cryptica

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by cryptica 4mo ago
Agreed. People should just use JavaScript since it's the one with the largest training set.
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by cryptica 8mo ago
I started self-hosting after noticing that my AWS bill increased from like $300 per month to $600 per month within a couple of years. When looking at my bill, 3/4 of the cost was 'AWS Other'; mostly bandwidth. I couldn't
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by cryptica 8mo ago
That floor plan is typical Albert Heijn. I remember from my time living in The Hague. Grocery stores in most other countries are usually a lot less complex.
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by cryptica 8mo ago
Refactorings can be useful in certain cases if the core architecture of the system is sound, but for some very complex systems, the problems can run deeper and a refactoring can be a waste of time. Sometimes you're better off reworking
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by cryptica 8mo ago
> Agreed, it does not necessarily have to be open source. But my opinion is that if the taxpayer's money is used to pay for software, then that software should be open source. Yes. The government has more than enough leverage to dem
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by cryptica 8mo ago
I was kind of retired, earning passive crypto income for several years after 2019 throughout COVID. Best time of my life. I was living on a Mediterranean island, splitting my time between snorkeling and open source work. Then I got cheated
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by cryptica 8mo ago
But that trust is often backed by nothing. Especially if you don't own assets; then from that perspective money is really working against you and is backed by pure coercion... But coercion is not an asset and it doesn't have net p
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by cryptica 8mo ago
Yes LLMs aren't very good at architecture. I suspect because the average project online has pretty bad architecture. The training set is poisoned. It's kind of bittersweet for me because I was dreaming of becoming a software archi
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by cryptica 8mo ago
I think overall, the idea of money is messed up on many levels. What we call 'money' today doesn't even have an identity. It's the most important thing in the world, it's also the most heavily utilized thing in the
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by cryptica 9mo ago
I keep having to repeat this. The problem is systemic. The legal concepts of 'Corporate personhood' and 'Limited liability' don't make sense. Just think about what those terms mean. Of course you cannot expect accou
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by cryptica 9mo ago
It's scary because OpenAI could do this if they wanted. They could show people different things. They could learn about people and manipulate them individually.
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by cryptica 9mo ago
All of them. Nothing wrong with Postgres, I like Postgres. But the more alternatives the better. My favorite database is RethinkDB but officially, it's a dead project. Unofficially it's still pretty great.
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by cryptica 9mo ago
It's so weird how everyone nowadays is using Postgres. It's not like end users can see your database. It's disturbing how everyone is gravitating towards the same tools. This started happening since React and kept getting wor
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by cryptica 9mo ago
Outsourcing manufacturing was very short-sighted in light of the automation which was taking place and accelerating. No doubt this short-sightedness was the result of our debt-based monetary system. The disconnection of money from long term
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by cryptica 9mo ago
Still, the cost of production is not 0 and the problem space is huge with no silver bullets; especially once you factor in things like business, scalability, regulatory and efficiency requirements.
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by cryptica 9mo ago
Thanks for posting this. I struggle to understand this as well. Something else I struggle to understand is why some people/companies will build their entire business on top of software they don't own on top of third-party platform
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by cryptica 9mo ago
Yet my comment which you responded to, which was Gemini-generated, got more responses and engagement than my handwritten one! Yes, I actually did this as an experiment. From my perspective they are both different ways to communicate the sam
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by cryptica 9mo ago
You're projecting your own thinking style onto others; you're incorrectly assuming that because your thinking maps neatly onto language that everyone else works like that. No so. For example, I'm bilingual and I tend to think
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by cryptica 9mo ago
My previous setup with Kubuntu was quite developer friendly with workspaces but Omarchy takes it to the next level. I'm very happy with it. I actually like most of the default tools that come with it. For example,.I was using a lot of
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by cryptica 9mo ago
> The more I think about it, the happier I am that AI is transforming the world of writing. In a way, I think it’ll make it even easier to stand out I think this may be a form of denial. The reality is likely the opposite: AI will commod
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by cryptica 9mo ago
> The more I think about it, the happier I am that AI is transforming the world of writing. In a way, I think it’ll make it even easier to stand out I totally disagree with this point. It's a combination of wishful thinking and deni
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by cryptica 9mo ago
The last point is very astute. The software industry has always had more juniors than seniors so this issue of juniors calling the shots is not a new one but it does feel like it's been getting worse and worse... Now it's basicall
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by cryptica 9mo ago
I love the fact that there are different Linux distros optimized for every person. I started using Linux almost a decade ago; starting with Ubuntu, then I moved to Kubuntu and now I'm on Omarchy which is even more optimized for develop
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by cryptica 9mo ago
It reminds me of something funny my grandma told me. She told me that she saw an ad on Facebook to double her money and asked her daughter if it was a legitimate opportunity. Her daughter said to her "If you ever think about calling me
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by cryptica 9mo ago
Yes, agreed. producing reliable software is one of these things which sounds trivial but is actually extremely difficult. With my last side project, I became frustrated with my non-technical founder because he would have a lot of vague idea
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by cryptica 9mo ago
Agreed, software was always kind of mediocre. This is expected given the massive first mover advantage effect. Quality is irrelevant when speed to market is everything.
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by cryptica 9mo ago
Yes, software needs to be secure. If we accept the premise that software is going to be churned out in bulk, then the mechanisms for securing software must evolve rapidly... I don't see a world where there is custom software for everyt
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by cryptica 9mo ago
I agree with the sentiment but I find this definition of 'good code' is a bit superficial for my liking. Especially the part about TypeScript. My experience is that LLMs such as Claude Code work really well with vanilla JavaScript
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by cryptica 9mo ago
>> then our very real prosperity can vanish overnight. This sentence assumes a certain degree of shared prosperity. I think this is increasingly an illusion. IMO, Social media tends to create filter bubbles which create illusions of s
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by cryptica 9mo ago
Agreed. I feel vindicated by the fact that others are noticing this too. On ugly codebases, you have to wrestle with it to make it address the root cause and prevent it from hacking around every problem. It's like playing a horrible ga

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