jimmaswell

6 ms·

91.
by jimmaswell 5mo ago
Same here, it's been catching a lot of bugs that would have been very hard to trace or discover, often just in the process of doing something else.
92.
by jimmaswell 5mo ago
I see you haven't met some of my coworkers.
93.
by jimmaswell 5mo ago
It makes me tangentially think of the speech in Virtue's Last Reward about how it takes a higher intelligence to understand the intricate structures that termites build, ending with a question of what it is that humans are building to
94.
by jimmaswell 5mo ago
> every time I use AI for coding, to some capacity I'm sacrificing system understanding and stability in favor of programming speed. Sure, but couldn't you say the same for letting other people contribute code too? In either ca
95.
by jimmaswell 5mo ago
I really feel like accusing comments of being made by AI, especially with as little evidence as using an arrow, should be discouraged in the guidelines. It's become tediously common despite already falling under numerous more general i
96.
by jimmaswell 5mo ago
Good artists copy, great artists steal.
97.
by jimmaswell 5mo ago
Why is everyone who responds to this with a real example immediately flagged/dead?
98.
by jimmaswell 5mo ago
Lots of useful information I wasn't aware of after being a front-end lead for years. I'll start using these at work for sure.
99.
by jimmaswell 5mo ago
2017 I believe.
100.
by jimmaswell 5mo ago
I've never had a job with a permanent individual desk like this. The one in-person real job I had, it was only shared working space that different people used at different times of the day or on different days, and I think you were dis
101.
by jimmaswell 5mo ago
AFAIK none of AMD's offerings match the 5090 for pure gaming performance, so personally that's what I would stick with regardless.
102.
by jimmaswell 5mo ago
Why would someone gladly provide their work as open source but draw the line at AI reading it and using that knowledge to help more programmers later? It makes no sense to me. I actively want all of my code to be read by AI.
103.
by jimmaswell 5mo ago
It seems fantastic for music to me. I've made some music in it myself. What is it missing?
104.
by jimmaswell 5mo ago
C# is as close to an ideal language as you can get for most things IMO. I find AI does a great job with it.
105.
by jimmaswell 6mo ago
A relatively minor impact concern is that query strings create a new cache entry both in the browser and typically on server-side caches unless configured otherwise, so you might want to use URL fragment parameters if the parameters are onl
106.
by jimmaswell 6mo ago
"America is just as bad as China" is not cute or clever; it's trite and objectively wrong. There really is no intellectually honest argument to the contrary. For starters we don't get arrested for saying "Kent State
107.
by jimmaswell 6mo ago
This sounds perfectly reasonable. No objection from me.
108.
by jimmaswell 6mo ago
- Equipment with 10Gb ethernet ports is much more expensive than similar fiber equipment, and it runs hot at the ports - 10GBASE-T RJ45 runs at 2.0W – 5.0W per port, often enough to burn your finger. Especially if something's going to
109.
by jimmaswell 6mo ago
Gigabit seems undersized for a home LAN these days. 2.5Gb equipment isn't significantly more expensive and any Cat6 should handle it. Fiber is cheap enough too if you want some 10Gb devices. Only expensive thing is SFP ethernet adapter
110.
by jimmaswell 6mo ago
I categorically reject the "stealing" claim. Either training your human brain on a book is stealing, or training an AI on a book is not. There's no meaningful difference as far as how much the act is "stealing". The
111.
by jimmaswell 6mo ago
[flagged]
112.
by jimmaswell 7mo ago
Those are all good things, but with the current AI boom we've invented something with the potential to invent those kinds of things on its own, if not now then in the near future. It's far more important and impactful to invent a
113.
by jimmaswell 7mo ago
No killer product? Coding assistants and LLM's in general are the single most awe-inspiring achievement of humanity in my lifetime, technological or otherwise. They've already massively improved my and others' lives and they&
114.
by jimmaswell 7mo ago
Contingency plan? Just code without it like before. AI could disappear today and I would be very disappointed but it's not like I forgot how to code without it. If anything, I think it's made me a better programmer by taking frict
115.
by jimmaswell 7mo ago
The Macintosh came first, technically.
116.
by jimmaswell 8mo ago
This entirely misses the point. Re-implementing code based on API surface and compatibility is established fair use if done properly (Compaq v. IBM, Google v. Oracle). There's nothing wrong with doing that if you don't like a lice
117.
by jimmaswell 8mo ago
How is KDE like that? If you don't go out of your way to change options, you aren't "bombarded" with anything, it just works.
118.
by jimmaswell 8mo ago
The better the code is, the less detailed a mental map is required. It's a bad sign if you need too much deep knowledge of multiple subsystems and their implementation details to fix one bug without breaking everything. Conversely, if
119.
by jimmaswell 8mo ago
The medium feels wholly immaterial in this case. The words reach your brain, and then it's up to you to think about them, imagine the scene, process ideas. Audiobooks let the narrator add inflection, which maybe takes a slight load off
120.
by jimmaswell 8mo ago
none.

More ›