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by skydhash 1mo ago
> As an old person, I can tell you something: We could survive without computers and the internet. We did it. As late as 2009, I was living without computers and internet. The most tech thingies in everyone home were the radio, the TV, t
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by skydhash 1mo ago
There's only a few months left for the core technologies of LLM, the transformer, to be a decade old (counting since the "Attention is all you need"). In a decade, we have gone from pure theory of computation (Turing paper in
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by skydhash 1mo ago
And what is justifying such belief?
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Or are tired of the hyperboles and straight up lies. Will you hand over your bank account to an agent? Can it grow food and sew clothes?
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by skydhash 1mo ago
> You really have to expand the list to ridiculous levels before you get to something as big Instead of expanding the list, it would be better to widen your vision. Email was more transformative than AI is right now. Unix, then Linux was
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by skydhash 1mo ago
I'm not always forced for time. And the time is slightly less when you know how to use man (with apropos and whatis, a few unix conventions (null vs newline when piping text) and the quirks/feature of your shell.
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All the boring parts I've encountered have soon been automated out of my workflow. There's the waiting part of some process, but that's why I have HN for.
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> Most computer science programs don't teach "coding" though. There is pretty heavy emphasis on datastructures, algorithms, and system design Those skills are often taught in an idealized situation like very small projects
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> History is littered with similar cases where the abstraction layer ends up getting lifted, and people struggle with getting accustomed to working at that higher abstraction level. But there's no abstraction layer that ends up gett
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It's only monotone from someone looking, not from someone doing. If you look at digital painting tutorial, you'll see a lot of timelapse, because it's a very slow process where you spend the majority of time correcting stuff.
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> For what it's worth, one of the most popular mass market "GNU" Linux devices today is the Steam Deck Then you might as well say that the most popular mass market FreeBSD device is the PlayStation. Factually true, but unr
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by skydhash 1mo ago
> Some people seriously think it's some secret club where you're supposed to pain stakingly install Gentoo, configure a tiling window manager and figure out every glitch and nuance by yourself Linux mint, Fedora, Ubuntu, and ma
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>> classic Linux culture. Where there's been a strong belief that everyone should know everything about all of their tools, That’s weird, imagine saying to mechanics, artists,… to not learn all about their tools.
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> "Build an OS" wasn't a common university project because we were all expected to go […] helps you deeply understand how to intuit building for a whole class of problems. Sure, but it was for a specific degree with a syll
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I would rather bet that people don’t know that their problem has been solved for ages. Either they don’t know about the tools or can’t make the leap to think of using something like awk or sed to quickly script out their use cases. Or even
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by skydhash 1mo ago
> The what _is_ the code. Even the why sometimes shouldn’t be a comment, unless it’s very immediate to the code itself. What’s often more necessary is a high level overview of the design of the solution, because that’s what drives the de
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by skydhash 2mo ago
Based on what I’ve seen, most people use their phones (computer is mostly a work thing) as an entertainment device (like a tv) or to communicate with friends (chat and call). The other roles are to be a camera, a music player, a flashlight,
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by skydhash 2mo ago
> Anything involving graphics (even just looking at graphics, e.g. zooming in on a graph) is much easier with a mouse. Anything that involves manipulating a viewport is better with a joystick like device (spacemouse) and anything that in
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> LLMs have no issue making definitions (interfaces/traits/abstract classes) in programming, which is formally the same activity. I ask them to form a core "spine" of a program (basically an intelligible theory), and
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by skydhash 2mo ago
Pretty much this. With the internet and my websearch-fu, I can find some facts on a lots of things. And while I do for some questions I have, I try to never interject answers when I don’t have a modicum of mastery in the domain. Mastery is
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by skydhash 2mo ago
> Or maybe there's some load bearing "make impossible states unrepresentable" platitude in my AGENTS.md I'm overlooking that's responsible for why I have such a great experience with AI and nobody else on HN appa
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> The job was never to type the code out. The job was always to take a problem in the real world, and shape it into a model which can be implemented in software. "Typing" the code was never the whole job, and it can be the easi
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> It's like we've decided to measure how far we've traveled in gallons of gas burned, but completely forgotten about measuring miles per gallon. Or forgotten to look at the map to see if we're getting closer to our de
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I use nnn[0], a C tui file manager, and from the makefiles, you mostly need readline pcre ncurses pthread and POSIX (and some unix thingies) Which is why I love C projects, even with all the footguns. You have libraries with
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And what would be the expected result (other than spending $20 a month)?
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Forgejo > The name of the software self-hosted > You install it on your server lightweight > It does not consume a lot of resources (cpu, disk, ram) software forge > offers tools that help with creating software collaboratively
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This pretty much. Xorg got almost everything that I care about to have a functionning GUI. You only startx and the only thing you may need are utils programs like a wm, a compositor, a bar… now you have conflicting implementation from gnome
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I don't mind code execution as even make has shell scripting embedded, same thing with meson. My issue is with network access to download random stuff without it being declared somewhere and signed. I'm using OpenBSD and the ports
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The complaint was micro-dependencies and huge sprawling trees. What was needed was quality dependencies on the level of SDL, ffmpeg, libcurl, where one domain is solved well and the focus is on API stability and good implementation. Not a b
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None of those (other than submodules which is just vendoring) does dependency management. They are more configuration management than anything. C, Python, Perl (and maybe ruby?) relies on flag switches and environment variables to find all

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