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by piker 1y ago
> Try building something new in claude code (or codex etc) using a programming language you have not used before. Your opinion might change drastically. Try changing something old in claude code (or codex etc) using a programming languag
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by piker 1y ago
Agree with both, and you can see this in prep school admissions in the UK, but that adjustment might take a generation.
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by piker 1y ago
Yes, that was just reiterating the initial surprise which as you suggest was rhetorical mostly.
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The Network Drive Issue(tritium.legal)
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by piker 1y ago
It looks from another chart like 21% of revenue is recurring, so $10 million annually for Europe. Convert that to GBP and you get about £7.5 million. Figure that the UK accounts for about 15% of the European economy and assume it contribute
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by piker 1y ago
Any stats on this? I'd be surprised if the number of Brits putting £10-100/mo into Wikipedia greatly exceeds 10.
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by piker 1y ago
> designing career programs for formerly incarcerated women. Gonna come in handy!
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by piker 1y ago
They really should, but nothing so far has taken off like Git. Mostly they just have serial versions of the whole document. It's pretty bad.
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by piker 1y ago
Tritium, the integrated drafting environment for lawyers: https://tritium.legal/ Rust cross-platform application leveraging egui. Web preview: https://tritium.legal/preview
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by piker 1y ago
I think that's right in the first order, but the second order is that journalists and gadget enthusiasts do, and they may write about your product. That happened to me with my Show HN post on here.
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by piker 1y ago
Fascinating
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by piker 1y ago
I was talking about child locks which can be opened from the outside and increase the risk to children in the event of a car jacking.
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by piker 1y ago
Yes, and actually this makes a ton of sense. I perceive the risk of my children opening and falling out of the moving car as low relative to being trapped in a car in a bad situation. But I could absolutely see the idiots trying to bolt 0.2
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by piker 1y ago
Parent of 2 actually, and lots of time. I'm talking about child locks, not auto-lock. Locking the door from the inside. A commenter above suggests that it's to stop the little idiots from popping out into the middle of the street
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by piker 1y ago
Similarly watch out for ultra-specific rankings that are used to dupe you into thinking the school excels at something that isn't a real category. My state alma mater managed to rank #2 (to HBS of course) in "international busines
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by piker 1y ago
I hate this "feature". Was there a rash of children jumping out of cars that lead to its creation? It just seems like such a narrow set of facts where a child is big and smart enough to open the door but dumb enough to jump out an
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by piker 1y ago
Sorry I was looking for a transcript, but if you have 5 hours to listen you'll find it in here: https://lexfridman.com/john-carmack/ . It's an awesome interview if you haven't heard it anyway.
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by piker 1y ago
I personally draw inspiration from John Carmack. I've understood his approach to be basically just stare at your problem and ignore everything else until you make a little bit of progress. The answer is there.
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by piker 1y ago
Props again to the id team. No doubt something like that engineered by most folks today would have died long before the 2 year mark due to memory fragmentation if not outright leaks.
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by piker 1y ago
In some ways it makes sense to pave the way for Claude to protect the brand of VS Code. On the other hand, it’s a bit of a head-scratcher since it seems like VS code was built as a loss-leader to sell Microsoft cloud products. Perhaps enter
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by piker 1y ago
Yes, I think that’s the other position. But my bet is that significant software projects built today on today’s LLMs will be outpaced by teams in the future who avoided delegating that complexity to them. It’s a bet, but perhaps it’s wrong.
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by piker 1y ago
Suggesting I restructure my code base to work better with a non-deterministic black box feels like an instance of Conway’s law[1] that should be avoided. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law
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by piker 1y ago
Pretty much nailed it. Once you’re at about 40k LOC you can just turn off the autocomplete features and use Claude or GPT to evaluate specific high-level issues. My sense is 40k LOC is the point at which the suggestions are offset by the ra
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by piker 1y ago
It’s not actually that bad.
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by piker 1y ago
I meant them as independent threats.
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by piker 1y ago
I think we take issue with requiring the leap to Microsoft “deliberately” obstructing interoperability. Microsoft just isn’t incentivized to make it simple to implement, but it’s probably less complicated than the various web standards.
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by piker 1y ago
It seems like the golden age of freedom is behind us for now, and we’re going to descend for a while back into nationalism and authoritarianism
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by piker 1y ago
Dead on. Microsoft is just dominant and exporting its 40 year old legacy codebase as a spec. LibreOffice team is frustrated that the for-profit model is beating the OSS model and crying foul over mostly necessary complexity. If LibreOffice
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by piker 1y ago
He had one accident in almost 60 years of driving, so I think he'd be on the safe end of human statistics. But then again, what human is safe to drive? [Edit: I should note that he's stopped driving over the last couple of years.]
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by piker 1y ago
By disabled I mean, for example, my father has polio and has driven his entire life in the US but would be unable to do so physically in the UK because of the demands the civil engineering would impose on him here.

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