oldmanhorton

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by oldmanhorton 18d ago
The change with this justification absolutely exists and has existed for a long time, but this justification only works for small changes (in the past and still today). Don’t come to me with a huge refactor or new feature and this explanati
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by oldmanhorton 22d ago
Some of us don’t use an adblocker because we are aware that ads are how most websites get paid for on the internet. I pay for sites I care to support, but for something like LinkedIn, I’d rather have their monetization scheme push me away f
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by oldmanhorton 28d ago
I think this is a pretty unfair takeaway when AI generated text is often so wordy, flowery, and full of jargon and abstract nouns. People are never going to read East of Eden or academic dissertations as quickly as direct, simple language e
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by oldmanhorton 4mo ago
You’re not a novice, there are a lot of us who know exactly what we are doing and see this as a huge downside. We are just being told to go faster, faster, faster lest we miss out on… something?
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by oldmanhorton 4mo ago
Both ahead of time compilers and JIT compilers often perform autovectorization of tight loops. The problem is that lots of hot loops are not necessarily simple loops, and in particular a lot of source code is written in a way which uses seq
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by oldmanhorton 5mo ago
A year and a half later? Does that really count?
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by oldmanhorton 5mo ago
I feel like this can be explained in part by “I like using it for myself, but I hate when others use it.” When you use ChatGPT for yourself, you may have a sense that what you see is made up; when someone else that you trust uses it and pro
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by oldmanhorton 5mo ago
“Think of the children!” When AI produces those meaningful advances in those fields, great, we can start having meaningful discussions about them. The greatest medical advancement of the 21st century is likely mRNA, or maybe GLP-1 for some.
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by oldmanhorton 5mo ago
I have no advice to offer, I only wish you good luck. I am still lucky enough to be employed, but when this whole parade ends, I have no idea what comes next - my only skill is programming and related knowledge work. I think the only path f
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by oldmanhorton 5mo ago
Have you considered just… writing code? Like we used to in the good old days? If the tool drives you to that point of frustration, maybe it’s time to give the tool a break.
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by oldmanhorton 5mo ago
> when the author is an AI and the consumer is a compiler, and no human needs to read the output at all. This seems like a big bet on the assumption that fully autonomous codegen without humans in the loop is imminent if not already pres
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by oldmanhorton 7mo ago
That seems correct, but it also doesn’t account for managed languages with runtimes like JavaScript or Java or .NET, which probably have a lot of interesting runtime info they could use to influence caching behavior. There’s an amount of “w
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by oldmanhorton 7mo ago
Sure, but this is based on a fundamental trust in governments ability to spend money effectively. The ineffective spending has been in the news way more than the effective spending, so some people take this to mean all of the spending is in
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by oldmanhorton 8mo ago
In C#, you would normally implement rules like this with a custom Roslyn Analyzer or with https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn/blob/main/src/RoslynAnalyze... . It’s fair to say C# projects tend to have s
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by oldmanhorton 9mo ago
I didn’t know this, but there are also security downsides to being ahead of chrome — namely, all chrome releases take dependencies on “known good” v8 release versions which have at least passed normal tests and minimal fuzzing, but also v8
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by oldmanhorton 1y ago
If people aren't getting their work done, then they should be having discussions with their manager that eventually lead to pip or firing if not resolved. If they are getting their work done... Who cares if I do a "non work thing&
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by oldmanhorton 1y ago
And also, a decent chunk of alcohol consumption must be solo? I'd bet alcohol is broadly more social, but I would also wonder if that would change if more public gathering places served weed in some form.
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by oldmanhorton 1y ago
There is a ton of tools and custom logic used by/with/for the GN ecosystem in chromium that I imagine would be difficult to port. This tool is substantially less complex than Bazel, nor is it a reimplementation of Bazel. Ninja&#x2
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by oldmanhorton 1y ago
A handful of other areas are configured using Starlark in chromium. This particular use is in a very different capacity than Bazel - the Bazel equivalent in chromium is GN, and I have not seen any signs that GN will be replaced any time soo
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by oldmanhorton 2y ago
Saying that Microsoft is "Rewriting Windows in rust" suggests you might not be as informed as you think... Very specific components with history of performance or security issues are getting ported in a very uncoordinated effort.
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by oldmanhorton 2y ago
In case you don't see my comment on the parent, it's an Azure VM thing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42788912 Look up the difference between Dv5 and Ddv5 VMS, for instance, or anything talking about azure
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by oldmanhorton 2y ago
This isn't a github runner issue, it's an Azure VM issue. They use Azure VM SKUs with temp disks, and windows VMs on those SKUs by default spin up with C on a remote-backed, persistent file share and D on the local temp disk. The
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by oldmanhorton 2y ago
Surely there is a middle ground for contributions which you don't really care to retain ownership of? I don't sign CLAs for projects I want to form a long term contributor relationship with, but if I am just trying to fix a small
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by oldmanhorton 2y ago
Someone already said The Rest is History, but one of the presenters of that podcast Tom Holland (not the actor) has also written extensively about the history of the catholic church in Millennium and Dominion. Highly recommended.
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by oldmanhorton 2y ago
Which take millions of dollars and huge teams to make. These take one bored person, a sentence, and a few minutes to go from idea to posting on social media. That difference is the entire concern.
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by oldmanhorton 2y ago
Is there a way to get phones to you or information about how to do this myself? I am sure I could find similar programs if I looked but it sounds interesting.
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by oldmanhorton 2y ago
I don't think it's true that C# isn't taken seriously at Microsoft - some of the frameworks on top of C# come and go, but I worked on JS on WinRT briefly and can say it was never, ever "taken seriously" in the way t
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by oldmanhorton 2y ago
Lots of positive comments here that are mostly correct, but I will say that if you're working with more junior or just less technically passionate people, Starlark is a lot for them to wrap their heads around. "Python, but not&quo
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by oldmanhorton 2y ago
Strong disagree. So much space dedicated to touristy pictures that could be used for books instead. Very poorly laid out and hard to get around all of the people taking selfies, and even once you do I found their book selection to be lacklu
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by oldmanhorton 3y ago
Isn't the problem here the flaky and long running PR gates? There's room for nuance to say "small PRs are a north star but large PRs are sometimes OK too"

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