freddref

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by freddref 1mo ago
You have to ruthlessly prune the feed to get something worth reading.
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by freddref 7mo ago
What are these bottlenecks specifically that you feel are essential? Am trying to compare this to reports that people are not reviewing code any more.
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by freddref 8mo ago
https://batsign.me The world's simplest personal Email notification API.
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by freddref 9mo ago
Definitely feels like a good amount of dev work is writing the same things over and over, in a different language, codebase or context. And it seems like llms are particularly good at translating, specializing and contextualizing across exi
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by freddref 9mo ago
It might be financial beneficial once as an up-front payment, but long term, as others have mentioned, really not good for the project to remove the only feature that gives firefox a defensible way to fill it's niche in the market.
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by freddref 2y ago
How is Devin different from cursor? I recently used cursor and it has felt very capable in implementing tasks across files. I get that cursor is an IDE but it's ai functionality feels very agentic.. where do you draw the line?
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by freddref 2y ago
Two lads set themselves up in the business of selling conkers one year. Any accidentally dropped conkers were stamped on by any and all in the vicinity. A conker that survived to the next year was considered "seasoned", although m
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by freddref 2y ago
Any stats available on accuracy?
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by freddref 2y ago
I'm curious here too, I only flipped through your channels for a minute, but found something interesting immediately. I go to youtube and seem to run out of quality quickly. I even went as far as crawling the HN frontpage for videos -
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by freddref 2y ago
Can you say more about flow? I'm curious about practical use cases, could you share some examples?
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by freddref 2y ago
I would guess there's a sizable chunk of people who but these coins are not investors as such. The long tail of people buy the long tail of coins. I bought coins when I first discovered them, driven by curiosity mostly.
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by freddref 2y ago
Humans probably have about the same error rate. It's easy to miss a comma or quote. These systems compete with humans, not with formatters.
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by freddref 2y ago
Agree on walkable, although I really like the idea of personal public transport that would be door-to-door and on-demand. I expect it would distribute cities more, and alleviate the hub-and-spoke model that public transport is sometimes bui
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by freddref 2y ago
My car is empty 99% of the time, it could be very highly utilised by the general public.
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by freddref 2y ago
How about self driving cars as public transport?
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by freddref 3y ago
youtube as curated by HN https://xiliary.com/bck/hn-tv.html
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by freddref 3y ago
This scenario emerges as often when starting from the toy as it does starting from the "correct" full implementation.
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by freddref 3y ago
yes hopefully, that's the best scenario.
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by freddref 3y ago
I am amazed at the number of engineers I've worked with who jump straight into the full implementation. I've done it myself on a few occasions thinking "how hard can this be". Building the "toy" first is great.
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by freddref 3y ago
"We're scratching an itch we had and offering it back to the community." Is there a git repo one can peruse?
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by freddref 3y ago
How do you maintain that as things grow?
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by freddref 3y ago
Light switches and steering wheels never work properly in my dreams. I have to concentrate really hard to get things to follow the rules. Then I wake up.
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by freddref 4y ago
What percentage of homeless have mental illness or drug abuse issues?
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by freddref 4y ago
That's quite a line-up they have! I have a Elephone S3 pro, two day battery is really great when traveling, no worries. I'll strongly consider an Ulephone next..
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by freddref 4y ago
Can you give us an example where a smaller company was successful in court against a much larger corp?
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by freddref 4y ago
Is your code easily deleted? That would be better than - is your code easily modified? Change is hard, starting again is more fun.
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by freddref 4y ago
Https://Batsign.me Quick and easy personal email notifications. I got tired of configuring email for simple things. I have one very intensive user. It's a side-side-project.
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by freddref 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoi_polloi Lot of great reading to do :)
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by freddref 4y ago
I've always been sheepish about this, but bash is my favorite programming environment! Not really because of any language features as such, more it's terseness and simplicity. Another big draw for me is bash's ubiquity. All
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by freddref 4y ago
I so wish I could "kill stupid things before they cause damage", "set direction" and have people follow, but it seems especially difficult for technical people. We spend all-day every-day talking to our subservient (a co

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