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by jadenPete 4d ago
Why is it bad? Implicit integer conversions are generally bad because they can produce unexpected behavior at runtime and obstruct what’s really happening, but that doesn’t seem to be what’s happening here. Never is a standard type in many
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by jadenPete 3mo ago
> This is patently false. I think what they're trying to say is that housing being a good investment long-term is fundamentally incompatible with housing being affordable, and society should choose the latter. Within a given area,
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by jadenPete 3mo ago
Why does building a successful business necessitate generating economic externalities? Many do, and that should be prevented, but many also don’t. And to say that those externalities are responsible for a majority of the business’s growth i
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by jadenPete 6mo ago
I couldn’t disagree more. Most of my company’s backend code is written in Scala, and most of our engineers dislike it because the language is difficult to understand, has way too many features, and has many ways to solve the same problem. I
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by jadenPete 7mo ago
Apple’s hardware teams are seriously running laps around their software teams. Which is odd, because historically, it’s been the opposite. Until iPad OS actually becomes capable for complex work and multitasking, I can’t see what the benefi
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by jadenPete 7mo ago
I'm curious, how much does this weigh? I've ridden e-bikes a few times, and it's always surprising how much heavier they are than ordinary bikes. I can't imagine how heavy this must be.
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by jadenPete 7mo ago
It seems like this problem (differences in how humans and LLMs use probabilistic language) and hallucination are one in the same. LLMs don’t have access to information about how confident they are, so they always choose the most likely resp
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by jadenPete 7mo ago
The article cites Amazon prohibiting sellers from selling their products for less on other platforms as anticompetitive behavior. I don’t doubt that this is happening, nor that it’s anticompetitive. That being said, anyone who’s operated a
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by jadenPete 7mo ago
Then won’t foreign governments just ban freedom.gov? This problem has already been solved with networks like Tor and I2P. It seems like it would be more strategic to fund those projects instead.
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by jadenPete 7mo ago
I think what bugs me about EU legislation like this is how micro-targeted it is. Why apparel specifically? If waste and a disregard for the finite-ness of natural resources is the problem, why not impose a blanket, Pigovian-style tax on all
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by jadenPete 8mo ago
This question may be naive, but why is the agricultural industry so subsidized? I understand the moral argument, but why, economically, does subsidizing farms result in a more efficient allocation of resources? I've heard that it'
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by jadenPete 8mo ago
I’m also looking forward to gpui ( https://www.gpui.rs/ ) from the Zed folks.
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by jadenPete 8mo ago
Agreed. I don’t think easy package management is the problem, though. Rather, it’s just triggered a Cambrian explosion of packages, and now security needs to catch up.
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by jadenPete 8mo ago
I think the point about tooling being the problem deserves more emphasis. I'm a firm believer that the right thing to do should be the easiest thing to do. Currently, the easiest place to innovate is at the top of the stack, using web
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by jadenPete 9mo ago
Really interesting stuff. Am I correct in thinking that if productivity were to rapidly increase in the service sector (e.g. due to AI) the same way it did in the manufacturing sector in the 19th and 20th centuries, that the cost of service
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by jadenPete 10mo ago
I work one of these teams! At my company (~300 engineers), we have tech debt teams for both frontend and backend. I’m on the backend team. We do the work that’s too large in scope for other teams to handle, and clearly documenting and enfor
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by jadenPete 10mo ago
Happy Thanksgiving, HN!
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by jadenPete 11mo ago
This article seems sensationalized and lacking evidence. Layoffs alone (especially when so much of the industry did them) doesn't seem sufficient to explain today's outage, especially when we know so little of the technical detail
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by jadenPete 11mo ago
What benefit do skills over beyond writing good, human-centric documentation and either checking it into your codebase or making it accessible via an MCP server?
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by jadenPete 11mo ago
Rust's choice of constructs also makes writing safe and performant code easy. Many other compiled languages lack proper sum and product types, and traits (type classes) offer polymorphism without many of the pitfalls of inheritance, to
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by jadenPete 11mo ago
I’ve considered running an email server on my personal domain for some time, but the effort of changing my email hasn’t felt worth it to me, given how many services I’ve signed up for with my current email (a Gmail address). Is anyone aware
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by jadenPete 1y ago
I think when the answer becomes more important than the journey, AI tools become more valuable. Want to figure out why a bug is occurring? Tools like Claude Code can be great for this. Implementing a new API or feature? You’ll have to read
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by jadenPete 1y ago
I really, really want an ARM laptop with great Linux support. It's very difficult to justify buying an non-M series laptop today, when the M series laptops outperform x86 laptops in battery life by such a wide margin. I'm sure som
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by jadenPete 1y ago
Support for garbage collection is really nice to see. Previously, it’s been very difficult to do garbage collection in WASM because you don’t have direct access to the stack, so traditional approaches like stack scanning haven’t been feasib
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by jadenPete 1y ago
Git is great, but it doesn’t solve the problem of removing unused dotfiles. For that, I use a custom script that accepts a configuration file mapping each file/directory to a package on my system. Then, when I remove those packages, I’
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by jadenPete 1y ago
IntelliJ has always been extremely slow for me, even on my beefed up mobile workstation for work. It’s refreshing to see an editor that’s built with performance as a priority.
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by jadenPete 1y ago
It's amazing to me that, in the US, we're discussing deregulation and privatization of so many functional and working parts of the government apparatus (the United States Digital Service, public broadcasting, the post office, etc.
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by jadenPete 1y ago
This is an off-topic and low-quality comment, but the animated dots on the background of this website made me think I had dust on my device for a second.
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by jadenPete 1y ago
It’s always puzzled me that so many languages have their own build systems and package managers. Why aren’t programming language-agnostic build systems like Bazel and Buck more popular? It seems so strange that every new programming languag
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by jadenPete 2y ago
From reading the article, it sounds like the main driver for AI-generated laws is the demand for increasingly complex laws. Assuming that overly complex laws are bad, I wonder if this could be solved by a check on the length of bills. Perha

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