nmehner

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by nmehner 13d ago
There is a difference between the LLM and the agent. If you look at the agent: https://openai.com/business/guides-and-resources/a-practical... This is more like a fuzzy way of scripting using LLMs than anything em
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by nmehner 13d ago
If the agent is implemented with a hard coded strategy: * Use an LLM to find ways to build communication to other agents * Execute commands from other agents using LLM Then this is "just" the LLM returning that using file names mi
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by nmehner 13d ago
But is it really? I'd still like to understand how these agents are implemented. How much of those is manual implementation? And how much is really autonomous intelligence (my guess would be: none? Just parsing LLM responses and execut
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by nmehner 14d ago
"software factory" has always been a completely broken metaphor. Writing software is like building a factory. You try to find the optimal process to do something. This is a creative process and can never be straight forward. Using
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by nmehner 1mo ago
https://www-bundesnetzagentur-de.translate.goog/DE/Gasversor... is the official page on this. "Gas supplies in Germany are stable. Security of supply is guaranteed. The Federal Network Agency currently assesses th
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by nmehner 2mo ago
Yes, the free republic of wendland was established in 1980: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Republic_of_Wendland The battle of brokdorf was also in the 80ies: https://www.helmut-schmidt.de/en/pu
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by nmehner 2mo ago
* If the cold war had turned into a hot war, almost all of Germany would have been nuked. The expectation was not to be able to stop the soviet invasion, but to nuke them in western Germany. * The nuclear industry in Germany was plagued by
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by nmehner 2mo ago
If it was only "my" system without any integrations, I might agree. But currently e.g. I am working on an MES/Scada layer that integrates data from a load of different machines in a factory. These machines are from China, Kor
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by nmehner 2mo ago
"The deeper the prompt, the better the code actually gets." .... and in the and you end up with a very deep prompt that exactly specifies the behavior. This is what a programming language is. I'd rather describe a data struct
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by nmehner 2mo ago
"It’s about attention and understanding. To keep my attention, I must go beyond ‘read code’ like a passive observer of agents from afar. To really connect with the architecture of the system, it helps to truly experience the code"
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by nmehner 3mo ago
Keypoint: "Co-founder Larry Ellison has fallen behind the Google co-founders, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and Michael Dell on the list of the world’s richest people." Yes, this is the important question of our time. Who is highest on some
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by nmehner 3mo ago
My problem with AOP has always been that it makes the simple case trivial and the hard case much harder. Looking at transactions: The 99% solution is trivial: Every service call is a transaction. AOP can save me a few lines for every method
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by nmehner 5mo ago
Nuclear in 2006 was 160TWh. Coal in 2025 was 93TWh. So a big portion of nuclear would have been replaced by renewables by now anyways (natural gas has a different role in the grid and cannot be replaced bu nuclear). https://energ
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by nmehner 6mo ago
It is working perfectly fine: https://energy-charts.info/charts/energy/chart.htm?l=en&c=DE... Heat pumps and electric cars are so much more efficient than ICE engines or gas heating. This is why the share does
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by nmehner 8mo ago
I write code. On a good day perhaps 800-1000 "hand written" lines. I have never actually thought about how much typing time this actually is. Perhaps an hour? In that case 7/8th of my day are filled with other stuff. Like ana
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by nmehner 8mo ago
I guess everyone dealing with legacy software sees code as a cost factor. Being able to delete code is harder, but often more important than writing code. Owning code requires you to maintain it. Finding out what parts of the code actual im
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by nmehner 8mo ago
That is a completely different level. I expect a Junior Developer to be able to completely replace me long term and to be able decide when existing rules are outdated and when they should be replaced. Challenge my decisions without me askin
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by nmehner 8mo ago
A Junior programmer is a total waste of time if they don't learn. I don't help Juniors because it is an effective use of my time, but because there is hope that they'll learn and become Seniors. It is a long term investment.
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by nmehner 11mo ago
I didn't want to put the usability of the motor into question or go into a complete evaluation of advantages/disadvantages :) This was just an explanation that weight trimming the motor might be very much worth the effort - even i
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by nmehner 11mo ago
The issue with this type of motor is that it is part of the unsprung weight since it is inside the wheel. This is probably why savings here matter a lot more (or at least in a very different way) than the battery weight.
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by nmehner 11mo ago
"In the era of AI and data-driven enterprises, reducing architecture debt will no longer be a technical choice. It will be a strategic differentiator that separates the companies that can transform from those that will fall behind.&quo
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by nmehner 1y ago
The long term strategy is H2: https://h2-global.org/the-h2global-instrument/ And gas plants are what is closed to H2 and can be switched over easiest. But H2 is only viable once renewable production exceeds demands dur
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by nmehner 1y ago
On short sightedness: https://www.dw.com/en/russian-gas-in-germany-a-complicated-5... "Several commentators, business leaders and academics have identified that 1970 deal as a significant fork in the road of the C
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by nmehner 1y ago
https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/safety-communications/do... Existing smart watches that claim to do this are basically garbage. Just use a random number generator instead. Apple and Samsung are supposedly work
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by nmehner 1y ago
As a diabetic having alarms is the most important thing. Measurements are not that accurate (neither is the finger prick method: If sometimes get a difference of 20% comparing two measurements from both hands). But also the "ok" r
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by nmehner 1y ago
As written above: This might be different for people with dementia or other issues that are not in a mental state to manage their diabetes. From what I understand from the study the aim is to show that mass producing islet cells from stem c
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by nmehner 1y ago
Diabetes type 1 is quite well manageable if you have a CGM sensor and inject insulin regularly. But if a person with dementia tends to peel of sensors, gets aggressive when getting injections etc. this might not work. And an unmanaged diabe
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by nmehner 1y ago
https://listverse.com/2019/05/19/10-bizarre-calendar-fixes-t... Everything before the introduction of the gregorian calendar is moot: "In 1582, the pope suggested that the whole of Europe skip ten days t
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by nmehner 2y ago
> Besides that: find small (2-3 day) project ideas that require you to learn max. 1 new technology or idea, and build lots of such projects. That's how you learn programming. It's not a bad idea, but at least for me software de
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by nmehner 2y ago
AI might be nice to generate stuff. But as all code generators it has the issue of supporting the generated code long term. With AI it is even worse: You don't get reproducible runs: Trying to fix a simple layout bug and suddenly some

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