barrkel

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by barrkel 4mo ago
You don't need to work, but you need to have value in your tribe. You need the respect of peers. You need to feel part of a team. You need to feel like you contribute something to the lives of those you love.
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by barrkel 4mo ago
Working to keep a roof over the head of yourself and those you love is an identity. It's social proof that you have value, that you can do something for someone else.
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by barrkel 4mo ago
It's my understanding that a big part of WSL1 performance loss comes from the relatively thick layered filesystem architecture on Windows. Since git and nodejs are both common in modern development and are expected to work efficiently
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by barrkel 4mo ago
The trouble is thinking in terms of class. It encourages one to generalize from instances to the group, and from the group to individuals. Cherry-pick your examples and you smear the group. Invoke the smeared group, and you target the indiv
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by barrkel 4mo ago
It only goes into the factory owner's pocket to the degree that the factory has no competitors (has pricing power) and the factory owners don't work for the factory (i.e. RSUs and the like). Marx is great at building a narrative t
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by barrkel 4mo ago
You had to deal with two flavors of pointer, near and far. Far pointers came with segment selector, for accessing more than 64k. Your choice of memory model influenced the defaults. You might use near pointers for internal references in a m
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by barrkel 4mo ago
Rear view cameras are not a replacement for rear view mirrors, is my point. You use the two for different things. A rear view camera trying to replace a mirror would need a cleaning and wiping solution, something that we use rear window wip
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by barrkel 4mo ago
Containment of the execution environment isn't really the issue. It's API tokens that were designed with coarse permission scoping so agents get more power than they need. The risk isn't that your machine gets hacked. It&#x27
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by barrkel 4mo ago
A statement that some proposition is true or false is usually less useful than a new framework for understanding the class of problem. A machine that takes longer and longer to prove propositions in ever more inscrutable ways is hardly usef
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by barrkel 4mo ago
Rear view mirrors are needed all the time. We're not talking about reversing cameras here.
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by barrkel 4mo ago
Quietly. Clean. Honest. Sharp take.
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by barrkel 5mo ago
I learned about machine code and two's complement from the Machine Code for Beginners book. It gave me a head start in college 10 years later. With it, I got my Amstrad CPC 464 to run a loop maybe 100 faster than BASIC, and I was enlig
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by barrkel 5mo ago
It's because Japanese society frowns on entrepreneurism, which means innovation needs to be attached to an existing company.
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by barrkel 5mo ago
Immature kids - and kids are by definition immature - make dumb decisions. Certainly there needs to be repercussions, the kids need to learn, and need to be warned in advance, but kids will do dumb things. You can talk about news coverage,
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by barrkel 5mo ago
See, I'd say something like: In the latest commit, refreshTokenExpiry should be snake case. Fix and make a note to do that in $LANG. Or otherwise scope the rule. The point is you don't need to be super verbose about it and you g
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by barrkel 5mo ago
I've been coding since 1990 myself. But I'm all in on AI. I'm long past the need to code everything by hand; I've written editors, compilers, DOS TSR routines in assembler, disassemblers, debuggers, all sorts. I don&#x27
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by barrkel 5mo ago
There are people who move into the future, and there are those who stick their heads in the sand. It was ever thus. There's still room for something vaguely IDE shaped, but it's not going to be code oriented.
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by barrkel 5mo ago
IDEs are dead in the age of agentic coding. Trying to find the stable point of agentic coding is like trying to catch a falling knife. Will you still need to look at diffs? I for one no longer make any edits, as a policy - I either tell the
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by barrkel 5mo ago
The problem isn't really consciousness, it's qualia. Specifically, pain and suffering. If we create a machine that is able to print on the terminal 'I feel pain', how do we know when to believe the machine is feeling pai
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by barrkel 5mo ago
Is this mostly a mixup between annualized revenue and booked revenue? If so, this is a big pile of nothing. Anyway, the article looked like it was written by Claude and after I read what were clearly references to two different things, I ca
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by barrkel 5mo ago
This is what /remote-control does in Claude Code, once it's running on your main machine. You can open it up in the phone app.
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by barrkel 5mo ago
It's one thing for something to be mandatory original equipment, it's another for them to be necessary for passing an inspection (MOT / roadworthiness certificates). It's not mandatory in many countries, AFAIK.
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by barrkel 5mo ago
> before computer science was a profession, it was physicists and mathematicians and academics who programmed. Professionals. The professionalism has faded away as demand for software developers skyrocketed. This is revisionist nonsense.
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by barrkel 5mo ago
I mean, bazel is great and I would use it when building a codebase from scratch, but the win from switching from one build system to another is, at best, some efficiency, and you need a lot of aggregate efficiency gains to pay for effort.
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by barrkel 5mo ago
The first thing is hermeticity and and what it implies: caching. That if targets are a strict function of inputs, and inputs can be hashed, then you can reliably cache them - including test results! The second thing is distributed caching.
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by barrkel 5mo ago
I've switched to emacs and I no longer use IDEs. This is because I do all my edits, as a personal policy, via LLM. I mostly use emacs for magit (I work on a git-on-borg repo).
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by barrkel 5mo ago
You want bazel. Once you've internalized the bazel (blaze) system, you want all builds and tests to work that way.
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by barrkel 5mo ago
Downvotes: IKR? It's a signal that there's a lot of motivated reasoning. I don't think that many people have built apps against these models. I mean, I use a heavily quantized version of qwen3 for image classification, captio
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by barrkel 5mo ago
Local models are extraordinarily expensive if you're not maximizing throughput, and you're not going to be maximizing it. Local models need to be resident in expensive RAM, the kind that has fat pipes to compute. And if you have a
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by barrkel 5mo ago
She was released; that means the charge was a mistake, and it caused damage to an innocent person.

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