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by skydhash 13d ago
Have you tried live programming (smalltalk, LISP)? Or a proper Edit-Compile-Run cycle with a good editor? A lot of people are bashing old practices, but from y standpoint, it always seems like a lack of proper (usage of) tooling to streaml
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by skydhash 13d ago
Learning ML, there was a high emphasis on the error part of things as most of the course was on minimizing errors. After ChatGPT, there is a weird anthropomorphization going on, where it's all about hallucinations, alignment and what n
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by skydhash 15d ago
They vary in terms of architectural patterns and ui widgets. RN tries to prevent a single interface, but you quickly reach the point where it becomes a pain. You can use Expo to help, but their libraries are unstable.
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by skydhash 16d ago
> Much of Hacker News seems to be incapable of understanding the average user doesn't care about memory use at all, beyond a few extreme examples. They don't care, but they care about their computer being slow because of swappi
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by skydhash 16d ago
> they can develop half-decent Electron apps with VS Code, Only if you don't compare it with any native or quasi native editors like Notepad++ or Sublime text. And Emacs has been cross-platform for decades.
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by skydhash 16d ago
> it is in the product and organizational challenges of keeping those two products that need to be identical in sync. They're two different platforms where the capabilities and UI patterns differs, so I don't see why they shoul
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by skydhash 16d ago
It's useful when starting a thread of research of research as new tabs will be opened to the right (Ctrl+Clicking a link). So after it's done, close to the right can be quite useful.
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by skydhash 16d ago
Not GP, but I can humbly share mine. I think it's because a lot of analytics are data points oriented instead of being workflow oriented. So you can see that feature A is not being used a lot, but it's very important in a particul
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by skydhash 16d ago
> Breaking things is not fun. I don't know. I broke a lot of things when I was a kid, mostly because I was excited to see how they work, but have no knowledge of their value or how to safely disassemble them. I don't do it as a
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by skydhash 16d ago
>> > They also keep bringing up gigantic mono-repos and how Git can't handle the scale at which AI increases the amount of code bloat or commits. I also doubt very much that the average monorepo is bigger than the linux kernel
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by skydhash 17d ago
> to translate code into a different language someone would need to write a tokenizer, a parser, an AST and finally a translator. All significant engineering challenges, taking days to finish. Nowadays you can tell an LLM to do that in m
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by skydhash 18d ago
Isn’t it something like $10/yr or something?
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by skydhash 19d ago
> The surface area of stuff that an OS has to do today is absolutely massive, and the dependency graphs are poorly understood even by the engineers who work on those systems. Innocuous pieces of functionality have a way of becoming load-
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by skydhash 19d ago
> You have to remember the Win (and MacOS) kernel is tuned to consumer desktop user use cases, while Linux kernel is tuned to server/DC use-cases. I don’t mind the kernel doing kernel things. The issue is system services and other s
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by skydhash 19d ago
The thing with windows is that there is no idle state, something is always busy with the CPU/hogging ram. With Linux I can have like 98% idle and the system taking 2Gb out of my 8gb of ram, but with windows, the system is more like 30%
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by skydhash 20d ago
Running OpenBSD as a daily driver but with no DE. It has a working X11 with DRM from linux as base so everything graphical will work mostly fine. The issue is more around the OS and some subsystems. OpenBSD is still using the Giant Lock mod
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by skydhash 20d ago
Have you tried using it in the case where React is actually a good help (very interactive apps)? And try to generate vanilla code for that as well?
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by skydhash 21d ago
I’ve been using magit lately, but I only do ‘git add .’ when it’s a very simple change. Especially in complex projects, I do some changes to isolate code or fix other issues in passing. So I stage by lines and hunks to isolate specific chan
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by skydhash 21d ago
Does the architecture change or the weight change? If you modify an engine to increase it’s output by adding sensors and an ECU, you don’t change the fact that is powered by gas. If you use RL to increase the accuracy, it’s still a next tok
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by skydhash 21d ago
> Most of us build a system to deliver a product to make money Shouldn’t it be to deliver a system that is sold as a product? And even then that product is sold to consumers to solve their problems. Not knowing how it works means you don
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by skydhash 21d ago
Pretty much this, they want to impose one method, but they don’t want to own the mistakes that it creates. Sometimes it felt like the bullies that are saying “why are you making me hurting you?”.
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by skydhash 21d ago
> That just sounds like a tower of abstraction to me;[...] I still don't see a division into two classes of abstraction. It is a tower of abstraction as it's recursive. It's just that at every layer you will be dealing wit
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by skydhash 22d ago
> I guess I don't understand the argument here because those just sound like two different flavours of the same custard to me; the difference is just the balance of work you're doing on each side of the interface, and that deci
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by skydhash 22d ago
> [ Note that his list is all about modularity abstraction: TCP (hide IP), string libraries (hide character arrays), file systems (hide spinning disks), virtual memory / flat address space (hide MMU and paging), SQL (hide query pla
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by skydhash 22d ago
Most AI use cases can be reduced to a deterministic listing/form/report format (on the web) or a cli tools.
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by skydhash 22d ago
Yep, people are typing comments with a computer that is powered by several layers of software that will be stored on another computer powered by several layers of software to be read on a computer also powered by layer of software. And then
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by skydhash 23d ago
Magit doesn’t anything that is not readily available in git. Most of magit usefulness comes from “active objects” (meaning you can act directly on the report of some commands like git-log) and quick command construction due to transient and
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by skydhash 23d ago
The goal is to produce music, and such music is generally constrained by music theory. Using git is to version control some software, and version control is dependent on the programmer/team workflow. At the team level, it’s guided by t
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by skydhash 23d ago
What is version control to you? For me it’s basically being able to store and retrieve snapshots of code at different instances of time, where each instance has its own significance. Checkout have a very precise meaning in that regards, jus
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by skydhash 24d ago
I would say “align the worktree (or part of it) to a specific state previously saved in the repository.” The repository is a store, you check out the previously saved instance of a file, a group of files, or a subtree. In that regards, swit

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