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by greggyb 21d ago
Protesilaos Stavros has a lot of good content on Emacs and does nice deep dives on configuring both built-in and package-provided features. https://protesilaos.com/ Also available in video form on YouTube. I think he's
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by greggyb 5mo ago
> I don’t see how it could be that bad (incorrect, specifically), considering bun is probably the most widely-used production use case of zig. That may be the case, but the bun project only needs zig to correctly compile bun. The zig pro
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by greggyb 6mo ago
Title is annoying and the article doesn't bear it out. This is not "reverse" game theory. It's just game theory and incentives: something you'd learn in any course of study of economics. But yes, if you change incen
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An investigation of the forces behind the age-verification bills(lwn.net)
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by greggyb 6mo ago
> ALL OF IT is meaningless. It's a pointless discussion. That is a nihilistic take. That it's pointless and everything about the domain (measurement of productivity) is meaningless. "Productivity" is no more made up o
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by greggyb 6mo ago
I've had a large project recently which has biased my view on unit testing from LLMs. It includes a lot of parsing and other workflows that require character-specific placement in strings for a lot of tests. Due to how tokenization wor
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by greggyb 6mo ago
Yes, but it comes up in conversations of LLMs a lot. Thus, the rant in question. I think we are in agreement, or at least we lack disagreement, because that is the only stance I endeavored to take in the post.
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by greggyb 6mo ago
Measuring productivity in software development is a hard problem, beyond the typical categorizations used in computer science. Unfortunately, I think my best answer is to go read the book I linked in the conclusion: https://link.
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by greggyb 6mo ago
The post is about using LOC as a metric when making any sort of point about AI. Nowhere do I suggest someone shouldn't use it, nor that they should expect negative results if they opt to.
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by greggyb 6mo ago
I'd recommend you read the book referenced in the conclusion: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4842-4221-6_... The full PDF is available for download. It's mostly a series of essays, so yo
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by greggyb 6mo ago
https://www.antifound.com/atom.xml
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by greggyb 6mo ago
As stated in the article, I have unlimited access to multiple frontier models and I use Claude Code, among other harnesses. The rest of your list is not directly addressed in the post, because it is irrelevant to the point being made, but I
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by greggyb 6mo ago
> The complaints about LLM's that lack any information about the domains being worked in, the means of integration (deep in your IDE vs cut and paste into vim) and what your asking it to do (in a very literal sense) are the critical
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by greggyb 6mo ago
I didn't set out to teach you anything, change your behavior, or give you practical takeaways, so it's a rant (: Emotions can be expressed with citations. I am fully on board with gen AI representing a paradigm shift in software d
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by greggyb 6mo ago
I actually consider that the claim is not that bold, and in fact has been common in our industry for most of the short time it has been around. I included a few articles and studies with time breakdowns of developer activity that I think he
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by greggyb 6mo ago
Unfortunately, this post was published at the puked out phase (; (author here)
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by greggyb 6mo ago
Hey, author here. Never thought I'd see my pokey little blog on HN and all that. Happy to discuss further.
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by greggyb 7mo ago
https://archive.md/N3BZV
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by greggyb 8mo ago
What nasty comments? There are three visible at the time i see your own comment, none nasty.
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by greggyb 8mo ago
I would imagine most large-scale data center construction projects will include electrical engineers to design the electrical subsystem. A rack's floor footprint is a few square feet. You can put several million dollars of hardware int
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by greggyb 8mo ago
Any wire---of any non superconducting material---will be hotter at higher current flows. You size the wire to the application.
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by greggyb 8mo ago
I've had the experience of getting to sit beside several categories of people across my career and watch them attempt to do something which is causing issues or errors. The pattern I have seen the most is what I can only describe as sp
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by greggyb 10mo ago
One avenue, couched in specifics of US law, but I presume the ideas have analogs in Germany's legal system: A battery occurs when a harmful physical contact occurs. Contact with a weapon is pretty much by definition battery. The use of
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by greggyb 10mo ago
I'd argue pipes are even more powerful with multi-core machines. You get parallelism for absolutely free. No thread pools to manage, no async, no channels, no new abstractions. Just the same pipe that works in the same way it did 50 ye
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by greggyb 1y ago
Yes, I agree with that preference. I don't love the verbiage of "structured" / "unstructured" in either usage (the article's or that which I shared).
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by greggyb 1y ago
Coming from a data engineering and business analytics background, the terms "structured" and "unstructured" seem to be swapped in meaning here. I'd expect to talk about anything in a DB as "structured data&quot
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by greggyb 1y ago
ML, the language heritage from which OCaml derives, was explicitly designed with interpreters and compilers in mind.
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by greggyb 1y ago
Coming from an educational background of imperial units, I sometimes catch flak from ... most of the world about this. I take joy in exuberantly pushing back on their insistence of clinging to such archaic time units as "minutes",
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by greggyb 1y ago
Perhaps you'd like to share a slightly more specific reference? After all, these books treat many topics. Without specific reference, one might uncharitably assume that you are attempting to simultaneously misdirect and appeal to autho
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by greggyb 1y ago
Yet "whomever" is also the object of the preposition, "to". Certainly, if we took the primary clause of the sentence and substite in any number of pronouns, you'd agree that the objective forms are correct: The book

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