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by alexjplant 7mo ago
Class warfare is a chart-topping hit in the US too. I've been on the receiving end of this rhetoric a few times in social situations but it's always been by college-educated people who get their politics from specific corners of t
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by alexjplant 7mo ago
I literally had the same thought about the counter and went to see if there was an HN thread to post about it on :-). PHP4 on shared hosting was such an innocent time.
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by alexjplant 7mo ago
> I think that if you go to an AI for advice and emotional support, it will do what most people will do - tell you what it thinks you want to hear. Open two windows, ask it the same thing from starkly opposite perspectives, then see what
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by alexjplant 7mo ago
> Ah, is this what you do for a job? I actually have to [...] > if my job was CRUD apps and thats it, I'm not sure whether you intended this but your post reads as presumptuous and disdainful. The whole point of these tools is to
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by alexjplant 7mo ago
ACME [1] has been a thing for more than 10 years and has been a stable specification for 7 years. There were similar vendor-specific implementations that preceded it. The DoD has employed none of these solutions for their flagship infosec p
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by alexjplant 7mo ago
> Sure, not related to DSPy though, and completely tablestakes. I agree but you'd be surprised at how many people will argue against static typing with a straight face. It's happened to me on at least three occasions that I can
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by alexjplant 7mo ago
If you've only had exposure to one corner of the software industry then it's very easy to develop blinders. Not saying that this is what parent is guilty of but as somebody who has regrettably had this particular problem in the (t
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by alexjplant 7mo ago
> Why do people keep ralking about AI as it actually worked? Because it does. > I still don't see ANY proof that it doesn't generate a total unmaintainable unsecure mess, that since you didn't develop, you don't kn
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by alexjplant 7mo ago
My $.02 is that in the domain of software engineering LLMs have largely automated the process of copy-pasting from StackOverflow and existing parts of the codebase. Architecture and product management is still very necessary. In the same fa
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by alexjplant 7mo ago
Faygo is unironically delicious. They used to sell them for $1 a pop (Midwestern pun intended) on the East Coast in gas stations. Diet varieties of Orange, Moon Mist, and Root Beer were personal favorites. No idea whether this is still the
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by alexjplant 7mo ago
Although "cyber" is a prefix used to denote a relationship to high technology there exist people who use it as a stand-alone term to mean "cybersecurity", e.g. "I work in cyber." It's very confusing given
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by alexjplant 7mo ago
My first two gaming PCs in high school had a side window and blue cold cathode light. My next build in my early 20s I decided that even this was too garish and went to a simple brushed black case. I understand that cheap tri-color LEDs mean
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by alexjplant 7mo ago
The problem is that too many people couch pettiness and personal attacks in the philosophy of "being direct" or "telling it like it is". OP specifically mentions that criticism must be made on technical merits. The peop
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by alexjplant 7mo ago
> I know its unpopular to say, but when I have my 2 programmers in office, we get sooo much more done than at home. Someone gets stuck and we don't message/call, we just talk. The technology exists to "just talk" in h
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by alexjplant 7mo ago
> Good writers use semicolons and em-dashes I use semicolons a lot. If this is the nouveau tell du jour for LLMs then I'm in trouble.
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by alexjplant 7mo ago
As a kid I loved the giant boat hull piece because it was sealed and actually floated . This in combination with some larger pylon-type pieces from the Star Wars set meant you could build floating cities and vehicles and such and mess with
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by alexjplant 8mo ago
> People consider others around them, and it makes things easier. This is the #1 reason I loved visiting Japan so much: it's a country full of people that understand their implicit societal obligation to not unduly burden others. Me
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by alexjplant 8mo ago
Which games were these out of interest? I enjoy reading about game dev from the nascent era of 3D on home consoles (on the Saturn in particular) and would love to hear more.
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by alexjplant 8mo ago
...except for those of us who think that PB&J is a culinary abomination in which case the metaphor disintegrates ;-D (apologies to my mother for having to make me PB-only sandwiches growing up) I do wonder whether adding chips or bacon
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by alexjplant 8mo ago
Synergy has a real meaning: 1+1=3. A cigar and a whiskey. Chocolate and peanut butter. Hall and Oates. Et cetera. Unfortunately it's one of those terms like "DevOps" or "jam band" or "martini" whose true m
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by alexjplant 8mo ago
They didn't convince anybody of anything. They poured an enormous amount of technical work [1] into making it compliant with the Single Unix Specification [2]. > The standard specifies programming interfaces for the C language, a co
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by alexjplant 8mo ago
Kagi doesn't make any models in-house - they use closed-source frontier models and OSS ones hosted by third-party providers. The former are on par with their own vendors' chat interface implementations (capabilities like file uplo
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by alexjplant 8mo ago
> I don't think Hendrix was on a 'mission' to solve engineering puzzles at all. He was just experimenting, as an artist. 1,000,000%. Guitar is one of those hobbies where people mythologize and build elaborate hagiographies
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by alexjplant 8mo ago
> One, the article asserts that too many stops is the main cause of low ridership in the US. I didn’t even see a correlation (which would still not prove one causes the other) between number of stops and ridership. This is the central th
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by alexjplant 8mo ago
Absolutely true. I lost a belt notch when I visited Japan for two weeks and walked everywhere. That being said redesigning cities is hard. It's a lot easier to meet people where they are: in front of the TV. Kettlebells, dumbbells, res
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by alexjplant 8mo ago
The skillet sounds cool but I'd rather not have to deal with a microwave door and control panel for searing stuff. I do, however, frequently use it in ways that others find unconventional: - Cooking dry goods (quinoa, freekeh, couscous
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by alexjplant 8mo ago
The long pause after "Verifying DMI Pool Data..." as the disk image downloaded aroused a dormant feeling of dread in me as I panicked and wondered why Windows wasn't loading... back in the day it meant getting yelled at for &
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by alexjplant 8mo ago
I scrolled down to find Piracetam - it says "illegal everywhere" which is plainly untrue. It's sold OTC in dozens of countries and by prescription elsewhere. It's an uncontrolled substance in the US. I absolutely believe
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by alexjplant 8mo ago
Most importantly this opens up an amazing future where we get the real version of the classic science fiction MacGuffin of a physical AI chip. Pair this with several TB of flash storage and you have persistent artificial consciousness that
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I'd like to deploy it to trawl various communities that I frequent for interesting information and synthesize it for me... basically automate the goofing off that I do by reading about music gear. This way I stay apprised of the broade

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