skydhash

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by skydhash 3d ago
It would be a skill issue if someone would show they’re able to use it to produce good software while showcasing that it’s due to their mastery. Till this day, I don’t think there’s any such demonstration. Any defects of the technology is a
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by skydhash 3d ago
> "ooh it would be cool if" had to answer to "yeah but it'll take too long". Now, it's more like, "how important is that really?" to stupid ideas that never would have seen the light of day before.
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by skydhash 3d ago
> yes, being able to bang out leetcode hard from head on an interview on paper matters so much... oh wait. it does not. That's about reciting standard data structures like stack and queues. I think parent is talking more about the d
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by skydhash 3d ago
That reminds me of something on my last job. Before AI, we had not so good communication, but if we had a question, the person on the other end will try to give you a passable answer. After AI, everyone seems to be a proxy for the LLM tools
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by skydhash 3d ago
> For people without sufficient clarity I imagine it amplifies that lack of clarity, which is where it is factually unproductive while it still ‘seem’ to be productive Convenient way of saying "you're holding it wrong".
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by skydhash 4d ago
Have you tried live programming (smalltalk, LISP)? Or a proper Edit-Compile-Run cycle with a good editor? A lot of people are bashing old practices, but from y standpoint, it always seems like a lack of proper (usage of) tooling to streaml
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by skydhash 4d ago
Learning ML, there was a high emphasis on the error part of things as most of the course was on minimizing errors. After ChatGPT, there is a weird anthropomorphization going on, where it's all about hallucinations, alignment and what n
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by skydhash 6d ago
They vary in terms of architectural patterns and ui widgets. RN tries to prevent a single interface, but you quickly reach the point where it becomes a pain. You can use Expo to help, but their libraries are unstable.
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by skydhash 6d ago
> Much of Hacker News seems to be incapable of understanding the average user doesn't care about memory use at all, beyond a few extreme examples. They don't care, but they care about their computer being slow because of swappi
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by skydhash 6d ago
> they can develop half-decent Electron apps with VS Code, Only if you don't compare it with any native or quasi native editors like Notepad++ or Sublime text. And Emacs has been cross-platform for decades.
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by skydhash 6d ago
> it is in the product and organizational challenges of keeping those two products that need to be identical in sync. They're two different platforms where the capabilities and UI patterns differs, so I don't see why they shoul
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by skydhash 6d ago
It's useful when starting a thread of research of research as new tabs will be opened to the right (Ctrl+Clicking a link). So after it's done, close to the right can be quite useful.
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by skydhash 6d ago
Not GP, but I can humbly share mine. I think it's because a lot of analytics are data points oriented instead of being workflow oriented. So you can see that feature A is not being used a lot, but it's very important in a particul
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by skydhash 7d ago
> Breaking things is not fun. I don't know. I broke a lot of things when I was a kid, mostly because I was excited to see how they work, but have no knowledge of their value or how to safely disassemble them. I don't do it as a
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by skydhash 7d ago
>> > They also keep bringing up gigantic mono-repos and how Git can't handle the scale at which AI increases the amount of code bloat or commits. I also doubt very much that the average monorepo is bigger than the linux kernel
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by skydhash 7d ago
> to translate code into a different language someone would need to write a tokenizer, a parser, an AST and finally a translator. All significant engineering challenges, taking days to finish. Nowadays you can tell an LLM to do that in m
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by skydhash 8d ago
Isn’t it something like $10/yr or something?
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by skydhash 10d ago
> The surface area of stuff that an OS has to do today is absolutely massive, and the dependency graphs are poorly understood even by the engineers who work on those systems. Innocuous pieces of functionality have a way of becoming load-
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by skydhash 10d ago
> You have to remember the Win (and MacOS) kernel is tuned to consumer desktop user use cases, while Linux kernel is tuned to server/DC use-cases. I don’t mind the kernel doing kernel things. The issue is system services and other s
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by skydhash 10d ago
The thing with windows is that there is no idle state, something is always busy with the CPU/hogging ram. With Linux I can have like 98% idle and the system taking 2Gb out of my 8gb of ram, but with windows, the system is more like 30%
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by skydhash 10d ago
Running OpenBSD as a daily driver but with no DE. It has a working X11 with DRM from linux as base so everything graphical will work mostly fine. The issue is more around the OS and some subsystems. OpenBSD is still using the Giant Lock mod
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by skydhash 10d ago
Have you tried using it in the case where React is actually a good help (very interactive apps)? And try to generate vanilla code for that as well?
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by skydhash 11d ago
I’ve been using magit lately, but I only do ‘git add .’ when it’s a very simple change. Especially in complex projects, I do some changes to isolate code or fix other issues in passing. So I stage by lines and hunks to isolate specific chan
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by skydhash 11d ago
Does the architecture change or the weight change? If you modify an engine to increase it’s output by adding sensors and an ECU, you don’t change the fact that is powered by gas. If you use RL to increase the accuracy, it’s still a next tok
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by skydhash 11d ago
> Most of us build a system to deliver a product to make money Shouldn’t it be to deliver a system that is sold as a product? And even then that product is sold to consumers to solve their problems. Not knowing how it works means you don
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by skydhash 11d ago
Pretty much this, they want to impose one method, but they don’t want to own the mistakes that it creates. Sometimes it felt like the bullies that are saying “why are you making me hurting you?”.
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by skydhash 12d ago
> That just sounds like a tower of abstraction to me;[...] I still don't see a division into two classes of abstraction. It is a tower of abstraction as it's recursive. It's just that at every layer you will be dealing wit
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by skydhash 12d ago
> I guess I don't understand the argument here because those just sound like two different flavours of the same custard to me; the difference is just the balance of work you're doing on each side of the interface, and that deci
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by skydhash 12d ago
> [ Note that his list is all about modularity abstraction: TCP (hide IP), string libraries (hide character arrays), file systems (hide spinning disks), virtual memory / flat address space (hide MMU and paging), SQL (hide query pla
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by skydhash 13d ago
Most AI use cases can be reduced to a deterministic listing/form/report format (on the web) or a cli tools.

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