alkonaut

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by alkonaut 9mo ago
Yes. And some way of using an instructions file. Because interacting with an agent in a tiny plugin window without use of "agents.md" or some sort of persistent prompt you can adjust retry etc is horrible. Now it's "plea
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by alkonaut 9mo ago
I installed the copilot extension in my IDE, and switched on Agent mode. I don't really get how the workflow is supposed to work, but I think it's mostly due to how the tool is made. It has like some sort of "change stack&quo
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by alkonaut 9mo ago
I don't understand how to get even bad results. Or any results at all. I'm at a level where I'm going "This can't just be me not having read the manual". I get the same change applied multiple times, the agent
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by alkonaut 9mo ago
Can't most db systems just create a view over the data where archived_at is null, and this view is the table you use for 99% of your business needs (except auditing, undelete, ...)?
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by alkonaut 9mo ago
All of this might as well be greek to me. I use ChatGPT and copy paste code snippets. Which was bleeding edge a year or two ago, and now it feels like banging rocks together when reading these types of articles. I never had any luck integra
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by alkonaut 9mo ago
It's a matter of "it could have been worse"
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by alkonaut 9mo ago
That this even has to be clarified is just a joke. I mean if I buy an oscar statue off Ebay, how many Oscars do I have? Zero. I have an oscar Statue . But no one cares how many Oscar Statues actors get. They care how many times they were a
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by alkonaut 9mo ago
While they do, 2025 was also the first year that the fraction of coal dropped in both China and India. In india it dropped by 3% and in China by 1.6%. So they build out fossil, but they build out non-coal power faster. China also hopes to p
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by alkonaut 9mo ago
Also, I think for 99% of Wikipedia, there isn't much need to worry about Biases. It's about an uncontroversial chemical compound, a tiny village, a family of bacteria and so on. Knowledge isn't all subjective and prone to bia
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by alkonaut 9mo ago
Aren't there any scenarios where a C compiler (without assistance by the developer) must be defensive about aliasing, in a way that the Rust compiler must not be? I guess you could argue that C would reach the same speed because noalia
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by alkonaut 9mo ago
I don't think _software_ is very interesting in the whole AI debate. It's perhaps interesting from a jobs perspective or an economical perspective. But the whole "anti AI" thing is much deeper than that. My main objectio
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by alkonaut 9mo ago
The browser versions aren't as good as the desktop versions. And Googles alternatives aren't as good as Microsofts. Both do 60% of the job, which is probably enough for 80% of the people.
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by alkonaut 9mo ago
I wouldn't worry much about operating systems. They are just a means to an end (which is running your applications) few are in the situation that 100% of their applications run on more than 1 OS, so they even get a choice of OS.
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by alkonaut 10mo ago
"If it compiles, then only logical bugs will make it eat your homework"
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by alkonaut 10mo ago
"If it compiles it works" isn't true. But "If it compiles it won't eat your homework" sort of is.
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by alkonaut 11mo ago
I think this, as with many user interfaces, comes down to the use case. A rarely used UI needs to be easy to navigate. Remove clutter, place the often used feature front and center and the rarely used features behind multiple navigation ste
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by alkonaut 11mo ago
> Sometimes this isn’t available. Then their content can just go away tbh. This isn't some big ethical dilemma either. Either find a way to make content that doesn't rely on ads, or stop making content. If the whole ad-funded i
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by alkonaut 11mo ago
I don't know what exactly "seed sharing" means (and the article doesn't describe it fully) but merely owning anything communally, or owning property - which includes the right to transfer it - seems like obvious human ri
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by alkonaut 11mo ago
99% of corporate policies are to be able to point to a document that says "well it's not my fault, I made the policy and someone didn't follow it".
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by alkonaut 11mo ago
We once did this for a massive product with 3 releases per year: took a whole cycle to do zero features, and just fix bugs. Internal customers who usually stepped over themselves to get their latest feature in the program, were accepting it
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by alkonaut 11mo ago
There is no good technical solution here. But the damage could be limited if browsers at least limited entropy somewhat. Stuff like reading back canvas contents should need user approval. Just make sure it’s sufficiently illegal to keep thi
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by alkonaut 11mo ago
> a Union never gets to control the business This varies. e.g. Sweden: if there are over 25 employees, the union gets a seat in the board. https://bolagsverket.se/en/foretag/aktiebolag/startaaktiebol...
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by alkonaut 11mo ago
My heart really sinks every time someone launches a "new IDE" and it turns out to be VS Code. VSCode can be turned into an IDE for _some_ platforms. But not for others. It remains a text editor with some nice extras (syntax highli
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by alkonaut 11mo ago
It's standardized in behavior only, it doesn't prescribe which button is where in the dialog etc. But yea for those that actually follow it, it's not a _big_ problem, but it's still an improvement to get an exactly simil
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by alkonaut 11mo ago
Users will overwhelmingly use browsers in vanilla config. The question here will be how browser vendors show this option. If - say - a company that gives away a browser for free but makes money from ads designed this, then they'll hide
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by alkonaut 11mo ago
Because it's better to have a really convenient and cheap service that works 99% of the time, than a resilient that is more expensive or more cumbersome to use. It's like github vs whatever else you can do with git that is truly d
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by alkonaut 11mo ago
How about making a decent search function that actually works first? Why involve AI when the bare basics aren't there?
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by alkonaut 11mo ago
No the problem is people who leave them in thr parking. Unless you return it you’re making everyone else pay for returning _your_ cart. Plus of course making the parking harder to use in the meantime. Just return the cart.
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by alkonaut 1y ago
> But I don't want upsells Ryan is cheap because they sell you lottery tickets on the plane. If you don’t want upsells there are airlines that cater to that as well.
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by alkonaut 1y ago
> Similar to eating a Danish pastry, like the Danish only made one type of pastry... Amusingly, the danish pastry would be called "wienerbrød" meaning: bread from Vienna. like the Viennese only made one type of pastry... Luckil

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