maccard

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by maccard 2mo ago
Gotcha, so no.
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by maccard 2mo ago
> It is not one size fits all, and trying to pretend that it is will lead to failure. I'm not asking for a one size fits all solution. I'm asking for "vibe coding with Codex on GPT 5.6 with high is the way, but if you wan
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by maccard 2mo ago
> Therefore it is rational to buy them rather than do the right thing by the fans (who have very little power) The problem withthis is that FIFA/IOC _rely_ on the athletes, players and countries, but none of those make any money so
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by maccard 2mo ago
> A lot of people here seem to be living in a different universe than me I feel this way on this topic too. > I think detractors believe you should just let AI do the job blindly instead of leveraging it as a tool to accelerate you.
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by maccard 2mo ago
Have you any example materials that show a harness that an agent can be pointed at an app with some sort of telemetry tool, the results it gained and the cost of doing so? Because my experience is the same as the parents - the LLM goes on m
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by maccard 2mo ago
Oh boy I couldn’t disagree more. Grassroots and local sports is absolutely plagued with politics, favouritism and corruption. Ask anyone who has been on the committee or coaching for their local kids soccer/athletics/hurling (in m
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by maccard 2mo ago
> Hard to think of a modern institution as corrupt as fifa IOC is about the only organisation that comes close to it I think.
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by maccard 2mo ago
As opposed to if google, Microsoft and apple operate the key server and a government can influence them?
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by maccard 2mo ago
Where do you buy your epubs from?
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by maccard 3mo ago
I understand. I'm generally a proponent of the spirit of the law rather than the wording of the law, and I've argued that is how the EU works here in the past. I think GDPR is a much, much better attempt at solving the problem, an
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by maccard 3mo ago
Well no, the cookie banner is a well intentioned but flawed and poorly designed law. Any law that is that technically specific but relies on people without an understanding of how it works is doomed to repeat the same fate. The eu should ha
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by maccard 3mo ago
You’re conflating GDPR and the ePrivacy Directive. They _should_ work how people imagine they do. > it was never about the cookies themselves. The ePrivacy directive was about cookies. GDPR is about user consent and data handling - the c
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by maccard 3mo ago
It was a 30k person company, I worked for a subsidiary and for better or worse that was not within my circle of concern or circle of influence.
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by maccard 3mo ago
I do but we shouldn’t be talking about cookies in our cookie banner then.
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by maccard 3mo ago
I’ve made a few sites for work that aren’t our primary focus. The sites used cookies for login and for “required purposes” (storing in progress state). We did all the tracking on the backend, no cookies or client side trackers. On our go-li
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by maccard 3mo ago
I’m an avid golfer and I live in Scotland. I’m not going to pretend that they’re bastions of sustainability - it’s not rained here in 2 full weeks and my course is watering their greens and fairways. We’re not quite at drought but the UK ha
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by maccard 3mo ago
I've just spent an hour trying to set up import std to use std::print on MacOS. I got there, eventually with cmake + ninja. I hit an absolutely ludicrious number of errors for effectively a hello world, and I don't understand why
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by maccard 3mo ago
> Somehow, the non-deterministic model has built me the deterministic code that I want, very fast, pretty much all the time. A year ago it would get stuck. Now it doesn't, for me at least, and for competent programmers that I know.
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by maccard 3mo ago
A very many of us do care for the cost. There’s also a very significant difference between “choose python” and “completely ignore all existing material and reinvent visualisation”. Also, by all indications the costs of LLMs are _rising_ not
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by maccard 3mo ago
> It would be interesting to sit us down next to each other for a day or two and compare how we do things, but I suspect much less than that won't reveal much of interest. I'm inclined to agree. If I had to write a hypothesis,
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by maccard 3mo ago
This is a fair point. Last time I tried modules in anger, it wasn't viable. Cmake didn't support them (well, they were experimental), intellisense didn't work and there were many ICE's in MSVC. Maybe it's time to mo
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by maccard 3mo ago
Two points. First of all, yes I would. There's a reason we use existing tools and don't have every junior programmer write a TGA viewer when they want to view an image that is sent to them. Secondly, I used time as a proxy for cos
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by maccard 3mo ago
Imagine if I hired someone to do a cad drawing, and they spent X days/weeks of time building a pipeline to visualise the part instead of asking how can they view the part? We’d call that a complete and utter waste of money and time.
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by maccard 3mo ago
OP here - no AI used in the writing of any of my replies on this site. iOS does this when quoting [0]. I don’t think it’s in the spirit of this site to jump on me rather than the content of my comment either way. [0] https://appl
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by maccard 3mo ago
See my other comment here [0] - I’ve not found it possible to actually have the agents follow the explicit instructions. Even single shot tasks once the context window fills up (which it does, very very fast, and repeatedly if you use subag
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by maccard 3mo ago
I would tell my co worker “this code has so many issues that I’m not actually reviewing it. Please make sure it meets the project standards before sending it back to me”if it happened twice I’d talk to their manager.
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by maccard 3mo ago
Can you share a transcript of an LLM generated feature/bug fix that you steered into being good quality?
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by maccard 3mo ago
Yes, and agents are generating code that fails those checks regularly. I wouldn’t accept a junior engineer saying “oh I just submit my code and see if the tests pass, let me know if they’re failing and I’ll fix them”. Pre commit hooks are d
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by maccard 3mo ago
That may be true, but it's a "hack" that has caused me approximately 1 issue in 15 years of writing C++ professionally, and that issue was a problem with our build system not the precompiled header. > Still best only used
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by maccard 3mo ago
> LLMs can clean up after themselves if you steer them. It's not very hard. I often have a two-step dance I do where the LLM first outputs some code and then I prompt it to fix the types up to my standards. My experience has been th

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