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by lateforwork 6mo ago
> “Developers should program it right” is less effective than a system that ensures it must be done right. You're right, of course. But this must be balanced with the fact that applications evolve, and often need to change the typ
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by lateforwork 6mo ago
What should they be using instead? These astronauts are not Linux hackers.
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by lateforwork 6mo ago
Do you think the US has idle capacity that can be activated at a moment's notice?
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by lateforwork 6mo ago
STRICT has severe limitations, for example it does not have date data type. Why is it a problem that it allows data that does not match the column type? SQLite is intended for embedded databases, where only your application reads and writes
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by lateforwork 6mo ago
When your application's design changes, you may need to store a slightly different type of data. Relational databases traditionally require explicit schema changes for this, whereas NoSQL databases allow more flexible, schema-less data
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by lateforwork 6mo ago
I genuinely believe this. Even if you're inventing a new algorithm it is better to describe the algorithm in English and have AI do the implementation.
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by lateforwork 6mo ago
> get it pumping out CVEs. Is that a good thing or bad? I see that as a very good thing. Because you can now inexpensively find those CVEs and fix them. Previously, finding CVEs was very expensive. That meant only bad actors had the in
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by lateforwork 6mo ago
Of course I expect it is vibe coding. It would be insane to code anything by hand these days. But that doesn't mean there is no creative input by the author here.
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by lateforwork 6mo ago
How about releasing your own source code? It is a beautiful site, love the UX as well as functionality.
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by lateforwork 6mo ago
Go to https://www.copilot.com/ and ask a question. You'll see from the answers that it is indeed for entertainment only. It is ridiculously behind ChatGPT, and I don't know how that can happen since Microsoft has
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by lateforwork 6mo ago
Oracle database has unparalleled scalability. Ask someone who works at Microsoft SQL Server division what their bug database looks like. They will tell you that a single SQL Server instance cannot scale to the entire SQL Server division. Or
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by lateforwork 6mo ago
In many cases the manager is among those laid off. In fact some VPs and their entire org have been laid off.
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by lateforwork 6mo ago
What is the alternative? Have 30,000 meetings? How long will that take?
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by lateforwork 6mo ago
The flip side should be considered as well. There should be some sort of protection for small startup companies. A big company should not be able to steal an innovative startup's technology by hiring away the employees that worked on t
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by lateforwork 6mo ago
This is Alex the parrot, mentioned in the article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldYkFdu5FJk
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by lateforwork 6mo ago
This should be standard functionality offered by browsers. How do you make feature requests to W3C, and do they allow the community to vote on feature ideas?
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Trump Administration to Pay $1B to Energy Giant to Cancel Wind Farms(nytimes.com)
18 points by lateforwork 7mo ago|1 comments
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by lateforwork 7mo ago
100% (or close to it) of material AI trains on was human generated, but that doesn't mean 100% of humans are generating useful material for AI training.
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by lateforwork 7mo ago
Right, and that was a design goal of C language... to be close to the machine.
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by lateforwork 7mo ago
> don't have a shred of intelligence. ... They don't understand, only synthesize from the data they were trained on. Couldn't you say that about 99% of humans too?
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by lateforwork 7mo ago
> as the space is already well covered The US patent commissioner in 1899 wanted to shutdown the patent office because "everything that can be invented has been invented." And yet, human ingenuity keeps proving otherwise.
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by lateforwork 7mo ago
Chris Lattner, inventor of the Swift programming language recently took a look at a compiler entirely written by Claude AI. Lattner found nothing innovative in the code generated by AI [1]. And this is why humans will be needed to advance t
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by lateforwork 7mo ago
You still need humans to manage the whole lifecycle, including monitoring the live site, being on-call, handling incidents, triaging bugs, deploying fixes, supporting users and so on. For greenfield development you don't need as many s
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by lateforwork 7mo ago
Buggy as well as severe UX regressions. It is so unfortunate that their software division is underperforming when their hardware team is outperforming. Craig Federighi, get your act together!
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by lateforwork 7mo ago
I don't see anything about respecting user preferences. Things that drive me up the wall about Windows: attempting to switch me to Edge, Bing etc after every update. Apple doesn't do that. Also, forcing me to sign in using a Micro
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by lateforwork 7mo ago
> because it doesn't get distracted, bored or tired. You can say that about the original IBM PC from 1981. That doesn't make the IBM PC better at driving.
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by lateforwork 7mo ago
> humans can drive with two eyes and Tesla should be able to drive with X number of cameras Systems built from cameras that are only nearly as capable as human eyes and software that is only nearly as capable as the human brain wil
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"Vibe Design" with Stitch(blog.google)
2 points by lateforwork 7mo ago|0 comments
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by lateforwork 7mo ago
Speaking of US economic data reliability: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/business/economy/inflatio... Story title: Change in Data Sources Led to Lower Inflation Reading Excerpts: “On its merits,
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by lateforwork 7mo ago
Also relevant: The DOGE team set up a Starlink satellite at the White House [1]. DOGE staff installed the terminal on the Eisenhower Executive Office Building roof in February 2025 without notifying White House communications or cybersecuri

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