SanderNL

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by SanderNL 3y ago
You are plenty clever. This is the equivalent of introducing programming by giving a piece of ARM assembly and stating that it is immediately obvious that we are dealing with a merge sort implementation. I’m not sure why, but I see this oft
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by SanderNL 3y ago
I found it interesting to learn about the etymology of the word "character". It comes to us from Latin which took it from the Greek (χᾰρᾰκτήρ) which comes from kharasso (χαράσσω) - I scratch or engrave . Our character can be th
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by SanderNL 3y ago
Luckily we are on HN whereby I am granted full permission to unleash the most obnoxious of pedantry: It's not the mosquitoes that kill us.
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by SanderNL 3y ago
I will admit that there are technical limitations in the world. I am not quite sure I said there weren’t. What I said was that they just don’t matter in the grand scheme of things. Caching is not holding anyone back, it’s just a technical
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by SanderNL 3y ago
Caching is also as old as computer science itself, which is my point. It’s not rocket science. We got that. We don’t need caching solution #6362.
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by SanderNL 3y ago
Let’s agree to disagree. I am also not sure what “security” is being touched by TCP (and should be touched by that layer)? Performance could be better, but I’d say pick your battles. I prefer an “eternal” standard than turning everything up
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by SanderNL 3y ago
> Even things like TCP and HTTP are seeing revamps because the stuff from last decade is just not that good It’s IMO extremely debatable if they were not “that good”. The mindset that serves simple websites with 60 requests to 12 diffe
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by SanderNL 3y ago
Code itself is a mere encoding of that (mis)understanding in a highly specialized format. What makes me “hopeful” - for me as a “programmer” - about the future is that our problems in nearly all domains are very damn near certain not caus
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by SanderNL 3y ago
Yes. I think we just witnessed something akin to the birth of personal computers which puts us around the ‘60-‘70s. It’ll take a while to (vastly) improve and eventually disseminate into society. I’d say a decade at least. A lot of the surr
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by SanderNL 3y ago
Not sure if you are humble bragging, but I agree The Witcher is more demanding. Layers of meaning, emotions, allegory, subtext. It’s no Shakespeare, but physics and math are simple in comparison especially in the wonderfully produced and ea
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by SanderNL 3y ago
I truly hope you are right.
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by SanderNL 3y ago
I’m not too convinced of the persuasive powers of “domain experts” either. I’m thinking about the professional persuaders like politicians. You may dislike some of them or what they stand for, but they are plenty persuasive. It’s just that
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by SanderNL 3y ago
Persuasion depends on logos and it is a requirement to be capable of it before you are susceptible to persuasion. Intelligent (and properly motivated) people indeed have staggering persuasive powers over lesser ones. You can watch the news
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by SanderNL 3y ago
This is IMO a good example of a situation where tech or lack of it isn't the problem.
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by SanderNL 3y ago
They don’t need to migrate, but it’s usually a good idea to keep up to date. It’s indeed somewhat of a thing if you have a lot of systems and you have uptime requirements. Plan accordingly and it’ll be fine.
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by SanderNL 3y ago
> Visual Basic/VBA/Delphi/Hypercard Most of these are gone. Not replaced by something better IMO. Excel is holding on though. > We've got IDEs that compile in a flash, compared to the interminable compiles of the p
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by SanderNL 3y ago
The dose is really low. I wonder if you actually feel much.
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by SanderNL 3y ago
> These models will lie to obfuscate their incompetence They were trained on human data after all.
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by SanderNL 3y ago
GPT4 is better than its predecessor and quite impressively so. The (probable) param count reflects that. It’s not just param count, because not all large models are good, but it clearly is part of the equation. I always wondered why Altman
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by SanderNL 3y ago
That's true. You're probably high on conscientiousness if that's the case though. In which case procrastination is not something you are allowed to talk about because you literally don't know what it is. Joking of course
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by SanderNL 3y ago
> Ideas are not dangerous. Wow.
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by SanderNL 3y ago
> I would prefer to spend the next hour reinforcing my knowledge of the passe compose of avoir. That is better than feeling sad. But it's not better than catching up on sleep, netflix and/or a great meal with a fantastic conver
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by SanderNL 3y ago
I mean if the website in questions generates a password and shows it (and then lets it go of course). This is used to show cert private keys for example. I can see it work with passwords. I don’t care about passwords. I just want a “key” an
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by SanderNL 3y ago
The password, at account creation. Here is your password: …… I have seen it being used for cert keys.
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by SanderNL 3y ago
I think creating a strong password and offering it once is better or am I overlooking something?
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by SanderNL 3y ago
That sounds expensive AF though. Was that really necessary? I’m all for craftsmanship, but having four top guys fiddling with design.. it all depends on the domain I guess.
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by SanderNL 3y ago
I’m less interested in “objective good” and more in “I know I have agreed to something and I am not doing it for [reasons]”. I wonder how the poster feels about telling his employer about his decision to stop working on some days? Maybe he
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by SanderNL 3y ago
I’m not seeing the “more” and “less” moral potential as clearly as you do. That’s probably because I’m somewhat of a peasant myself. The peasant in my eyes has the same conundrum but worse: why be moral if your life sucks? And quite possibl
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by SanderNL 3y ago
I understand and I applaud you. It’s a good life you got going there (it seems). I’m just personally grabbed by the question “what is virtue” in a way that’s hard to shake. I can come off annoying and I try hard not to. Have a great weekend
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by SanderNL 3y ago
It’s your life so take my bullshit morality with a pinch of salt, but you make it seem like at least three of your workdays are dedicated to this job. That seems significant enough. I’m sure you do an excellent job and your boss is probably

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