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by klabb3 2y ago
Sure thing. But this reminds me of another thought I’ve had. That LLMs are likely better at writing (and refactoring) docs and docstrings than code – certainly not better than the best humans but the average bar is very low here. So that’s
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by klabb3 2y ago
I think this is very real, and will act as a force towards center of gravity of the LLMs which means popular and established tech. It might even create a divide between ”prompt engineer engineers” and those who understand. That assumes usin
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by klabb3 2y ago
> This is the real reason why GOTOs are harmful: I don't have a hard time moving my mind's instruction-pointer around a method; I have a hard time knowing the state of mutable variables when GOTOs are in play. Well, total compl
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by klabb3 2y ago
Yes that is how the law views it. That’s not necessarily a good thing. I agree that I should have rights because I’m a person. As the crazy radical I am, I don’t agree that companies ”are free to X”, because they shouldn’t have freedoms, on
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by klabb3 2y ago
Also true. But it’s a charitable way of putting a fundamentally broken contract on the open web since it was invented: you are in control of your browser. If you want reading mode, large text, anti-fingerprinting, disable autoplaying video,
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by klabb3 2y ago
> and terrible where the problem has not been tackled much by the public Very much so (I should have added this as a downside in the original comment). Before I even ask a question I ask myself "does it have training data on this?&q
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by klabb3 2y ago
As a mostly LLM-skeptic I reluctantly agree this is something AI actually does well. When approaching unfamiliar territory, LLMs (1) use simple language (improvement over academia but also much professional intentionally obfuscated literatu
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by klabb3 2y ago
Some of us remember ”no-code” and its promise to reduce manual code. The trick is it reduced it in the beginning, at the expense of long term maintenance. Time and time again, there are people who go all-in on the latest hype. In the deepes
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by klabb3 2y ago
You’re assuming that the reason they don’t fill in your optional questions are lack of agency, when it is more likely they’d rather spend that time applying to more jobs. The early stages of the job market is called screening and is a wide
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by klabb3 2y ago
This feels like bingo to me. The optional ”creative questions” will be filled by those who have more free time (ie not currently employed), and those who can use LLMs. If you want genuinely mission-passionate applicants you’ll need to talk
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by klabb3 2y ago
I suspect you won’t be allowed to do archeology, because the company that bought the rights to it won’t let you. If we continue the path we’re on basically nothing will be owned by us or kept safe by us. Just look at the difference from the
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by klabb3 2y ago
Bingo! I changed my mind about this after AI. (Specifically that they are allowed to train & commercialize any IP they want without license - I have nothing against AI itself)
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by klabb3 2y ago
> Easier than asking family members to install a new software, then ask them to share their "node" to you. Right, but not easier than static IP (or dyn dns), both of which require technical knowledge and procedure to set up. I
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by klabb3 2y ago
Native now means mobile only? That’s a depressing state of affairs. Cross platform and then not even mentioning you’re limited to 2 out of the 5 more popular OSs. Just say you rewrote React Native if that’s all.
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by klabb3 2y ago
Easier than what? You mean it can in these special cases become like not having a CGNAT? > they also make the traffic within the CGNAT free So.. both data caps and breaking the principle of net neutrality?
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by klabb3 2y ago
Many years ago I switched to chrome because ff felt sluggish. That’s all fixed since a long time. Not sure why so many seems to be choosing chrome today.
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by klabb3 2y ago
That's interesting and unexpected. How does the update check, notification & install process work? EDIT: I think your link answered some of these questions. I’m on .msi myself so can’t benefit from it yet anyway.. basically these t
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by klabb3 2y ago
Can you expand with some examples of pressing use cases? To me, great complexity should bring even greater utility. I have no use for this, and I’m not sure who it’s for. Can we get rid of tailwind? Polyfills? Any UI libs?
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by klabb3 2y ago
I don’t think he’s a dumbass. He’s selling pseudo-philosophical guilt-washing to the neo-oligarchs and their temporarily embarrassed billionaire posse, which is a product worth its weight in gold. He hosted the post-election party for all o
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by klabb3 2y ago
There isn’t a package manager in many cases: windows store requires a MS account. macOS app store nerfs apps by sandbox restrictions. Linux has so many flavors of package managers it’s death by 1000 paper cuts. None of the major bundlers li
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by klabb3 2y ago
> How about we don't build an auto-updater? Sure. I’d rather have it be provided by the platform. It’s a lot of work to maintain for 5 OSs (3 desktop, 2 mobile). > we should try our best to release complete software to users that
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by klabb3 2y ago
It’s a JavaScript/node-like environment only right now no? I love it for my svelte site but it’s a massive limitation to be locked in based on language and request-response based constraints right now. You need at the very least contai
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by klabb3 2y ago
> JS being the monolithic tyrant There are probably tens of thousands of developers waiting in line to switch out JS. The reason they can’t is not even that it can’t run in the browser (many can) but that it interacts with the DOM native
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by klabb3 2y ago
Growing up poor or with money problems, seeing that struggle. One does come out different. One can potentially be more understanding when people are just continuing the lifestyle they grew up with. In this case, 2 working adults, one white
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by klabb3 2y ago
GGGGP here. I just don’t think throughput is a current design goal. To me, it’s critical. But to Google and many others, it was more about latency and connectivity when moving across networks. If you have a search or LLM application, bandwi
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by klabb3 2y ago
> Is [~7 Gbps] considered fast? With Quic, yes. I don’t have hands on experience with this lib but throughput is not the strength of quic. In fact, that’s true for untuned UDP in general. Oftentimes CPU will bottleneck without bespoke pl
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by klabb3 2y ago
Yeah cgo has been necessary for me, I forgot why but made that determination long ago. I have many pains with cross platform builds but never had an issue with cgo, and I’m targeting Android, iOS, macOS windows and two Linux flavors. I’m us
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by klabb3 2y ago
It appears we are essentially stack-buddies (I use those exact technologies too). I have 0 issues with perf, and I love the hermetic unit tests that literally doesn’t even use disk (let alone networking). However, I find it a bit annoying t
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by klabb3 2y ago
How are you gonna get the IPv6s of your targets? Can’t scan a /64, and with ephemeral ”security” addresses used for outbound conns, an adversary won’t be able to guess the address anyway. At least that’s my understanding. So I guess my
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by klabb3 2y ago
> or if it was a lucky guess It’s like guessing 1/2 or 2/3 on a math test. The test authors pick nice numbers, and programmers like ”hello”. If the way to encode the secret message resembles other encodings, it’s probably that

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