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by orng 2mo ago
I agree with most of the points on the article although it doesn't really have much to do with vim (which the author acknowledges). I too have often compared AI usage to vim in the past months: AI enthusiasts seem to spend most of thei
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by orng 3mo ago
True. I used to really enjoy playing casual chess as a kid. Analyzing the positions and try to come up with strategies on the fly was a lot of fun. When I realized that "proper" chess was mostly about memorizing positions and play
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by orng 6mo ago
I agree. The further I have progressed into my career the more I have been focused on the stability, maintainability and "supportability" of the products I work on. Going slower in order to progress faster in the long run. I feel
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by orng 6mo ago
The current models had lots and lots of hand written code to train on. Now stackoverflow is dead and github is getting filled with AI generated slop so one begins to wonder whether further training will start to show diminishing returns or
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by orng 2y ago
The internet used to be controlled in large by Microsoft. Then it wasn't. It does not have to continue to be controlled by Google in the future. Not using Chromium based browsers is a first step.
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by orng 2y ago
In my opinion, if you care about the open web, then you should not be using a Blink (Chromium) based browser like Brave. The less control Google has, the better for the web.
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by orng 2y ago
Only slightly related but on the topic of barcodes and security I'd like to recommend this excellent talk by Felix Lindner, it is quite a few years old but I'd guess stuff like barcode scanners are not the most frequently updated
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by orng 3y ago
I think part of the problem is that there seems to be a widespread sentiment among software developers to prioritize our time above the user's. Ease of development trumps ease of use and features are made to be easy, or rather fast, to
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by orng 3y ago
The only insight IQ tests can give you is that anyone who gives them any merit is either a moron or uninformed.
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by orng 3y ago
I got 10/10 without having any idea who any of the people (except pg) were. The comments always made it possible to link to the companies of the posters somehow. Interesting experiment to try to figure that out but I'm left wonder
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by orng 3y ago
I think you are sort of abusing the github logo above the "Closed Source - for a sustainable business model" text. Most people associate it with open source, it doesn't even make any sense there!
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by orng 3y ago
Although probably intended as a joke, this is perhaps the saddest comment I have read on HN.
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by orng 3y ago
Like GP I was also confused and tried looking for a pricing page but failed. Seems like there isn't a link to it from https://app.codecrafters.io/catalog which is the site you go to if you click the big CodeCrafters lo
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by orng 3y ago
"Give me a printout of Oyster smiling" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maAFcEU6atk Life imitating art imitating life. Exciting times indeed.
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by orng 3y ago
Agreed. And another large part of "media", which didn't exist in the 80s: social media. I think that much of social media has become more blatantly sexual. In the earlier days of Instagram people would post pictures of thems
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by orng 3y ago
Where I work we have two code bases. The older of the two in TFS and the newer in git. In TFS we use trunk-based development and in git we do pull requests. I must say that I very much prefer having a formal, tool-protected, review process
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by orng 4y ago
I miss the earlier days of the internet where the spirit was more about sharing and less about selling, advertising and competing for "likes".
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by orng 9y ago
They can still follow you, comment, like and retweet your posts. You can block them but if you are popular enough it might be a problem. They also make search a lot worse and the hashtag system for some tags completely useless since all the
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by orng 9y ago
I think that adding a (permissive) license is the missing step from this "tutorial". If you want people to use your project you are going to need to give them permission to do so.
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by orng 9y ago
Search is such an integral part of how we use the internet today and a vast improvement of the link sites and books from 20 years ago. Competition in this space has never been more important, in particular in light of recent news of censors
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by orng 9y ago
Is my math failing me or wouldn't 8 digits result in 10^8 possibilities rather than 8^10?
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by orng 9y ago
Making methods that you want to be able to mock virtual prevents the compiler from inlining them which can impact performance. I'm sure if that's advisable.
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by orng 9y ago
Anyone who has played Pandemic 2, or similar games where you control a virus intent on killing all humans, knows that the most effective strategy is to spread as far as possible with as little symptoms as possible before mutating into a kil
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by orng 9y ago
So now Amazon (or whoever is in control of the device) not only has access to voice recordings of everything that goes on in peoples homes, but also video. What could possibly go wrong?
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by orng 9y ago
Slightly OT, but not too long ago I read that it is not uncommon for viruses to remove other known, competing, malware. Does anyone know if anyone has ever made a virus who's only purpose is to remove other malware? Perhaps the same ag
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by orng 9y ago
This reminds me of a story I remember hearing a few times as a child: During WW2, British, and later, American forces set up base in Iceland. On some of the maps they had created, items of note had been added with symbols. This included lig
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by orng 10y ago
> So you turned your Python program into a single, statically linked executable? May I ask how you did that? I think the author's application was written in Go which as I understand it does static linking by default. However, creati
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by orng 10y ago
The same happens for me on FF on Android. I tried three times and it crashes each time. A shame, the comments have intrigued me.
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by orng 10y ago
>They have rued out working with the Independence party. Well since they said that they have appeared to cautiously back away from that statement in the days leading up to the election. Today they said they would not join the PP in its c
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by orng 10y ago
I think "rate" refers to install rate, as in how many users install the app, not install speed.

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