dcuthbertson

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by dcuthbertson 21d ago
but every setup plays against every other one and earns an "honest" score. /scream
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by dcuthbertson 23d ago
I'm not convinced, yet, that eliminating LLM-generated comments is the right path for me. I do review everything written by an LLM and some comments are actually pretty good, but sometimes I'm just too tired to try to figure out h
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by dcuthbertson 2mo ago
I worked for a company that measures developer's output in number of commits, PRs created and approved, and Jira tickets per sprint. Management doesn't even insist on that the tickets have any kind of an effort estimate. It can be
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by dcuthbertson 3mo ago
> If a() calls b(), I wouldn't think the stack frame while running b is the ancestor of a. I think of b as the child/descendant of a because a creates the running instance of b, and that makes a the parent/ancestor of b.
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by dcuthbertson 3mo ago
> 2000 - 2999: 21st century You have the right idea, but you made the 21st century a millennium
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by dcuthbertson 3mo ago
I too have written C programs for decades. I encountered reference counting when I learned how to write Windows kernel drivers. It was very liberating to see that there were so fewer opportunities for memory leaks when reference counts were
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by dcuthbertson 4mo ago
TIL that statements of obvious exaggeration are called causal, hyperbolic statements. Who knew? All kidding aside, I've never heard them called causal hyperbolic before. It's a good term.
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by dcuthbertson 4mo ago
> Well, we know that it's impossible to remember everything. Yet it's possible to remember a lot. Those who pass "The Knowledge" test are truly inspirational. See this 60 Minutes report on London's Black Cab driv
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by dcuthbertson 5mo ago
I'm curious as to how low a temperature your heat pump will operate. I live in New England and replaced a whole-house air conditioner with a heat pump, but the heat pump works only to 35F. Much colder than that, and an auxiliary electr
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by dcuthbertson 6mo ago
Imagine your own, household matter/antimatter reaction chamber. I can hardly wait for antimatter to be transported through pipes underground along side water mains, natural gas pipes, and sewer connections.
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Rust Training(github.com)
1 points by dcuthbertson 6mo ago|0 comments
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by dcuthbertson 6mo ago
But doesn't No. 2 directly conflict with Pike's 5th rule? It seems to me these are all aphorisms that have to be taken with a grain of salt. > 2. Functions delay binding; data structures induce binding. Moral: Structure data la
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by dcuthbertson 7mo ago
There are few things so valuable as a good user who is willing to work with you. Many years ago I worked at a company that was going to shutdown a very buggy product. There was one user who relied on it heavily and convinced the CEO to make
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by dcuthbertson 8mo ago
https://douglascuthbertson.com/ - my personal blog
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by dcuthbertson 8mo ago
Now I want a package to add blood stains on my murder mystery screenplay.
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by dcuthbertson 9mo ago
Thank you. There are so many TLAs (Three Letter Acronyms) that they overlap significantly. Maybe the coffee hasn't kicked in yet, but I didn't know what CTA meant in this context. I thought it might be related to PSA (Public Servi
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by dcuthbertson 10mo ago
Could you print the designs to paper and make a repeatable flip-card stack? Oh no. How long before it becomes a PowerPoint presentation?!
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by dcuthbertson 1y ago
Remember, all things in moderation - especially moderation.
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by dcuthbertson 1y ago
This video is worth a look if you care about gaming on Linux. Steve and Wendell are really thinking through which distros to use for testing, what to test, and how to test before jumping into setting up test rigs. I hope GamersNexus gets to
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by dcuthbertson 1y ago
Oh, the missed opportunities, like a little "ribbing" for the versions :^) Version 1: Knit Version 2: Purl
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by dcuthbertson 1y ago
I'm not comparing anything to 1950s America. I am disagreeing with your assertion "His position seemed fairly reasonable ...". Kirk insinuated in the video that women in America would be happier if they had a belief in the di
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by dcuthbertson 1y ago
> His position seemed fairly reasonable that women were happier with the get married and have kids model then the focus on you career one. Broad statements like that are just plain wrong and aren't reasonable. Saying women were happ
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by dcuthbertson 1y ago
FYI: the first AI you link to, " z.ai's GLM 4.5", actually links to zai.net, which appears to be a news site, instead of "chat.z.ai", which is what I think you intended.
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by dcuthbertson 1y ago
On, off, and ooh shiny!
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by dcuthbertson 1y ago
I can't imagine wanting this. When I press ALT-Tab or SHIFT-ALT-Tab I can see most of the Windows I have open, and can get to the one I want quickly. The last thing I want is some algorithm showing me a next/previous window that m
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by dcuthbertson 1y ago
> "why would it make me feel better that my friend also had this bad thing happen to them?" Sometimes people feel alone in their failures. Knowing that something similar has happened to others can help the person feel less alon
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by dcuthbertson 1y ago
Thanks for saying it's a fair point, but it's more of an offhand joke about "an innocent machine". In reality, a machine, even an LLM, has no innocence. It's just a machine.
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by dcuthbertson 1y ago
The innocent machine can't do either. It's akin to having no mouth, but it must scream (apologies to Harlan Ellison)
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by dcuthbertson 2y ago
Sorry folks. After only a few minutes of using Nestfull, I don't think it is a good candidate. While the UI, with it's nested Kanban boards and lists, is interesting. I don't see any way to estimate the size/length of ta
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by dcuthbertson 2y ago
In another HN post[0], the top comment mentions Nestfull[1]. Is that a viable candidate to replace Pivotal Tracker? It provides a Kanban board with swimlanes, but the UI is unique AFAICT, because items in the swimlanes can be entire Kanban

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