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by simondotau 2mo ago
In my current workflow, I've settled into a three tier system when coding: 1. HIGH-VALUE CODE: I write it all myself. I will occasionally use AI for mostly mechanical changes, like cleaning up variable names or mass-changes when a func
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by simondotau 2mo ago
"I've been asked to confirm that our random number generator satisfies section 14 of the Foo-Bar Accord of 2021. I'm fairly certain it does, and that foorandom.c is a good choice. Assuming I'm broadly correct, write one
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by simondotau 2mo ago
I don't know what the opposite of rose-tinted glasses are, but I think the article paints a misleading picture by leaving unstated how polished 10.5.8 wasn't. Sure 10.6.0 had some new bugs due to landing major new under-the-hood
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by simondotau 2mo ago
Until recently, no reasonable person ever expected a major new OS release to be rock solid before its first major point-release. And actually nothing has changed, except that what we used to call a "point-zero" release is now call
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by simondotau 2mo ago
That wasn't the question though. Being able to say it today doesn't mean you will be able to say it in 10 years. Companies which lose their way sometimes rediscover themselves. One example that comes to mind is Apple. Another exam
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by simondotau 2mo ago
What do you think about Linus Torvalds' recent opinion about LLMs? There are other questions around AI (like what the economy of it will actually look like in the end), but "is it useful" is no longer one of those q
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by simondotau 2mo ago
Does the Linux kernel qualify as trivial shit?
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by simondotau 2mo ago
Saying that AI is bad for code is like saying a Porsche is bad for driving, without considering that maybe the driver is the one that sucks. It sounds like your co-workers suck.
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by simondotau 2mo ago
I would rather have the real chicken aroma in the stock liquid, and I consider bland meat a sign of a successful extraction. Why would I want to stop that happening? I find that trying to keep the natural flavour of chicken meat in soups is
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by simondotau 2mo ago
My five-year-old Breville Fast Slow Pro has a menu setting for making stock under pressure, and follows the formula Chris Young describes precisely. 60 minute cook time with slow steam release. Somewhat ironically, before I watched that
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by simondotau 2mo ago
It’s not that a car needs to be clean per se, but you don’t want prospective owners to be distracted by thoughts of the past life the car has had in the care of another human. Nobody wants to touch the indicator stalk that has layers of dir
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by simondotau 2mo ago
> A Macintosh Plus was only affordable ... Exactly my point. Thank you. Computers are so much more affordable now. The remainder of your post seems to be about me mentioning the Neo as an extreme case despite me ultimately ceding to your
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by simondotau 2mo ago
In terms of software, commercial quality software is now often free and/or open source. Maybe the best application software is still expensive, but free software is better than anything that existed a two decades ago let alone four dec
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by simondotau 2mo ago
Which is fair, if FileMaker existed in a vacuum. The inflation-adjusted cost of software and hardware has consistently trended downwards over the past 40 years.
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by simondotau 2mo ago
You are saying that LLMs have not meaningfully improved since 2023? If you want me to take that claim seriously, you will need to do more than merely assert it. I am not a mind-reader. My current working theory for the seemingly irreconcila
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by simondotau 2mo ago
Whatever the decision is today, it's going to become utterly moot within a decade or so. Think about how far we've come over the past three years. Programming with AI in ten years will be utterly unfathomable. It would be like sho
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by simondotau 2mo ago
If you're using Cloudflare, set up a security rule to block requests that have "Googlebot" in the UA and are not recognised by CF as a real bot.
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by simondotau 3mo ago
The issue in that case will be the headset microphone and an unsophisticated audio chain with clipping.
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by simondotau 3mo ago
While I didn’t agree with Apple’s approach, there is a subtle but IMHO critical nuance that is often forgotten about the client side scanning. It was only generating fingerprint material which Apple could decrypt and scan, alongside origin
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by simondotau 3mo ago
I agree that that's the surface-level, superficial, zero-thinking description of what happened.
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by simondotau 3mo ago
I almost choked on my tea when I read that. I’m glad I’m not the only one who noticed. A shocking turn of phrase, and one that IMHO catastrophically devalues the nominally valid argument underlying that post.
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by simondotau 3mo ago
Bun isn't Bun, it's a (notionally) trillion dollar AI company famous for ruthlessness and engineering controversy for marketing purposes. Zig just happens to be a language led by someone with an AI-skeptic philosophy. Are you sa
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by simondotau 3mo ago
When you say drain too much time, you mean due to it being a distraction? Then I would try to optimise it so that it's playing the slow-mo immediately, and maybe at 50% speed so that the 3 second buffer is played out in just 6 seconds.
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by simondotau 3mo ago
One thing I've always wanted at a bowling alley is an instant slow-motion video replay of the pins being knocked down. Seems easy to do in theory, a Raspberry Pi + compatible camera could do this very easily, so long as you could mount
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by simondotau 3mo ago
I'm pretty sure it was built by a compiler, using libraries provided by Google and others. Until Claude can directly output machine code packaged for distribution, it's just another middleman between the source of intent (the huma
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by simondotau 3mo ago
I wish I had that kind of effortless motivation. Learning any language involves internalising a massive pile of arbitrary syntax / core library knowledge. I find it flow-destroying and demotivating to be continually hampered by having
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by simondotau 3mo ago
That is understandable. It’s bad enough dealing with vibe slop that you personally asked for, I can barely imagine how bad it would be having to disentangle vibe slop when you weren’t even the one writing the prompts. I strictly avoid allow
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by simondotau 3mo ago
That’s not been my experience. Not even remotely like that. I was never much of a stack overflow block copier. AI lets me do rapid refactoring without messy search and replace. AI lets me rip through logical pinch points without pulling out
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by simondotau 3mo ago
In all sincerity, what do you mean by wholly unpleasant? 25 years in my case, by the way, and I have found this to be the most liberating and creativity-boosting period of my career. And it’s not even close. I’ve written code in more langua
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by simondotau 3mo ago
Call it whatever you like. I'm perfectly fine with my use of obvious hyperbole, and I have no plans to reconsider when I'm unconvinced that the misreading of it was sincere. Claiming that life expectancy "fell for several gen

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