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by honr 3mo ago
AI does change the equation. It frees a solo developer to focus more on the big picture. BUT... with the current generation of AI agents, I think you are still right. You still need a second (or ideally more; I'd say 5) developer(s)
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by honr 3mo ago
If you still wonder why there are sudden attacks on Mullvad, I "heard" there are Chinese (in addition to the others; dual- / triple- vendoring is key) LLM-based tools to check for swarm origins and campaigns.
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by honr 4mo ago
Agreed, mostly. To me the effectiveness of window managers is a bellwether of the control aspect. So, IMO, if you compare them on control or on the quality of window managers, you'll get the same result. Linux has ended up with many
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by honr 4mo ago
Honestly, at fundamental level, it is less of that need being dependent on third parties, and more of not having at least ONE set of consistent libraries (or one big library). To me the real value add of golang's std lib is not that i
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by honr 4mo ago
The C++ std lib is no longer terrible. It is really at a usable level these days. Not fun, but totally bearable. The motivation for C++ has never been the quality of the language or the std lib anyways, so it can happily chug along in ma
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by honr 4mo ago
C++ (the language) and its extreme complexities (each perhaps added for a good reason at the time, and then held together with backward compatibility as glue) reduced itself to gcc and clang. Not the std lib. The std lib is, de facto, rem
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by honr 4mo ago
I believe by a wide margin the most significant long term problem with rust is lack of a good and comprehensive standard library, or a FEW set of crates that provides a really good set. We are in the age of supply chain risks and I persona
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by honr 5mo ago
Cloudtop to run builds, g4 commands, etc., and srcfs / srcfsn to actually write code. (caveat: I have never used neovim, so I don't know if that is different).
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by honr 5mo ago
When using AI, I often find myself preferring either plain text (no markup whatsoever; just manual / text editor formatting of text blocks) or simple html to markdown, depending on the situation. To the point that I rarely see any poi
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by honr 5mo ago
I do get pleasure from typing out the code in some languages (and not in others; hello javascript, java!). Similarly, I love writing text with a calligraphy or fountain pen. However, I can't dedicate too of the much work / busin
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by honr 6mo ago
Of course it can be used. But it is very buggy (as in missing or not well-though-out behaviors), which is unlike the typical polish Apple human interaction folks deliver. For example switching between Spaces and then between apps and wind
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by honr 6mo ago
This might have been the case a couple of years ago, but it is certainly not true any more, if you use AI [even occasionally] to manage some of your default.nix and flake.nix files. I learn by getting AI to edit it (default.nix for example
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by honr 6mo ago
Why would you use that feature? MacOS doesn't REALLY have multiple desktops (Spaces). That is merely a pre-release feature (for 10 years or so, I think). As evidenced by the many critical user journey bugs it has that don't get
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by honr 6mo ago
Nix is not the same as nixos, and in this case the distinction matters. It has to step carefully around Apple's updates. This further highlights the fact Apple lacks the same quality package management as some linux distros. Nixpkgs
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by honr 7mo ago
The current market share shows how far you can go with just being a better Java. If (or when? I haven't checked recently) a decent and well-thought-out LLVM backend emerges for it, ideally with some new underlying complexity seeping th
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by honr 8mo ago
"I Want to Wash My Car. The Car Wash Is 50 Meters Away. Should I Walk or Drive?" I found it curious to ask the model to provide its reasoning in that turn, without changing the verdict. Here is one response: To provide the full p
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by honr 8mo ago
That won't change until top-notch, simple (i.e., without 100 transient dependencies) org parsing and formatting libraries for a few key languages (go, javascript / typescript, and python; maybe also C++ and java) become available.
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by honr 8mo ago
I went to school in a poor country, and live in the US. The education budget was very low when / where I grew up, and it is pretty hefty where my kids go to school. I occasionally visit their school and volunteer to help. That has g
49.
by honr 4y ago
Power conversion efficiency is at best the 3rd or 4th important factor here. The first factor would be the hodgepodge of wall dongles one needs to own and maintain (plus the cost of buying a dongle for each device that doesn't have one
50.
by honr 5y ago
I keep checking Amethyst every couple of years. Still not remotely comparable to i3 or other linux window managers. For one, it's extremely slow. I think it is about two orders of magnitude slower to say, move to another desktop&#x2
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by honr 5y ago
I use both. Here is my take on it: 1. Mac has shit for a window manager. When I focus and get in the flow, Mac's window manager becomes a massive showstopper for me. My productivity lives and dies by my window manager customizations
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by honr 6y ago
Heh, most of my emacs shortcuts start with ; Perhaps ironically, mac OS text input boxes are where I use most of the traditional emacs C- /M- keybindings these days.
53.
by honr 6y ago
It is certainly true that languages designed for simplicity (such as go, clojure, and to some extent python) exhibit far less friction when composed in minimal editors, than [overly?] verbose/complicated languages such as Java. However
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by honr 7y ago
I'm not sure about the genetics of it (none of my family members seem to agree with me), but I also perform computer tasks far better in a dim light. A friend of me, who is also a night-owl, has the theory that when we get exposed t
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by honr 7y ago
I kept seeing the following problem with several different LED lights we were installing until I found one that was better: Take your phone and take a video of the lights when on (normal framerate should be enough, try slow-motion for furth
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by honr 8y ago
Not really surprising to some of us. Definers Public Affairs and a couple of other firms have been working hard for it. At some point the hacker news community might become more immune to paid-for opinion shaping, but that time is not now
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by honr 8y ago
So, I couldn't understand what "exposed" means in that article. Was any user's data obtained by someone not authorized to do so, or merely access to the data was possible?
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by honr 8y ago
Perhaps a correction, if we are talking about the phrase "don't be evil", literally, I can see it on: https://abc.xyz/investor/other/google-code-of-conduct.html Perhaps "erased" is not qui
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by honr 8y ago
Compared to tilting my head to the second monitor, it is measurably faster to type ^3 (Control + 3) to switch to the space/virtual-desktop where my email window is open (~1.5sec vs ~0.7sec). If one has to Alt+Tab or Command+Tab through
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by honr 8y ago
Please kindly cut the BS and use the link and title of the study. The magazine it's published in seems to be the second highest impact magazine of its field (sorry I haven't done research in cellular biology to know the magazine

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