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by rdevilla 5mo ago
You lost weight yet Todd? You're going to need a triple bypass at your BMI.
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by rdevilla 5mo ago
The whole internet is like this now, and it's only just getting started. Makes me sick tbh, and I am still questioning if this is the kind of industry I want to work in.
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by rdevilla 5mo ago
Yes, exactly.
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by rdevilla 5mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wabi-sabi
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by rdevilla 5mo ago
I don't understand why humans abstract a business leader away from the realities of building software, while LLMs do not. If the rhetoric is to be believed, the set of responsibilities falling to the role of "software engineer&quo
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by rdevilla 5mo ago
It's for their, and your, own safety.
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by rdevilla 5mo ago
By this definition, pre-LLM "business leaders" circa 2008 with not even an understanding of Excel were already "software engineers" this whole time - just prompting out software through their meatspace agents, instead of
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by rdevilla 5mo ago
Liking intellectual challenges on Hacker News is very 2008. It's 2026, the AI will write a compiler in 5 minutes, no headache required. If you're still playing with Rubik's cubes you're going to get left behind.
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by rdevilla 5mo ago
It's not achievable. The only way is through - everybody should get into the practice of stalking and gossiping about each other in a Molochian environment, where the people who do not do so suffer from the losing side of an informatio
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by rdevilla 6mo ago
This site is just inundated with LLM slop now. Moltbook everywhere, all day, every day.
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by rdevilla 6mo ago
Please stop. I can't take HN seriously any more with comments like this here.
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by rdevilla 6mo ago
> It all sort of ties into Heisenberg's uncertainty theorem. A system cannot be fully described from within that system. Surely you are talking about Godel incompleteness, not Heisenberg's uncertainty principle; in which case t
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by rdevilla 6mo ago
Ah yes, but those hundred lines of code are basically free to produce now with LLMs...
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by rdevilla 6mo ago
ROCm is not supported on some very common consumer GPUs, e.g. the RX 580. Vulkan backends work just fine.
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by rdevilla 6mo ago
Bubble's bursting, get in.
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by rdevilla 6mo ago
> A definition by which every human alive ever qualifies as a magician Exactly correct. Chapter 2: "No, every act of your life is a magical act; whenever from ignorance, carelessness, clumsiness or what not, you come short of perfec
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by rdevilla 6mo ago
You either see it or you don't.
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by rdevilla 6mo ago
I mean, I've had pipe dreams of a parallel networking stack built on IPv6 with a killer app offering real peer-to-peer networking again. But who will deploy and maintain all the new IPv6 networking gear, infrastructure, undersea cables
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by rdevilla 6mo ago
Speaking of myths, pixies, and spirits: > I. DEFINITION: > MAGICK is the Science and Art of causing Change to occur in conformity with Will. > (Illustration: It is my Will to inform the World of certain facts within my knowledge. I
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by rdevilla 6mo ago
> (Claude Code got mandated at my work this week. Like literally engineers must use CC.) I'm taking a break from this industry until the madness blows over. I cannot even, anymore.
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by rdevilla 6mo ago
Ok. How do you propose one fights back? Do you really viscerally understand what it is you are fighting against?
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by rdevilla 6mo ago
I don't agree that one should "write like they talk." Certain forms of writing are fundamentally a higher and more complex register of language, because they have gone through more rounds of refinement and editing, while spee
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by rdevilla 6mo ago
This state of affairs presages the advent of a second dark age - one that will forever eclipse the era of radical openness & transparency that once served the software community for decades. Tips, tricks, life hacks and other expert te
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by rdevilla 6mo ago
HN will flag and downvote anti AI sentiment. There is lots of it here, you just aren't allowed to see it.
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by rdevilla 6mo ago
In Canada, demands are not actually demands. That way if the demand is avoided, there never was a demand to begin with; however, if it was fulfilled, then of course there was always a demand all along.
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by rdevilla 6mo ago
It's extremely prevalent in Canada as well; almost certainly even more so. It's really a North American thing. I expect copious downvotes with no actual replies. Then the comment will be flagged by the bot armies so the administra
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by rdevilla 6mo ago
I loved this game playing on an Arch Thinkpad in university with budget graphics capability. The best part is being able to pin locations on the map for your teammates, so we were able to plot the adventures and battlegrounds of a goated un
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by rdevilla 6mo ago
Understood. I will now aggressively flag so called "clickbait" on HN.
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by rdevilla 6mo ago
It's because people have discovered that (1) motte and bailey fallacies [0] and equivocation of language (between, e.g. identity and diagnosis) are highly effective rhetorical tools; (2) merely identifying as something ontologically
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by rdevilla 6mo ago
The torment is evidently yours [0]. However, I am ecstatic you reveal your own inner turbulence, which I have deliberately engineered. By the way, how are those food prices working out for ya bud [1]? I understand that you are struggling, b

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