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by rs186 2y ago
Are you comfortable with sharing the URL of your blog? I find the idea interesting, but also puzzling -- If you work at a commercial company on proprietary software, like most of software engineers, there is very limited amount of things yo
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by rs186 2y ago
Wait, how is "JavaScript is slow at a lot of things" (a vague/questionable premise by itself) relevant to the discussion here?
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by rs186 2y ago
No, absolutely not. Well, maybe JavaScript, but they are horrible at languages like C++. Just yesterday, I asked multiple LLMs (GPT, Claude, Gemini) why my code does not compile, with the error message, and asked for a solution. None provid
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by rs186 2y ago
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42886680 Ollama does not support Vulkan on any platform. So this at least provides another choice. Being Windows-only is still baffling. I guess they assume their biggest user b
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by rs186 2y ago
I think the center of the conversation is "general purpose safety" (a term I just made up), i.e. if you just want to get things done, how to write thr code in a safe way. If your other needs like performance are critical, things n
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by rs186 2y ago
Agrees with my own experience. I have a 4070 super which of course is nothing to brag about, but tps using quantized 27b model is miserable. I could go down to 12b or even smaller, but it would sacrifice in quality. Then I could upgrade my
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by rs186 2y ago
That perspective was never correct to begin with. Along with laughable comments I have seen like "memory safety is easy. Memory related bugs are created by bad programmers". See comments under this video: https://youtu.
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by rs186 2y ago
Arguably you want to spend a bit more than $0, e.g. a good VPN or a good seedbox. And VPNs can be as expensive as YouTube premium. (That said, VPNs have other uses, but "most people" probably don't really use VPNs much anyway
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by rs186 2y ago
Convenience. When watching TV, people enjoy using a remote to navigate the interface, instead of with keyboard/mouse/trackpad, potentially having to get up and go to the laptop to do that.
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Why does a break room have an Echo there in the first place?
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by rs186 2y ago
You could if you want your codebase to be an unmanageable mess.
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by rs186 2y ago
That vast majority of conversations with AI is irrelevant to censorship. Well, I can only speak for myself, but surely you can see questions like "phone A vs phone B", and "how do I use feature X on product Y" or almost
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by rs186 2y ago
The possibility to do things does not mean it's able to actually finish the task, at least not until you and I have an opportunity to try it out ourselves and verify that things actually work, and work at least as well as you do it you
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I wouldn't use Amazon as an example until we see Alexa's real world performance.
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by rs186 2y ago
Eh, so what's the point of the comment?
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by rs186 2y ago
I think that ship sailed many years ago. As I user who cares deeply about privacy and has almost everything enabled -- "strict" anti tracking protection on the browser, uBlock origin, DNS level filtering etc -- I discovered that a
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by rs186 2y ago
This. Yesterday I tried asking ChatGPT "Can an Amazon L6 software engineer afford a house in [location]", without explicitly using the search mode. It went to levels.fyi to look up salary and redfin to look up housing price (exact
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by rs186 2y ago
That's why I am still using iPad Pro from 2018. There is nothing in their new iPads that is interesting to me. I don't think I'll upgrade unless any of the following happens: (1) the iPad dies (2) it stops getting any updates
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by rs186 2y ago
Also cross platform support
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by rs186 2y ago
This seems pedantic. As a TypeScript user who is aware of the conversations about build performance, the title is not ambiguous at all. I know exactly they are talking about build time.
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by rs186 2y ago
Exactly. Unless these are rules that are enforced during build, they are just "someone's opinions", regardless of how "correct" they are.
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by rs186 2y ago
Reminder: "appeal to authority" is a classical logical fallacy. For me, I don't know this person, which means that all the words are completely meaningless. Which is exactly the point.
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by rs186 2y ago
I'm afraid this is a waste of everybody's time. > Avoid unused method receiver names That's just "don't create a non-static method if you don't use 'this'" in other languages with classes. Whi
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by rs186 2y ago
A single tweet with lots of analogy, with no screenshot/screen recording/code examples whatsoever. These are just words. Are we just discussing programming based on vibe?
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by rs186 2y ago
You might want to educate yourself about the history of accessibility, the rationale behind many of the design decisions, and generally how accessibility works. The comment is so ridiculously wrong I don't know where to start. Please,
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by rs186 2y ago
Brave of you to assume what Trump would think. To me any decision could come out of the White House these days. If Trump decides to drop a nuclear bomb in China for no reason, I would not be surprised. Not that it is likely, but I have lowe
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by rs186 2y ago
I don't see this a worse idea than AI code reviewer. If it spits out irrelevant advice and only gets 1 out of 10 points right, I consider it a win, since the cost is so low and many humans can't catch subtle issues in code.
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by rs186 2y ago
Students and researchers send their own paper to plagiarism checker to look for "real" and unintended flags before actually submitting the papers, and make revisions accordingly. This is a known, standard practice that is widely a
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by rs186 2y ago
So kids just memorize their parents' driving license when they don't pay attention, and this is bypassed, just like in the old days.
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by rs186 2y ago
How does that third party know my birth year? And the precision of one year is way too low.

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