AdieuToLogic

5 ms·

1.
by AdieuToLogic 5d ago
Right and wrong are forms of judgement, subject to debate, and sources of resentment. Correct and incorrect are at least possibly quantifiable and do not intrinsically involve subjectivity. In other words, my being incorrect is something ot
2.
by AdieuToLogic 9d ago
A friend of mine used to work at Veritas[0] making enterprise data retention solutions. When I spoke about their product as being "making backups", he corrected me by saying: We are not in the backup business. We are in the
3.
by AdieuToLogic 9d ago
> Judgemental much? Not often, but yeah... I did on this occasion.
4.
by AdieuToLogic 11d ago
> Anthropic's goal is to commoditize intelligence. And Google's original goal was to organize the world's information. How did that turn out?
5.
by AdieuToLogic 11d ago
> I'm curious what people are sending to Claude that is so secret. When Claude is used in a professional setting, any or all of: Proprietary intellectual property (a.k.a. system code) PII[0] of the employee, customers, or both
6.
by AdieuToLogic 11d ago
The simulated dialog you have provided is very much representative of what many of us have heard first-hand. However, I disagree with: Most businesses don’t care about later risk or any future planning beyond the quarter horizon, the
7.
by AdieuToLogic 11d ago
> If your house burns down because of known flaw in Microsoft Windows they are not liable (well as far as EULA let’s them, you can most likely still sue them). A EULA does not obviate responsibility of a company for its products. Contin
8.
by AdieuToLogic 11d ago
This reminds me of the old joke[0]: There are 10 kinds of people in the world. Those who understand binary and those who don't. 0 - https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/10-kinds-of-people.html.en
9.
by AdieuToLogic 14d ago
> What is "await" if not a synonym for "suspend"?!? The `await` keyword in most languages is not a synonym for suspending thread execution so much as it is an effectual attempt to replicate the functionality of `coret
10.
by AdieuToLogic 19d ago
Like many things in complex projects such as operating systems, accepting PRs is not as simple as "if this one use of a tool works, why not accept it?" Why? Because the onus of determining fitness of purpose and correctness has to
11.
by AdieuToLogic 19d ago
> has anyone found a good way to improve code quality? just wondering ... - keep prompts focused on atomic tasks. - use expert prompting[0] when possible. - require coding agents to verify changes. - require coding agents to cr
12.
by AdieuToLogic 19d ago
> Optimizing for fewest LOC is probably slightly more bad than more LOC, and both are bad for the same reason - it makes it harder for humans to interpret and understand ... Concision begets perplexity. ;-)
13.
by AdieuToLogic 19d ago
> It's more like if someone dumped lab-grown diamonds on the side of the road that are virtually indistinguishable from mined diamonds. Equating LLM generated code to "lab-grown diamonds" is disingenuous at best. > Some
14.
by AdieuToLogic 21d ago
> The only thing I got out of this article is that both parties + the F500 need to be destroyed. Destruction is easy, as we are all witnessing. Making things better is hard. It takes commitment to incremental change, often having to over
15.
by AdieuToLogic 22d ago
> A separate document explaining how a system works can go out of date. Good documentation does not explain "the how", it captures "the why."
16.
by AdieuToLogic 25d ago
> I am convinced that there are paid posters on here. Maybe. More likely is there are AI bots used to proliferate messages much cheaper than "paid posters." > Why would anyone defend a billion dollar corporation so vehementl
17.
by AdieuToLogic 25d ago
>> Apple's business model regarding macOS is to sell as many devices as possible capable of running that operating system. > I don't agree that this particular trait of macOS makes an implementation at the layer WINE impl
18.
by AdieuToLogic 25d ago
Microsoft's business model regarding Windows is to sell an operating system capable of running on as many devices as possible. Apple's business model regarding macOS is to sell as many devices as possible capable of running that o
19.
by AdieuToLogic 25d ago
This is because understanding is an intrinsically personal experience. To convey it to others is to choose words, phrasing, and sentences which best express what is in one's mind. Call it "intention", call it "understand
20.
by AdieuToLogic 25d ago
> What allows Wine to run so many Windows apps that there's not an equivalent for MacOS? Is it lack of interest? Is it a technical thing? It is a technical thing. The XNU[0] kernel, which underpins macOS and is detailed by the excep
21.
by AdieuToLogic 1mo ago
There's no doubt that hand-written language adapter libraries are less noisy than those generated by a tool such as SWIG. The thing is, debugging tool-generated adapter code is typically more category-based than individual use-case bas
22.
by AdieuToLogic 1mo ago
> There are reasons all those Py libraries with C code didn't just do it in SWIG. And those reasons are?
23.
by AdieuToLogic 1mo ago
> Python's strength is that it's easy to make C libs work in it. SWIG[0] makes working with C libraries trivial for over a dozen programming languages; Perl, Python, and Ruby included. 0 - https://www.swig.org/
24.
by AdieuToLogic 1mo ago
>> The smallest meaningful program for MS-DOS was exactly 2 bytes ... > Somewhat more meaningful was "INT 19h" (CD 19) ... I seem to remember the smallest MS-DOS program to be CD 20h saved as a `.com`.
25.
by AdieuToLogic 1mo ago
> I'd guess that prompt injection is the biggest risk in this setup ... LLM poisoning[0] would be a much greater risk in a locally executed LLM than prompt injection, given that the LLM would be in an entirely controlled environment
26.
by AdieuToLogic 1mo ago
Another phrase for this is "functional decomposition", which usually is a good thing. Better yet is to identify conditional execution paths as early as possible in order to obviate conditionals in the call tree. For example, ident
27.
by AdieuToLogic 1mo ago
Prompt an AI with: What is the best chicken noodle soup I can make? And you will get at least one recipe which surely is tasty. Ask a person the same question and you might be told: One you make for someone you love. This is t
28.
by AdieuToLogic 1mo ago
> Something is deeply wrong with AI generated output, and I say this as someone who is typically very impressed by AI. It is because GenAI output has no thought behind it, as you identified in your previous paragraph: > And when I for
29.
by AdieuToLogic 1mo ago
> What's the public transport of software development? Understanding.
30.
by AdieuToLogic 1mo ago
It was for me and I intended to comment regarding same.

More ›