boomlinde

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by boomlinde 3mo ago
Writing the compiler and standard library in Zig is probably the greatest dog fooding opportunity for the Zig maintainers. In doing so they get to feel the weight of every change they make to the language, for as long as they don't sim
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by boomlinde 4mo ago
I imagine that if/if-else as expressions and then necessarily their bodies as expressions would entail a much more fundamental change to the language. You then have to think of a way for the bodies to indicate a result. That, or you ha
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by boomlinde 4mo ago
I can't imagine that making the differences between the languages more subtle would improve the performance of chatbots. Subtleties aren't their strong suit.
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by boomlinde 4mo ago
I don't know anything about you, but I told you my experience a couple of messages back, which you effectively decided not to respond to.
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by boomlinde 4mo ago
The original claim was that "at eight they have limited comprehension of the world around them and limited language skills" and that they can't conduct debate is a relevant example of that.
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by boomlinde 4mo ago
Deciding on a product design that's easily marketable is also a marketing problem. You suggest adding it as a "bonus", but for whom? Recording what on the walk? How would you advertise that along the main feature people act
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by boomlinde 4mo ago
Not seeing the forest for the trees
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by boomlinde 4mo ago
They seem attracted to sliced bread in plastic bags here in the Nordics. They attach to the end of the bag so as to seal and hold it closed, regardless of the labeling on the bag. There are some positive side effects to this, which is proba
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by boomlinde 4mo ago
Unskilled people are not irrelevant if you intend on working with other people, in which case you will need to deal with them in one way or another. I will probably be dealing with them in the future more than in the past because chatbots
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by boomlinde 4mo ago
Chatbots enable unskilled developers to go in way out of their depth with little resistance. This creates problems of a new nature, not just more problems of the same nature as before. Previously in my career, a junior making a mistake and
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by boomlinde 4mo ago
You explicitly stated that "The backend does not exist."
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by boomlinde 4mo ago
If I use Outlook 365, Microsoft holds the keys. If I use Github, Microsoft holds the keys.
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by boomlinde 4mo ago
If you quietly patch the vulnerable software it's unlikely that I will ever hear about the vulnerability. CVE disclosure is important because that's how I learn of security problems in software I critically depend on. It's no
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by boomlinde 4mo ago
I guess that the perceived problem from a security perspective is that they're there, not that they're necessarily hard to fix once found.
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by boomlinde 4mo ago
Did you bother to read the resulting translation?
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by boomlinde 4mo ago
So this is is intended to smooth over the poor work, bad commit hygiene and bad commit messages of "agents", presumably not meaning just any agent but LLM-based ones specifically. I can already see the change. What I need to know
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by boomlinde 4mo ago
> We clearly learned from how Git does operations and emulated it in order to function interoperably So you didn't just let an AI go nuts with access to the source code of Git so as to produce a derivative work?
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by boomlinde 4mo ago
I'm directly addressing arguments made by the person I responded to. I'm not going to be taking you seriously, because you are not.
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by boomlinde 4mo ago
> The idea isn’t that transport magically disappears. The idea is that users don’t have to deploy, operate, pay for, or even think about transport. It's sharing this advantage with every other free, third party managed communicati
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by boomlinde 4mo ago
"Sending a message to your mother should not require infrastructure comparable to a small bank." To that end, requiring the use of GitHub for your application to work is a dead end. "Macaroni Messenger is a distributed messag
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by boomlinde 4mo ago
What other CAs implement ACME? Are there any free alternatives outside the US?
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by boomlinde 4mo ago
> Sure, I can post something that I'm working on or a blog post that I've written, but it's still framed as news to be discussed, not a social interaction. Discussion is of course a kind of social interaction. You'v
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by boomlinde 4mo ago
That time in the car could have been spent thinking of something worthwhile enough to write about.
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by boomlinde 4mo ago
Setting up your own filtering rules seems like a relatively tiny time investment compared to the productivity gains if you have a busy mail account. Other features that Gmail lack are IMO more important than magic filtering, like a proper t
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by boomlinde 5mo ago
What does "political" mean in this context? To me it seems obvious that yes, that is a political choice, as is every other choice a group of people make for themselves together.
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by boomlinde 5mo ago
> I don't select my engineering tools because they give me a bad feeling - I select them because they do the thing I want them to. With that in mind, is there anything that yt-dlp uses the Bun runtime for which it can not use the
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by boomlinde 5mo ago
A language game assumes mutually understood "rules" in the form of shared context that makes language that would otherwise be unclear meaningful. If the intended meaning is not conveyed, we're failing at playing a language ga
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by boomlinde 5mo ago
A much better way to say "I do care" is to be explicit about that. "It's an important question, but you should ask someone more knowledgeable."
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by boomlinde 5mo ago
If I am explicitly asking for someone's opinion and they respond with a slop grenade that has nothing to do with their opinion, I'm indifferent to the moral question whether they're acting in good faith. The practical effects
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by boomlinde 5mo ago
Yes, many of those are perfectly stable. For example, the 6502 has an undocumented instruction commonly known as "LAX" which loads both the A and X registers at the same time in a predictable manner in most addressing modes, in th

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