lionkor

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by lionkor 5mo ago
RE the article you've linked: > everyone knows goto was bad. Absolutely hard disagree. You can write extremely clean and resilient C with C89, goto, and a handful of rules. Telling people `goto` is bad is how we get shitty C program
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by lionkor 5mo ago
> feel like I'm picking up an old news sheet except those were laid out by hand with intent, whereas this one just kind of dumps all stories on a masonry board and calls it a day. This is likely why reading a (good) newspaper feels
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by lionkor 5mo ago
Please go write C++ and then come back to us
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by lionkor 5mo ago
> Rust lacks a uniform error type Rust has practically one error, it's the Error trait. The things you've listed are some common ways to use it, but you're entirely fine with just Box<dyn Error> (which is basically w
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by lionkor 5mo ago
I agree with you, and my issue is exactly that seemingly the popular opinion here is that you CAN zero-shot things you don't understand.
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by lionkor 5mo ago
I'm not who you asked, but my workflow is the same it always was, just that one tool in the process is an LLM. That's it. If I find a task to be annoying and repetetive, I use an LLM to do it, then validate it. The quality of my w
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by lionkor 5mo ago
I hope I never have to work with people like this. Actual nightmare fuel to live your entire life through LLMs. "I trained Claude to love my wife so I can focus on prompting" vibes.
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by lionkor 5mo ago
We all know the most highly valued people in the world are the smartest. In fact, the more money you're being paid, the more value you add, the more your opinion is worth, and the more skill you have. The amount of money you're wo
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by lionkor 5mo ago
You're saying that, if I go and vibe-code an app to implement a couple of those algorithms, they will be correctly implemented?
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by lionkor 5mo ago
... because there are open source tools that implement these things properly? Take Darktable, if you try to build an alternative because you "just want to do a bit of color grading" you will produce garbage. My point is that AI br
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by lionkor 5mo ago
And most importantly, you don't care at all if the tool you vibe-coded is any good. If you write at tool that converts an image to black & white, you are the kind of person who doesn't know or care what KIND of black&white
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When can the C++ compiler devirtualize a call?(quuxplusone.github.io)
76 points by lionkor 5mo ago|66 comments
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Robot Dogs Are a Security Nightmare – Benn Jordan [video](youtube.com)
4 points by lionkor 5mo ago|0 comments
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by lionkor 5mo ago
I just want to say I absolutely love Mullvad! You guys did a fantastic job at designing a genuinely good and trustworthy (as much as possible) VPN vendor. You communicating here is just another data point towards this.
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by lionkor 5mo ago
Yes they are training on your business's data so that their AI can replace your business later. If you don't believe it, name one thing they didn't train on.
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by lionkor 5mo ago
If you use AI correctly, nobody should be able to tell that it was used at all.
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by lionkor 5mo ago
Our GitLab has fantastic uptime, because it's self hosted
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by lionkor 5mo ago
Thats great to know, thank you!
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by lionkor 5mo ago
I heard from a friend that you can rent VPSs in pretty much any non-western country with some bitcoin (as long as you do nothing illegal, they don't care). I wouldn't suggest using it to circumvent any laws, but my friend used it
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Shai-Hulud: Open Sourcing the Carnage(github.com)
4 points by lionkor 5mo ago|0 comments
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by lionkor 5mo ago
If Microsoft does it now, and didn't used to do it, it's probably terrible.
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by lionkor 5mo ago
> No borrow checker. No lifetimes. No fighting the compiler for 20 minutes over a string. It's embarrassing. If the borrow checker and lifetimes are difficult for the author, I would suggest sticking with non-systems-languages. In s
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by lionkor 5mo ago
Not as long as I get discounts for over $30! I want those 15%, even if I have to pay 10 bucks more! Wait a second...
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by lionkor 5mo ago
You're likely joking, but in case someone else misunderstands; this is not going to work. Rust with unsafe{} is the only thing you can translate directly to, even with LLMs. Rust with extensive unsafe{} is not something anyone wants to
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by lionkor 5mo ago
Lol, but really coal power plants are more dangerous work environments, coal mining as well, and then of course there's the pollution (which, opposed to nuclear, isn't bottled up and stored, and instead just exhausted).
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by lionkor 5mo ago
You need to advocate for yourself, because nobody else will, unless your manager is really good at his job. Our work is largely very difficult to understand to outsiders, we need to write docs and have meetings to show what we have done. It
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by lionkor 5mo ago
I really dislike the "ah this is my favorite senior" language. The author would have done well to simply leave this "rating" of different kinds of people out, and it would not harm the article. In fact, it would improve
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by lionkor 5mo ago
Is this a quote from somewhere?
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by lionkor 5mo ago
Visiting an admin page is fine, yeah, but even just trying a default password, or having specific cookies set in the browser that look like an attempt to gain access, already clearly violate § 202a and you could be prosecuted, from how I re
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by lionkor 5mo ago
Lots of brown coal, which famously emits more radioactivity than any nuclear power plant ever did. The anti nuclear movement is a fucking joke, and the people I know personally here in Germany who oppose(d) nuclear still think the danger is

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