loktarogar

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by loktarogar 4mo ago
oh yeah - in this case the result is that the code was smaller and they were happy with that. correctness was not a criteria
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by loktarogar 4mo ago
If you replaced "AI" with "a developer" in this article, it might make more sense why it's being dunked on. It would be an article about someone telling someone to do something, and then when the work was done they
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by loktarogar 4mo ago
I mean. they're selling it to a competitor so it's not really an advantage
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by loktarogar 4mo ago
yes, but it's only advantage if one is compute-strained and the other isn't. if they both have lots then there's no advantage. if one doesn't fully utilise their compute then it's not an advantage either
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by loktarogar 4mo ago
Would you accuse someone of murder with 26% matching evidence?
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by loktarogar 6mo ago
The Director of Photography on the movie is also an Australian!
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by loktarogar 6mo ago
I'm building something that has to share a pool of phone numbers for SMS between many businesses with many clients and the architecture I had planned out looks a lot like this - client gets assigned a phone number from the pool for all
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by loktarogar 6mo ago
All the apps i've worked on lately in Rails use GoodJob, which is a Postgres NOTIFY/LISTEN based queue system.
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by loktarogar 7mo ago
Their offering was paid-for bundles of components and templates using tailwind, which they primarily drove traffic to via their documentation, which wasn't getting visited as much anymore because people just used AI.
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by loktarogar 7mo ago
Startups generally _don't_ end up with better outcomes. Large companies stay stable, startups are volatile and often end in failure. Stability means removal of volatility, which means to stay stable they end up becoming more generalise
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by loktarogar 7mo ago
I'm an software engineer with 17 years experience and I can't even get an interview at most places I put my resume in to.
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by loktarogar 8mo ago
> Turso Database is a project to build the next evolution of SQLite in Rust, with a strong open contribution focus and features like native async support, vector search, and more
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by loktarogar 9mo ago
Some things you don't know people need until you're directly affected. For me, it was an injury related light sensitivity that made me realise dark mode isn't just a frivolous addition for looks
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by loktarogar 9mo ago
It shows the guy going to the restaurant, the same guy that eventually shows up at my door. It shows it on the way to a couple of deliveries and takes as long as extra deliveries should roughly take. It shows the immediate previous delivery
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by loktarogar 9mo ago
When I choose priority delivery in Uber, I can see the driver go to the store, pick up my order and drive directly to my place. I also see the driver usually have 1-2 stops on the way if I don't select that. If there's enough gap
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by loktarogar 10mo ago
I agree! There's certainly a difference between making useful content for the love of it and making content because you think there's an opportunity to get something out of that (that could be money, but it could also just be appr
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by loktarogar 10mo ago
AI scrapes niche blogs, Google deranks or spam drowns them out. It's really not a good time to be starting niche blogs.
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by loktarogar 11mo ago
> Rocky's first release happened in 2021. It's presently on its 10th. I'm going by the text on the page and didn't dig any deeper. On that page it says it's unreleased. Looking at the other comments it's not
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by loktarogar 11mo ago
I'm not sure what the deal is here - from what i'm reading, it's an unreleased OS, not a web hosting system.
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by loktarogar 1y ago
Again, not all replacements need to replace 100% or even 10% of plastic use to be able to have an a positive impact. There's space for a short-life plastic just like there's (currently) reasons for long-life plastics
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by loktarogar 1y ago
Agree, but I don't see any mention of that in the article, so I don't have enough information to argue for that. I'm sure we can agree though that having 17-day decomposing plastics that don't contaminate with heat and w
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by loktarogar 1y ago
My point is it doesn't have to be a complete solution to replacing plastic to be able to have some benefits to replacing some plastics. You can have local manufacturing processes so that it doesn't have to get stuck in a truck in
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by loktarogar 1y ago
It doesn't _only_ solve long-term logistical problems. Plastics are used for things like takeout containers, drink cups and straws, amongst others - things that are only needed for a short time.
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by loktarogar 1y ago
As far as I can tell, this is running from their servers - which means yes, you need to be able to trust the person who ultimately controls this at a bare minimum. Some trust him, some don't - some have good reasons, some don't. I
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by loktarogar 1y ago
This is pretty similar to the contemplating rewriting an app. There's usually a lot of knowledge and nuance built into legacy software that was hard-won, edge cases that are dealt with. Rewriting the app may be a good idea, but you hav
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by loktarogar 1y ago
> I don't think it's at all surprising that the injection of identity politics into the software industry has had a negative effect on quality. That's a pretty broad claim. This conference could be in response to a percei
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by loktarogar 1y ago
It's been a good 16 years, though.
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by loktarogar 1y ago
So the issues are: * Your team were reluctant to use this AI tool, yet did so because you put effort into getting them to * Anthropic was preventing you from using/signing up(?) and they were using this prevention to manage their load,
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by loktarogar 1y ago
Pruning is exactly what you're looking for in a gardening SLM
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by loktarogar 1y ago
There's other tells, like this other top HN post right now tries to work around: https://wbenny.github.io/2025/06/29/i-made-my-vm-think-it-ha...

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