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by gammalost 2mo ago
What is it about the code that suggests it is vibe-coded? Is it the commit messages? Is it the large comment blocks? I'm asking because I almost never read code written by SWEs.
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by gammalost 2mo ago
As someone with english as my second language this style is just too much to bother. Sure, I get that it is elegant and precise. But for me it results in stilted reading. Hence I disagree with the "Never write for your audience" p
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by gammalost 3mo ago
My point is that something is not useless if it has the potential for future use. I would, for example, not call the example in the article (in any stage of its development) useless because it has the potential. Same for any possible paradi
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by gammalost 3mo ago
I do not know how it is in other countries, but in Sweden hospice is for a calm end. You are dying regardless
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by gammalost 3mo ago
I do not get the "against usefulness" portion. The article still discusses the projects she deems "useless" in relation to their future potential usefulness.
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by gammalost 4mo ago
At the risk of sounding a bit pretentious: I think the relationship a lot of people have with books can best be described as commodity fetisishm. People see some value in the physical books themselves. They are sacred, discarding them becom
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by gammalost 5mo ago
Well, yeah, 99% of arXiv papers were not written for me or you. They were written for someone who works in a niche within a niche. That's (in my view) the beauty of research.
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by gammalost 5mo ago
Now I am interested in playing a board game that is not turn-based
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by gammalost 6mo ago
> You signed up with a hosting company; they provided you with a bunch of different ways to upload files; your website was hosted. But that is not self-hosting. You're still using a cloud service. The problem is how to run something
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by gammalost 7mo ago
Do you suggest small businesses send tattoos and freshly baked bread in the mail? I do not how they benefit from it
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by gammalost 7mo ago
Seems easy to address with a simple rule. Push one PR; review one PR
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by gammalost 7mo ago
More: If you want to spend time with your grandkid please do not just sit besides him, phone in hand. If you do not want to then that's fine
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by gammalost 7mo ago
No, the author used Howl for their normal work and Nano occasionally. I would guess when working in the terminal
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by gammalost 7mo ago
Sweden would have had its own nuclear bombs if not for the political opposition. That's at least one more that would have been on the list.
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by gammalost 7mo ago
It is really interesting how great and also how terrible LLMs can be at the same time. For example, I had a really annoying bug yesterday, I missed one character, "_". Asking ChatGPT for help led to a lot of feedback that was argu
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by gammalost 7mo ago
The argument is based on the assumption that knowing what DNS, SSH, etc., is an innate good for the average person. But why should it be? The average user does not have the time or interest to run arbitrary code on their phone. In the sam
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by gammalost 7mo ago
I do not know what you mean. The US and US-based companies have now become a liability. Global politics change on a day-by-day basis, EU has frozen trade agreement discussions because the tariff situation is unclear. There are open discussi
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by gammalost 8mo ago
I do not buy the whole ergonomic portion for most split keyboards. It feels like a justification after the fact. That said I used to use a lily58 and for me it was great. I have a lot of papers, notes and books on my desk. A small easily mo
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by gammalost 9mo ago
I recentry read a book that presentes its content as ramble poetry, a post-ironic reference heavy text. I feel that is a suitable description for this readme page.
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by gammalost 11mo ago
Unfortunatly the site is sloppy when explaining the subject. For example > Let's say we have the following binary string. s=00000000000000000000 It is obviously not random since there are no ones in the string. Therefore, we must ch
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by gammalost 11mo ago
Based on what?
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by gammalost 1y ago
If its a random ID then I'd argue that all of them are equally close to each other. With that said, I do not know how GUIDs are generated
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by gammalost 1y ago
> You still need to learn the names of models, understand their use cases, concepts like MoE, then you have different architectures like diffusion vs transformers, agents etc Why? When you think you might need something just search for i
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by gammalost 1y ago
If you care about reducing the amount of back and forth then just use QUIC.
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by gammalost 1y ago
Why would they not use a company laptop in the first place? "They ran out" is no excuse
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by gammalost 1y ago
I agree. I feel that Springer is not doing enough to uphold their reputation. One example of this being a book on RL that I found[1]. It is clear that no one seriously reviewed the content of this book. They are, despite its clear flaws cha
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by gammalost 2y ago
I think it is just a question of community. Sure, you can make your own website, but people will (most likely) not read it. So what is the point? Some do it for the love of writing, but that is a niche at best. On social media, you just com
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by gammalost 2y ago
Well, isn't that a summary of most things? Most things worth learning are hard, but many things not worth learning are also hard. So we have to prioritize what hard things are worth learning. Math is low on the list for many people f
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by gammalost 3y ago
Your application is already most likely a big binary blob of uncertain origin that's hard to reproduce. Containers allow these big binary blobs of uncertainty to at least be protected from each other.
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by gammalost 3y ago
It is a security measure. Sure it doesn't secure anything in the container itself. But it secures the container from other containers. Code can (as proven) not be trusted, but the area of effect can be reduced.

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