: actual-learning SAT prep with actual-learning extracurriculars, or cram-school SAT prep with cram-school extracurriculars. I agree with you that this sort of mission of self-actual
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by brhsagain 3y ago
The problem with this argument is that software is not just a little bit slow, it is insanely slow. Like if you break down what Teams actually does, and count how many CPU cycles that should take with some quick napkin math, Teams is slower
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by brhsagain 3y ago
Casey (author of tweet) currently has a great course out called the Performance-Aware Programming Series where he goes over the fundamentals and first principles of how computers execute programs, and what actually needs to happen for the c
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by brhsagain 3y ago
> As the rich can pay any amount for tutors and the kids don't need to work The rich can pay any amount for a professional to write their entire college essay, milking every diversity advantage they’ve got, send their kids to collec

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