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by hliyan 1y ago
The Microsoft Foundation Class library: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/mfc/reference/creating...
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by hliyan 1y ago
That's a good way to put it. A bit tedious, but the mental model is relatively simple. Reading and writing code feels a little closer to riding a bicycle than operating a Rube-Goldberg device.
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Same here. I frequently use "garner", "meticulous" and "surpass", along with copious usage of the em-dash to indicate breaks in the chain of thought. These are not buzzwords. They're words. What I do worry
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by hliyan 1y ago
A few thoughts: (1) As an engineer, I prefer to be managed and guided by someone who actually knows what I work on, preferably better than I know it. (2) A manager who actually understands the tech is often better at unblocking the team. (3
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by hliyan 1y ago
Been a huge React/SPA fan for many years, until the realization began to creep on me that building them was actually harder than building C++ MFC desktop applications (which I did back in the 2000's). Declarative markup was suppos
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by hliyan 1y ago
As I always say: a VM makes an OS believe that it has the machine to itself; a container makes a process believe that it has the OS to itself.
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by hliyan 1y ago
The last time this topic was on HN, some mentioned that many indigenous people had similar techniques with drum beats, e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIfLC5iudQ0 (this is a modern rendition though).
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by hliyan 1y ago
The "Yangs vs. Comms" episode comes to mind.
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Until they decide to default sync all files on disk to the cloud.
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by hliyan 1y ago
What next? Even my text files will be default synced to the cloud, and nothing will be beyond the prying eyes of advertisers, governments and data-hungry LLMs? To be fair, I already sync some of my text files to the cloud, but I choose whic
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by hliyan 1y ago
I predict the OpenAI legal team will argue that if a person should be held responsible, it should be the person who originally wrote the content about suicide that their LLM was trained on, and that the LLM is just a mechanism that passes t
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by hliyan 1y ago
This is the same age when I started watching Star Trek (original series). To say it had a profound impact on my interest in science and ethics is an understatement. English wasn't even my first language, but I think I picked up a lot o
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by hliyan 1y ago
Inclined to agree. If per-capita well-being and productivity continues to rise, is a GDP decline in proportion to population decline such a bad thing? The only bad thing I can think of is that we will see fewer children around than we'
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by hliyan 1y ago
In that case the answer is even simpler: what few young people I know (yes, N = small) have been the loudest in complaining about the feature. They seem to prefer "cinema quality" the same way some people of my generation like vin
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by hliyan 1y ago
This sounds like two completely different things. I know people from my parent's generation who would say that the scenes on new TV's look "weird" until the motion smoothing is switched off. This is neurological, not gen
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This phenomenon of pushing technology that end consumers don't want, seem to be driven by a simple sequence of incentives: pressure from shareholders to maintain/increase stock price -> pressure on business to increase market s
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by hliyan 1y ago
You might be right. We're seeing a paradox of more and more exclusive ownership of property for commercial interests (land, water, airwaves, orbits) and fewer and fewer exclusive ownership for individuals (rented homes, licensed softwa
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by hliyan 1y ago
Ah, it's like the good old days when operating systems like DOS didn't really make the distinction between executable files and data files. It would happily let you run any old .exe from anywhere on Earth. Viruses used to spread l
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by hliyan 1y ago
Hidden inside the article is another term that I think we'll start to hear a lot more in the coming days: "VibeScamming"
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What is the state of .NET Blazor?
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by hliyan 1y ago
A chill ran down my spine as I imagined this being applied to the written word online: my articles being automatically "corrected" or "improved" the moment I hit publish, any book manuscripts being sent to editors being
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by hliyan 1y ago
Would this be the calculation you used? https://g.co/gemini/share/0639e6364e50
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by hliyan 1y ago
Sri Lankan here. As of last year, the majority of Sri Lankans voted to send home the two historically establishment parties (who ran the country to the ground) and elected a third party into power with a 2/3rds majority in parliament a
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by hliyan 1y ago
That is not entirely accurate, as per the article: > TI will use about 1,700 gallons of water per minute when the new Sherman fab is complete, with plans to recycle at least 50% of that
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by hliyan 1y ago
This doesn't seem like the giant step I thought it was: > Unlike the costly bleeding edge 2 and 3 nanometer chips made by giants like TSMC, TI’s chips are made on cheaper, legacy nodes: 45 to 130 nanometers. What's worse: >
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by hliyan 1y ago
Smith's book sits on my bedside stand as I write this. In the hypothetical society he uses in the book (the one with the butcher and the baker), the flow of market information is indeed interpersonal (though he never explicitly states
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by hliyan 1y ago
This is great to hear, but perhaps comes too late for people like myself. Node.js has been by go-to platform from around 2014 until last year. But around September last year, I found myself thrust into the .NET ecosystem (due to a client pr
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The way I look at this is that the Adam Smith-ian free market makes the implicit assumption that market information (pricing, quality) disseminates via neutral, unbiased channels. However, the fact that influencing those channels is itself
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by hliyan 1y ago
On a slightly related note, has anyone else noticed an increase in social media attacks on Wikipedia, kind of like this? https://x.com/benlandautaylor/status/1954276775560966156 Post reads: "Periodic reminder
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by hliyan 1y ago
There has to be something wrong with a tech stack (Node + Lambda) that adds 100ms latency for some requests, just to gain the capability [1] to send out HTTP requests within an environment that almost entirely communicates via HTTP requests

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