hackrmn

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by hackrmn 3mo ago
These were my thoughts more or less, but how many Chens does the world's largest software company need to at least maintain the now "legacy" code before they find a way not to need them any longer. Maybe they're betting
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by hackrmn 3mo ago
> Writing few characters more has never been an issue, at best it's annoying. I don't think the implication is that writing is the issue. In my experience it's the _reading_ that is an issue. I don't mind writing verb
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by hackrmn 3mo ago
It's a great idea but I've lately adopted the habit of just looking at the code and noting SLOC count. I am bewildered how people today add code like there's no tomorrow, I suppose the advocates would quote "literate pro
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by hackrmn 3mo ago
The fact that Raymond Chen is debugging these kind of issues, tells me Microsoft is short on staff that has his particular set of skills, handing him the hairiest issues from the annals of Windows. The new hires are probably all about .NET
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by hackrmn 3mo ago
Verbiage? What about the _nounage_?
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by hackrmn 3mo ago
Damn, tough reading about the 1 week deadline for finding work, then getting one after telling them you're jailed and them taking the chance on you. I also found the article written so well (I suppose we don't encounter native Eng
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by hackrmn 3mo ago
As opposed to, I don't know, a _file system_?
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by hackrmn 3mo ago
But I didn't mention any law? My first sentence is written the way it is, for a reason?
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by hackrmn 3mo ago
If the kind of proxying isn't illegal, in my opinion it should be -- saying it's bordering on circumvention of fundamental assumptions about Internet routing and IP address leasing (and ownership), would be a sorry understatement
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by hackrmn 4mo ago
The point is that MCP solves a problem that doesn't _really_ exist. While consuming context, which is still at a premium. Claiming that services wouldn't be accessible to agents without MCP is at best misleading -- they certainly
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by hackrmn 4mo ago
I've been using the em-dash for years, having started doing so well before the dawn of LLMs -- needless to say the fact it is used as a telltale sign of LLM writing, doesn't gladden me one bit. Also because I value concise writing
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by hackrmn 5mo ago
I feel like your sentiment mirrors my thoughts exactly on this. Since this isn't the Reddit comment section (I hear people here prefer a bit more elaboration and argumentative nuance with their $BEVERAGE), I feel compelled to add some
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by hackrmn 5mo ago
> These machines are roughly the size of double-decker buses. To ship one requires 40 freight containers, three cargo planes, and 20 trucks. They are the world’s most complex objects. Each contains over one hundred thousand components, a
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by hackrmn 5mo ago
I mean to write "not a panacea", my bad. That it's not the universal cure people think it is. And people _do_ think that re-factoring will magically solve problems, while it doesn't do all that much in practice, less so
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by hackrmn 5mo ago
Assigning to `notSoOpaque` (or any other) property on an object in this case doesn't modify its behaviour, because the property isn't structurally part of the interface -- there's no code defined by the creator / owner o
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by hackrmn 5mo ago
Re-factoring code is a _panacea_ -- it's more likely factors that contributed to the code needing re-factoring in the first place, are very much in place still to contribute to the same condition repeating eventually, and another round
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by hackrmn 5mo ago
Here's an opaque type wrapping numbers, in JavaScript: class Age { #value; constructor(value) { if(typeof value != "number") throw new Error("Not a number"); this.#value
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by hackrmn 5mo ago
I completely forgot about closures. Frankly, they're still my go-to method for encapsulation, in part because the Java-isation of JavaScript done with the private class members and the onslaught of the "Alan Kay's ideas meet
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by hackrmn 5mo ago
Can't argue with that. But in defence of JavaScript -- since it enjoys routine bashing, not always undeserved -- it now has true runtime-enforced private members (the syntax is prefixing the name with `#`, strictly as part of an ES6 cl
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by hackrmn 5mo ago
* only if `x` is _an object_ (read: has methods) To preempt the obvious: yes, I know _everything_ (nearly) in JavaScript is an object, but a module exporting a `Function` can expect the caller to use the function, not enumerate it for metho
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by hackrmn 5mo ago
I find multiple "strange" flaws with the article, even for my appreciation of Ada _and_ the article as an essay: * The article claims only Ada has true separation of implementation vs specification (the interface), but as far as I
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by hackrmn 5mo ago
The article states, quoting: "JavaScript's module system — introduced in 2015, thirty-two years after Ada's — provides import and export but no mechanism for a type to have a specification whose representation is hidden from
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by hackrmn 5mo ago
Hey, $DEITY did its absolute best with the constraints and the requirements. But hey, can't please everyone apparently. Be happy you can relieve yourself well past the intended warranty period. The parts were designed to be easily _aft
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by hackrmn 5mo ago
First, taking the opportunity this discussion presents, I'd like to state for the record, AGAIN, that I have long appreciated the Win32 API and still do -- not because it's great in and out of itself necessarily, it certainly has
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by hackrmn 5mo ago
The ugly truth indeed. It sucks to die for the world you won't enjoy, but sometimes it's the only viable solution. Much of our progress has been to minimise casualties and human suffering in order to sustain the world most can agr
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by hackrmn 5mo ago
I don't want to stir up the hornet's nest here, but in my humble opinion the entire problem rests on the unabated and unchecked modern and "late-stage" capitalism model, championed by the U.S. and since exported to and s
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by hackrmn 5mo ago
I started using Git around 2008, if memory serves. I have made myself more than familiar with the data model and the "plumbing" layer as they call it, but it was only a year ago -- after more than two decades of using Git, in ret
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by hackrmn 5mo ago
more like old man shouts at someone else's computer
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by hackrmn 5mo ago
I am simply offended. By Meta's lack of sensibilities (or ability) towards use of images on the Web while touting their new flavour of artificial intelligence as a product.
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by hackrmn 5mo ago
Between the genuine weirdos, the autistic and/or the neuro-divergent, is there anyone left, really? Do the "normies" genuinely exist? Happy-go-lucky, knows a bit about everything but doesn't nerd out on anything, picks u

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