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by madeofpalk 2mo ago
The problem is that it’s even easier to be stupid and lazy now, which encourages more people to do this more often.
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by madeofpalk 2mo ago
“there’s no way I could do this better than Tailscale” is a much higher bar than "at least as good as I could do."
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by madeofpalk 2mo ago
"tests" here could mean have a benchmark the agent can run to determinately evaluate quality. I don't strictly mean junit unit tests.
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by madeofpalk 2mo ago
Tests! Unit tests, integration tests, random adhoc scripts. You know - TDD! I’ve been working on UI component improvements and it was doing a lousy job until i specifically told it to test in a headless browser to validate it works. I thin
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by madeofpalk 2mo ago
it's basically a UI for a well-curated set of commits, and reviewing per commit.
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by madeofpalk 2mo ago
you're not wrong. there is a part to this that does feel like a devolution of engineering when we're just asking the computer really really nicely to do the thing we want. on the otherhand, LLMs are a really easy way to get resu
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by madeofpalk 2mo ago
So, the phones arrived locked? You can't use them with any carrier you want?
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by madeofpalk 2mo ago
People are keeping their phones for longer and longer. This makes it as attractive as possible to pay for a new phone at a more frequent rate. The bet here is that Apple would much rather you spend ~$35/month perpetually than $1200 eve
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by madeofpalk 2mo ago
Doesn’t encryption shift the attack vector to the key and/or the method?
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by madeofpalk 2mo ago
It seems like an innocent mistake to me. I think there's a difference between actively ignoring something (like assigning an error to _), and ignoring something through omission. I think computers should try and prevent mistakes. Go er
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by madeofpalk 2mo ago
I'm actually not all that fussed about Result or Option types. I don't mind Go's approach to error handling. I think it should just have language/analysis features built it to ensure that you do it 'correctly',
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by madeofpalk 2mo ago
> So, you handle the error in the end, or forcefully and intentionally ignore it. Again, if the code goes boom, it's on the developer, not on Go. Except Go doesn’t actually require you to handle the error. You can forget to handle t
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by madeofpalk 2mo ago
> * paid for directly by the user hahahahah. Games are steering further and further to this not being true. Where each player explicitly doesn't pay for it, and instead they contain an increasing series of dark patterns in order to
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by madeofpalk 2mo ago
How much extra money do you think they would make if Claude Code wasn’t JavaScript?
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by madeofpalk 2mo ago
Adding a new lint rule that a lot of code violates.
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by madeofpalk 2mo ago
I mean they said pretty clearly that they should respect the wishes of sovereignty for Gibraltar, so presumably they would also extend the same to Ceuta and Melilla. I think in a very abstract sense I agree that exclaves like this are weir
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by madeofpalk 2mo ago
looks a bit like chunky, maybe? https://chunky-dev.github.io/docs/
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by madeofpalk 2mo ago
What would be a security measure that should only be selectively enforced?
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by madeofpalk 2mo ago
What would a solution to this look like? What would it take to not fear installing software? This isn't a npm problem, its a computing problem in general. Spaces like this are generally pretty against any sort of restrictions or limita
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by madeofpalk 2mo ago
This is Hacker News. Computers are knowable, tractable things. It is trivial to know if a process is making network requests.
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by madeofpalk 3mo ago
Test it! Does it make network requests? Unplug the internet and see if it still works!
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by madeofpalk 3mo ago
Both!
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by madeofpalk 3mo ago
Valve is a company built on getting children addicted to gambling.
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by madeofpalk 3mo ago
> After his own departure, Mr. Tan improperly retained or obtained an internal Apple managers’ document marked “Need to Know” that describes security procedures for employee departures. Messages left on Apple-issued work devices show th
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by madeofpalk 3mo ago
I mean, conceptually ActivityPub is quite similar to RSS. You might be able to call it Less Simple Syndication.
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by madeofpalk 3mo ago
What makes up the ATProto is more than one type of server. Compared to ActivityPub where you just run a single Mastodon instance and you're set. If the thing you want to own is your identity and data, you can fairly easy run a PDS your
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by madeofpalk 3mo ago
> I can easily install an ActivityPub server, with Glitch. Can you? The same Glitch that shut down last year? https://blog.glitch.com/post/goodbye-glitch Regardless, ActivityPub and ATProto have different designs an
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by madeofpalk 3mo ago
For various definitions of "strong". People (ab)use pointers to hack in nil support, and the type system can't perform nil checks for you, so you still end up with runtime errors if you're not careful enough.
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by madeofpalk 3mo ago
In fact, I would say it's probably too low! Like, how is prescription glasses to correct vision not an assistive device for a disability, like poor eyesight? Honestly, what's the difference between a wheelchair and prescription
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by madeofpalk 3mo ago
I like TypeScript. It catches bugs in programs that Go doesn’t.

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