henry_bone

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by henry_bone 1mo ago
It's simple enough: If you don't use it, you lose it. The more you have, the more there is to lose and the longer it may take. But skills and knowledge fade, just as easily as fitness, or a tan. It's an insidious rule too.
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by henry_bone 2mo ago
From that link:- "With that said, permacomputing is an anti-capitalist political project. It is driven by several strands of anarchism, decoloniality, intersectional feminism, post-marxism, degrowth, ecologism." They are post-mode
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by henry_bone 2mo ago
With the use of quotes there, you've put those words in my mouth. I didn't say that. What I am trying to express with the statement you refer to is that zig appeals to me on an aesthetic level. It suits my tastes. I mentioned lib
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by henry_bone 2mo ago
I'll bite. The first language I could "just write" in was C. I had internalised the language and its standard lib and didn't need the internet to work with it. Rust is pushed by many as the replacement to C, because of
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by henry_bone 3mo ago
Yeah, nah. Not so sure about that. I love zig, and I appreciate the rigour, care and thought that goes into the language and it's libs. What Andrew Kelley and the team are doing is excellent work, creating a useful, simple language wi
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by henry_bone 3mo ago
Yeah, I'm aware. MitchellH posts about it quite a bit, most recently about AI "psychosis". Also, much of ghostty was created without the use of AI, I think. More recently, they've been using it to find bugs, improve pe
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by henry_bone 4mo ago
Yeah, there was a good article on here the other day where the author suggested going slower with AI and using it to help produce higher quality output. I think the idea is to be quite "hands on", coding much in the old way, but
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by henry_bone 4mo ago
Yeah, maybe it's rose coloured glasses on my behalf. Those examples you mentioned, I would 100% agree with. It's some of the best software out there. And yeah, there's probably always been rubbish about. I guess I hope that
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by henry_bone 4mo ago
It's not particularly revelatory to point out that this project has been generated largely by LLM (claude most likely, given the CLAUDE.md in the repo). Also looks like a bit of introspection has happened ... https://github.
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by henry_bone 4mo ago
"I’m a huge fan of the author Jack Vance;" I've enjoyed his work too. Particularly the "Dying Earth" stories. I also read "Planet of Adventure". My goodness did that man have an enormous vocab. I needed a
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by henry_bone 4mo ago
That sounds expensive.
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by henry_bone 4mo ago
Hmm, Thanks HAL. :-)
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by henry_bone 4mo ago
Nice. HAL, from "A Space Odyssey", right? From this, can we infer you're not exactly "all in" on coding via LLM Walter? I, for one, am not. I've gone on the record with my thoughts in prior LLM related comment
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by henry_bone 4mo ago
Let me add to the chorus of admiration for this piece of writing. Poignant, accurate, appropriately cynical.
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by henry_bone 5mo ago
On the other hand, I have quite the visceral reaction to the name because of the influence Hegel had on Marx, and subsequent 20th century critical theorists.
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by henry_bone 6mo ago
100%. Seems there's a whole class of us. If I'd been old enough at the time to by an early VCR, I'd have chosen betamax.
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by henry_bone 6mo ago
The industry and the wider world are full steam ahead with AI, but the following takes (from the article) are the ones that resonate with me. I don't use AI directly in my work for reasons similar to those expressed here[1]. For the r
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by henry_bone 7mo ago
Oh, well good then.
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by henry_bone 7mo ago
"Thinking (as a SWE) is still very much the most important skill in SWE, and relying on AI has limitations." I'd go further and say the thinking is humanity's fur and claws and teeth. It's our strong muscles. It&#x
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by henry_bone 7mo ago
LLMs are not for me. My position is that the advantage we humans have over the rest of the natural world, is our minds. Our ability to think, create and express ideas is what separates us from the rest of the animal kingdom. Once we give
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by henry_bone 11mo ago
This is backwards. He's still 50 cent, but to have the buying power he had in '94, he'd need to $1.09. But he's still 50 cent, so really, in today's money he's more like 23 cent.
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by henry_bone 1y ago
The opening line:- "The traditional wisdom says resting meat keeps it juicy. But when we put that idea to the test, we found a different reason to rest—one that has nothing to do with juice." I don't rest meat to keep it juic
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by henry_bone 1y ago
I had this idea years ago when I was moving house and redirecting my post. I'm probably not alone in that. Kudos to Japan Post for implementing it.
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by henry_bone 2y ago
That's true of everything we use as money, including precious metals. You can't eat them, live in them, use them as weapons, walk down the street in them. They have value bacause we all agree that they do and we all agree to use t
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by henry_bone 2y ago
I wonder a lot about this argument of private health care vs state funded health care. I have libertarian leanings and so would prefer a truly free market, because I would like to believe it would lead to affordable levels of health care fo
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by henry_bone 2y ago
I wonder if it's correct right down to the errata. Was there undocumented instructions on the 6502? If so, I wonder if it supports those.
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by henry_bone 2y ago
My father has had both hips replaced in the fast few years. Both surgeries were very successful and he has retained full hip joint function. He no longer has pain in his hips. His surgeon used an approach that minimised damage to the muscle
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by henry_bone 3y ago
Malthusian nonsense. As societies develop and become richer, birth rates drop. Also, over time, our ability to produce more food has always risen to the challenge.
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by henry_bone 3y ago
"dbeel" sounds like the Russian word for (approx.) moron.
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by henry_bone 3y ago
"If a comment is made regarding the absolute necessity of religion as grounding for morals and virtue ..." I, for one, made no such comment. I've been attempting to express the moral argument for God. Religion doesn't fe

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