ZenoArrow

7 ms·

61.
by ZenoArrow 8mo ago
> You are also strangely fixated on today's capabilities I am talking about today's capabilities because this comment thread started with the suggestion that the benefits of AI for coding was no longer avoidable after the launc
62.
by ZenoArrow 8mo ago
> Aren't we all in a sense? Once you get good enough at a programming language, you can code a lot from memory and logic. As in, you can think of a design and how to build it without having to look up someone else's code. It&#x
63.
by ZenoArrow 8mo ago
> However I'm not going back to asking stackoverflow and pretend that I have nowhere else to find answers. That's not your only option. What you're meant to do is understand the tools you're using well enough to not n
64.
by ZenoArrow 8mo ago
Haha, are you trying to suggest you'll have lost much by putting an AI tool to the test? You seem to think it's powerful enough to do the work of porting Alpine Linux (or equivalent) to new hardware without human intervention (bey
65.
by ZenoArrow 8mo ago
> I don't have anything to win either. Sure you do, you can prove those that doubt your views wrong. > Sounds exactly the kind of stuff coding agents thrive at - a verifiable loop. And they can do it 24x7 until done. Go for it th
66.
by ZenoArrow 8mo ago
> Are you suggesting that a human being writes an OS in a vacuum without seeing any other OS or looking into how it is built. That feels a little facetious, no? No, I'm suggesting in order for it to be a fair test, you need to impos
67.
by ZenoArrow 8mo ago
> Fun that you had to caveat it with some hand wavy homework bull. Not really. If AI is just copying someone else's code, it's not really designing it is it. If you want it to truly design something, it needs to be designing it
68.
by ZenoArrow 8mo ago
Sure, AI has developed quickly, but let's see it take on a real engineering challenge, rather than regurgitating boilerplate code. Writing device drivers from incomplete specs is much harder than "writing a whole application"
69.
by ZenoArrow 8mo ago
Alright, let's see Codex 5.3 create a competitor to postmarketOS (without just copying the homework of other devs). If you believe in the technology so much, put it to the test, see what it can really do.
70.
by ZenoArrow 8mo ago
Research supported by the Fine Foundation, that has a mission statement that includes "works to sustain Jewish life by combating antisemitism"... Funny how the timing of this "research" coinciding with the new owners of
71.
by ZenoArrow 9mo ago
> Intellect is not the same thing as volition. Two questions... 1. Do you think it's impossible for AI to have it's own volition? 2. We don't have full control over the design of AI. Current AI models are grown rather than
72.
by ZenoArrow 9mo ago
If an AI thinks for you, you're no longer "outsourcing" parts of your mind. What we call "AI" now is technically impressive but is not the end point for where AI is likely to end up. For example, imagine an AI that
73.
by ZenoArrow 9mo ago
> Because there isn't room for reputation here. The RAM works, or it doesn't. It costs a certain price. Do you want to spend more money, or less money? RAM from China already works and as Chinese RAM manufacturers scale up ther
74.
by ZenoArrow 9mo ago
What makes you think consumers would want to trust them again after they were abandoned previously? Consumers would rather vote with their wallets for companies that are going to continue giving them good deals. The only reason Micron has a
75.
by ZenoArrow 9mo ago
> Sure, the new fabs won't be up and at volume production until late 2027 / early 2028, but committing tens of billions of dollars to new production facilities, including to facilities dedicated to DRAM rather than NAND or HBM,
76.
by ZenoArrow 9mo ago
> Their scale is simply too small to affect the market outside China, majority of their chips will be eaten up by HBM3 production with yet unknown yield rate. They don't currently have the tech to compete on HBM3 production, but the
77.
by ZenoArrow 9mo ago
I'd see Chinese RAM manufacturers like CXMT filling the void left in the market for consumer-grade RAM modules, I appreciate they face challenges (like lack of access to cutting edge EUV machines), but the RAM just needs to be fast eno
78.
by ZenoArrow 9mo ago
What do you mean it works in some cases, not others? A literal string is a literal string in all cases. As for it being a "masterpiece of design", it has it's quirks but compared to common Unix shells (aside from Nushell) it&
79.
by ZenoArrow 9mo ago
Neither Void or Arch are a "modern Gentoo". Gentoo is it's own thing. If anything, Gentoo's closest "competitors" in terms of OS customisation would be NixOS or Guix, not Void or Arch, but Gentoo is forging it&
80.
by ZenoArrow 9mo ago
You mean like this... ' "Here is an ampersand... &" ' To clarify, in PowerShell there is a difference between text between single quotes (e.g. '$test') and double quotes (e.g. "$test"). Single quo
81.
by ZenoArrow 9mo ago
The "killer app" is that it's easy to string together multiple commands and have them work more reliably than shells that rely on plaintext. In other words, it's something in-between running individual commands and writi
82.
by ZenoArrow 9mo ago
> Waiting a minute or two to hit a prompt is just annoying. I've never experienced startup times anything close to a minute. Is your computer very old?
83.
by ZenoArrow 9mo ago
It's amazing to me this is called coding at all. Who knew all project managers and business analysts coming up with business requirements were actually just coding gods sent from the future.
84.
by ZenoArrow 10mo ago
> pro-Brexit (the founder is very anti-EU and publishes an in-house propaganda mag to that effect), pretty right wing, heavy drinkers That's a massive stretch. In my experience, the common denominator with Wetherspoons is it's
85.
by ZenoArrow 10mo ago
You don't need to apologise. I enjoyed your story. I am from the UK and have fond memories of playing SF2 in arcades in my childhood too. It was a game that became a global phenomenon, it is amazing to think about how many people have
86.
by ZenoArrow 10mo ago
> The centered start menu isn’t my favorite, but it’s not like it’s unusable. You can move the start menu back to the left if you like. https://www.amandasterner.com/post/how-to-move-your-windows-...
87.
by ZenoArrow 10mo ago
Time to get familiar then.
88.
by ZenoArrow 10mo ago
Did you consider using F#? The language is very similar to OCaml, but it has the added benefit of good tooling and a large package ecosystem (can use any .NET package).
89.
by ZenoArrow 10mo ago
Did you read the article? It references the server-side overhead for shallow clones.
90.
by ZenoArrow 10mo ago
So your argument is the first usage of a word gets exclusive rights to it? Firstly, that's not how human languages work. Secondly, this would invalidate the Unix claim to "nix" as it's been a word for hundreds of years p

More ›