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Building a Soviet Nail Factory: how KPIs killed efficiency (June 2026)(vincent.bernat.ch)
2 points by deterministic 3d ago|2 comments
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by deterministic 5d ago
Doesn’t GIMP have a hardware abstraction layer making this kind of port trivial? If not I recommend that the team looks at how games are made portable. Think about different versions of GTK as different hardware platforms and design the sof
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by deterministic 5d ago
I’ve been through some really bad stuff, and one thing I learned the hard way is this: don’t automatically trust your feelings or your thoughts. Your brain can come up with completely random, untrue conclusions and make them feel 100% true.
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by deterministic 5d ago
Where is the evidence for this? I use Claude every day at work but other than that my life hasn’t changed at all. Electricity, food production, security, human relations, the house I live in etc. hasn’t change.
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by deterministic 5d ago
So far LLM’s have been really bad at creating the most important things in life. Like food, shelter, security, electricity, water, medical breakthroughs, better politics, better connection etc. etc. etc. So AI’s will have some impact on t
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by deterministic 5d ago
Humans still compete playing chess, sprinting etc. even though machines are vastly superior to humans. Real artists can’t not do art. They do it for the pleasure of doing it. Not to compete with other humans or machines. And there will be a
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by deterministic 6d ago
> "go after profitable niches and avoid unwinnable fights" Straight out of "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu.
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by deterministic 7d ago
That's really interesting. Can you go deeper on how you achieved that? A loop comparing procedurally generated model with reference image?
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by deterministic 7d ago
> Too many people don't think for themselves enough in this post-GenAI world This is nothing new. IMHO, 90% of people are happy to outsource their thinking to some "authority", whether it’s a priest, politician, cult leade
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by deterministic 10d ago
> My answer is because forcing a type hierarchy I happily work in typed languages and nobody is forcing me to create any type hierarchies.
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by deterministic 10d ago
Merging data and behaviour into a single unit (the core idea behind OOP) is literally impossible to do in practice. Just imagine "sending a message to an int to send a copy of itself to a HTTP server" or "send a message to an
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by deterministic 10d ago
In my experience: The poorer the neighbourhood the worse the trash, graffiti, broken windows etc.
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by deterministic 10d ago
It's interesting how different your experience is from mine. I would love to find out why it works so well for me but not for you. I use Opus 5 every day, and it just works. It is very rare that I need to do any manual editing.
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by deterministic 10d ago
That is interesting. I use Opus 5 as my daily driver, and it pretty much just works. For example, a few weeks ago I asked it to analyse my code and find duplicated code that could be extracted into reusable libraries. It found several good
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by deterministic 10d ago
> Survival of fittest would be if opinions were allowed, and let the best one wi Not at all. By definition, the only thing a survivor needs to accomplish is to survive. And who decides which one is "the best"? You need someone
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by deterministic 12d ago
Lean is based on Type Theory not ZFC.
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by deterministic 12d ago
I judge articles by the value delivered. Not the writing style. And this article is very much high value compared with the a-simple-idea-explained-with-a-wall-of-text low value/noise most HN stuff has become.
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by deterministic 12d ago
What an excellent read. This is why I read HN. Thanks!
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by deterministic 12d ago
The moderator is basically the equivalent of the environmental evaluator in a genetic/survival of the fittest algorithm. So of course the moderator will shape the outcome. No surprise there.
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by deterministic 14d ago
Not my experience at all. Quite the opposite. At my workplace we use AI to improve code quality and software design every day, far more than we used to, because AI makes it fast and easy.
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by deterministic 14d ago
I’m not convinced code reviews add much value, unless most of your co-workers are less capable and you’re trying to improve overall quality. That said, I get a lot of value from talking to experienced developers before writing any code.
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Huawei Became China's Nvidia [video](youtube.com)
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by deterministic 16d ago
> I've also tried to understand the code that AI writes, but it's often insane and untangling it would slow me down I hear that a lot, but it is very different from my experience using Claude Code every day. The code it generat
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by deterministic 16d ago
> and so has the output quality Not my experience at all. The quality has gone up dramatically . Because we also use LLMs to make large scale refactorings that cleans up the code and use it to find lots of bugs that would otherwise ha
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by deterministic 16d ago
I would cry a lot. I love my Claude Code :) But other than that nothing really.
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by deterministic 16d ago
I can't remember what I wrote yesterday. So it forced me from an early age to not write spaghetti code. Which is a real advantage it turns out when working on large projects. And an even bigger advantage when using LLM's to code.
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by deterministic 16d ago
The platforms unfortunately have zero incentives to help you manage your addictions to the "wrong" things. Quite the opposite. The same way bakeries and cafes have zero incentives to not be your local sugar addiction dealer.
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by deterministic 19d ago
Marx was extremely simple minded when it came to human nature. That’s the problem with all utopian ideas and all idealistic philosophers and economists: the assumption is always that humans will behave in some idealised way. While in realit
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by deterministic 19d ago
Not at all. High level objectives from above are transformed and interpreted and subdivided by lower levels into actual planning and execution. Also, a corporation is infinitely more simple to manage than a whole country.
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by deterministic 28d ago
Non-paywall link?

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