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by alentred 1y ago
I wonder, are some programming languages more suitable for AI coding agents (or, rather LLMs) than the others? For example, are heavy on syntax languages at disadvantage? Is being verbose a good thing or a bad thing? P.S. Maybe we will fina
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Microsoft is laying off 9,100 employees, Xbox division hit hard(theverge.com)
18 points by alentred 1y ago|4 comments
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by alentred 1y ago
Exactly! This is just a prerequisite step before shipping it to a warp drive factory. Or, some similar sci-fi in my mind right now. I agree, news like this make me optimistic too!
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by alentred 1y ago
Hm, I don't know, I am OK with "drive". Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, iCloud Drive.
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by alentred 1y ago
Preach. Sign me up when you finish this side project, I will list mine there too :)
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by alentred 1y ago
To be fair, I think the most value is added by Agent modes, not autocomplete. And I agree that AI-autocomplete is really quite annoying, personally I disable it too. But coding agents can indeed save some time writing well-defined code and
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by alentred 1y ago
Recently, Augment Code. But more generally, the "leader" switches so frequently at this point, I don't commit to use either and switch more or less freely from one to another. It helps to have monthly subscriptions and free c
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New, simpler pricing(augmentcode.com)
1 points by alentred 1y ago|0 comments
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Google Search switching to Google․com around the world(9to5google.com)
7 points by alentred 2y ago|1 comments
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by alentred 2y ago
Isn't the original Breakout copyrighted? There seems to be many clones of the game, and also in large platforms like Steam, I wonder how that works. (Not buzzkilling anything, just genuinely curious.)
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by alentred 2y ago
Nice idea, quite a novel to represent a dictionary. Somehow it breaks on words "Monday", "January" and "Italy", for example - doesn't show any of the translations.
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by alentred 2y ago
Ooooh, thank you! For a few years now I thought I was the only one ever citing that source of the infinite wisdom. Having said that, the meteor was probably from the planet Urectum.
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by alentred 2y ago
Wait. No <script> element? An elephant went missing!
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by alentred 2y ago
Indeed! This is an age-old method, this is what a dandy horse is for! In France, and surely many other places, you see the kids of young age on dandy horses ("draisiennes") coming to and from the school supervised by their parents
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by alentred 2y ago
I think that "people who did hard things" fall on a spectrum between these two extremities: - someone who got lucky - someone who invested an unfathomable amount of time to their craftsmanship or to their beliefs Of course it is n
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by alentred 2y ago
That... is... mesmerizing... ... ... ⠋ ⠙ ⠹ ⠸ ⠼ ⠴ ⠦ ⠧ ⠇ ⠏ ⠋ ⠙ ⠹ ⠸ ⠼ ⠴ ⠦ ⠧ ⠇ ⠏ Thank you. I wonder if I could use it for meditation. If only it would not require a blue screen.
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by alentred 2y ago
Extending on the copy-pasteable snippets, another big improvement (flaw to avoid) is to include all imports to the code snippets.
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by alentred 2y ago
Is there a crowd-sourced list of IPs of known bots? I would say there is an interest for it, and it is not unlike a crowd-source ad blocking list in the end.
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Pirate Party – a political party in Iceland (and in many other countries)(en.wikipedia.org)
12 points by alentred 2y ago|3 comments
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by alentred 2y ago
In the past I have been training in a coding "bootcamp" for a while. I insisted that people new to coding use a plain text editor, like Notepad on Windows, no syntax highlighting, no autocomplete, nothing, and a command line to li
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by alentred 2y ago
I respectfully disagree. Things look the same only if you look at the same things. Fashion and trends where always a thing. They spread faster and more globally today because the communication is rich and easy, and of course there are a lot
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by alentred 2y ago
Honest question: but what can a company really do if it goes bankrupt and shuts down, since there is no money to pay for infrastructure and workforce? Of course, they could probably release code to the open-source. Still someone needs to ru
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Drivers of global tourism carbon emissions(nature.com)
3 points by alentred 2y ago|0 comments
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by alentred 2y ago
A few years ago, I was a frequent visitor to a public swimming pool, same day, same time. Apparently with similar swimming habits, there was an elderly person who was humming all the time. In the pool, in the shower, in the lobby, rather lo
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by alentred 2y ago
> Maybe that’s exactly how things evolve. Start small, get large and complex, cut back to become simple again. I like to think it is! Two steps forward, one step back, but overall advancing slowly.
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by alentred 2y ago
I understand the outcry over the heavy processes, but I think there are a lot of confusing statements here. The point being made is "methodology is bullshit," yet what is proposed is exactly that: a new methodology. "Fix a 60
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A Behind the Scenes Look at the Writing of the Agile Manifesto(kaizenko.com)
2 points by alentred 2y ago|2 comments
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by alentred 2y ago
Well, I am honestly torn between the two: interviewing or rejecting. I get the point, but I am not convinced that this actually qualifies as "ingenuity". Even the prompt is so simplistic. At the very least, I would expect somethin
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Tell HN: Received a CV rigged with an injected LLM prompt
17 points by alentred 2y ago|19 comments
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by alentred 2y ago
I personally read this one: "Self-Hypnosis" by Peter Lambrou, and Brian M. Alman

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