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by onion2k 3mo ago
I bought 5! What are you going to do with 120 of them?
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by onion2k 3mo ago
It's trivial to draw a line between some fixed points and extrapolate back to an origin if there's no external forces acting on the asteroid. But there is - planetary gravity, the moon, potentially the sun heating one side of it
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by onion2k 3mo ago
manual PR reviews can catch things that llms currently miss I didn't say LLMs though. I'm talking about the sort of code quality tooling that's been in use for decades - Sonarqube, Codacy, CodeClimate, etc for code quality,
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by onion2k 3mo ago
I'm not sure how the best teams do PR review.. They don't do them. They discuss the changes as the team are doing them (software design and architecture), they automate all the things that would be nitpicks (linting, formatting,
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by onion2k 3mo ago
My Product Manager: "Ok, but we can deliver the MVP of one fractal in an octillionth of the time, right? I've already promised the stakeholders."
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by onion2k 3mo ago
I’d put money on the average developer being significantly worse at writing code with bugs than an AI. I'd take that bet if it was measured in "bugs per day" instead of "bugs per LOC". LLMs generate far fewer bugs
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by onion2k 3mo ago
Given the choice of a bored call center employee who doesn't care, or who's only pretending to care, and who isn't really empowered to fix a problem versus an AI bot that can actually effect real change to fix a simple proble
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by onion2k 3mo ago
I wish the page used the CSS :visited selector and provided a link on the index page, so we could easily see which one we've visited before or not. That only lasts as long as your browser history. For example, Chrome only holds your
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by onion2k 3mo ago
Invading Australia is looking pretty tempting right now.
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by onion2k 3mo ago
I don't think that's true if the reason a company has left the vendor for given model by making it hard to buy. Enterprise IT is enough of a pain in the butt that people will forego the new shiny to avoid the old painful unless it
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by onion2k 3mo ago
If there's a human who could write SQlite in an hour we should be paying them at least that much.
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by onion2k 3mo ago
The fact that the swarm needs high quality docs to work from will keep most of the tech industry safe.
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by onion2k 3mo ago
Working with someone who thinks Team Topologies is an instruction manual is not fun .
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by onion2k 3mo ago
Absolutely XXXXXXX XX XXXXX XXXX because I XXX XX XXXXXXX XX XX XXXXXX even if the state XXXX XXX XXXXXXXXX XXX XX XXXXX XXXXXXXX. (This joke would be funnier if HN allowed unicode Full Block characters)
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by onion2k 3mo ago
Projects can be broken down into parallel pieces of work, so you should always be able to pick up another part of the project rather than switch to a different project if you're blocked. As the other poster says, the goal is to not be
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by onion2k 3mo ago
I'm pretty certain that the one factor above all others that makes software delivery slow down is doing too many things at once. You should aim to be working on one project at a time in your team. Taking on another project, or workstre
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by onion2k 3mo ago
A good webkit-based browser on Windows might mean people actually start bothering to test things in that browser family. It can be done today but it's a little bit of a pain and it lags behind Safari by some margin. Run `npx playwrig
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by onion2k 3mo ago
The USA and Russia used pencils in the early space missions. They stopped because broken pencil points would mean they'd have graphite floating around, which is electrically conductive, and got sucked into the ventilation systems resul
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by onion2k 3mo ago
This is a top-down incentive problem. If teams are rewarded for making things work, fixing problems, and keeping the lights on they'll pick up ownership of orphaned projects. If they're only rewarded for feature delivery then they
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by onion2k 3mo ago
If AI replaces my job specifically, get a different job. If AI replaces all jobs, I'll mostly wonder how rich people will survive without being able to make billions selling things to poor people, and then realize that capitalism isn&#
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by onion2k 3mo ago
Parsley is used by people who don't cook often as a garnish to make a meal look more fancy. The sort of thing you might do if you have a date coming over and want to impress...
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by onion2k 3mo ago
It's got nothing to do with what most people actually do when they're working.. AI companies claim their products are generalists though, and that they can do a good job on anything you give them, so you can't say what pe
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by onion2k 3mo ago
Richard Campbell did a great talk at NDC a month about about this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo7MEPgWGic
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by onion2k 3mo ago
How to take your product to market has been the downfall of many, many startups. Building something is the easy bit - getting people to pay attention to it is far harder, especially if you're not someone who enjoys marketing. Hit up yo
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by onion2k 3mo ago
It's so tempting to drop the text of that paper into Pangram. :)
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by onion2k 3mo ago
There will come a point when the price hits high enough to justify the cost but that also means higher costs to the end user. This makes me wonder if it'd be worthwhile starting a company to capture it now, and just stockpile it unti
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by onion2k 3mo ago
If you switch on the 'Supporting Evidence' on that site, it seems to be basing it's opinion on three things: - Use a descriptive triad of "reviewing, directing, and course" (it incorrectly misunderstood 'course
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by onion2k 3mo ago
The fact that Open Systems hold a trademark on "Open Systems" is less a signal that OpenAI should be allowed to hold "Open AI", and more a sign that Open Systems should start considering changing their name because they&
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by onion2k 3mo ago
The author should probably read The Checklist Manifesto. It's a great book that has some excellent advice about getting things done with higher quality by, not surprisingly given the title, using checklists.
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Vibe-coded apps probably have loads, but mostly because they're using less capable models than the people who're doing the bug-hunting. Once vibe-coders are using models like Mythos too you should expect the number of bugs in vibe

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