DanielHB

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by DanielHB 3mo ago
Languages like C and Go are so weak in the type system that it barely feels better than fully dynamic languages.
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by DanielHB 3mo ago
In my (really large) typescript project we have like 6 static analysis tools running[1]. Steps to get the project running: install nodejs, install package manager, install dependencies, run project. The main difference is that in the JS eco
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by DanielHB 3mo ago
Pattern matching machines seems more appropriate.
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by DanielHB 3mo ago
I don't think so, my experience is that most often falls into two scenarios: 1) The devs pushing for more complex solutions, covering obscure edge case scenarios, feature-creep, "future-architecturing" because they are more i
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by DanielHB 3mo ago
> Lines of code are a liability, not an asset. I have been saying this for years, I once had a heated argument about a small system of maybe 1000 lines of code that was technically superior and more scalable but was freaking 1000 lines
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by DanielHB 3mo ago
Executives are salivating at the prospect of AI being able to execute their plans instead of real humans. It is not even about human payroll cost, you can just tell that many higher up executives just complain about how hard it is to steer
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by DanielHB 3mo ago
My company recently got a ton of AI credits on Linear and they are testing out this feature where whenever an issue is created in linear, it triggers an AI agent to automatically fix the issue. The idea is that when the dev gets to it, he w
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by DanielHB 3mo ago
The main problem of mixing sql and orm together is that most orms don't provide a way to do raw queries in a type safe manner that plays well with non-raw-sql queries.
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by DanielHB 3mo ago
I got really annoyed at how slow the LLMs are so I found myself doing more and more prompts like "in file X do Y", if you can piecemeal your task into very limited prompts and periodically reset the context on each go the LLMs do
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by DanielHB 3mo ago
> there is incredibly little interest in most orgs code I think from a commercial perspective yes, but access to source code is very good for finding exploits which could be very valuable for governments. I could also see a future where
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by DanielHB 3mo ago
Since compilers became a thing Assembly language knowledge atrophied[1] across the workforce. Since automatic memory management became a thing memory management and pointers knowledge atrophied[1] across the workforce (although not nearly t
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by DanielHB 3mo ago
I am consistently underwhelmed by the output, I can't really explain it besides LLMs have no taste about what is easier to read for humans. I usually start a task with an LLM and then do small refactors using the LLM and then do some m
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by DanielHB 3mo ago
25% of humans died before reaching 5 in 1800s US, today it is <1%. Its been at least 5 generations since this value dropped dramatically. We have not ended up with "humans which aren't as strong, aren't as smart, aren&#x27
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by DanielHB 3mo ago
My point is that the expertise drain is going to hit those other countries too, within our work-lives given the demographics of China, Korea and Japan. The same thing is happening over there to even worse degrees, youth unemployment is alre
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by DanielHB 3mo ago
This is an example of the Bondaz Effect which is a subtype of the Streisand Effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_warrior_diplomacy#Bondaz_...
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by DanielHB 3mo ago
What the US is doing is not that different from wolf tiger diplomacy that China was running during the 2010s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_warrior_diplomacy This kind of antagonism comes from the top. China mostly
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by DanielHB 3mo ago
It is not a problem of Sweden specifically, I imagine this kind of problem will hit China hard in 20-40 years too. Companies in China behave just the same way as in Sweden, they have huge youth unemployment problems there too.
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by DanielHB 3mo ago
I worked with CNC machining shops in Sweden and the people working there made the exact same points. CNC is not exactly an art form, but programming the machines definitely has some craftsmanship aspects to it. Even considering that after a
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by DanielHB 4mo ago
Actually yeah, data centers using evaporative cooling shouldn't be causing more waste heat problems than most types of heavy industry. Heck, I would guess that even if datacenters dumping hot water on rivers it shouldn't have much
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by DanielHB 4mo ago
Blew my mind in stockholm that they have hot water at all. In my home country we just have electric heaters at the shower tap. (seriously though, I knew they had hot water, it just never occurred to me how awesome it is to have hot water on
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by DanielHB 4mo ago
Datacenter waste heat even a problem? I only ever heard of nuclear power plants waste heat being a problem when the cooling water is dumped directly into rivers (instead of the ocean).
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by DanielHB 4mo ago
Sam Altman is not an AI researcher, I don't think he ever worked directly with tech as an engineer either. Pure MBA-with-engineering-degree type.
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by DanielHB 4mo ago
An awning protrudes out of the window so airflow can still pass and light still gets into the room (just not direct light). Even if the shutters are wood and white when sun hits them they will radiate some heat into the indoors. But of cour
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by DanielHB 4mo ago
> Living in a city where 80% of residential electricity comes from hydropower, the emissions argument seems a bit moot. In an interconnected grid (most of europe) clean power capacity that is not used locally can be sold off to places th
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by DanielHB 4mo ago
Awnings are significantly better than shutters, but they at most mitigate the heat and the temperature range they make the ambient confortable is quite limited.
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by DanielHB 4mo ago
It is because of insulation and lack of sun-mitigating apparatus (like awnings). Buildings with lots of insulation absorb heat all through the day and release it slowly at night.
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by DanielHB 4mo ago
If you are in the market for a portable AC I highly recommend you watch this video first: https://youtu.be/_-mBeYC2KGc People seem to be catching on this and some brands now offer portable mini-splits ACs, I just bought thi
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by DanielHB 4mo ago
I live in sweden and I am baffled by how uncommon awnings are. In my home country window shutters that also work as yawnings are quite common, especially in places without AC. My partner was downright insulted when I suggested getting some
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by DanielHB 4mo ago
Oh god I feel OLD reading this.
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by DanielHB 4mo ago
> It seems great to be able to cut hundreds of megabytes out of your app installer Your points are valid, but the big upside is that the default system webview is very likely to already be loaded in memory before your app starts. And if

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