strawhatguy

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by strawhatguy 22d ago
Please. Yes the pricing sucks, but that means more capacity to build more computers will develop. It will equalize at some point. Crashing the data center boom in a vain attempt to get a cheaper pc is a) short-sighted and selfish and b) co
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by strawhatguy 26d ago
Higher prices now pays for buildout of facilities which lowers prices later. So they are
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by strawhatguy 2mo ago
bluetooth audio is probably all one needs for phone <-> car integration. but carplay/android auto are sadly really popular. So already, your phone can connect in two different ways, just over bluetooth, with cars today. And car c
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by strawhatguy 2mo ago
Pretty much this. The less software on the car, the fewer problems. It's practically impossible to test every permutation of code against every system. Maybe AI can help, but practically it'll just mean the software gets more co
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by strawhatguy 5mo ago
It's one of the reasons the US military is so good. As a soldier, you know they will come for you, behind enemy lines, so you can fight like hell, knowing that your fellows have your back. The gains in morale can not be underestimated.
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by strawhatguy 7mo ago
Yes it's quite the blend!
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by strawhatguy 7mo ago
There's probably a case for both. Core logic might benefit from hard types deep in the bowels of unchanging engine. The real world often changes though, and more often than not the code has to adapt, regardless of how elegant are syste
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by strawhatguy 7mo ago
I actually wonder about his conclusion that 50 years hence English will be unrecognizable. There will be changes of course. Yet we are also more connected than ever, whereas the next town over would be a whole day trip in the past. The sepa
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by strawhatguy 7mo ago
In fairness , Dickens is quite dry. My mind would wonder off. In some sense, it's better these days, competition has led to care for the reader that probably didn't exist as much then, since so few people can read.
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by strawhatguy 7mo ago
The alternative is one type, with many functions that can operate on that type. Like how clojure basically uses maps everywhere and the whole standard library allows you to manipulate them in various ways. The main problem with the many typ
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by strawhatguy 7mo ago
Iterating often is not helpful for stable systems over time. I like go's library it's got pretty much everything needed out of the box for web server development. Backwards compatibility is important too.
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by strawhatguy 7mo ago
But open source didn't do the Linux model. It did the GitHub model of open to anyone. If anything the heirarchy of trust the Linux model uses will be more important now.
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by strawhatguy 7mo ago
Possibly, but AIs might shift to more curated content, which has it's own dangers I suppose. There are definitely challenges, but I've been around long enough now that we'll adapt, and muddle through. The trouble will come fr
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by strawhatguy 7mo ago
God please no. Do not involve government in this. That's a terrible terrible idea, and would do the opposite of intended.
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by strawhatguy 7mo ago
It could push back more, true. Although it's role in pair programming is the driver, you are the navigator. I often begin a session with exploring and asking it questions of the code as I would a junior developer. Saves this old man fr
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by strawhatguy 7mo ago
If all software could be as good as sqlite, I would not care how they do open source
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by strawhatguy 7mo ago
Yes; yet... I thought the efficiency per compute has to do more with the nm process shrinking the die than anything else. That and power use is divided by so many more instructions per second
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by strawhatguy 7mo ago
Actually, I wonder how they measured the 'speed' of coding, maybe I missed it. But if developers can spend more time thinking about the larger problems, that may be a cause of the slowdown. I guess it remains to be seen if the co
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by strawhatguy 7mo ago
Speaking just for myself, AI has allowed me to start doing projects that seemed daunting at first, as it automates much of the tedious act of actually typing code from the keyboard, and keeps me at a higher level. But yes, I usually constra
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by strawhatguy 7mo ago
Yep, I can't trust software that has shone clear instructions to produce incorrect results, like Gemini did with it's image generation famously. If nothing else, it means Gemini's team has priorities other than the results. N
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by strawhatguy 7mo ago
Okay. If you’re being vague, you get vague results. Golang and Claude have worked well for me, on existing production codebases, because I tell it precisely what I want and it does it. I’ve never found generic “find performance issues” just
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by strawhatguy 7mo ago
You could fix versions, and probably should. However willful disregard of prior interfaces encourages developers code to follow suit. It’s not like Clojure or Common Lisp, where a decades old software still runs, mostly unmodified, the same
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by strawhatguy 7mo ago
All I know is that claude code is pretty dang good, grok's nice for searching info, and Google's Gemini hasn't really been in my workflow at all. Neither chatgpt, beyond when it first came out. Maybe I'm odd, but a Googl
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by strawhatguy 7mo ago
Spending is the issue. That money is spent on something, and it isn't (all) teaching either. The chart in the link below shows employee vs students headcounts over 6 years. Even though student rolls went down almost all employment
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by strawhatguy 8mo ago
Including Steve Yegge, is Gas Town orchestrator of LLMs is... wild. And complicated. https://steve-yegge.medium.com/welcome-to-gas-town-4f25ee16d...
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by strawhatguy 9mo ago
Edison Motors up in Canada is interesting, in the truck space. Diesel EREV semis, and heavy-duty pickup modifications. Sounds like they're running into overregulation issues though. This is how China gets ahead, because the West is dum
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by strawhatguy 9mo ago
EVs, as part of the world economy, aren't emissions-free either. Just at the tailpipe (or lack thereof). Rare-earth mining is very energy-intensive.
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by strawhatguy 9mo ago
Every 5 years, there's a better battery in development 5 years hence. So I'm a bit skeptical that just a better battery would exclude hybrids. Any battery improvement would improve PHEV and EREV vehicles also, and they'd reta
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by strawhatguy 9mo ago
Article says the next F-150 Lightning will be an EREV-style plugin hybrid. Which, if so, makes a lot of sense. EVs are great, but not so much for trucks. I was always bothered about how cars were either supposed to be all electric or all IC
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by strawhatguy 11mo ago
That's confusing "consensus building" with "effective". Killing a private api is pretty effective. And consensus building doesn't always build the best software.

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