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by pmarreck 3mo ago
I'm sure this exact topic has been argued hundreds of times already on HN, but I think I have a new "possibly agreeable to both sides" perspective on this after having lost man-years to retired corporate code aka "FAIAP,
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by pmarreck 3mo ago
cool, now do zstd!
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by pmarreck 3mo ago
LOL.
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by pmarreck 3mo ago
The article makes a point of explaining how the world-renowned expert on identifying deepfake scams can no longer pass his own tests. If an expert can't distinguish, it has absolutely nothing to do with being "stupid" or not.
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by pmarreck 3mo ago
Arrange a secret phrase in advance- ideally generated randomly. Stick it up on the wall of the aging parent or grandparent- maybe in the bedroom, where guests are unlikely to go. Make it innocuous-looking (hidden in plain sight). Require th
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by pmarreck 3mo ago
only if the book is being held by someone in the car. Presumably, the example missed the part where they stated the book was being held in front by an outside agent, because that is the only way it would make sense.
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by pmarreck 3mo ago
I have learned the hard way that "corpo code" is ephemeral. I spent at least 2 man-years on Ruby/Rails code for Desk.com, once spending an entire month to solve a really bad and intermittent session-logout issue that stumped
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by pmarreck 3mo ago
Yes, but some cheap USB-C devices only charge when the other end is USB-A. This is not to spec, and to my knowledge this was a cost-cutting measure done by Chinese companies to cheapen manufacturing costs. So for that reason I CANNOT simply
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by pmarreck 3mo ago
Yes, I signed up for the waitlist for the new one and got in. Still sucks
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by pmarreck 3mo ago
So this is essentially a predictive mental model similar to the one real programmers have while they're coding?
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by pmarreck 3mo ago
I'm running the developer beta and it's still horrible.
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by pmarreck 3mo ago
The first Mac app I ever built, which was at least 6 months ago using only AI, was purely LLM without XCode at all.
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by pmarreck 3mo ago
Why is my Siri still so horrible at dictating text then?
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by pmarreck 3mo ago
also, the fact that you can compile to any target from any target
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by pmarreck 3mo ago
Define “quality” (I’m pretty sure both you and I would “know it when we see it”, but…)
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by pmarreck 3mo ago
consonant-consonant-vowel-consonant-consonant vs. vowel-vowel-consonant-vowel-vowel Fascinating!
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by pmarreck 3mo ago
I had the same issue! I absolutely destroyed AP Physics (first person in the history of the school to get a 5 on the AP and 100 on the NYS Regents) but got a D in AP Chem one semester, my lowest grade ever!!
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by pmarreck 3mo ago
I didn’t realize the word “crowd“ only had one vowel until I saw it scrambled!
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by pmarreck 3mo ago
Related: I have a variable integer length encoding scheme that beats out LEB128, Protobuf, varint and ASN.1 while also encoding/declaring endianness (but notably, leaving signage information up to the application): https://g
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by pmarreck 3mo ago
Is this... Is this England?
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by pmarreck 3mo ago
Gee, ya think?? LOL
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by pmarreck 3mo ago
I've heard of Odin for years now. Maybe because I like knowing about new/nascent languages. For example, have you heard of roc-lang? You've likely heard of Zig. It's possible I'm in a bubble, but it would be a fairl
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by pmarreck 3mo ago
Is there a scheme where memory is auto-freed if it goes out of scope? If so, are there benefits/drawbacks to that?
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by pmarreck 3mo ago
Twitter is blocking posting the link for some reason
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by pmarreck 3mo ago
This is impressive! What's the stack? What drives the CLI-in-browser (libghostty?) What did you compile to wasm with (rust? zig? emscripten?)
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by pmarreck 3mo ago
> very steep price I have yet to see it, but OK Either measure it or it sounds like a conspiracy theory
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by pmarreck 3mo ago
Skills atrophying in terms of what? Remembering specific API's that you always had to look up anyway? You don't lose developer intuition, analytical thinking or technical inclination, and those are the things that matter, anyway.
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by pmarreck 3mo ago
The entire system configuration is one file or a small set of files. If you copy it to a different machine, you can "run" it and get pretty much the same machine. If you screw up the config, the system tells you before it even tri
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by pmarreck 3mo ago
Lean 4 and Idris 2 are underrated, and likely great for LLM's to code in (since they provide additional guarantees)
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by pmarreck 3mo ago
What is the point of an X link that only loads if you are NOT logged into X? That's more fascinating than anything this link has!

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