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by doix 8d ago
> It’s all just physics and chemistry, and those are well understood. Not really. We cannot model physics and chemistry to a level which allows us to accurately predict a humans action (even a tiny time-step into the future) This is vast
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by doix 13d ago
There's definitely trade-offs. I actually prefer a proper SPA to pure HTML when on a slow connection and interacting with a site a lot. Especially when trying to buy something. I much prefer to have a longer initial load and then have
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by doix 16d ago
I use it for all my non-professional work and I find it works well enough for me. Mostly for things that I know are possible and have a vague idea of how I would do it, but it would take me longer. Some examples in no particular order: * Ma
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by doix 1mo ago
I hate that I have to change the way I write to avoid AI-isms. I loved using "load bearing" to describe weird code that you think you can delete but is actually holding everything together. Now people think I'm just parroting
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by doix 1mo ago
You are not wrong, Jenkins had many problems. But I would argue that the solutions were always grounded in the Linux userland. And I also agree that you could use GitHub actions in a similar way to how I talk about Jenkins. I also think you
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by doix 1mo ago
Yeah, the YAMLification of everything kinda killed my ability to understand "everything". Previously, if you knew the Linux userland well, I felt like you could figure anything out with enough digging. Take CI for example, it was
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by doix 1mo ago
Surely it ends with alternative clients? Seems much easier and more efficient. Facebook UI is crap anyway, just have something scrape the data and present it in a format that's not optimized for whatever KPI FB cares about and without
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by doix 1mo ago
> I was told I'm not supposed to read pull requests at my job anymore (we all do agentic coding now), I'm just supposed to click "approve" on PRs because for some stupid reason it still requires several humans to appr
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by doix 2mo ago
I guess it depends, but what are you doing with all your time if you aren't reviewing the code and trying to make it maintainable? The time I previously spent writing code is now spent reviewing code and giving feedback so that it gets
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by doix 2mo ago
Yeah, I was very skeptical and now I've drank the kool-aid. Got multiple parallel cloud agents with independent loops making PRs and me reviewing them. AI is also reviewing PRs and sometimes even catches useful things. LLMs in 2023, fr
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by doix 2mo ago
This matches what Gwern wrote years ago [0]. It does unequivocally make you stronger though. So if you're training anyway, may as well take it and hope it makes you smarter as well (just believing might be enough for that sweet placebo
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by doix 2mo ago
Today I learned about the Bortle scale. I was completely ignorant about it. > If you've never seen truly dark skies, do yourself a favour and go see what they look like during true night I think I went from only ever experiencing Bo
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by doix 2mo ago
> The worst part IMO for both is that they prioritize mobile apps over their PC software so if you want to edit on a computer like a normal reasonable person you lose features compared to idiotically doing things on a phone. This is my b
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by doix 2mo ago
This is the complete opposite of those discussions. It's taking a specific quantifiable thing and measuring it, with enough information for anyone to try and reproduce the results. It's the epitome of science, comparing it to a ge
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by doix 2mo ago
I mostly travel around Africa & Asia (east, south east, central). Yeah, I used esim.dog with the HK break out IP and it was fine. I guess my usage falls into two categories: 1. I have reliable wifi, and don't need to use mobile dat
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by doix 2mo ago
How do you judge "the best" network? It normally depends on if you're in the city, countryside, island etc. I travel fulltime and constantly buy new esims. Normally I just go on esimdb and buy the cheapest one. Then when I ge
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by doix 3mo ago
Yeah, I remember some ad by an LLM security company hitting HN a year or so with a "challenge" to do prompt injection. The final level was their product and it was impossible. But it was also impossible to get the LLm to do _anyth
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by doix 3mo ago
> Do you want to iterate using for loop or using .iter().step(2).map()? This isn't really a good example, assuming both can be used to represent the same thing. The problem with the wrong abstraction is when your abstraction doesn&#
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by doix 3mo ago
It's too hard to define what "works" even means in this case. Look at the example savings output. A lot of it is kubectl output. Your suggestion to using coding benchmarks doesn't really capture the whole picture. I have
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by doix 4mo ago
> In which country can you emigrate to and be allowed votes in government representation just because you pay taxes? There are a few, with varying degrees of residency time (and possibly other conditions) required. New Zealand requires b
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by doix 4mo ago
> Kids don't produce capital for the elites. Kids eventually grow up and "start producing capital". It's definitely beneficial for the "elite" in the long term for people to have kids.
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by doix 4mo ago
I had to deal with the Japanese for the first time last week. My girlfriends bag was stolen with her passport. It happened in a Round1 (near Umeda in Osaka), we knew exactly when since we sat down to play Mario Kart and after one race it wa
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by doix 4mo ago
> Scattering the implementation in various files all over the source tree does not help much building the mental model. Yeah, that happens where I work and I hate it. A combination of lint rules and AI reviewer prompts complain about lon
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by doix 5mo ago
What laptop has that much VRAM and RAM for $3500 with good/okay-ish Linux support? I was looking to upgrade my asus zephyrus g14 from 2021 and things were looking very expensive. Decided to just keep it chugging along for another year.
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by doix 5mo ago
Who decides what a "win" is in these cases? I get everything apart from that part. Because I would take that bet, but I'm worried what the definition of "Jesus christ" is.
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by doix 5mo ago
You're not wrong that it does that, but that's kinda what I'd expect. Maybe because I'm used to it, but if there's a potential turn it'll say "keep right" or "keep left". So it makes sense t
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by doix 5mo ago
I suspect the real issue is that they just change stuff "randomly" and the experience gets worse/better cheaper/more expensive. Since you have no way of knowing when they change stuff, you can't really know if they
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by doix 5mo ago
I bet if you could make it interesting, YouTube/TikTok/Instagram/Whatever could make it possible to get paid to dig holes in your backyard. You could argue that the value is in the entertaining filming/acting/story
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by doix 6mo ago
FWIW I have an Asus Zephyrus G14 and the dual graphics cards works pretty well in Linux in hybrid mode. It's pretty cool, certain things (games) run on the dedicated Nvidia GPU. Everything else runs on the built in AMD GPU. I'm gu
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by doix 6mo ago
Pretty much, the article assumes people didn't build the wrong thing before AI. Except that did happen all the time and it just happened slower, took longer to realize that it was the wrong thing and then building the right thing took

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