synalx

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by synalx 14d ago
Imo, the article misses the main point of code review. It's not about finding bugs or spreading around knowledge, but about maximizing value vs maintenance costs. Code is expensive, not to produce but to maintain. Every line of code ad
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by synalx 20d ago
One thing that annoys me to no end is when a mobile app can't even load without an internet connection. There's a plague of apps that are thin veneers over a web view. I get that this is easier to deploy and manage, but I find it
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by synalx 21d ago
I have this problem even in codebases. Claude will work on something, and add detailed comments in which it extrapolates the from the design and confidently states intentions and decisions which aren't actually grounded in reality. The
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by synalx 2mo ago
With a soldering iron and USB-CD PD trigger boards, I've successfully converted a few of this kind of thing.
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by synalx 2mo ago
Mine is obsessed with "planes". Data plane, control plane, management plane. Everything is a plane :)
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by synalx 3mo ago
I interpreted this as a visual bug with the sprites. As a sailor, I love seeing ads or other random imagery of sailboats that's clearly photoshopped, with sails in nonsensical orientations or completely backwards with things like flags
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by synalx 5mo ago
That might be challenging, I hear people are pretty short on tokens these days.
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by synalx 6mo ago
Antigravity's coding agent is worlds apart from Gemini CLI, though.
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by synalx 6mo ago
This stood out to me too - there's an underlying assumption that private entities _can_ say no to governments, but that's only true to a point. If the government decides it needs AI-powered killbots as a matter of national securit
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by synalx 8mo ago
Vibe biology?
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by synalx 8mo ago
For 3D modeling (assuming you want to do CAD), Onshape is a fantastic alternative to native applications.
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by synalx 8mo ago
In that sense, AI behaves like a human assistant you hire who happens to be incredibly susceptible to social engineering.
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by synalx 9mo ago
The problem with "the language tooling is already a build system" is that cross-language dependency chains are a thing. The moment you need a Rust or Zig file to be regenerated and recompiled when a JSON schema or .proto file is u
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by synalx 9mo ago
One major disadvantage here is the lack of training data on a "new" language, even if it's more efficient. At least in the short term, this means needing to teach the LLM your language in the context window. I've spent a
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by synalx 9mo ago
And a major consumer of space, because they have to accommodate bigger ports even if they're only doing USB-C pass-through.
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by synalx 10mo ago
> Stardust-oxide is a re-implementation of the unikernel in Rust. Not "Starrust"? What a missed opportunity...
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by synalx 1y ago
Not a single mention of AI, LLMs, or Agents. I'm impressed :)
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by synalx 1y ago
More the latter. The lock guard is not `Send`, so holding it across the await point makes the `impl Future` returned by the async function also not `Send`. Therefore it can't be passed to a scheduler which does work stealing, since tha
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by synalx 1y ago
What I want the most here is transparency. If a creator thinks they can make better videos by partnering with a media company, great. I'm happy to judge for myself if their content is still for me or not. I donate to a number of creato
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by synalx 1y ago
I wonder if this is due to the common trope in science fiction literature that changing the past in even a small way has a butterfly effect of unintended and frequently disastrous consequences.
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by synalx 1y ago
If you're ever in SF, it's really worth going to see. Such a cool mixture of art and technology.
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by synalx 2y ago
Well, it is an all black shirt...
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by synalx 2y ago
Without knowing what Car Thing was, I read all 3 of those pages and still have no idea what this project is.
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by synalx 3y ago
It's because we write the numerals in the same order as the longer form: May 10th, 2023 becomes 5/10/23.
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by synalx 4y ago
This is also a core design principle of Angular - the compiler extracts the static template structure and generates code to update dynamic bindings within it.
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by synalx 4y ago
PR Quadtrees ( https://opendsa-server.cs.vt.edu/OpenDSA/Books/CS3/html/PRqu... ) got me my current job at Google. One of my interviewers asked basically "how would you design Google Maps?" and I
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by synalx 4y ago
I love that the article talks about realizing a "decarbonized grid" by storing energy in literal chunks of carbon.