strix_varius

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by strix_varius 5d ago
> I kind of think some other language will come along, take the borrow checker, take all the type conveniences that Rust stole from OCaml that make Rust so nice, glue it all to a Python/Go/dotnet style fat stdlib, complete with
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by strix_varius 6d ago
> From the perspective of high level application development, I can't see a technical use case for a language other than Rust. Bit of a red flag if you really can't.
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by strix_varius 10d ago
To turn bad short writing into good long writing you must necessarily change the content of the writing, not just the shape.
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by strix_varius 14d ago
I'm looking in the same space: have you found anything else you're considering beyond OpenViking?
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by strix_varius 17d ago
There are many more labs than that, and humans aren't designing unique scraping processes per domain.
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by strix_varius 22d ago
No it applies at whatever time you choose - it's the most flexible option for a person whose wealth fluctuates frequently around a low baseline.
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by strix_varius 22d ago
Because cash and debit allow you to pick the time in the month when you happen to have the ability to pay for something. Frankly these questions astound me, do y'all really know no low income folks?
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by strix_varius 23d ago
This presupposes the ability to get a credit card and the confidence of sufficient funds when that auto payment hits.
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by strix_varius 2mo ago
The incentives for developing juniors have become misaligned as the expected stay in a company dwindled from decades to years to maybe year. It would make sense to develop juniors if most of their comp was a four year vest but that doesn&#x
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by strix_varius 2mo ago
Are they "tolerating" it? They literally have no choice.
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by strix_varius 2mo ago
Hm, the page is unreadable on brave on dark mode.
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by strix_varius 2mo ago
> reason vibe coding specifically prohibits reading the generated code Wait what? Are there rules to vibe coding now? Are we no true Scotsmanning slop now?
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by strix_varius 2mo ago
Some of the statistics in the article included audiobooks as reading. It seems like they must trigger at least a subset of the qualities of reading (like maintaining an imagined environment, parsing sentences and paragraphs into meaning, et
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by strix_varius 2mo ago
Eh, depends on what you mean by "implode." Before the buyout (2021), twitter made $5.1 billion in ad revenue ($6.22 billion inflation-adjusted). In 2025, it made about $2 billion. So Twitter is now about 1/3rd of what it was
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by strix_varius 2mo ago
> 2-3 ICs This is the real problem. If you don't have enough folks for a 4+ IC team then you don't have a team.
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by strix_varius 3mo ago
Yeah he's like the light side Elon. Happy with his life, his family, his choices. Content. Zen.
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by strix_varius 3mo ago
Buddy, read the context. I think you missed the whole point.
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by strix_varius 3mo ago
> All x86 PCs sold by everyone are open and you can install whatever you want. What exactly do you think an Xbox is? PS4 & PS5?
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by strix_varius 3mo ago
> I’ll level with you – this is hard! I'm getting tired of the monoculture where both articles I read and agents I code with speak with the same (annoying) voice.
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by strix_varius 3mo ago
Thought experiment: if you can solve a problem with 100 lines of dependency free code, or with 10,000 lines of code that depends on hundreds of things - which is better? There's an obvious answer of course. And that is the direction th
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by strix_varius 3mo ago
This is exactly what the article is addressing: > But there is a correlation between output and LoC. That is less true today than it ever has been, due to LLMs.
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by strix_varius 3mo ago
Good revision!
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by strix_varius 3mo ago
I'm sure this is gated by where you work (especially by how technically savvy your manager is), but the most effective contributors at my job tend to be the ones with near-zero (or sub-zero!) net LoC. LLMs are prolific and they love to
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by strix_varius 3mo ago
100%. Browsers are considered a commodity but I'd happily pay for a browser that: 1. Could do all the stuff chrome does as well as chrome. (Eg, canvas rendering speed etc). So I can actually use web apps. 2. Just doesn't ever have
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by strix_varius 3mo ago
> Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight. https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/536587-measuring-programmin...
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by strix_varius 3mo ago
> It's basically the code for which insufficient people in the organisation have a meaningful understanding of how it works or what it does. Its connotation also includes being vastly larger than needed for the purpose it serves, _i
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by strix_varius 3mo ago
If you can't trust your deeds to be respected then no rational actor would donate land. Instead the farmer would just have kept it.
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by strix_varius 3mo ago
Do you find it impossible to use LLMs productively without giving over your brain wholesale to them?
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by strix_varius 3mo ago
Exactly this. Just this week an engineer who seems to purely vibe everything submitted a +700ish LoC fix for what seemed like a pretty simple issue. Moreover it was a perf issue, which in my experience is not usually best fixed by adding mo
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by strix_varius 3mo ago
lol what? There are definitely ways to make non flashing terminal UIs without this total insanity.

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