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by kranner 5mo ago
Ah, I misread. Thanks.
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by kranner 5mo ago
Legitimate complaint on HN of all places. TODO apps shouldn't be embedding whole browsers.
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by kranner 5mo ago
"... tend to profligacy" was really bothering me as well, until I figured OP probably meant "tend" as in 'take care of', and not 'inclined to have'.
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by kranner 5mo ago
The Gurkaniyan thing was true for Babur but I don’t think it was the case for later Mughals. The poet Ghalib, who was the emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar’s contemporary, considered himself a descendant of the aristocracy and referred to himself
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by kranner 6mo ago
Definitely relies on illustrations. The author passed away 15 years ago so I will mention the PDF of the book shows up in the first few search results on Google.
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by kranner 6mo ago
For explorations of simple mechanisms like this leading to complex behaviour, Valentino Braitenberg’s book Vehicles is a classic.
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by kranner 6mo ago
Presumably the 1.5 years for the first version involved work other than coding that the LLM rewrite didn’t entail?
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by kranner 6mo ago
There is non-stimulant medication as well for ADHD. If you're really struggling, it might be worthwhile to suspend judgement and actually try these out for a while. In the worst case you go back to how you were without medication. For
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by kranner 6mo ago
Not just that but "you're holding it wrong" on many occasions. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastYear&page=0&prefix=tru... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44483567 is pretty
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by kranner 6mo ago
If the argument was about cost per unit output, bringing in Etsy didn't make sense at all, especially when they explicitly mention it was about valuing different things. Handmade pottery can certainly be better quality than mass-produc
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by kranner 6mo ago
Quality indie software in a niche that Ikea is not addressing can make a decent income unlike a lemonade stand. And unlike at (this hypothetical) Ikea, you wouldn't have to maintain the impression of 20x AI-augmented output to avoid be
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by kranner 6mo ago
Many other patterns in the text, re-arranging to make it more obvious: Why do we estimate stories? Because developer time is expensive and someone has to budget for it. Why do we prioritise features in backlogs? Because we can’t build ev
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by kranner 6mo ago
Towards the end this article contradicts itself so severely I don't think a human wrote this. But this isn’t really about AI enthusiasm or AI scepticism. It’s about industrialisation. It has happened over and over in every sector, and
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by kranner 6mo ago
Good for a bot, but pretty rough and bland compared to human writing. I guess most of the customers have no eye.
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by kranner 6mo ago
> As far as I'm concerned we're content scarce and I don't care what makes the music - humans, robots, netherworld demons - I just want good music. Presumably you've already listened to every piece of music ever recor
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by kranner 7mo ago
Bet you didn't come up with that comment by first discarding a bunch of unsuitable comments.
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by kranner 7mo ago
That was very well articulated. I'm going to hold on to your point about trivial meta-analyses masquerading as serious ones, sadly a very common type of gotcha in tech-aligned circles.
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by kranner 7mo ago
My experience of the book was similar: the first third was great. Great idea, brilliantly executed. Definitely worth it for the first third alone. In a way, maybe it going off-piste is coherent with the idea of the first third. I'm s
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by kranner 7mo ago
>> you will not have that delightful experience of encountering something unexpected along the way to filling it. > There's nothing stopping you from doing that with an LLM. There may be, though. The LLM's initial output
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by kranner 7mo ago
When features and their exact UI implementations are being developed, feedback and discussions around those things.
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by kranner 7mo ago
My experience is the same. There are modest gains compensating for lack of good documentation and the like, but the human bottlenecks in the process aren't useless bureaucracy. Whether or not a feature or a particular UX implementation
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by kranner 7mo ago
> There are many reasons for the lag in productivity gain but it certainly will come. Predictions without a deadline are unfalsifiable.
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by kranner 7mo ago
Are we just assuming nobody is programming commando anymore?
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by kranner 7mo ago
If you don't want to or can't install a Sustainiac pickup, you can get a much cheaper handheld one-string "E-Bow" that does the same thing. It's not as easy to use as a Sustainiac and you can't also be playing
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by kranner 7mo ago
Happy for you, but GitHub has plenty of webcam feed URLs, webcam viewers, Roku code etc. You "built" it for some value of 'building' but it certainly doesn't seem the same kind of 'building' as described i
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by kranner 7mo ago
Fairly esoteric and self-serving definition of "writing code" if it represents just the typing part. I wouldn't call it a dishonest title, but perhaps not a fully honest one either.
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by kranner 7mo ago
The inching-towards-acceptance of crappy processes is quite influencer-driven as well, with said influencers if not directly incentivised by LLM providers, then at least indirectly incentivised by the popularity of outrageous exhortations.
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by kranner 7mo ago
> I was careful to say "Good code still has a cost" ... Misleading headline, with the qualifier buried six paragraphs deep. You have a wide enough readership (and well deserved too). Clickbait tactics feel a little out of place
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by kranner 8mo ago
Responding to your edit > isn’t the alleged double-meaning exactly how radicalized factions drag a majority to a conclusion they actively disagree with? Some in the crowd literally mean what they say, many others are being poetic and onl
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by kranner 8mo ago
From the Wikipedia article on the slogan [1] > معلوم هم هست که مراد از «مرگ بر آمریکا»، مرگ بر ملّت آمریکا نیست، ملّت آمریکا هم مثل بقیّهٔ ملّتها [هستند]، یعنی مرگ بر سیاستهای آمریکا، مرگ بر استکبار؛ معنایش این است. "It is also clea

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