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by gwbas1c 4mo ago
Yes, and the attributes that TFA whines about are what make NUnit very powerful. [Values] on an enum argument creates useful tests. That being said, when I started my current job I replaced some complicated reflection-based code with a dict
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by gwbas1c 4mo ago
What became clearer the 2nd time around was that Walter White was a horrible criminal who's downfall was that he was greedy and didn't know when to stop.
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by gwbas1c 4mo ago
> because jurors in Seattle have become accustom to thinking that the only way to overcome reasonable doubt is to have it on video. Who serves on a jury frequently enough to become accustomed to anything? I've only been mailed for j
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by gwbas1c 4mo ago
FWIW: When I come across reflection code it's often a smell, especially when written by a novice developer. Quite often there's a much simpler (and less fragile) way to do something. Reflection is a powerful technique with many go
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by gwbas1c 4mo ago
> My guess is that Microsoft just does not think it is worth creating an update (especially since attributes usually do not affect runtime behavior). I wonder if this is why dotnet's startup time is so long? Might be worth revising
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by gwbas1c 4mo ago
Interesting. I hid the Ask Leo button eons ago when it showed up, so I never feel an "AI encroach." That being said, I've used "Ask Leo" a handful of time, with mixed results. It's really good for "Give me
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by gwbas1c 4mo ago
In a hierarchical organization, there's a lot less room at the top: There's only one CEO, only a handful of executive positions, ect. Not everyone needs to be a leader to be successful.
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by gwbas1c 4mo ago
Am I the only one who found agent's tone similar to Hal's tone towards the end of 2001? Agent: "I've written a detailed response about your gatekeeping behavior here" Hal (From 2001): "I know that you and Frank
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by gwbas1c 5mo ago
> Agentic tools collapsed one of those paths and not the other. The engineer’s advantage, the ability to translate a domain model into working code, is now cheap. The domain expert’s advantage, knowing what right looks like, is not. Not
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by gwbas1c 5mo ago
One of the things I miss from Slashdot (I used to read it before HN) were the short summaries. Thanks!
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by gwbas1c 5mo ago
I remember stores in the 1990s about the "internet-compatible mouse pad" and the lumbar company that changed its name to "lumbar.com." Granted, I can't find anything with quick Google searches, so I don't know
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by gwbas1c 5mo ago
> Maybe importing some snow machines from Tahoe? :-) That's not even funny: 1: Snowmaking equipment doesn't involve any chillers, they work by spraying a fine mist when the temperature is below freezing. 2: (Unless something ch
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by gwbas1c 5mo ago
Seems like it would make sense to only use subdomains of microsoft.com?
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by gwbas1c 5mo ago
I suspect it is impractical to refrigerate a large volume of water in short order. Heck, if I take 2-3 glasses of water out of my refrigerator's water dispenser, it's at tap temperature. To put it differently, think through what i
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by gwbas1c 5mo ago
See my top-level comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48238900
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by gwbas1c 5mo ago
This happens when a country is preparing to go to war. It's what happened with nuclear research around the start of the Manhattan project.
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by gwbas1c 5mo ago
I hate to say read TFA; but it's very clear these are related devices. They target hacking, but at different levels of the stack.
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by gwbas1c 5mo ago
I think it's hard to see the change in US toy stories looking at articles (and discussions) like this. There's always been turnover in retail; very few stores and chains last a lifetime. (I've always suspected it has to do
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by gwbas1c 5mo ago
> So, if I want to grow my company, shouldn't I hire MORE programmers? You take the same pot of money and allocate it differently: 2010s: Hire 10 programmers 2020s: Hire 9 programmers and pay for the best AI money can buy The 9 prog
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by gwbas1c 5mo ago
Do LLMs have that kind of empathy? Do they have motivations? I'm treating them like a computer program or database that happens to have a human language-based UI; but not something that I can "pull on heartstrings." Have I be
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by gwbas1c 5mo ago
FYI: If you're in a similar situation, think very carefully before you build your own. The $17000 might sound like a lot; but when you take into account your time and risk tolerance, renting might be a much better solution.
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by gwbas1c 5mo ago
"Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes."
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by gwbas1c 5mo ago
I think the bigger issue is the motivations for posting AI slop. To me, a lot of these responses aren't made in good faith; instead, they come from bots that are some kind of training experiment. (Like when a bot responds to one of my
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by gwbas1c 5mo ago
It really depends an what you're doing. If you have a small aquarium, (5 or under gallons,) buying water instead of treating it yourself may be easier, and cheaper. (Aquarium chemicals aren't cheap.) Personally, I've been tem
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by gwbas1c 5mo ago
I wonder if there's formatting that's been stripped; because when I tried to read it, it looked like I was hitting headings and had to guess at possible line breaks. Thanks, it really made my morning looking at it.
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by gwbas1c 5mo ago
They're very explicit that Flipper 1 isn't a "v2", but a device that targets different use cases.
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by gwbas1c 5mo ago
> your product relies on the output of the industry it kills I disagree, Google doesn't rely on a massive amount of recipe websites; they rely on Google and exploit it. More importantly: These recipes exist from many sources, not
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by gwbas1c 5mo ago
We just won't get countless recipe websites where you have to scroll, scroll, scroll through slop about someone's day to read a scraped recipe that every other website has. This is just disruption.
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by gwbas1c 5mo ago
Pink Floyd is happy to sell you a remastered CD. They hated the first CD pressings because they weren't mastered correctly.
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by gwbas1c 5mo ago
> Things like removing empty directories makes that clear. I hope that's disabled by default. Something like: "turning this option on may reduce file size by a small percent, but could impact compatibility." I suspect the

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