laszlojamf

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by laszlojamf 3mo ago
you do you of course, but IMO there are bigger fish to fry
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by laszlojamf 3mo ago
I mean... I get it. It's annoying. But the outrage is getting old. LLMs hallucinate. It's an unfixable problem. We're going to have to get used to it. In all fairness, fake reviews and just people lying on the internet has al
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by laszlojamf 3mo ago
I get the usefulness of allocators, I just don't see them as useful enough where I'd pick zig over another established systems programming language. Do you have an example?
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by laszlojamf 3mo ago
I really love everything about zig except the language itself. The governance, the culture, all of it seem really cool, but reading https://ziglang.org/learn/why_zig_rust_d_cpp/ I still don't get _why_ I woul
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by laszlojamf 3mo ago
yeah, what I feel happens is that priorities get a lot harder. I'm two courses and a project away from a master in robotics, but when you have a steady, well-paying job already and a spouse and kid, it's gets really hard to motiva
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by laszlojamf 3mo ago
this might be a case of AI feedback, where people have been exposed to so much AI writing that they are starting to write like AI themselves.
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by laszlojamf 4mo ago
as much as I feel for the maintainers here, this sort of (again) puts the spotlight on our collective dependence on a handful of individuals basically working for free _with no backup_. Most normal organizations stagger vacations to avoid
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by laszlojamf 4mo ago
3 beers for 4 euros? Man, we live in different Europes
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by laszlojamf 4mo ago
gotta love HN. Top comment on an AMA with an author who's actually written books is "Here is a book you should read".
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by laszlojamf 4mo ago
to be fair, the top comment from simonw is most likely legit unless anthropic hacked his account too
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by laszlojamf 4mo ago
this resonates with me, but fortunately one difference between LLMs and rockstar developers, is that LLMs will at least _try_ to explain what they are doing, and why something has to be certain why. I've gotten quite a lot of mileage f
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by laszlojamf 4mo ago
"a solid leader who can carry the weight of our massive responsibility"
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by laszlojamf 4mo ago
The title just goes to show that 1. the turkish government had reasons for trying to get people to use "Türkiye" instead. 2. It's still not working. I 100% thought this was about birds until clicking
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by laszlojamf 4mo ago
https://archive.is/l5LsW
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by laszlojamf 4mo ago
I think the missing piece here is nuance. Of course there are certain tasks that software engineers do that will be replaced. But will AI replace _everything_ a software engineer does? The most difficult bit about software engineering is t
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by laszlojamf 4mo ago
" Bullough gives the example of a Mexican drug dealer who smuggles product across the border to the US. The drug in question would once have been marijuana, then cocaine, and is now likely to be fentanyl, which is cheap to manufacture
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by laszlojamf 4mo ago
This has been my understand as well. I have CKD and my doctors have always been chill about it as long as I stop taking it about a week before having blood work done. EDIT: I don't do 25g though... sounds like a lot...
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by laszlojamf 4mo ago
I find it freaky how you notice the language change between models. Some words which pop up now all the time, that I don't remember reacting to with previous models, such as "honest(ly)" and "load-bearing". Feels li
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by laszlojamf 4mo ago
the difference IMO is that now businesses have to find a product-market-fit faster. you can't spend 5 years building the perfect system. you get to spend 1 year building a system somebody will pay to use.
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by laszlojamf 4mo ago
I keep hearing that claude is supposedly so agreeable. This doesn't agree with my experience. Claude will often tell me that I'm wrong, and insist on its own solution being right even when I tell it it's wrong.
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by laszlojamf 5mo ago
I'd add - data migrations are inevitable and should be planned for (corollary of versioning) - planning is good, sometimes you just have to try things out - everything costs money. Designing without costs in mind will force hard choice
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by laszlojamf 5mo ago
I mean... so did a lot of other rulers. As far as emperors go, Aurelius wasn't that bad. You have to judge historical people by their peers, not by your own modern standards.
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by laszlojamf 5mo ago
this reminds a lot about the Three-Body Problem series. There it's aliens sabotaging science. In reality it was always the NSA.
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by laszlojamf 5mo ago
right. But cursor _said_ they had some magic. At some point you have to trust vendors. I don't know exactly how AWS guarantees eleven nines of durability on S3. But I sure hope that they do.
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by laszlojamf 6mo ago
The same way most people hear "legacy" and think it's something good
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by laszlojamf 6mo ago
My grandparents would have loved this. They spent most of the mornings scanning through obituaries for old friends who had died. Might be one of those bittersweet hobbies you get into when you reach your 80s.
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by laszlojamf 6mo ago
Slightly off topic, but I find it to be a testament of how software has already eaten the world when friggin Michelin has a tech blog. What's next? General Electric releasing a frontend framework?
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by laszlojamf 6mo ago
to be fair, if the author is truthful in his description of this Karen it sounds more like somebody who uses whatever leverage they have to make other people miserable. Did you see Everything, Everywhere, All at Once? Those people exist in
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by laszlojamf 7mo ago
Slightly unrelated question: how would you spend $82k on prompts in 48 hours? Just phishing?
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by laszlojamf 8mo ago
yes, that's why people _can_ identify you by it. Identification was the _purpose_ here.

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