WickyNilliams

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by WickyNilliams 5mo ago
Where is that figure from? I would be extremely surprised if that doesn't drop at least an order of magnitude as the hype wears off. Assuming it's even representative of today and not two months ago
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by WickyNilliams 5mo ago
Could you link to the video?
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by WickyNilliams 5mo ago
He said in another thread there's 6 people involved. 6 people for this project doesn't feel lean, without even considering the enormous LLM spend/complexity
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by WickyNilliams 5mo ago
Not OP, but I've been focusing on linting and automation. Custom lint rules to encode best practices that previously relied on astute/alert code reviewer to call attention to. This is handy not just for humans but it steers the bo
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by WickyNilliams 6mo ago
What is your experience in? The company I work for is constantly hiring
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by WickyNilliams 6mo ago
> His blog posts are bloviated monstrosities incapable of coherently describing the very trivial ideas contained in them. That's not true. He coherently and clearly described this crypto pump and dump nonsense he was pushing for a w
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by WickyNilliams 6mo ago
Don't forget: also using his name and the project to pump some speculative crypto nonsense of which he was a beneficiary. How anybody takes him (or the Ralph Wiggum guy who did the same) seriously after this is beyond me. These people
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by WickyNilliams 6mo ago
Astro is very nice, but I kinda feel like they are adding a lot of features I don't want and will never need. It's starting to feel too fancy for SSG. My first time using it I encountered 3 separate bugs with their compiler. The
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by WickyNilliams 6mo ago
Don't suppose you've played in the steamdeck? Curious how well it works there
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by WickyNilliams 6mo ago
Oh lol. Good catch. Wrote that with my morning coffee in hand where it appears my brain was still asleep
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by WickyNilliams 6mo ago
B-b-but the bananas, and the bureaucrats!! What's particularly amazing about Brexit is that many of its chief architects have not been shamed or exiled from society for spinning a yarn that fell apart when confronted with the smallest
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by WickyNilliams 6mo ago
Not just elevated them, but effectively given them a free pass for anything they do. Musk slanders a cave diver trying to rescue trapped children as a paedo? No problem! The courts said it's fine. It's just a joke bro, you should
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by WickyNilliams 7mo ago
Yeah the whole thing is absolutely scandalous. The president being anywhere near crypto is such a huge, blaring warning. Even more so if people are "investing" as a quid pro quo. But ~nobody cares. Scam economy
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by WickyNilliams 7mo ago
Yeah I don't buy the ulterior motive. He just wants to enrich himself. That's the primary motivator for ~everything he does. Running a scam on your supporters is perfectly viable if you think nothing of them, and they think everyt
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by WickyNilliams 7mo ago
That's a fair point. But I'm not talking about the legitimacy (or not) of crypto. More that the president was (is?) running a pump and dump scheme. It should be profoundly embarrassing to supporters and it should be political suic
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by WickyNilliams 7mo ago
I'm still reeling from the fact that the sitting president pumped some meme coin the day (iirc) he took office. And this largely passed by without any consequence, reckoning, or repercussions. It's just accepted now that even the
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by WickyNilliams 7mo ago
Fraudulent is the right word imo. And I believe it's the term used in the recruiting industry
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by WickyNilliams 7mo ago
Lovely, thanks. Keep up the great work!
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by WickyNilliams 7mo ago
Mea culpa: this is kinda my doing. I released a library headroom.js ( https://wicky.nillia.ms/headroom.js/ ) for this purpose in 2013 or something, announced here on HN, and it got very popular. It got ported to every fr
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by WickyNilliams 7mo ago
Beautiful photos! And the site is very nice looking too . Can I ask what you do wrt the photo storage for your site? I'm looking to get back into photography and don't use Instagram etc, so want somewhere to post. Wondering how I
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by WickyNilliams 7mo ago
Mr Petzold's book, Code, is marvel and you should read it btw
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by WickyNilliams 7mo ago
It's very tricky to balance right that's for sure. Agreed that it opens the door to behind the scenes deals. But marginal improvements are still better than whatever the hell we have now. In the case of Priti Patel she was fired f
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by WickyNilliams 7mo ago
This is more an argument against political appointees than it is an argument for hereditary peers. I agree that the system has been abused. It's need reforming
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by WickyNilliams 7mo ago
A lifelong hereditary appointment is an affront to democracy imo. It is regrettable we have a monarchy, but their power is very limited. The Lords however have a regular say in the production of laws. A second house is good. But hereditary
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by WickyNilliams 7mo ago
Abused is probably an understatement. The Tories made some extremely questionable and bizarre appointments in their recent terms. We have the son of Russian oligarch sitting there! Inexplicable advisors whose appointment is a mystery even a
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by WickyNilliams 7mo ago
Came here to recommend ast-grep too! If your editor of choice supports an extension (vscode does for example) it's a very easy on-ramp for a better search/replace than regex offers. It's syntax-aware so you don't need ca
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by WickyNilliams 7mo ago
Trained != Guaranteed. It's best effort
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by WickyNilliams 7mo ago
No such mitigation exists for LLMs because they do not and (as far as anybody knows) cannot distinguish input from data. It's all one big blob
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by WickyNilliams 7mo ago
What! That completely violates any reasonable expectation of what that could be referring to. I wonder if npm themselves could mitigate somewhat since it's relying on their GitHub integration?
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by WickyNilliams 8mo ago
This is why the UK stripping Shamima Begum - a British citizen by birth - of her citizenship always concerned me. Effectively leaving her stateless. She was an easy target for this. Perhaps it feels like some form of justice or punishment.

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