osigurdson

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by osigurdson 6d ago
Agree. These days, if you think you have a methodology that works better than others, you can actually try it / compare it and publish it so that others can replicate and critique your work. Articles like this one, that merely claim th
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by osigurdson 6d ago
A recent HN article (below) concluded that asking agents to do TDD wasn't particularly helpful. I hope there is more research on this because TDD will be slower, use more tokens and results in more code to review. https://ne
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by osigurdson 8d ago
The easiest thing for people to do in that situation is just create another Bitcoin. The person that has the 500K original Bitcoin is free to trade with themselves. This is why Bitcoin is much more of a social network than an algorithm.
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by osigurdson 8d ago
Bitcoin is more like an asset than a currency. Unless a country makes Bitcoin its only currency it doesn't really matter that it is deflationary.
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by osigurdson 8d ago
Agree. Bitcoin is more of a social concept / weighted democracy than an algorithm. If the participants decide that a new / incompatible hashing algo is needed (e.g. post quantum), it will be forked and everyone will use that. The
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by osigurdson 9d ago
Note that Linux often runs on Lenovos and Dells, some of which may be creaky. I guess you are saying you prefer macOS.
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by osigurdson 9d ago
I think for most projects, add an ORM only after you start getting really annoyed and understand what you are trading.
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by osigurdson 9d ago
I used .NET for many years with Postgres on a huge project. Honestly, I don't know what you mean. Can you break down "Everything" a little. What is it that expects MSSQL? Who are the thought leaders pushing it? I'd say M
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by osigurdson 9d ago
Obviously, don't use it if you don't want to and don't have to. It is not worse than Go or Java however which is its only meaningful competition.
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by osigurdson 9d ago
It is an interesting fact about Bitcoin in general. There are 21M tokens in total AND some percentage are lost every year. Run this simulation long enough and there will be very few active Bitcoins remaining.
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by osigurdson 16d ago
I like how the nurse gets to check if the AI is doing the right thing as one of her new tasks. AI is going to have to get to the point where it can do things on its own or it will only transform problem domains where verification is fast an
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by osigurdson 16d ago
Just bring back the iPhone mini, please.
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by osigurdson 18d ago
Makes sense. I never use podman compose and instead just use k8s like yamls. I find it easier anyway.
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by osigurdson 22d ago
They keep saying that. I'd say it is more like human brains that don't remember high school math have trouble with it.
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by osigurdson 26d ago
I like and use Arch daily. My "way" was just to get past the fdisk squirrel catcher. After that it was as easy as Ubuntu. I'm not bragging, I wish I'd read the manual but was too impatient for that. I suspect I'm no
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by osigurdson 26d ago
DHH made Ruby on Rails and lots of people love it (not for me, personally).
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by osigurdson 26d ago
I don't use Podman desktop but I haven't had any issues at all with basic Podman. It just seems like a better overall design. It would be great if Docker copied the rootless / daemonless approach if possible.
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by osigurdson 29d ago
IMO current browsers are more like an operating system designed for progressive loading of apps. That doesn't mean do dumb / complicated / bloated stuff for no reason. If the best thing for your users is static html, use that
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by osigurdson 1mo ago
If I stated that "I think everything will be completely fine", I would expect people to challenge me on that to provide some kind of evidence. Hyperbolic statements on both sides of the argument are not constructive.
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by osigurdson 1mo ago
Do you have any credible source indicating that "billions will die"?
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by osigurdson 1mo ago
My personal antidote is to write unassisted Zig in my spare time (though C would be fine as well). While I can't back with data I certainly feel sharper.
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by osigurdson 1mo ago
I think he is basically saying YC has enough startups that are just making API calls.
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by osigurdson 1mo ago
I used Fable a bit when it was available. I didn't get the senae is was dramatically better than OpenAI. Now I am considering canceling my Claude sub since I can no longer experiment with their best models.
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by osigurdson 1mo ago
A lot of companies seem to want to lock in to one solution or the other - like picking Oracle or SQL Server. The landscape is far too unsettled for that imo.
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by osigurdson 1mo ago
I installed Arch from scratch. Honestly, other than a couple of minor "squirrel catchers" associated with disk formatting it isn't that big of a deal. You don't have to be a graybeard monk to use Linux - Omarchy or not.
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by osigurdson 1mo ago
Does anyone have experience with Dell XPS / Omarchy/Arch and docking stations? I've had a lot of trouble getting it to work reliably with my ThinkPad. I'd switch if I knew it was plug and play on Arch/Omarchy.
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by osigurdson 1mo ago
Go is extremely easy to pickup. If you know any language you probably know Go already for the most part (channels notwithstanding). I wouldn't say it is a "beautiful" language however. Though that is in the eye of the beholde
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by osigurdson 1mo ago
If you mean panic, it isn't really the same thing.
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by osigurdson 1mo ago
There is a reason why Rust, Go and Zig don't have exceptions and it isn't because the language designers didn't understand them. While you can achieve the same thing using both approaches, errors as return values is generally
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by osigurdson 1mo ago
If you reach a scenario that should crash your app, exceptions are fine. However, they are a pain (and brittle in the case of C#) when the intention is to handle them. This is the reason why many newer languages don't use exceptions.

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