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by creesch 4mo ago
> compared to the results in the actual Gemini. Even those results have a lot to be desired, it is just buried deeper in the insanely verbose research report and impressive looking amount of sources you see move past. I recently have ha
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by creesch 4mo ago
> And to be fair 2: The other package repos also suck. If you mean other languages, then yeah a lot of similar issues and weirdness there as well. Maven dependencies in any complex project are a "fun" challenge as well. Though
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by creesch 4mo ago
In this case they seem to be firmly closing the path though > There will not be a separate process for submitting patches by other means. We do not want to create a shadow contribution system through issues, comments, email, or forks. E
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by creesch 4mo ago
> There is no support for accessibility for the visually (or otherwise) disabled in KDE Plasma's wayland extensions (and none in core wayland at all Can you clarify what you mean by this? In the process of KDE implementing Wayland s
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by creesch 4mo ago
> So what ends up happening is seniors become more heads down, getting things done, and juniors struggle to get time with more experienced coworkers. I just replied further down ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4835
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by creesch 4mo ago
From a different perspective your sample size is just one, your team/company. I started in a whole new team (as a senior) remotely during Covid which also contained juniors. They did incredibly well and were able to reach anyone remote
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by creesch 5mo ago
> it's not just about cost reduction, it's about solving some long-term structural deficiencies of industry. You know, I hate that this is a world where I have to ask myself if this is LLM written because it is one of those pat
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by creesch 5mo ago
Except that a lot of software likely is already broken in fun ways we currently don't know about. That is what makes it such a "fun" challenge. Supply chain attacks are one thing, but CVEs in already released software allowin
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by creesch 5mo ago
With Noctua I highly doubt that is the case given their track record for quality overall and all other information available around their design and engineering process. As far as I know based on all the information I have seen all the desi
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by creesch 5mo ago
> If you’re using agents to program, what are you doing while they work? If I am using agents I try to do something that is closely related to the task they are on. Otherwise I am just context switching once they are done and I want t
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by creesch 5mo ago
> The advantage of computers was that they didn't make human errors; Sure they do, computers repeatedly, quickly, and predictably do what they are programmed to do. Which includes any human errors in that programming.
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by creesch 6mo ago
> This might have to die in the era of AI, Sadly that is probably true. At the very least I'd add release cadence to it and the quality of releases. Mature, good software will have hotfixes and patch releases every now and then. But
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by creesch 6mo ago
> * last commit date. Newer is better To be honest, these days I have more faith in an application or library with a moderate development pace where maybe the last commit wasn't 2 seconds ago co-authored by claude (in the most blata
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by creesch 6mo ago
Slop spam, basic wordpress theme and the "browse tools" menu item does not work.
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by creesch 6mo ago
> That’s not to say that there is no microplastics pollution, the U-M researchers are quick to say. > > “We may be overestimating microplastics, but there should be none. There’s still a lot out there, and that’s the problem,”
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by creesch 6mo ago
Good news with a note: > That’s not to say that there is no microplastics pollution, the U-M researchers are quick to say. > > “We may be overestimating microplastics, but there should be none. There’s still a lot out there, and th
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by creesch 6mo ago
Be honest, did you just reply to the title and the title along even skipping the other comments?
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by creesch 7mo ago
> There has been a somewhat fast "fsync" library built around Linux's futex The article actually goes into that in quite a bit of detail about that.
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by creesch 7mo ago
I mean, that is not what they are writing buddy.
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by creesch 9mo ago
AMD has very decent drivers on Linux which are even open source. It is one of the main reasons people recommend people go with AMD cards for Linux.
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by creesch 10mo ago
That argument ignores the reality of the current market structure. The "competition and exit" theory only works when valid alternatives actually exist. Right now, we are dealing with effective monopolies and duopolies. You can&#x2
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by creesch 10mo ago
It really should be illegal. Companies aren't going to do it themselves as it is a huge potential revenue stream. So much so that it effectively has become the main focus of some companies who we as consumers still perceive as online s
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by creesch 11mo ago
Don't forget the tradition of having to migrate to a new API after a while because this one gets deprecated for "reasons". Not just a newer version, but a complete non backwards compatible new API that also requires its own s
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by creesch 1y ago
> One could argue whether Phones with the Google android were ever really open. In recent years, you can argue that android has no longer been open. In the early years of Android that argument would be much harder to make. To be clear, I
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by creesch 1y ago
> LLM can theoretically interpret and use the whole project based on this info. That's the thing though, LLMs really can't. At least not to a degree that they are able to act on it at a same level as when trained on everything
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by creesch 1y ago
Given it has been a few days it might be unlikely that you read it. But I figured I'd reply anyway in case you do. I mean this with no hostile intend, but have you honestly stopped and thought about what you did type down here? What I
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by creesch 1y ago
I am surprised nobody mentioned the curse of knowledge: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_knowledge It is actually a fairly well known phenomenon, certainly in educational circles. Being aware of it when you are w
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by creesch 1y ago
I am not sure if you thought through the implications of your proposal. LLMs are trained on examples in the training material. If something is new and isn't accessible because it lacks tangible examples the adoption rate will be lower,
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by creesch 1y ago
> I don't think they're teaching Java much in university or boot camps anymore so it doesn't matter much anyway That might just be the bubble you are in. Java is still one of the biggest languages used in corporations acr
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by creesch 1y ago
> Does the JS ecosystem really move so fast that you can’t wait a month or two before updating your packages? Really depends on the context and where the code is being used. As others have pointed out most js packages will use semantic v

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