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by bartread 8mo ago
I can’t actually get to the article on the WiFi network I’m on but when I see “No skill. No taste.” you don’t sound like the butt of that punchline. Clearly you at least have skill, and I’m in no position to judge your taste. The people I h
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by bartread 8mo ago
> The AI is the one which made the mistake in the first place. Why would you assume it's guaranteed to find it? I didn't say they were guaranteed to find it: I said they were really good at finding these sorts of errors. Not
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by bartread 8mo ago
Yeah, but that's no different from any other aspect of office work, and more conventional forms of automation. Gains by one person are often offset to some extent by the laziness, inattentiveness, or ineptitude of others. What AI has d
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by bartread 8mo ago
In my experience the example you give here is exactly the kind of problem that AI powered code reviews are really good at spotting, and especially amongst codebases with tens of thousands of lines of code in them where a human being might w
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by bartread 8mo ago
> "I wish things I think are cool got more upvotes" HN has a very different personality at weekends versus weekdays. I tend to find most of the stuff I think is cool or interesting gets attention at the weekends, and you'l
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by bartread 8mo ago
> You could do worse. Perhaps you shouldn't encourage them. Based on recent software releases from Apple they might see it as a challenge.
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by bartread 8mo ago
> Option 1: Zhipu MaaS API (Recommended for Quick Start) > Use the hosted cloud API – no GPU needed. ... > Option 2: Self-host with vLLM / SGLang So, first off, this looks really cool and, given I'm looking for OCR at the
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by bartread 8mo ago
I mean, you've never used the desktop version of Deltek Maconomy, have you? Somehow I can tell. My point here is not to roast Deltek, although that's certainly fun (and 100% deserved), but to point out that the bar for how bad sof
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by bartread 8mo ago
This website: > There are no confusing time zones ordaylight savings time shifts to worry about. Also this website (and in the very next sentence - emphasis mine): > There are exactly 1,000 .Beats in a day, making each .Beat precisely
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by bartread 8mo ago
Thanks for the heads up.
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by bartread 8mo ago
Yeah, I'm literally looking at GitLab's "Migrate from GitHub" page on their docs site right now. If there's a way to import issues and projects I could be sold.
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by bartread 8mo ago
I think the last major outage wasn't even two weeks ago. We've got about another 2 weeks to finish our MVP and get it launched and... this really isn't helpful. I'm getting pretty fed up of the unreliability.
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by bartread 8mo ago
This would be incredible - please add this!
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by bartread 8mo ago
Whilst I disapprove of your use of the word "just", which I am strongly of the opinion should be banned in engineering circles... I have done something similar, albeit in a different context, to fix the behaviour of a poorly perfo
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by bartread 8mo ago
I'm more than old enough to remember the original GTA and GTA II, and I have friends who played and loved both of them. For me, I thought the first GTA had graphics from the past (I'd got too used to playing 3D shooters on PC - al
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by bartread 8mo ago
I’m not an Android user, but props to you for taking the feedback onboard and doing this, Anuj. Lot of respect for you. In an era of eroded privacy, intrusive notifications, and enshittification you’ve done a genuinely positive and helpful
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by bartread 8mo ago
> feel free to doubt. I don't doubt you at all. I once worked on a project that was a new sign-up process for a large retailer (~90k employees at the time, four figures worth of outlets, quite a few billions in turnover). There were
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by bartread 8mo ago
All of this and more. For example: quite apart from the fact of how much rocket fuel is it going to take to haul all this shit up there at the kind of scale that would make these space data centres even remotely worthwhile. I'm not aga
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by bartread 8mo ago
A lot of Microsoft stories have got a lot more traction than this one although, yes, I agree, the community skews anti-Microsoft. Nevertheless, I’d bet many of our employers are Microsoft shops to a greater or lesser extent.
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by bartread 8mo ago
Yeah, and you know how to know this is true? This story has already dropped three quarters of the way down the front page and has a grand total of 72 points. Topics that people really give a damn about on this site often garner 1000 - 2000
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by bartread 8mo ago
Nah, the hyrid thing has been a big deal for a long time. PhoneGap/Cordova was all the rage in 2012/13 when I was working in that area, and I even went to a VSIP event hawking our Visual Studio hybrid development solution. Once hy
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by bartread 8mo ago
And the irony of this is that a lot of the apps in the app store are hybrid apps that are basically web apps with a thin native wrapper around them because it's just so much less of a hassle to develop for both iOS and Android that way
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by bartread 8mo ago
Yeah. I have occasionally seen the opposite: worked a couple of places where leaders were so keen for people not to write code it became frustrating. But never had anyone breathing down my neck to spend more time writing code. I will say th
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by bartread 8mo ago
> No more AI thought pieces until you tell us what you build! Let me fix that for you: No more AI thought pieces until you SHOW us what you build! And I think it can safely be generalised to: No more thought pieces until you show us w
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by bartread 8mo ago
> As to actually acting on what they learn, within this context yeah that would be troubling. Given FBI Director Kash Patel is a Trump appointee, and I might even go so far as to say a Trump stooge, I think we have to assume that that is
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by bartread 8mo ago
You're very sensible, and that seems like an absolutely foolproof way of solving the problem. I went through a stage where I'd keep the multitool on my belt because the carry case comes with a handy belt loop but, depending on wha
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by bartread 8mo ago
Define what you mean by uncharted territory? - I've never used a new language or framework before? Nope - I've never used both a new language and a new framework at the same time? Nope - I've never tried to do real work in a
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by bartread 8mo ago
I don’t think it’s just the TSA tbh. A couple of years before the pandemic I managed to make it all the way from London Heathrow to Auckland, New Zealand, passing through Dubai and Brisbane on the way, with one of those USB rechargeable pla
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by bartread 8mo ago
> get really tiring after a few years. Yeah, completely exhausting. I get quickly worn out by environments where performatism (if that's a word) is too highly valued. For me, I tend to work at my best when I've got a clear remi
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by bartread 8mo ago
I'm not sure what you mean by this. As I mentioned in another comment, both ChatGPT and Claude to a pretty good job of explaining around the solution we're working on - because of the way I'm prompting them, no doubt - and it

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