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by rednafi 1y ago
> Also, considering he is a free user, the author might be using one the default models ("auto" -> o4-mini or gpt-4o, rarely Claude Sonnet/Opus 3) in Cursor I wonder where you got the free user info.
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by rednafi 1y ago
Not saying people should read the article, but it's a short one and hides some nuanced points behind an ambiguous title. Probably intentional. I liked how it showed plenty of examples of scaleups getting egg-faced after overpromising A
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by rednafi 1y ago
Yeah I dropped it thinking HN might not allow it :)
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AI-first – We're just 6 months away from AGI(revontulet.dev)
23 points by rednafi 1y ago|49 comments
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by rednafi 1y ago
I agree about using other languages that have better concurrency support if concurrency is your bottleneck. But changing the language in a brownfield project is hard. I love Go, and these days I don’t bother with Python if I know the backen
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by rednafi 1y ago
It’s going to get faster since threads won’t be locked on GIL. If you’re locking shared objects correctly or not using them all, then you should be good.
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by rednafi 1y ago
In my case, LLMs just replaced time wasted in stackoverflow fighting the cocky gatekeepers. Otherwise, I code as usual and it’s a great addition to my repertoire.
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by rednafi 1y ago
Europe really needs to fix the funding issue and language fragmentation. Otherwise there's no "luring people in." Every time someone brings this up, a bunch of people are like, "Have you ever worked in the EU? They all s
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by rednafi 1y ago
Research doesn't work like that. I like the idea of separating contract and implementation in algebraic effects. It might pave the way to bring back some sanity to imperative languages and help us write better code, since it's pre
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by rednafi 1y ago
> Sorry to say, the software engineer knows next to nothing about "the right way" to design language features that people want to use or enjoy using. Sorry to say that many PL researchers live in their ivory tower and know next
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by rednafi 1y ago
Odin truly feels like a C successor, and as someone who likes Go, it appeals to me a lot more than Zig or Rust. Partly because it took inspiration from the Pascal, Delphi, Oberon branch, same as Go. I don’t particularly enjoy working on the
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by rednafi 1y ago
One thing that’s common in most business and productivity books is that they use an awful lot of words to say things that either don’t mean much or aren’t really replicable. Ton of nonfiction books suffer from the same issue and could easil
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by rednafi 1y ago
Relatable. I’ve been writing code for soulless corps for about seven years, and it can get exhausting. Add politics and the endless rat race for promotions, and you have a recipe for making good people either really bored or really unhappy.
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by rednafi 1y ago
The bridge has already been burnt. They can always pull the rug again.
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by rednafi 1y ago
Leetcode-infested technical interviews aren’t there to assess your technical competence; they’re used as a signal to gauge your tolerance for absurd organizational demands and your willingness to carry them out without question.
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by rednafi 2y ago
But the US is huge. So is China, and they have fantastic trains. The freedom to choose between public transportation and your own vehicle is immense. I don’t like driving, maintaining a car, or constantly paying for gas and insurance, and I
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by rednafi 2y ago
I feel similarly about environment variables. Envvar issues are a pain to debug in cloud VMs and CI pipelines. Oftentimes, changing the envvar value doesn’t propagate without a container restart anyway. I wish that instead of all these vaul
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by rednafi 2y ago
We all have imaginary friends that we believe will one day make us magically more successful, rich, and beautiful. It’s just hard for us to observe that from within the system. Kids, on the other hand, are simple creatures. They’ll demonstr
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Own Your Calendar(jnsgr.uk)
5 points by rednafi 2y ago|0 comments
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by rednafi 2y ago
Lots. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37192467 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9266184
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by rednafi 2y ago
Steve Ballmer never diversified his Microsoft stock like Bill Gates did. But it made him an immensely rich guy—currently richer than Gates himself. Now, does that mean picking a company and going all in is a good idea? Probably not. I’m all
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by rednafi 2y ago
I like em dashes and use “Option Shift -” to summon them on macOS. However, LLMs tend to overuse them and compose absurdly long sentences. While proofreading a draft, I often instruct an LLM to “keep the original tone intact and don’t creat
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by rednafi 2y ago
It also depends on what you’re selling and who you’re selling it to. Do it too much, and you’ll incur the wrath of the mob—or worse, be ignored into oblivion. In the software world, salespeople are almost universally hated because of how ob
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by rednafi 2y ago
As a legal alien, I welcome the idea of cracking down on illegal immigrants. At the same time, I’ve seen many businesses in the U.S. run sweatshops and profit off desperate people willing to work for trinkets. Asylum seekers are another hug
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The right way to do data fixtures in Go(brandur.org)
3 points by rednafi 2y ago|0 comments
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Careless People Review(slate.com)
13 points by rednafi 2y ago|1 comments
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by rednafi 2y ago
I welcome this wholeheartedly. If Ubuntu adopts that and it doesn’t need me to deal with any incompatibility, then it’s a win-win for everyone.
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by rednafi 2y ago
One reason I haven’t picked up any of these newfangled Rust tools like bat, exa, or fd is that I can barely remember the options for the originals. For me, anything that isn’t a drop-in replacement for the OG tools isn’t worth the friction.
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by rednafi 2y ago
Cool stuff. I like using Git via the CLI, but when it comes to blame, I simply use the preview UI of the VSCode GitLens extension. It takes half a second to launch it from the command palette and inspect the blame.
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by rednafi 2y ago
There's nothing new here. From AirDrop to AirPods, Apple's MO is to lock you into their ecosystem and be as belligerent as possible toward any non-Apple gizmo. Couple that with social and network effects, and you have a perfect fo

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