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by notpachet 7mo ago
> Claude and GPT regularly write programs that are way better than what I would’ve written Is that really true? Like, if you took the time to plan it carefully, dot every i, cross every t? The way I think of LLM's is as "median
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by notpachet 7mo ago
"Ah, now here's the thing about that. I wrote this custom 'surveillance countermeasures' tool a few years ago and have been using it ever since. It constantly emits false data about me to confuse these sorts of data coll
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by notpachet 8mo ago
> Also, I would like to point out that almost all women have had more then 0 sexual partners before wedding. Hence your statement would actually be kinda correct of you remove the "recklessly". Having premarital sex is not ever
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by notpachet 8mo ago
> Unless you want a Soviet system where jobs are kept to keep people busy. There's an argument that even under capitalism, a lot of jobs still only exist in order to keep people busy.
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by notpachet 8mo ago
You're saying it's de facto selfish to not have kids? What if someone can't have kids? In reality everyone who's thinking about having kids exists on a spectrum of what's possible: either it's going to be rea
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by notpachet 8mo ago
For me, it's tabs-vs-spaces, but doesn't every codebase have its own peeing-against-the-wind patterns that are necessary because of some historical reason or another? What's the way to mitigate against this trend towards th
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Ask HN: Am I holding it wrong?
6 points by notpachet 8mo ago|7 comments
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by notpachet 8mo ago
I wonder how many vibecoding/automatic programming zealots are fluent in a multimodal editor.
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by notpachet 8mo ago
> in a brand new project Must be nice. Claude and Codex are still a waste of my time in complex legacy codebases.
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by notpachet 9mo ago
Everything else? Higher demand for electricity drives up prices across the board.[0] [0] https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/business/energy-environme...
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by notpachet 9mo ago
> do you also disassemble every library you use and understand it? Sometimes.
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by notpachet 9mo ago
Not enough financial upside for it to be worth the trouble.
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by notpachet 9mo ago
What if increasing global instability renders them sporadically unavailable for certain markets?
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by notpachet 10mo ago
> Will admit It's not great (probably not even good) You lost me here. Come back when you're proud of it.
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by notpachet 10mo ago
TIL Cunningham's Law[0]. I knew about that phenomenon but not the proper name. Thanks! [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_Cunningham#Law
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by notpachet 10mo ago
> And I'm the most junior member of my team at 37 years of age This sounds fucking awesome.
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by notpachet 10mo ago
"Mortality as home entertainment -- this cannot be the future!! ...Can it??" - McCabe (Kurt Russell), Vanilla Sky
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by notpachet 10mo ago
"First we have to build a Bingo service. See, Bingo knows everyone's name-o..." - 'Microservices' sketch by Krazam https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8OnoxKotPQ
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by notpachet 10mo ago
This is also true of alt text for images. I'm active on Bluesky, and so often I see an image with an "ALT" tag (meaning that the user has specified alt text for the image) only for it to be some meaningless offhand bullshit l
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by notpachet 11mo ago
Cancer detection is not a process. That's a discrete step in a process. My name isn't Russ. Russ Ackoff was a business process optimization leader from the last century -- a contemporary of Deming and the Toyota school etc.
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by notpachet 11mo ago
How is what you linked a business process? Cancer identification is a step in a larger process, specifically the "analyze unstructured data" part that the author alludes to. AI won't take a shoddy process (say, your process f
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by notpachet 11mo ago
Wouldn't there necessarily be correlative effects in professional settings a la programming?
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by notpachet 11mo ago
Reading this was such an immediate "aha" for me. Of course we should be using GraphQL for this. Damn. Where was this comment three months ago!
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by notpachet 11mo ago
> lachrymosely Learned a new word, thank you!
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by notpachet 11mo ago
The truth is typically somewhere in the middle. I feel you though. I'm that way with Ruby/Bundler.
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by notpachet 11mo ago
Maybe we can convince Shopify to hijack NPM too while they're at it.
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by notpachet 11mo ago
I feel like there are merits to your argument but that you have a larger anti-JS bias that's leaking through. Not that there aren't problems with Node itself, but as many people have pointed out, there are plenty of organizations
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by notpachet 11mo ago
> pretty deterministic This is an oxymoron.
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by notpachet 11mo ago
Can we edit the submission title to match what's in the actual article? Not just because I'm annoyed at how transparently Gen Z the HN title is...
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by notpachet 11mo ago
> I've realized it's probably for the best since the average dev would only use it to create elaborate foot guns see also: react hooks

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