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by ninkendo 9mo ago
Of course cars wouldn't lead to more horses , because horses were the thing being replaced. But cars sure as hell lead to a lot more drivers , which is more akin to the analogy. To take a software engineer for an example, Jevon'
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by ninkendo 9mo ago
People look at the backlog of issues, see all the things they don't like about $subsystem, and think to themselves "we ought to rewrite this". The incentives are all aligned to make this common. Project managers get a nice
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That’s what we should do, yes. The problem is that we were just sorta careless with interleaving database calls in with the “work” we were doing. So that function that calls that slow external service, also takes a &PgConnection as an
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by ninkendo 9mo ago
> It’s also common to find long-running idle queries in PostgreSQL. Configuring timeouts like idle_in_transaction_session_timeout is essential to prevent them from blocking autovacuum. Idle transactions have been a huge footgun at $DAYJO
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by ninkendo 9mo ago
It feels like Apple lacks the institutional vocabulary to even think about fixing old bugs. The way the releases are structured, there’s a “zero bugs” day where all bugs are ceremonially kicked out of the current release, and the level of q
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by ninkendo 9mo ago
That wouldn’t be cynical at all! It would mean that the system works, albeit slowly. The best we can hope for is a world where Amazon faces real financial pressure to prevent counterfeits. Thus far I haven’t seen much evidence this was happ
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by ninkendo 9mo ago
Yeah we’re not supposed to talk about how “HN is turning into Reddit”, but it already has. For years now. A typical comment here has been indistinguishable from a typical Reddit comment for many years, with the exception that humor is a lot
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by ninkendo 9mo ago
The problems with social media are not at all the fact that things are “locked up in apps”. Again, you missed my point. Data sharing is the least interesting thing imaginable, has already been solved countless times, and is not the reason
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by ninkendo 9mo ago
> Do you have a more pointed criticism? Sure. After taking the time to re-read the article since I initial posted my (admittedly shallow) dismissal, I realized this article is really a primer/explainer for the AT protocol, which I d
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> When great thinkers think about problems, they start to see patterns. They look at the problem of people sending each other word-processor files, and then they look at the problem of people sending each other spreadsheets, and they rea
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by ninkendo 9mo ago
Well the point is to avoid them needing to swallow it in a single gulp… after all, the source code is already all the information you need to get all this metadata. The use cases I have in mind are for codebases with many millions of lines
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> It has been three years and these tools can do a considerable portion of my day to day work. Agreed. > Unfortunately I think that many people’s jobs are essentially in the “Coyote running off a cliff but not realizing it yet” phase
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by ninkendo 9mo ago
Yeah, especially for languages that make heavy use of type inference. There’s nothing you can really grep for most of the time… to really know “who’s using this code” you need to know what the compiler knows. An LLM can likely approach comp
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by ninkendo 9mo ago
Yeah, or something even smarter than that. If you are willing to go language-specific, the tooling can be incredibly rich if you go through the effort. I’ve written some rust compiler drivers for domain-specific use cases, and you can hoo
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by ninkendo 9mo ago
Related: I’ve always found it crazy that my LLM has access to such terrible tools compared to mine. It’s left with grepping for function signatures, sending diffs for patching, and running `cat` to read all the code at once. I however, ru
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by ninkendo 9mo ago
Yeah… Not sure of your model (I have the U4025QW), but mine is so close to perfect as a KVM between a Mac and 2 PC’s, if only the KVM had one more USB output port. It takes 3 video inputs, but only 1 dedicated USB output. But oh, one of the
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by ninkendo 9mo ago
I can only speak for the Cinnamon desktop environment on Linux Mint, but it’s very simple: - Apps always launch on the monitor your mouse cursor is on - Switching the focused window to the other monitor is Win+Shift+Arrow Keys So if I click
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by ninkendo 9mo ago
> The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president. I remember that day vividly. It was the middle of the Great Recession, it was the worst our economy was doing in a long time. Million
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by ninkendo 9mo ago
Why don’t you take a moment to explain to the class why you think web crawling means you can’t cache anything? It seems to me that the very first thing I’d try to solve if I were writing a tool for an LLM to search the web, would be ca
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by ninkendo 9mo ago
> But it's often disabled for the same reason as having router-level firewalls in the first place. Yeah, anything that allows hosts to signal that they want to accept connections, is likely the first thing a typical admin would want
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by ninkendo 9mo ago
Yeah it’s definitely just a thought. Getting pregnant in space the sort of sordid thing that’s fun to speculate on, but ultimately we just don’t have enough information. We’ll probably never know, either.
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by ninkendo 9mo ago
Yes. Sex isn’t allowed on the ISS due to complications with pregnancy, but it’s not crazy to imagine that maybe they just did it anyway. (Who wouldn’t want to? It’s sex in space and it sounds amazing.)
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I’m sure they were prescribed, but it’s always possible for them to fail. I’m curious at what point in the embryo’s development the zero-g becomes an issue, if its immediate vs long term thing. It’s very possible that if it was pregnancy, t
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by ninkendo 9mo ago
This is what I keep thinking. - Theres a 38 year old woman in the crew - It’s a medical condition that likely wasn’t present when the mission started 4 months ago - It’s serious enough to return the crew, but not serious enough that they mu
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by ninkendo 10mo ago
I don’t know much about the TPM but if it’s anything like Apple’s Secure Enclave, it should require exponentially longer time after each incorrect PIN past the first one, making it so you can’t reasonably brute force it without getting luck
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by ninkendo 10mo ago
Strange that you assume a single solar panel? If you’re installing solar at home, wouldn’t you install more than one panel? I have a 15KW setup at home (kinda large, but adjust the numbers to what’s reasonable for you), it should charge the
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by ninkendo 10mo ago
It’s also the case for me in the Midwest. I drive a Chrysler Pacifica PHEV and it gets about 32 miles per gallon and 32 miles on a charge, and a 16KWH battery. Electricity is $0.22 during peak hours, which equates to a breakeven point of $3
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by ninkendo 10mo ago
> there are ABI breaks, but I only remember only one really bad one with std::basic_string and C++11 ABI breaks are everywhere in C++... consider a class class foo { public: foo(); void do_something(); private: int x;
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by ninkendo 10mo ago
> The biggest issue is that people think EV's are gas cars that have electricity instead of gasoline, with the main difference being you have to sit at the "gas pump" for 45 minutes instead of 2. If you don’t live in a con
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As I said, I am only talking about people I know personally. Not everyone is like that, please stop lumping everyone together. Not everyone who dislikes EV’s is doing so irrationally. Not every one of them is a moronic anti-environmentalist

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