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by klodolph 9mo ago
I always thought that the vast majority of your codebase, the right thing to do with an error is to propagate it. Either blindly, or by wrapping it with a bit of context info. I don’t know where the LLMs are picking up this paranoid tendenc
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by klodolph 9mo ago
I’m happy to throw an LLM at our projects but we also spend time refactoring and reviewing each other’s code. When I look at the AI-generated code I can visualize the direction it’s headed in—lots of copy-pasted code with tedious manual che
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by klodolph 9mo ago
We have more necessary expenses, but the cost of computers, phones, and phone plans is so low. The expensive stuff is rent, transportation, food, childcare, and healthcare. If a historian is going to uncover personal accounts from 2026, the
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by klodolph 9mo ago
Kind of off topic but this has got to be one of my least favorite CSS rules that I’ve seen in recent memory: .blog-entry p:first-letter { font-size: 1.2em; }
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by klodolph 9mo ago
> Thus the cap-weighted investment strategy becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Either you’re doing the math wrong or you’ve skipped some steps. Let’s say you have companies X and Y, each with 50% of the market. X is a winner, and the st
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by klodolph 9mo ago
Worth noting that articles about how passive investing destroys the market date back to, maybe, 2016 or earlier... https://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/is-passive-inves... March 9, 2016 > O’Neill fears t
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by klodolph 9mo ago
> Once an AI can reliably regenerate an implementation from specification… I’m sorry but it feels like I got hit in the head when I read this, it’s so bad. For decades, people have been dreaming of making software where you can just writ
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by klodolph 9mo ago
I think the r process and the s process should be listed separately, rather than lumped together.
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by klodolph 10mo ago
Soundbars are usually a marginal improvement and the main selling point is the compact size, IMO. I would only get a soundbar if I was really constrained on space. Engineering tradeoffs--when you make speakers smaller, you have to sacrifice
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by klodolph 10mo ago
I agree that speaker tech has progressed slowly, but cars from 20 years ago? Most car audio systems from every era have sounded kinda mediocre at best. IMO, half the issue with audio is that stereo systems used to be a kind of status symbol
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by klodolph 10mo ago
I already think that markdown is barely ok for writing documentation, and the experience of plugins in mdBook is why I tell people not to use it (edit: it = mdBook). The base flavor of mdBook is minimalistic. Maybe that’s a good thing, that
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by klodolph 10mo ago
I hope it’s like what happened to countries like England, France, and Spain. You see your empire collapse but the country itself remains intact. England “gave up” scientific and technological leadership during the 20th century. (That’s a to
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by klodolph 10mo ago
I feel like I grokked Perl enough and I still write Perl code, but I also think that there are some technical reasons why it declined in popularity in the 2000s and 2010s. All those differences between $ % @, the idea of scalar or list cont
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by klodolph 11mo ago
I think a reasonable solution is “people who find the answer should observe that the question was asked eight years ago, and certainly double-check the answer”. If it’s a question about company internal codebases or operations, then you sho
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by klodolph 11mo ago
Something that is still inheritable, between “there is one and it is global” and “there is a separate copy for each process”.
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by klodolph 11mo ago
I have an overly reductive take on this—it’s Unix environment variables. You have your terminal window and your .bashrc (or equivalent), and that sets a bunch of environment variables. But your GUI runs with, most likely, different environm
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by klodolph 11mo ago
Bugs can get introduced for other reasons besides “feature not completed”.
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by klodolph 11mo ago
> Langan has not produced any acclaimed works of art or science. In this way, he differs significantly he differs significantly from outsider intellectuals like Paul Erdös, Stephen Wolfram, Nassim Taleb, etc. Paul Erdős is the only outsi
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by klodolph 11mo ago
I think of those two, agentic crawlers are worse.
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by klodolph 11mo ago
That sounds like the desired outcome here. Your agent should respect robots.txt, OR it should be designed to not follow links.
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by klodolph 11mo ago
The only real difference that LLM crawlers tend to not respect /robots.txt and some of them hammer sites with some pretty heavy traffic. The trap in the article has a link. Bots are instructed not to follow the link. The link is normal
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by klodolph 11mo ago
> I don't see it. Can you say what 80% you feel like you're getting? I read it as “80% of the way to Rust levels of reliability and performance.” That doesn’t mean that the type system or syntax is at all similar, but that you
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by klodolph 11mo ago
Having used XSLT, I remember hating it with the passion of a thousand suns. Maybe we could have improved what we had, but anything I wanted to do was better done somehow else. I'm glad to have all sorts of specialists on our team, like
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by klodolph 11mo ago
Buying puts.
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by klodolph 11mo ago
Most people don't write a basic compiler for C either, "relatively simple" or no. Most people would rather add a new target to an existing compiler, which is much easier. It's also "relatively easy" to add a ne
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by klodolph 1y ago
It’s being sorted not once per frame, but once per item . If you have 50 items in the list, then the list gets sorted 50 times. If you have 200 items in the list, the list is sorted 200 times. This is unnecessary. The obvious alternative i
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by klodolph 1y ago
A lot of consensus building with technical people who ask hard questions. Code review is kind of brutal. A lot of time spent dealing with custom systems that should have been replaced with off-the-shelf, open-source alternatives like five o
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by klodolph 1y ago
When I say “casual magit user”, I mean “magit user who is a casual user”, not “somebody who is a casual user of magit”. I just mean that I haven’t met people who use magit who don’t already know how to use git on the command line. The infer
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by klodolph 1y ago
I don’t share work details. But everybody on my team uses either Emacs or Spacemacs. There are people at work who use other tools, like VS Code for sure, but Emacs and Spacemacs usage are widespread. When I say “everyone” uses Magit, I want
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by klodolph 1y ago
I’ve never met a casual Magit user. They’re usually people who have decided to invest time in learning Emacs or Spacemacs, at the very least. Some of them have massive .emacs files and take notes in org-mode. The casual users would probably

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