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by jeswin 10mo ago
In a country with dozens government supplied IDs, Aadhaar has been a godsend for the common man. It's one card to open a bank account, buy a SIM card, apply for a loan, enter an airport, or whatever. I held out for many years due to pr
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by jeswin 11mo ago
This is the wrong advice in my view. Senior engineers are the ones more empowered by AI than anyone else, provided they update their skills.
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by jeswin 11mo ago
An early version of Claude Code did a hard reset on one of my projects and force pushed it to GitHub. The pushed code was completely useless, and I lost two days of work. It is definitely smarter now, but make sure you set up branch protect
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by jeswin 11mo ago
Same here. But with GPT 5.1 instead of Gemini.
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by jeswin 11mo ago
To me that was Windows 2000. One day in 1999, I was at the local bookstore going over computer magazines and one of them came with CD to preview Windows 2000. I was mostly a Windows 98/RedHat user at that point, so I decided to try it
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by jeswin 11mo ago
Back where? The ecosystem and interconnected-ness has completely vanished. If you look at the late 90s or early 2000s, people had RSS readers, and sites had feeds, blogrolls, trackbacks/pingbacks, a commenting system which worked, and
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by jeswin 11mo ago
This has already been discussed so many times. No good discussion will come out of this - and it'll just be people moping. There's much better content on Show HN, one of which won't hit the homepage because this has more vote
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by jeswin 11mo ago
> Yeah, it is often pointed out as a brilliance in game analysis if a GM makes a move that an engine says is bad and turns out to be good. Do you have any links? I haven't seen any such (forget GM, not even Magnus), barring the oppo
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by jeswin 11mo ago
There are all types of geniuses. By confining its definition to selected variants of "outside the box", you've defined a new box in a different coordinate system.
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by jeswin 11mo ago
> For instance if you wrote a type to extend number to something like range<min,max> - obviously a toy - it would look very similar to what you’ve posted. Why would Range need a sentinel? My point is that using a sentinel to bridge
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by jeswin 11mo ago
I'm a somewhat comfortable TS user. Are you saying ternary chains using sentinels for arity inference is pretty common? I would disagree. > since it’s the main control flow Perhaps you're saying ternery chains are common in TS
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by jeswin 11mo ago
Depends. For coding at least, you can divide tasks into high-intelligence ($$$) and low-intelligence ($) tasks. Being able to do low-intelligence tasks super fast and cheap would be quite beneficial. A majority of code edits would fall into
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by jeswin 11mo ago
What's your definition of interesting? I'm half way through writing a typescript to native code translator (via .Net) compiling a large enough subset of current code with a lot of help from GPT5 and Codex CLI. It has completely bl
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by jeswin 11mo ago
If you need 5k at 27 inches, you need more at 32". But if you're saying that 32" are excessive, I think it's a personal preference. I would never go back to a smaller monitor (from 32) personally - especially as you grow
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by jeswin 1y ago
> Yeah this isn’t how any of this works and you’re deluding yourself. I am not offended (at all). But you're dismissing my (continued) positive experience with "You're deluding yourself". How do you know? It'd be
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by jeswin 1y ago
Contrarian opinion. OpenAI gets a lot of hate these days, but on this subject it's quite possible that ChatGPT helped a lot of people choose a less drastic path. There could have been unfortunate incidents, but the number of people who
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by jeswin 1y ago
But you don't buy it for the specs, you buy it for the experience. It topped sales charts when it was launched. If I had more time to spend on photography, or if I was younger, or if it was a little cheaper I'd have bought it myse
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by jeswin 1y ago
I disagree. If CM5 had the ability to sleep at tiny fractions of a watt, there are really practical and usable cameras you can pull off today, even when it's not the most efficient. For all the downsides, it would more than make up in
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by jeswin 1y ago
Interesting. I'm curious why they would do that.
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by jeswin 1y ago
I am actually willing to support DIY camera efforts, but if you're semi-serious about taking pictures, this just wouldn't work. First, Raspberry Pi (I'm guessing this is a CM4/CM5) is a disaster for a camera board. Nobod
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by jeswin 1y ago
In this review, Hardware Canucks tested [1] the M4 Pro (3nm 2nd gen) and the 395+ (4nm) at 50w and found the performance being somewhat comparable. The differences can be explained away by 3nm vs 4nm. [1]: https://www.youtube.com
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by jeswin 1y ago
I have gone over only one of her blog posts [1], but wow! Excellent writing, well paced, easy to understand. In fact, many of her posts could hit the front-page here on HN. [1]: https://ally-petitt.com/en/posts/202
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by jeswin 1y ago
There are widely divergent views here. It'd be hard to have a good discussion unless people mention what tasks they're attempting and failing at. And we'll also have to ask if those tasks (or categories) are representative of
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by jeswin 1y ago
The Twin Towers sort of represented the height of American power and prestige, and their fall kicked off the decline. From its peak in the unipolar 90s, a series of expensive misadventures that began after the towers fell diverted critical
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by jeswin 1y ago
He threatened the ex-intern by saying they have "a lot of money to pay for top lawyers" (goodness!), the incident gathered a lot of attention, got caught, and was forced to say sorry. Replit is in the news because of the Vercel fi
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by jeswin 1y ago
Parsing code with regex is a minefield. You can get it to work with simpler cases, but even that might get complex very quickly with all sorts of formatting preferences that people have. In fact, I'll be very surprised if it can be don
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by jeswin 1y ago
If you're mentioning the first two examples, they're doing different things. The pg example does an orderby, and the sqlite example does a join. You'll be able to switch the client (ie, better-sqlite and pg-promise) in either
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by jeswin 1y ago
Messing up with Oracle is a bit different from messing up with Google. I'll go with Hetzner which I love anyway. :)
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by jeswin 1y ago
Very true. However, to claim that the "API looks completely different for Postgre and SQLite" is disingenuous. What was he looking at?
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by jeswin 1y ago
Claude forgets claude.md after a while, so you need to keep reminding. I find that codex does a design job better than Claude at the moment, but it's 3x slower which I don't mind.

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