scuff3d

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by scuff3d 6mo ago
It's funny because I miss this one all the time. I got use it in Sublime and VScode before making the jump to Neovim. I know you can get similar functionality from macros and what not, but it's just not the same.
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by scuff3d 6mo ago
Lol. Wasn't paying attention, my bad.
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by scuff3d 6mo ago
I try to be fair minded, but some things warrant strong reactions in my opinion. Journalists shilling for corporations exerting more control over a platform they already have too much control over is one of them. The mods or whoever are wel
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by scuff3d 6mo ago
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by scuff3d 6mo ago
The linked tweet leads to another tweet which leads to an article that doesn't say anything about OpenAI. It's talking about a new compression algorithm from Google potentially making memory usage 6x more efficient for LLM workloa
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by scuff3d 6mo ago
Because humans make design decisions, AI just bangs it's head against the problem until it gets something that "works".
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by scuff3d 6mo ago
I'm sure it's a comfort to the parents and families of 150 dead kids that this is actually a very low error rate.
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by scuff3d 6mo ago
Probably vide-coded their infrastructure
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by scuff3d 7mo ago
Been saying this for a while now. I work in aerospace, and I can tell you from first hand experience software engineers don't know what designing a spec is. Aero, mechanical, and electrical engineers spend years designing a system. Des
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by scuff3d 7mo ago
Agreed. I wasn't saying it's a bad thing, just interesting. The thing that really stuck out to me was the dot syntax:`.SomeVariable`. I'm guessing those are enum accesses where the compiler can figure out what it is from cont
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by scuff3d 7mo ago
Great write up, had to bookmark so I can go through it more later there so much good stuff in there. For the CTRL + R tip, you can make it even better if you install fzf. Massively improves searching through history. It's worth the ins
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by scuff3d 7mo ago
I'm reading the first of the blog posts. I've never actually seen any Swift code before, but looking at the package definition I'm struck by how much it looks like Zig. I've never heard Andrew Kelly call Swift out as an
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by scuff3d 7mo ago
... Because this thread is about a project that's a security nightmare, bought by a massive corporation currently ignoring the hugely problematic ethical issues surrounding their products. Corporations which btw, have more money and mo
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by scuff3d 7mo ago
I doubt reading it would have helped. The MAGA folks and anyone adjacent to them on the political spectrum are so propagandized right now it's nearly impossible to have a rational conversation.
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by scuff3d 7mo ago
I also love that he goes right to how much America and Israel have been pummeling Iran when the article acknowledges that to be the case , but rightly points out that even with that being true, the US is still in a losing position.
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by scuff3d 7mo ago
I've been sick of it since 2022.
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by scuff3d 7mo ago
Multiple agents in parallel "working on different features" is where people lose me. I don't care how much friction you've eliminated from the loop, eventually that code has to be looked at. Trying to switch between 5 di
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by scuff3d 7mo ago
That's what we want, corporations waging "cyber-war" in the name of national security. Brilliant...
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by scuff3d 7mo ago
Was talking with someone about this yesterday. From cold start, for me to get to the VM I do my actual work on I have to 1. Enter a password to decrypt the computer 2. Enter a username and password to log into my account 3. Enter another se
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by scuff3d 7mo ago
What point do you think you're making?
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by scuff3d 7mo ago
Not sure men fighting for their lives in WW2 is the best comparison point for dev teams having too many standups and retros.
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by scuff3d 7mo ago
Because I hate dynamically typed languages for anything besides scripting and glue code. Or are you asking why I haven't had success? Mostly because the people I work with are dead set that Python is perfect for everything. I had one g
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by scuff3d 7mo ago
Just about anything, as long as it's statically typed. The domain I work in is basically perfect for Go, so I've been pushing for that.
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by scuff3d 7mo ago
Millions of people die every year from tobacco, and tobacco companies fought for decades to deny their product causes cancer. In the 20th century alone it's estimated something like 100 million people died world wide thanks to smoking.
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by scuff3d 7mo ago
Give it a hundred years or so and we're gonna have robots wandering around who about 10% of the time go totally insane and kill anyone around them. But we'll all just shrug and go about our day, because they generate so much reven
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by scuff3d 7mo ago
It just makes me laugh when people complain about China propping up it's industry to complete globally. The US has overthrown governments to protect its geopolitical priorities. I've got no love for China, but I'm not gonna s
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by scuff3d 7mo ago
It's not like the US hasn't proped up our own industry to push out competition and dominate global markets. Nope, definitely never did that.
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by scuff3d 7mo ago
We're gonna have to learn some lessons from other engineering fields in this regard. Electrical, civil, mechanical, aerospace... They've all had to put processes in place to intentionally slow things down for a long time. I could
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by scuff3d 7mo ago
Humans are notoriously bad at multitasking. In the "traditional" way of writing software, you'd spend hours focused on one or two things. You'd tick one thing off the list and move to another, usually with some kind of l
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by scuff3d 7mo ago
I mean we could just... not use the damn things. I don't mean completely refuse to use gen AI, but you do not have to be moving at break neck speed all the time. It's okay to let things sit idle, or have one less agent doing shit.

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