bjourne

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by bjourne 2mo ago
> Despite this decade-old research, many organizations still rely on lines of code as a measure of developer productivity. No, they don't! It's easy to dispel myths when the myths are built on straw men. Dumb article.
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by bjourne 2mo ago
Wow, very impressive! But where is the bulldozer tool? I have some landscaping to do.
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by bjourne 2mo ago
Do you know of any major German industry for which energy costs amounts to even 10% of the labor costs? It's a rhetorical question intended to engage the common sense pathways of your cognitive system.
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Hank Green apologizes for relying too heavily on ChatGPT(mashable.com)
2 points by bjourne 3mo ago|0 comments
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by bjourne 3mo ago
Agreed. It has nothing to do with either tulips nor mania. Just some random musings.
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by bjourne 3mo ago
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYR
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by bjourne 3mo ago
Datacenter-scale GPGPU compute is extremely efficient compared to what you would achieve with a network of independently operated distributed heterogeneous devices spread across the world. Just imagine the overhead for ensuring that a node
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Wayland Protocols Support Table(absurdlysuspicious.github.io)
3 points by bjourne 3mo ago|0 comments
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by bjourne 3mo ago
Yeah, this is one thing you should absolutely never, ever do as a responsible developer. It makes future debugging much more difficult (destroys git blame) and also is a huge dump on previous contributors who don't get credit for their
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by bjourne 3mo ago
Hard to say since you are not presenting any concrete examples.
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by bjourne 3mo ago
You need to present some evidence of your claims that US tech workers does not benefit from immigration. If you can't there is no point wasting time with you since you're then a "true believer".
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by bjourne 3mo ago
Speed and expenses are non-factors for arena.ai.
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by bjourne 3mo ago
I'm skeptical. According to arena.ai, Fable 5 dominates almost every category : https://arena.ai/leaderboard Kimi K3 has an edge in WebDev but struggles to reach top 10 in many other categories.
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by bjourne 3mo ago
> I sincerely don't understand what the point of these laws are, when the cost of flagrant violations is no more than a slap on the wrist -- these really meager sums that serve as nothing more than something to point at and say &quo
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by bjourne 3mo ago
First you need to understand why C is a deeply flawed language. Google is your friend.
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by bjourne 3mo ago
There is a fine line between using an LLM to clean up grammar and spelling and using it for text generation.
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by bjourne 3mo ago
Nope.
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by bjourne 3mo ago
> 1. Even if the pleasantries/signature were edited out of your question, is that so bad? It pissed off znpy so bad that many years later they still recall on HN how irritated that made them! Now you could argue that letting znpy&#x
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by bjourne 3mo ago
It wasn't only LLMs it was also the downright user-hostile attitude prevalent on many sites on the SE network: https://ibb.co/WWgwNBpX Yeah, bro, I'm not a statistics professor so I can't provide you with the
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by bjourne 3mo ago
Bruh, software development isn't like boxing where your body reaches its pinnacle at 25. Self taught at < 30 you probably don't even know how little you know. You can either have your tantrum about the bots or you can continue
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by bjourne 3mo ago
I'm not claiming that no one can make a better music video for $100. I'm claiming that a random member of the HN peanut gallery can't make a better music video for $100. :)
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by bjourne 3mo ago
"or i can just not do it", because you can't! To much pride to admit that the bot beats your ass every day of the week ten times over when it comes to making music videos so the cop out is "nah, man, I just don't wa
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by bjourne 3mo ago
Eh, I'd like to see YOU make a better music video for $100 or less!
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by bjourne 3mo ago
I follow Matt Wolfe for the latest on gen AI: https://www.youtube.com/@mreflow Keeping up with everything in AI is impossible.
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by bjourne 3mo ago
By closing them.
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by bjourne 3mo ago
Porting a 0.5M lines code base to a completely different language in 11 days is... not bad. Jarred must not have been aware about the Things You Should Never Do. Or he thought "fuck it, what do those old geezers know about software dev
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Is There Any Hope for Asynchronous Design? (2024)(semiengineering.com)
2 points by bjourne 3mo ago|0 comments
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by bjourne 3mo ago
PARTY!!!!!!!!!!
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by bjourne 3mo ago
What about private knowledge such as my account password? I think you need to first rigorously define what you mean by "knowledge" and "subject".
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by bjourne 3mo ago
Noah's Ark may well be derived from the flood story in the Epic of Gilgamesh. In both stories the God(s) assert that the flood is a one-time event and promise to never repeat it. Many of the stories are probably amalgamations of differ

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