p1necone

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by p1necone 6mo ago
Why are you talking like this is black and white? Many things being compile time checkable is better than no things being compile time checkable. The existence of some thing in rust that can only be checked at runtime does not somehow make
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by p1necone 6mo ago
> code quality as we previously understood will not be a thing in 3-5 years Idk - I feel like the exact same quality, maintainability, readability stuff that makes developers more effective at writing code manually also accelerates LLM d
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by p1necone 6mo ago
Because the "ship software to people, rent their hardware" model has zero up front investment required, presumably. And they don't have to deal with power, cooling, real estate.
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by p1necone 6mo ago
Echoing the other comments here - why? What is the threat model here and how does this protect you from it?
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by p1necone 6mo ago
> Which... I mean, steelman analysis has its place. But really no, this was just dumb. I rarely hear people use the term "steelman" while arguing in good faith. It's basically a tacit admission that you are either advancin
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by p1necone 6mo ago
This feels like an overly negative comment. language specific minutiae is interesting to a lot of developers, and this kind of stuff is exactly what you'd ask if someone claimed to be an experienced C++ developer. You're not goi
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by p1necone 6mo ago
If you wrote the C89 outputting transpiler in your own language it would still be just as portable.
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by p1necone 7mo ago
The "this test failure is preexisting so I'm going to ignore it" thing has been happening a lot for me lately, it's so annoying. Unless it makes a change and then immediately runs tests and it's obvious from the
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by p1necone 7mo ago
Is Minimax M2.7 better than Qwen3.5 27B, or is it just bigger?
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by p1necone 7mo ago
Being able to process separate chunks in parallel is the killer feature for any procgen algorithm - nice.
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by p1necone 7mo ago
I burn through the entire 5 hour limit in one or two "implement the feature outlined in this doc" requests with claude pro in a not even huge codebase (low tens of thousands of loc). If there were any reasonable alternatives I wou
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by p1necone 7mo ago
This runs pretty smoothly on my middling laptop CPU while looking like a typical raytracing demo. I assume there's some smoke and mirrors involved?
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by p1necone 7mo ago
A lot of math problems/proofs are like minesweeper or sudoku in a way though. They're a long series of individually kinda simple logical deductions that eventually result in a solution. Some really hard problems are only really
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by p1necone 7mo ago
Yeah but Windows is a more stable api to develop against than Linux (at least when it comes to stuff that games need to do) - it doesn't feel "pure", but pragmatically it's much better as a game developer to just make su
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by p1necone 7mo ago
Go build it.
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by p1necone 7mo ago
Sure, slightly inaccurate title, but the point they're making is valid, this comment isn't really a substantive critique. I could be wrong but I feel like when most HN commenters say that something "uses React" and also
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by p1necone 7mo ago
I haven't really extensively evaluated this, but my instinct is to really aggressively trim any 'instructions' files. I try to keep mine at a mid-double-digit linecount and leave out anything that's not critically impo
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by p1necone 7mo ago
> The biggest problem is that while slow charging (L2) in your own garage would be perfect for 99%+ of people in the US, and isn't even very expensive, that's a barrier to entry most people do not want to screw with. I feel lik
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by p1necone 7mo ago
Say what you will about Microsoft, but their programming language people consistently seem to make very solid decisions.
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by p1necone 7mo ago
Idk, as someone who has done LLM driven development of fairly complex things (type systems, memory allocation gymnastics etc) I don't think the need to understand what's going on from first principles has really gone away. If I ju
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by p1necone 7mo ago
I feel like fast food is a pretty big market for stuff like this. Burger King in New Zealand has had plant based alternatives to the whopper and chicken burger on the menu for > 1 year now so it must be doing ok. I'm not even vegeta
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by p1necone 7mo ago
Each part of the codebase is a separate self contained module with its own wrapping (boilerplate), except there's like 30 of them and you still have to understand everything as a whole to understand the behaviour of the system anyway.
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by p1necone 7mo ago
I wonder if a big capacitor would be cheaper than a battery, probably not with how huge in scale battery production is at this point.
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by p1necone 7mo ago
Not the same - I still want to be able to just use and carry round the one thing without needing a monitor, mouse, keyboard etc at every single location, but I basically never need to use it somewhere where there isn't a wall socket
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by p1necone 7mo ago
They might have tried, but this would be pretty hard to achieve for real - especially for the older/worse models. For changes that do more than alter a couple of lines llm output can be very obvious. Stripping all comments from the cha
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by p1necone 7mo ago
This is the most common way this happens in my experience - people naively assume that by giving just a date and not a time surely it wont do timezone conversion, but it does (and even worse that behaviour is not at all consistent between
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by p1necone 7mo ago
You clearly haven't worked on codebases with other developers
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by p1necone 7mo ago
The first thing I do with any new system is immediately wipe the drive and install a fresh copy of Windows/Linux, so bundled shovelware is meaningless to me, and presumably many others. (Of course it would be even better if they just c
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by p1necone 7mo ago
My laptop is always either plugged into a dock at work, or plugged into a dock or just a power supply at home. I feel like there's an untapped market for 'same laptop, but slightly cheaper because there's no battery in it at
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by p1necone 7mo ago
Or if even that feels too verbose, just a 'nullable' modifier on the variable or field definition, with the default being not nullable. (Although Optional/Maybe types are definitely my preference based on the languages I&#x27

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