gwbas1c

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by gwbas1c 2mo ago
There's a fallacy that we all fall into: We think that our job is about turning the crank, and that the best crank turners will stay around the longest. It's not: I've been involved in quite a few projects that get abandoned,
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by gwbas1c 2mo ago
> Not to mention, you can run many agents in parallel. Resulting in your overall code production throughput (the issue you're raising) being greater. AI isn't a dishwasher: Context switching among multiple tasks has a huge cost
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by gwbas1c 2mo ago
I used to use one for Android. It worked for about 6 weeks, then stopped working, then a few months later I tried it and it worked for about 6 weeks before stopping working again!
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by gwbas1c 2mo ago
What kind of search do you mean? For example, a couple of days ago I described a problem with my refrigerator's water dispenser to Google Gemini, and it told me exactly how to fix it. I then went looking for a video and fixed the thing
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by gwbas1c 2mo ago
I have a pair of Sony WH-1000XM4 headphones, and they are so comfortable that I can wear them all day. They also get so quiet that they made me realize that I have tinnitus.
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by gwbas1c 2mo ago
(Lesson from experience here) Years ago I built a "bells and whistles included" webserver with a development environment. https://github.com/GWBasic/objectcloud . (I moved it over to Github after I abandoned i
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by gwbas1c 2mo ago
Regarding "Optimize Globally" At my current job we generally use LINQpad for scripting, and have a lot of tests that use LINQPad scripts. When I joined, there was a test that relied on an "R" script. Now, "R" m
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by gwbas1c 2mo ago
> The engine and IDE themselves are written in C#, but the language you use inside ArcadeMaker to program your games is my custom language, not C#. Is there a plugin system that allows me to code in C#? (Or F#, or perhaps any of the othe
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by gwbas1c 2mo ago
When I tried Claude 5 (Fable?) (In Visual Studio via Copilot,) the results weren't as bad as a lot of the comments here... But it was super-slow. IE, so slow that I could code faster than it, negating the entire point of using AI to be
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by gwbas1c 2mo ago
When I worked for Syncplicity, we offered an on-site version for "cloud" storage specifically for this reason. (Ok, not specifically for this reason, it was because customers demanded it and an on-site version of our product was a
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by gwbas1c 2mo ago
Careful, this statement is misleading: > The leaks that come from forgetting to free something go away entirely. Not quite: In manually-managed and referenced counted languages with destructors, releasing resources, (open file handle, op
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by gwbas1c 2mo ago
"Stuff you should Know" recently did an episode on sardines. I tried a tin because it was cheap, and they're better than I anticipated.
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by gwbas1c 2mo ago
The article explains that other medical phenomenon cause the same hallucinations, such as macular degeneration.
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by gwbas1c 2mo ago
Honestly, I didn't do much with webforms other than a "Hello World" project. I hated it; fortunately at the time my paid gig was Winforms. (C# Desktop.) Webforms just hid too much of "the web" to be useful, IMO. Sil
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by gwbas1c 2mo ago
A lot of the people who oppose this technique don't understand context: The right solution to your problem often involves understanding the problem you're trying to solve! In my case, I work on two Blazor websites: One is standard
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by gwbas1c 2mo ago
Ugh, I can't paste into the form. I wanted to have fun with other people's posts here!
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by gwbas1c 2mo ago
I think that just goes to prove that content providers and ad providers could defeat ad blockers if they worked together. (And perhaps made the ads less offensive so people don't have motivation to block them.)
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by gwbas1c 2mo ago
That's not a good faith suggestion. (It's impractical and you know it.) The problem is that French companies contract with telemarketing firms in France. Banning incoming calls from Morocco doesn't solve the telemarketing p
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by gwbas1c 2mo ago
> On the other hand, France's new law has raised concerns in Morocco, where Employment Minister Younes Sekkouri, said in March that between 40,000 and 50,000 jobs were at risk in the country’s call centers. Sekkouri said the French
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by gwbas1c 2mo ago
I really appreciate this: > 1. What Wyzer Is, In One Paragraph... > 2. Why Make a New Language At All?... Far too often I see projects on HN where, on a casual skim, I just can't figure out "the point." This is clear an
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by gwbas1c 2mo ago
In this article, it's very obvious that a person put a lot of time into writing about their feelings; something that AI doesn't do. Your statement is unfair and mean: The biggest flaw in the article is that the author is unable
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by gwbas1c 2mo ago
Around the time I turned 11 or so, my dad bought be a "how stuff works" book; definitely written to a "newspaper" reading level. It was paperback, not a lot of pictures, and generally held my interest. I think it targete
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by gwbas1c 2mo ago
Moving is a pain in the ass , especially in today's world where we just have a lot of stuff. I moved a lot in my 20s, and really grew to hate moving. One year I moved into a place that I hated (because I could just move again) and whe
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by gwbas1c 2mo ago
Inflation is more probable than deflation: Meaning, over 30 years, we're more likely to hit a period of inflation where the value of your house (in dollars) will go up even though the real value (in your earning potential) might stay t
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by gwbas1c 2mo ago
What problem is this trying to solve? > Data with an immutable schema. > TSON (Typed Schema Object Notation) is a schema system with immutable, hash-pinned schemas whose definitions are themselves data. A document names its schema, th
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by gwbas1c 2mo ago
Which if you know that's the case, it's a good way to f*ck with the police. Travel to the dispensary and be empty handed when the search comes. After 2-3 searches you file a cease-and-desist.
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by gwbas1c 2mo ago
> “Every child in this video is home tonight because Flock gave officers the right information at the right second,” ... “That’s the mission. That’s the whole company. I wouldn't trade that for anything.” I think it's clear tha
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by gwbas1c 2mo ago
I find there's a lot of variation between LLMs / models... But there's also some psychology in play too; that we (engineers) see a lot: Some people just let their imagination run away and forget to "do"; without som
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by gwbas1c 2mo ago
> The coding questions that require an "aha!" moment are very similar to brain teasers, and should also be avoided. Those are usually the first hints I give; mostly because I'm concerned about "everything else" i
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by gwbas1c 2mo ago
> difficulty of interview & difficulty of job Define "difficulty of job" I'm going to assume you mean "people problems;" because the best way a team avoids people problems is by interviewing very, very carefu

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