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by johnfn 9mo ago
This is a fun false positive :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34675259
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by johnfn 9mo ago
Somewhat off-topic, but when I click on "Case-Mate - Case for 2009 LG Xenon - Marsala"[1], the "About this item" section simply states: About this item - Do - Not - Buy - This - Product What on earth is going on here? [1
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by johnfn 9mo ago
Once, when I was young and inexperienced, I left a server exposed to the Internet by accident (I accidentally exposed a user with username postgres, password postgres). In hours the machine had been hacked to run a botnet. Was I stupid? Yes
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by johnfn 9mo ago
To put it very directly - if you are OK with being good but not exceptional at your job, this is totally fine. If you want to be exceptional you will probably need to put in the extra work. Not everyone is OK with this tradeoff and it'
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by johnfn 9mo ago
How does he have a vested interest in the success of these tools? He doesn't work for an AI company. Why must he have some shady ulterior motive rather than just honestly believing the thing they are stated? Yes, he blogs a lot about A
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by johnfn 9mo ago
Yes, viewing relationships transactionally is not good for either participant. But I think you have taken a rather distorted view of the article - and there’s a more charitable way to view this than a brutal utility optimization: > someo
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by johnfn 9mo ago
Wow, this looks absolutely fantastic. Can't wait to take it for a spin. I'm actually surprised it isn't seeing more traction here! In particular, I'm really excited about the extremely fast start up time and checkpointin
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by johnfn 9mo ago
I'm actually using WASM (from Rust) on a image editor project. It's pretty good - I see around a 4x perf improvement over JS depending on the benchmark. But what happened? Why am I not using it for all of my other random side proj
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by johnfn 9mo ago
You don't seem to have answered my questions - you are just reiterating your own point (which I already responded to). Again I ask you - do you have studies to prove that syntax highlighting is useful or are you just using it because o
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by johnfn 9mo ago
The burden you are placing is too high here. Do you demand controlled trials for everything you do or else you refuse to use it or accept that other people might see productivity gains? Do you demand studies showing that static typing is pr
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by johnfn 9mo ago
I am a fan of Claude code, I love it, I use it every day. Are you suggesting we’re not allowed to make any critique of anything which has good qualities?
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by johnfn 9mo ago
I use the VSCode terminal all day every day. No other app I use in it has this issue, including Codex.
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by johnfn 9mo ago
The UI flickers rapidly in some cases when I use it in the VSCode terminal. When I first saw this when using Claude Code I imagined it was some vibe code bug that would be worked out quickly. But it's been like 9 months and still every
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by johnfn 9mo ago
Working on Claude Code?
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by johnfn 9mo ago
It's kind of funny that we posted basically the exact comment at the same time, down to quoting "see"!
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by johnfn 9mo ago
I couldn't disagree more. I've had Claude absolutely demolish large HTML/CSS/JS/React projects. One key is to give it some way to "see" and interact with the page. I usually use Playwright for this. Allowi
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by johnfn 9mo ago
You seem to be lumping left-pad together with unit tests and build tools like typescript, then saying they are all bad because left-pad is bad.
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by johnfn 9mo ago
You are responding with a point different than the one I was replying to.
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by johnfn 9mo ago
But then you’re just saying “you should spend time on things which are valuable”. Isn’t that obvious?
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by johnfn 9mo ago
So you’re skipping any sort of a build pipeline? You’re not going to bundle, so no code minification? You’re going to skip tests ? And everyone who uses these things just does them to “feel grown up” and not for any particular benefit or p
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by johnfn 9mo ago
It seems a bit absurd to call someone a tech bro for experiencing something for the first time and writing about it - especially something as benign as going to a cafe.
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by johnfn 10mo ago
Some comments: - This is a really remarkable graph. I just didn't realize how thoroughly it was over for SO. It stuns me as much as when Encyclopædia Britannica stopped selling print versions a mere 9 years after the publication of Wik
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by johnfn 10mo ago
This is like being forced to pay 50 bucks to your apartment because someone else broke the door. Then when you complain about it people tell you you’re entitled!
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by johnfn 10mo ago
If it helps you understand the other side - very many people, and I consider myself one of them, went through a long part of life without realizing that "humans are social animals". In my case I was very unhappy for a very long
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by johnfn 10mo ago
I hear clamoring to go back to "the old web" frequently, I never really understood the perspective. The old web still exists. I use it every day. I'm a member of a number of tiny community websites with old web charm, and the
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by johnfn 10mo ago
I do think unhealthy is the way to put it. I think that being asocial is kind of like being overweight, in that they have similarly negative effects on health[1]. Of course, being in good health is multifactorial, and just as you can find m
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by johnfn 10mo ago
I believe the spikiness in response is because AI itself is spiky - it’s incredibly good at some classes of tasks, and remarkably poor at others. People who use it on the spikes are genuinely amazed because of how good it is. This does noth
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by johnfn 10mo ago
Again, that’s not what my website is. It’s not simple code generation and I’m not just plugging things together.
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by johnfn 10mo ago
This post is obviously (almost insultingly) written by AI. That being said, the idea behind the post is a good one (IaC taken to an extreme). This leaves me at a really weird spot in terms of how I feel about it.
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by johnfn 10mo ago
Blindly asserting that everyone who disagrees with you is a shill or incompetent seems unlikely to be conducive to good discourse.

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