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by YZF 5mo ago
I disagree this is the source of the polarization. Maybe it's part of it. I have been coding since about 1983 or so. I shipped high quality products that have been used by millions of people. From embedded software to desktop applicati
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by YZF 5mo ago
Is this also true for organizations? Startup -> large company?
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by YZF 5mo ago
Yes I interpreted the parent as literally suggesting the US is indeed irrational not simply trying to appear as irrational to gain leverage. I think this perception is very common. Is Trump really trying to appear to the Iranians as being i
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by YZF 5mo ago
If reasons are given, and it's an election promise, and you win the election, and you deliver on your promise... Most people who say this is good and how democracy should work. I understand that you disagree with the decision and disag
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by YZF 5mo ago
Trump promised he would end the deal and he ended the deal. Why is that "madman ripped up that deal"? https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-kept-his... https://en.wikipedia.org&#
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by YZF 5mo ago
We're well within the realm of speculation but: The Iranian leadership has prepared for decapitation attacks which is partly why they weren't as effective. Their so called "Mosaic Defense" was built for that. They have s
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by YZF 5mo ago
> Iran does think they are dealing with a mad man, or at least a government practicing a policy (as the US administration's apologists have termed it) "intentional volatility". We're going to agree to disagree. I know
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by YZF 5mo ago
The Iran/Iraq war is why I made the edit about US vs. Iraq. Just because Iran and Iraq fought for years does not mean Iran or Iraq are able to fight a super power. They can not. Iran does not think they are dealing with a madman. I don
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by YZF 5mo ago
I think "Iran was considering a peace deal" is a bit of a stretch here. Iran was stalling for time, not willing to give anything, and the Strait was indeed open. If they won't give anything now why should they have given anyt
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by YZF 5mo ago
The question is whether LLMs write more secure code than humans. If we get a lot of vibe coded software coming online by non-SWEs do we think that would be more or less secure?
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by YZF 5mo ago
If you copy and paste an entire compiler you didn't make anything. If you copy pieces from different compilers they won't work together. So I'm not sure how you "make" a compiler with copying and pasting from open s
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by YZF 5mo ago
GCC has only like a billion man hours in it? Assembler and linker are not part of a compiler. They are separate tools. They are also generally much simpler.
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by YZF 5mo ago
I built a compiler for a simpler language as part of my compilers course in a CS degree. It was a non-trivial exercise well beyond the majority of software applications. What open source libraries did you have in mind and what are you copyi
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by YZF 5mo ago
In my case this is not simply "rest APIs". It's is a fairly complex code base. Not trivial work. But the code base is fairly clean and so localized understanding can be sufficient for many tasks.
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by YZF 5mo ago
I would say much better than a junior without any prior knowledge. But definite not a senior with knowledge. I.e. needs guidance. x200 the speed of a junior. It's interesting how far our experiences differ. I have heard from people wor
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by YZF 5mo ago
What tools have you tried? Are we talking Codex GPT 5.5 and Opus 4.7? Would you say the project is well architected? Clear boundaries? Or ball of mud? How large is large? Are there AGENT.md files giving good information that helps LLMs get
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by YZF 5mo ago
Some people might not realize there's a /s in there.
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by YZF 5mo ago
https://youtu.be/FlQYU3m1e80 "Is It Really Impossible To Cool A Datacenter In Space?" - Scott Manley tl;dr -> not impossible.
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by YZF 5mo ago
The current LLMs are also "magic" so anything is possible. AFAIK there is no proof that the current architecture is optimal. And we have our brains as a pretty powerful local thinking machine as a counter-example to the idea that
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by YZF 5mo ago
Kind of reminds me of martial arts. You got what some call McDojo's where a 13 year old can be a "black belt" after 9 months vs. more "traditional" styles where after 5 years of hard work you get there. For the trad
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by YZF 5mo ago
Pulling the very latest of everything is IMO risky. What I will acknowledge is that not knowing what known issues are in your stack vs. just pulling the latest all the time is less clear. But running more stable older versions of software w
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by YZF 5mo ago
I used to ride a 600R ... yes- that's where my handle comes from ;)
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by YZF 5mo ago
I worked for one company where we were super conservative. Every external component was versioned. Nothing was updated without review and usually after it had plenty of soak time. Pretty much everything built from source code (compilers, ke
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by YZF 5mo ago
At least in the k8s setup I looked at the dirtyfrag were filtered (by default). "XFRM SA registration requires CAP_NET_ADMIN".
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by YZF 5mo ago
NetHack ... so many great memories of time sunk ;) To click or not to click, that is the question.
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by YZF 6mo ago
I wrote tens of thousands of lines of code before Google and SO. I also enjoy using AI. It makes it easier to get mundane work done quickly. Junior devs who never get tired is a great analogy. It's a force multiplier and for people wit
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by YZF 6mo ago
The practice of software engineering is not what they teach in university. I would say that today's graduates are IMO a bit better than a few decades ago but there are still many graduating who are just not good at writing computer sof
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by YZF 6mo ago
One thing worth mentioning is that even before AI only some small subset of engineers have experienced building systems from scratch or inventing new ways of doing things or root causing complex problems or even writing a lot of code. Most
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by YZF 6mo ago
As were: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger_pigeon
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by YZF 6mo ago
These two positions are not mutually exclusive: - Over-optimizing for short term profit can hurt innovation and value creation. - The economy is not a zero sum game and new value is created out of thin air.

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