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by bartread 6mo ago
> The deeper problem is that Microsoft keeps trying to solve GUI consistency at the framework layer I really don't think that's the fundamental issue. TFA points out, and I agree, that the fundamental issue is political: compet
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by bartread 6mo ago
That's good. I think if you can get the result you need with a technology that's already familiar to you then, in cases where that tech is still supported, that's going to be a win. RAG worked well for us in this recent case
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by bartread 6mo ago
> They said our docs were too big and for some reason their chunking process was failing. Why would the size of your docs have any bearing on whether or not the chunking process works? That makes no sense. Unless of course they're o
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by bartread 6mo ago
I completely agree on all points. On your parenthetical point, I also agree: some really weird camera selections, and frustrating dropouts, during the crucial moments of the launch. Nevertheless, a real triumph, and I particularly enjoyed t
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by bartread 6mo ago
> in a short while able to use coding agents will be the new able to use Excel. Yeah, but there’s “able to use Excel”, and then there’s “able to use Excel.” There is a vast skill gap between those with basic Excel, those who are profic
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by bartread 6mo ago
Small by today’s standards but back in y2k would still have taken about 24 seconds to load over the dial-up connection I had back then.
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by bartread 6mo ago
No worries - I'm glad it's helpful. Like anything, it's incredibly context specific, and you're always weighing up trade offs that may or may not turn out to be valid over the long term based on the best information you
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by bartread 6mo ago
Yeah, I know, and I know I've been guilty of it myself at times. It's a trap that's too easy to fall into. Something about aughts dev culture as well: I remember it being really common back then. Everybody had to appear to be
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by bartread 6mo ago
This is what gives me the warm fuzzies about the HN community: people jumping to wild conclusions about your domain and systems based on a 4 sentence comment. /s
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by bartread 6mo ago
Yeah, I did consider moving records to shadow tables, but - because of the nature of our data - it requires moving a lot of child records as well, so it's quite a lot of additional churn in WAL, and the same for restore. And this appro
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by bartread 6mo ago
I agree. Also good for small changes that need to be applied consistently across an entire codebase. I recently refactored our whole app from hard deletes to soft deletes. There are obviously various ways to skin this particular cat, but th
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by bartread 6mo ago
> Bashing media for having done their job badly Making a statement of fact about media coverage isn't "bashing". And when you start off your argument by characterising it that way you've already lost.
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by bartread 6mo ago
> It doesn't look professional when you loose your temper, this article is comparable to that. Nobody's lost their temper. In no world does the article read like anyone has. That's you applying your own interpretive lens t
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by bartread 6mo ago
The response is fine. Entitlement and, really, some of this crosses the line into bullying of the foundation and the maintainers, should be dealt with robustly. It will help to reset expectations around what's reasonable for the relati
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by bartread 7mo ago
@KaiserPro has pasted the link to someone else's heatmap, which is really good. Mine was just an Excel spreadsheet with a graph that I'd intended to write a blog about but then got demotivated on because I was too busy with other
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by bartread 7mo ago
"Slopocalypse": yeah, I like that. Easier to pronounce too. At any rate, it seems like GitHub is back up now, so we'll see how long that lasts.
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by bartread 7mo ago
Perhaps even AIslopalypse.
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by bartread 7mo ago
"It looks like you're trying to develop some software. Would you like help? - Get help with developing the software - Just develop the software without help [ ] Don't show me this tip again"
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by bartread 7mo ago
Fuck sake. Again? Sorry, I realise this comment isn't up to HN's usual standards for thoughtfulness and it is perhaps a bit inflammatory but... look, I'd bet the majority of us on this site rely on GitHub and I can't b
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by bartread 7mo ago
That is pretty neat. I guess this sort of unlocking and unblocking effort is exactly what’s needed for a revival. I’m sort of thinking of AmigaOS/Workbench as well although, perhaps because of what I would assume was always a much larg
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by bartread 7mo ago
Is IRIX experiencing a hobbyist revival or something? This is the second IRIX reference I’ve seen on here in the past two days, and there was a submission a day or two ago (c.f. a Voodoo video card?) as well. I haven’t personally encountere
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by bartread 7mo ago
This is a really interesting point that too often goes unexamined. I don’t know how to design and integrate systems and products, and write code, because I was born that way. I had to learn. Likewise, later on, I had to learn project manage
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by bartread 7mo ago
I used Confluence a mere decade ago and, if anything, the 10 years after you used it only magnified its flaws relatively to what else was by then available so you didn’t miss much, and I suspect we haven’t missed much since, except more blo
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by bartread 7mo ago
Also I bet the LLM didn't speak too fast, enunciate unclearly, have a busted and crackly headset obscuring every other word it said to you, or have an accent that you struggled to understand either. I was on the wrong end of some (pres
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by bartread 7mo ago
Looked at a certain way it's incredible that a 40-odd year old comedy sci-fi series is so accurate about the expected quality of (at least some) AI output. Which makes it even funnier. It makes me a little sad that Douglas Adams didn&#
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by bartread 7mo ago
I mean, whatever, man. This line, as one example: > For every HTML 2.0 you might have tried, you were just as likely to have got stuck in the dead-end of Flash. Like a lot of tech Flash had its moment in the sun and then faded away, but
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by bartread 7mo ago
Which sounds insane until you realise that you’ve just described in outline something very like the iron dome missile defence system, which actually exists in reality. (And of course you’ll get no argument from me that it’s insane that such
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by bartread 7mo ago
It’s funny: I’d never given it a moment’s thought until I saw this piece but I’ve realised I’m probably the same. The only time I’ve used a mouse since maybe 2012 or so is on the odd occasion I’ve fired up an FPS on a laptop rather than on
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by bartread 7mo ago
> You don't even write code, but you're getting a self-inflated sense of worth. That’s because when it comes to delivering value, code doesn’t matter: outcomes do. If I spend 10 hours hand coding something versus prompting an L
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by bartread 7mo ago
I mean, fine, I don’t love scrollfade either, and I realise this site is trying to prove a point but, FFS, most of the problems can be solved by forcing the scroll fade to complete in 100 - 300ms as opposed to some glacially slow multi-seco

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