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by haspok 29d ago
Oh, but that's why you went to the computer lab of your uni - those machines were on a 10mbit LAN and had a decent connection to the internet! Although you still wouldn't download a CD, simply because... you wouldn't have bee
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by haspok 1mo ago
> We hope to have incredible results He hasn't learned the correct speak yet. He should instead say that he is _very confident_ that they will cure cancer until the end of the year. Really, guys, learn from Musk, he is the master of
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by haspok 1mo ago
Perhaps a better way to look at it would be to say that Visual Studio had a resource editor UI, basically a frontend to a resource file - that's it. In contrast, Delphi provided you all the UI code by default, so even if you did not wr
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by haspok 2mo ago
The early Soundblaster cards sucked. Even the SB16. The first real comparable product to the Amiga was the Gravis Ultrasound in 1992. Don't even mention SVGA, with it's pre-VESA non-standardised chaos, and abysmal high res perform
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by haspok 2mo ago
> It competes with fopen. No, it actually competes with Excel. At least in the finance world, there are still a million small processes driven by an Excel spreadsheet put together in an afternoon by an intern 20 years ago. If it is a rea
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by haspok 2mo ago
I drive a 2019 Passat, with lane assist, tempomat, road sign detection etc - it only beeps when there is no more washer fluid (but then it does beep every fcking 5 minutes - easily the most annoying feature of this car).
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by haspok 2mo ago
> The thing with GMaps is that everyone has traffic data, so nobody has an advantage. It's not necessarily about "advantage", especially on longer journeys. What if there is a crash on the Autobahn 1 hour in front of me? E
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by haspok 3mo ago
My employer just finalized a contract with Anthropic, for enterprise Claude Code use. Which means that unless there is a _major_ downgrade in service quality, we are now locked in for the next few years (but at least for a year, although ve
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by haspok 3mo ago
This is highly parasitic: someone does a Show HN about their hobby project, and then you come and snap on to it like a leech with your to-be-paid-for completely unrelated game demo. I find this kind of behaviour disgusting. Why don't y
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by haspok 3mo ago
In this sense, Java is already the next Cobol. I usually ask one or two questions about class loading in interviews (of senior Java devs), the younger ones are frequently stumbling upon these, and they don't even understand why I'
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by haspok 3mo ago
Certainly it might have been out of control of its original owner, perhaps due to a prompt injection attack. If I start a completely benign agent, but someone injects malicious instructions to it, would you still not say "the agent run
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by haspok 3mo ago
Windows 3.1 was probably the first mainstream version of Windows, with significantly less memory requirements (and it ran no problem on a 286 IIRC). Windows 3.11 came almost 1.5 years later (despite the minor version bump), and mostly added
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by haspok 3mo ago
Reviewing code in PRs is not a no-effort action. If there are 3 people working in the project, and thousands of people submitting bugfixes, then no matter how useful those bugfixes might be, the 3 people will be totally overwhelmed by the s
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by haspok 4mo ago
I used VS6 professionally and for private business around 2000-2004, and it was still going strong then. VC++ was great. One thing though that I still have nightmares about is Visual SourceSafe, Microsoft's idea of a source control sys
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by haspok 4mo ago
Yes, but if you compare the complexity of (Turbo) Pascal to the complexity of C++... language, environment, libraries and cross-compilation... (A nice thought-experiment is to ask if Quake could have been coded in TP at all - even if memory
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by haspok 4mo ago
I had such an interview once. The recruiting agent explained to me beforehand that this is kind of a "stress-technical" interview, supposed to test my real knowledge as I would have to answer the questions without thinking, almost
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by haspok 4mo ago
Why stop at writing code? We should all build our custom ASIC chips, or if you don't have a chip fab, at least do FPGA!
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by haspok 4mo ago
You can enforce classification and privacy labels (or something similar) in Excel and other document files, at least in a closed corporate environment. Azure also supports this. Also, everyone has Office installed (in a corporate environmen
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by haspok 5mo ago
My biggest gripe with Zed right now (it seems they had changed the default force-formatting of source code) is that it is non-extensible. I just wanted a custom action when I right click on a file (or multiple files) in the file tree - uh-o
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by haspok 5mo ago
Why are certain parts of the text highlighted in yellow? This is very distracting.
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by haspok 5mo ago
No plugins? Those are what give NP++ its real power and usability - for example I use the XML and JSON pretty print functionality daily (on Windows, on my work machine). Otherwise Kate or Gedit are just fine for Linux.
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by haspok 5mo ago
No dedicated Home/End/PgUp/PgDn/Ins/Del? Meh. No T-shape cursor keys?!? Lame. No love. No want. Go home. Thinkpad FTW. Sorry.
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by haspok 5mo ago
Having strong SETI@Home vibes from 25 years ago, except of course, this is not for the greater good of humanity, but a for-profit project. Problem is, from a technical point of view, what kind of made sense back then (most people running de
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by haspok 5mo ago
> I’m seriously considering a pivot to security Exactly my conclusion, unfortunately I'm too old to pivot now, but anyone in their junior-to-mid days as a software developer should consider this pivot. And this is only about generat
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by haspok 6mo ago
I tried reading Proust's In Search Of Lost Time some time ago, in which the first 10-20 pages are about a guy lying in his bed at night and observing his own thoughts (roughly). And I quickly realised how I was reading the words and ev
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by haspok 6mo ago
Let me highlight this part: > Everything was ruthlessly sacrificed to cut costs, including pilot safety. If we translate this analogy back to AI driven software development, what would be the equivalent of "pilot safety"?...
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by haspok 6mo ago
To me, the odd part is when you compare the performance of RPC vs inline code. You present it as if you found something new and foundational, only possible thanks to AI, when in fact, it has nothing to do with AI, and the results should be
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by haspok 6mo ago
Because only those two extremes exist: you either don't have a phone, or your are glued to it?
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by haspok 6mo ago
Is it not true that when entering the US you are required to show all your social media content on request, and if there is anything negative about the current administration, you can be denied entry (if you are lucky, and not detained for
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by haspok 6mo ago
Why do you even want music? There is a large group of people (maybe even the majority?) who, as soon as they get in a car, MUST immediately turn on the radio or some kind of extra noise source. Is this some kind of a Pavlovian reflex? I&#x2

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