hathawsh

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by hathawsh 6d ago
I try to remember to say something like this: "This is an interesting solution, but I'm not confident we have a shared understanding of the problem we're solving. I have a few guesses, but I don't want to bias the discus
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by hathawsh 29d ago
Thanks for the correction. In my own words, to commit to memory: once "the cat is out of the bag", the point is not that it's difficult to put the cat back in, the point is that we now know it's a cat and putting it back
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by hathawsh 29d ago
"The cat is out of the bag" doesn't mean the cat is gone, it means the cat has freedom. I read the GP as meaning "no single company can currently control the trajectory of AI." That's not unfortunate -- that&#x
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by hathawsh 1mo ago
Last time I joined a discussion about US health care on HN (years ago), the picture looked bleak: secret chargemasters in every hospital, no realistic way for patients to compare options because the options are too complicated, and lots of
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by hathawsh 2mo ago
That's fantastic. I have long, winding trails near me also and one of these days I also want to start prompting a coding agent on my bike with a headset. Do you recommend any particular type of headset? Edit: never mind, I see you alre
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by hathawsh 3mo ago
Yes, but null pointers are so pervasive in C code that we really can't afford to put assertions everywhere. It's often better to let the app crash on violations.
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by hathawsh 3mo ago
Iroh looks very interesting! How current is the PyPI package? https://pypi.org/project/iroh/
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by hathawsh 3mo ago
If I were doing a code review, I would probably accept the code either with or without the assertion. The context of curl_getenv() makes it clear that null is not acceptable. If the author of curl_getenv() had evidence that callers are freq
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by hathawsh 3mo ago
When I tell my coworkers to stop using AI to dress up their words, it's not because I care about human effort. The problem is that my coworkers often start with incorrect assumptions, and AI is good at amplifying bad assumptions and ma
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by hathawsh 3mo ago
Sorry to break it to you, but on that timeline, the good things got poisoned. IBM enhanced Lisp with Enterprise Ready features like Spreadsheet Macro Builder, Microsoft took over development of Smalltalk and morphed it into BASIC 2.0, and t
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by hathawsh 4mo ago
Your HN account is too new for me to be sure whether you're being sarcastic or not. Perhaps you know, or perhaps you don't, that all code is machine-translated, even assembly language. None of it is perfect, but it's not ga
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by hathawsh 4mo ago
These are also the markers of human journalists who write daily. Journalism is the reason AI acquired these habits. Gemini says this article is probably not generated by AI, particularly because it has original quotes. https://ge
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by hathawsh 4mo ago
I actually agree with this. Product designers and product managers are often essential and sometimes they do up to 99% of the work of figuring out how something should work. To accomplish that, they often do things well outside the role of
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by hathawsh 4mo ago
Isn't that interesting? The job of exploring a theory or model to such an extent that it can be expressed in computer code always seems to fall on the shoulders of a software developer. Other people can write specifications and require
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by hathawsh 4mo ago
Is that actually true, though? Even though it's not really my job, I find myself debugging certificates and keys at least once a month, and that's after automating as much as possible with certbot and cloud certificates. PKI alway
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by hathawsh 5mo ago
This is an amazing resource. It was difficult to appreciate what this resource was for until I tried to create my own boards based on an ESP32. It's not really difficult to build around ESP32, it's just that I don't know what
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by hathawsh 5mo ago
You hinted at an aspect I probably haven't considered enough: The code I'm working on already has many well-established, clean patterns and nearly all of Claude's work builds on those patterns. I would probably have a very di
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by hathawsh 5mo ago
I love the IDE skins analogy. Very true.
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by hathawsh 5mo ago
I'm on the $200/month max plan.
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by hathawsh 5mo ago
Sorry, no, and they're highly project specific anyway. I just started with the "/init" skill a few weeks ago and gradually improved it from there.
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by hathawsh 5mo ago
I'm either in a minority or a silent majority. Claude Code surpasses all my expectations. When it makes a mistake like over-editing, I explain the mistake, it fixes it, and I ask it to record what it learned in the relevant project-spe
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by hathawsh 6mo ago
I wonder what the PGP signing concept does to thwart people who want to profit and don't care about the public good. It seems like anyone who attends a signing party can sell their key to the highest bidder, leading to bots and spammer
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by hathawsh 6mo ago
Yep, we're on the same wavelength.
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by hathawsh 6mo ago
Also add a PR reviewer bot. Give it authority to reject the PR, but no authority to merge it. Let the AIs fight until the implementation AI and the reviewer AI come to an agreement. Also limit the number of rounds they're permitted to
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by hathawsh 6mo ago
I believe the GP post is saying that if we react to the new AI-enabled environment by arbitrarily strengthening IP controls for IP owners, the greatest benefactors will almost certainly be lawyer-laden corporations, not communities, artists
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by hathawsh 7mo ago
A lot of code is "useless" only in the sense that no one wants to buy it and it will never find its way into an end user product. On the other hand, that same code might have enormous value for education, research, planning, explo
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by hathawsh 7mo ago
While Rust is excellent, you must acknowledge that Rust has issues with compilation time. It also has a steep learning curve (especially around lifetimes.) It's much too early to say Rust is the "final" language, especially s
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by hathawsh 7mo ago
Several months ago, just for fun, I asked Claude (the web site, not Claude Code) to build a web page with a little animated cannon that shoots at the mouse cursor with a ballistic trajectory. It built the page in seconds, but the aim was in
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by hathawsh 7mo ago
That sounds like the recommended approach. However, there's one more thing I often do: whenever Claude Code and I complete a task that didn't go well at first, I ask CC what it learned, and then I tell it to write down what it lea
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by hathawsh 7mo ago
Good to know. Now I think I know why micropayments for news media never took off: because people who want to read news media probably don't want to waste mental cycles on keeping track of a micropayments account. They want a set-and-fo

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