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by brabel 7mo ago
> is about a year old now, so it should be in prime shape A 1yo project may be in good shape if written by just one dev, maybe a few. But if you have many devs, I can guarantee it will be messy and buggy. If anything, at 1yo it is probab
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by brabel 7mo ago
Because everyone got updates immediately. If the default was 7 days, almost no one would get updates immediately but after 7 days, and now someone only finds about after 7 days. Unless there is a poor soul checking packages as they are publ
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by brabel 7mo ago
I had a neighbor once that had 2 cats. The only thing they seemed to care about was catching birds and chasing squirrels. They only caught birds but they did catch them often. Many cats are exceptionally good at catching mice and bringing t
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by brabel 7mo ago
> An important aspect of comparison is that nobody is going to tell you that your surgery is noticeable or looks bad. Just post a picture on the internet and let strangers comment. You will absolutely get honest feedback, but you probabl
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by brabel 7mo ago
You are confusing low cost with low competence. Some developers in India and Brazil cost a fourth of an American one but may be just as competent. Yes, the average is lower because of the lower barrier to entry and differences in cultural p
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by brabel 7mo ago
As someone who really hopes developers get much more productive in our team, I would hope we are able to finally keep pace with the desired roadmap and fix bugs at a much faster rate so customers don’t have to wait too long for things to ge
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by brabel 7mo ago
The Swedish government is very pro renewables, yet it is initiating large investments in nuclear because they believe it is the only way to ensure enough electricity for the larger and larger need for it in the near future. I’d say they hav
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by brabel 7mo ago
> No one in the industry has taken COCOMO seriously for nearly 2 decades. The funny thing is that we've just discussed how people do take it seriously. It's just that you don't like that. And what do you offer as an altern
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by brabel 7mo ago
They gave a widely accepted way to estimate value, and your counter argument is that that is inaccurate. Fine but how can you be confident about that? I see only one way which is for you to come up with a better way and then show that by yo
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by brabel 7mo ago
You seem to be spreading propaganda yourself by accusing Opera of something I have not seen evidence of. Are you saying this just because the company is Chinese?
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by brabel 7mo ago
That's so cool. I already liked Coalton, and after this change I think it's definitely going to be even better. Can't wait to try it.
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by brabel 7mo ago
How convenient for Trump that now all Europe now has a pretext to send the help they were asked for.
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by brabel 7mo ago
Your theory is easily disproven by looking at other countries with far more volatile economies than the USA. They almost always have much higher fertility rates no matter how bad their economies are. But don’t feel bad: every single theory
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by brabel 7mo ago
Oh what amazing advice! Never thought to ask her why! Seriously: she is really good at evading conversations like that. I have done all I could imagine to get her to actually talk about kids and our non existing intimate relationship. She a
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by brabel 7mo ago
You must never rely on AI itself for authorization… don’t let it run on an environment where it can do that. I can’t believe this needs to be said but everyone seems to have lost their mind and decided to give all their permissions away to
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by brabel 7mo ago
There are plenty of competitors! I’ve been using Copilot, RovoCLI, Gemni, and there’s OpenAI thing.
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by brabel 7mo ago
I used to be really excited about GraalVM but this, together with limitations in what Java code can run (reflection must be whitelisted - i.e. pain) made me run away from it. I do use Go, but my favourite substitute for Java is actually Dar
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by brabel 7mo ago
Yeah, Java is pretty fast despite the fact that it still has these kinds of obviously suboptimal things going on. I love how Zig, D and Rust do exactly what you say: parse the format string at compile time, making it super efficient at runt
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by brabel 7mo ago
Yeah a lot of us were at the point the other guy is now and thinking that writing code by hand is still an acceptable way to go. It just isn’t anymore unless you can justify spending 5 times more time in a task just because you have some pr
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by brabel 7mo ago
I don’t have kids. We are mid 40s now so chances are nearly zero. Wife does not even want sex for a few years. I have no idea what the problem is. If you know, please let me know!!!
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by brabel 7mo ago
What do you mean? MIT is essentially as open as you can get. The worst that can happen is that they will relicense, eventually, to force big users to pay, but when that happens everybody knows how it goes: some consortium of other big compa
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by brabel 7mo ago
Yes it's great for the EU, but not so great for the Mercosur, is it? The EU wants them to buy products from the EU, but if the Mercosur acted the same way as the EU does with regards to agriculture, would mean they would also "pro
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by brabel 7mo ago
Well different discussion, but look at the Mercosur agreement and all the opposition from farmers in the EU. They are extremely protectionist when it comes to agriculture, at least.
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by brabel 7mo ago
You know, this seems actually useful. I have to tell people some uncomfortable truths sometimes and being too blunt makes people think that I am rude or mean. Translating it like this may help me come up with something that delivers the mes
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by brabel 7mo ago
Who isn't?
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by brabel 7mo ago
You need to go back to LLM tools. Before MCP, you could write tools for your LLM to use by normally using Python, something like this: @tool def do_great_thing(arg: string) -> string: // todo The LLM now unders
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by brabel 7mo ago
I also agree. In fact, I was hitting a limit on my ability to ship a really difficult feature and after I became good at using Claude, I was able to finally get it done. The last mile was really hard but I had documented things very well s
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by brabel 7mo ago
Could you just be paranoid about it and seeing things where they aren’t? I can’t imagine someone using AI to comment on HN!
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by brabel 7mo ago
I for one am happy the US is not being as hypocritical as to call its military department the Department of Defense anymore. The US has initiated or participated directly in many, many wars since the UN was founded, and none of them were in
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by brabel 7mo ago
I asked ChatGPT to compute the rate of total deaths (civilians + military) since the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Here's what it came up with: Period. Approx average deaths from war 1815–1913 ~5–15 per 100k per year 19

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