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by parasti 3mo ago
What a blast from the past. Seeing Knoppix on my room mate's PC in 2004 is what led to a 20+ year ongoing adventure with Linux, Debian, gaming on Linux, compiling games with a friggin compiler and automake, programming, it all started
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by parasti 3mo ago
You're still falling back on "what the standard says". It's not a correctness question.
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by parasti 3mo ago
My point isn't about that, though. My point is if you start a blog post with "The C string library", my confidence in your ability to discuss the topic is shot before I even finish reading the sentence.
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by parasti 3mo ago
It's a header file not a library.
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by parasti 3mo ago
Starting with "The C string library" made me instantly tune out. C has a standard library, which has some string-related functions. There is no "C string library".
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by parasti 3mo ago
Just ask it to "use a workflow" and it'll spin un dozens of agents burning your token allowance in parallel.
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by parasti 3mo ago
"after the client" and "in front of client" can mean the same thing depending on your viewpoint.
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by parasti 4mo ago
This seems to be a critique of "Can Tech Legends Find the Liar? (Mafia Episode 1)" on Youtube but critiqued from a "nerd subculture" angle, which is a thing in the USA, I guess? As a European, this took me a moment to fi
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by parasti 4mo ago
You have to use "Add to home" menu item on Firefox for Android. But this web app doesn't seem to be a PWA.
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by parasti 4mo ago
I asked it how to configure haproxy, a tool that I had heard in passing about, and it gave me back exact working configuration syntax for my use case. Today that seems very mundane, but first time that happened, and I didn't have to go
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by parasti 4mo ago
Paper went over my head but is this in any way related to my experience of Claude Opus 4.8 using increasingly terse language with very short, overloaded words? Lately I've been having trouble parsing the things it writes about my own c
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by parasti 4mo ago
> I think $my_species deserves to be debased in part because it's awfully egocentric and insist on being special in the universe. This is a scary viewpoint to hold, for a human. If you despise humans, that's scary for me, as a
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by parasti 5mo ago
Google really outdid themselves this time. They killed not one but two tools (Gemini CLI and Antigravity) with one stone.
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by parasti 5mo ago
Started in 2005. Never ever did anyone complain about UB in my years of writing C code and patching other people's C code. I knew it exists - as a spec quirk. (Admittedly, never wrote a compiler and never used anything except gcc and c
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by parasti 5mo ago
Tried making an MCP server with Antigravity CLI. Antigravity CLI suffers from an identity crisis caused by a tool/ecosystem change: "I am unsure if I should be reading Gemini documentation, Gemini CLI documentation, Antigravity do
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by parasti 5mo ago
I have never in my 20 years of writing C heard so much about undefined behavior as I have in the past 6 months on Hacker News. It has never entered the conversation. You write the code. If it doesn't work, you debug it and apply a fix
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by parasti 5mo ago
> These agentic AI's are already smart enough to figure out a highly optimized path to code exploration or search. Hasn't been my experience. We used to use Augment Code at work which has a thing called Context Engine - basical
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by parasti 5mo ago
I can't help but draw parallels with video games. Aimbots in competitive multiplayer games is a well defined issue: it's considered cheating and frowned upon, players caught cheating are banned from the game. Tool-assisted speedru
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by parasti 5mo ago
As a web developer, I feel like this take is wildly optimistic. My remaining qualifications that still provide some sort value are providing historical/business/architectural context to the agent and testing the agent's outpu
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by parasti 6mo ago
My vim muscle memory has paid off more for me than my emacs muscle memory. Emacs was the better editor, though. Anything that doesn't have Vimscript is an automatic winner IMO.
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by parasti 6mo ago
Wish this post was more technical, e.g., how is the author achieving the things they advise others to do. As is, the post can't seem to decide what it wants to be: is it a rant, is it a tech post, is it a brag, or something else? Are p
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by parasti 6mo ago
I get your point, but it's not even really that. It's that an AI generated photo evokes the same feelings in me that human-made photographs do and I have to catch that and turn that off consciously.
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by parasti 6mo ago
A great technical achievement, for sure, but this is kind of the moment where it enters uncanny valley to me. The promo reel on the website makes it feel like humans doing incredible things (background music intentionally evokes that emotio
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by parasti 6mo ago
Which open weights model?
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by parasti 6mo ago
That's funny. I've used that approach myself countless times to convince myself to do house chores. When your entire being seems to go "no, I really really really don't feel like doing it right now" and you just lay
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by parasti 6mo ago
The world's greatest library of knowledge is owned by a private US company. For some reason I am reminded of this more often than I care to admit.
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by parasti 6mo ago
These days announcements like this just make me want to put on my tinfoil hat - what's in it for Google, though? Why make it more convenient for people to submit webpages to you?
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by parasti 6mo ago
I understand this is vague on purpose but wish there was more detail. E.g., if I am running a game in a webgl canvas and "back button" has meaning within the game UI which I implement via history states, is my page now going to be
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by parasti 6mo ago
Yeah, I cancelled the moment I realized that the subscription is a scheme to get you to constantly dip into extra usage. I get more benefit out of Claude on the free tier than on Pro.
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by parasti 6mo ago
When your boss looks only at the business output and your most prolific developer writes "save" for commit messages, it gets real hard to enforce a commit message policy. "It's hard to review"? Your boss doesn'

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