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by nine_k 8mo ago
> the OS is full of ads and pre-installed garbage Running Windows in 2026 is either a mistake, or a sad necessity. Fortunately, unless you need The Right Kind of Excel, you can choose either Linux on a PC (best, IMO), or a Mac.
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by nine_k 8mo ago
LLM-written code passed SWE Bench even back then . This may just say that SWE Bench is an inadequate test, and should not be used for serious evaluation.
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by nine_k 8mo ago
OpenClaw as an appliance, ready to use, sold to non-techies? May as well be profitable.
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by nine_k 8mo ago
>> Harvard, MIT > people are being paid too much to spend all day emailing each other Hmm, this does not sound exactly right. Also, does anybody seriously think that communication is not work, or is not important? A number of r
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by nine_k 8mo ago
Drowning in debt means the job is inadequate :-\ Paycheck to paycheck is sort of fine, if you can still dedicate the time to your WoW clan, or your music, or your writing, and be happy about that. Well, to your kids, not expecting anything
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by nine_k 8mo ago
People volunteer e.g. playing games for free, spending considerable time and effort. The point is that the process is enjoyable by itself. When it starts to feel like work, it starts to feel like needing wages for it.
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by nine_k 8mo ago
What useless things?
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by nine_k 8mo ago
Not necessarily UBI; one just needs an adequate day job. Then the hobby could be creating value with no expectation of any direct return: writing a blog, writing and giving away music, writing open-source software, doing any volunteer work,
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by nine_k 8mo ago
Fewer than two is exactly one instruction. Which?
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by nine_k 8mo ago
This just means that the problem requires more than a Boolean, but rather something like boolean | error. In many languages from the OOP heyday that alternative part was expressed via throwing an exception.
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by nine_k 8mo ago
To quote the article: «The defeated of the world theorize what they endure. In truth, the only critical thinking possible today is thinking from the standpoint of the defeated. This standpoint is not one of passivity, nor of victimhood. On
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by nine_k 8mo ago
The scoop: a boolean can't be smaller than a byte. Full 254 level of nested Option<bool> fit into it. (C++ needs much more for even a single level.)
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by nine_k 8mo ago
Solaris proper, not Illumos?
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by nine_k 8mo ago
Have you seen a blockbuster full of nuance, pastel colors, and "yes but"s? A publication like this needs to be garishly gloomy and scandalously cynical to generate enough stir. It draws attention. Why would one think that a book a
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by nine_k 8mo ago
Granite is heavy and brittle. Instead, take a plate made of platinum or iridium, and engrave information on it. It offers excellent mechanical, chemical, and thermal durability. It can sink in volcanic lava and then hammered back out from t
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by nine_k 8mo ago
As I was getting into computers as a teenager, a teacher warned me that the area is such that I would have to learn new things constantly, without end. I said, fine, what's not to like? But I now realize that as people grow, their desi
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by nine_k 8mo ago
Not running on Russian gas for a few more years might have some nonlinear effects around 2022 :-/
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by nine_k 8mo ago
Also, oil will only get more expensive in the long term, and electricity is going to get cheaper, with more and more solar panels generating electricity locally "for free".
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by nine_k 8mo ago
Golang makes easy-to-skim code, with all the `if err != nil` after every function call. Rust requires actual reading, like Typescript, only more detailed.
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by nine_k 8mo ago
Which again means lack of growth. A poster-child startup is one that has a long waitlist of willing future customers, and whose engineering team is scaling the tech up, up, up to keep up with the demand.
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by nine_k 8mo ago
If you are fine enough with protobufs so that you're not actively looking for alternatives, maybe you should not spend the effort.
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by nine_k 8mo ago
> hardware is cheap Hardware was cheap a year ago. Whoever managed to build their boxes full of cheap RAM and HDDs, great, they did the right thing. It will be some time until such an opportunity presents itself again.
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by nine_k 8mo ago
> Everyone keeps their jobs Company bosses somehow see this differently. Now that the best performers are empowered by AI, cut the worst-performing workforce, and still enjoy efficiency gains!
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by nine_k 8mo ago
The entire original post, it seems, is dedicated to explaining why Skir is better than plain Protobuf, with examples of all the well-known pain points. If these are not persuasive for you, staying with Protobuf (or just JSON) should be a fi
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by nine_k 8mo ago
A good business would send you a warning a month before your credit card expires, not after the fact.
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by nine_k 8mo ago
Only VLIW, where you control instruction scheduling, gives real assurance.
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by nine_k 8mo ago
This is true, but in like 95% of cases, the ZIP code determines the state and the city (and the county, when it matters). Pre-populating them would save time to a lot of people. Those few with the luck to live at zip codes that span cities
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by nine_k 8mo ago
While at it, https://github.com/semgrep/semgrep was around for several years, too.
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by nine_k 8mo ago
/* A source code editor that operates directly on the AST, and affords different visual representations on top of it, was the topic of my (unfinished) PhD thesis about 30 years ago. */
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by nine_k 8mo ago
Location: New York City, NY, USA Remote: Yes, as is hybrid. Have a long experience working in distributed teams. Willing to relocate: No (family, kids). Technologies: Backend: Typescript, Express.js, Next.js; Python, FastAPI, Django, SQLAlc

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