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by smt88 11mo ago
You seem to be using a different definition of "agent(ic)" than me and perhaps most people, because your comment makes no sense. I will repeat that no organization has adopted LLMs to work independently as agents, doing work in th
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by smt88 11mo ago
No one uses agents. They're a myth that Marc Benioff willed into existence. No one who regularly uses LLMs would ever trust one to do unattended work.
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by smt88 11mo ago
A) It used to suck B) It's not that popular for frontend, which is a very important concern for most early startups C) Microsoft was historically only used because it was Microsoft, not because it was the best choice It's mostly a
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by smt88 11mo ago
.NET is far more widely used for desktop and web backends. Taylor Swift is the most popular artist of all time. Is she also the best and your favorite? Popularity is important, but it doesn't mean anything by itself.
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by smt88 11mo ago
.NET churns less than any other major stack. Every upgrade since Core 2 (released in 2017) has been minimally painful or, more recently, painless.
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by smt88 11mo ago
.NET has a far better developer experience than Node and is nearly as fast as Rust if written for performance, certainly much faster than Node or Python
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by smt88 11mo ago
No one should have sensitive/production keys in Postman. That's a huge security lapse in the first place. My devs don't have access to production keys at all (and would never need them).
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by smt88 11mo ago
There's no solution. The JS world is just nonstop build and dependency hell. Being incredibly strict with TS compiler and linter helps a bit.
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by smt88 11mo ago
Check out StartAllBack. Not fully new shell but fixes most issues.
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by smt88 11mo ago
That's interesting. When I quit Facebook after years of heavy use, I felt no better or worse. The News Feed killed the positive social interaction on the site, so it had essentially become a (very bad) news aggregator for me.
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by smt88 11mo ago
No one expects government to police itself. Government in functioning democratic societies is policed by voters, journalists, and many independent watchdog groups.
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by smt88 11mo ago
This isn't a great example because da Vinci was a famous historical figure and lived 500 years ago. Just the history of a real da Vinci is remarkable, regardless of the artistic merit. A more interesting example would be a convincing f
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by smt88 11mo ago
Well the danger part has decreased a lot. It peaked at almost 100 per 10k people in the 90s, and now it's closer to 25. Still very high, but a lot of progress.
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by smt88 11mo ago
Didn't read it I guess. They found that women in these extremely high communities had more children if they were genetically predisposed to tolerate low-oxygen conditions better. It's about as direct evidence of natural selection
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by smt88 11mo ago
Cloudflare and us-east-1 are single points of failures for millions of their customers, many of which overlap. "Single" means "you only need one," not that there is only one.
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by smt88 11mo ago
> Costs to architect systems that serve millions of request daily have gone down. Not up. I never said serving millions of requests is more expensive. Protecting your servers is more expensive. > Hell, I would be very curious to
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by smt88 11mo ago
Cloudflare, Azure, and other single points of failure are solving issues inherent to webhosting, and those problems have become incredibly hard due to the massive scale of bad actors and the massive complexity of managing hardware and softw
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by smt88 11mo ago
It's not an architectural problem. It's a fundamental issue with trust and distributed systems. The same issues occur in physical spaces, like highways. The core issue is that hackers can steal the "identity" of internet
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by smt88 11mo ago
IP addresses aren't unique or stable. You can't use them to identify individual devices.
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by smt88 11mo ago
It's impossible to stop DDoS attacks because of the first "D". If a botnet gets access through 500k IP addresses belonging to home users around the world, there's no way you could have prepared yourself ahead of time. Th
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by smt88 11mo ago
Torrent files are hashed, so it's exactly the same risk profile as the comment I was referring to. But generally hashing algorithms are collision-proof enough that what you're describing is basically impossible (requiring many yea
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by smt88 11mo ago
The distribution system you're describing exists and has been in use for decades. You just distribute the build using bittorrent.
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by smt88 11mo ago
Mods do their best here, but there's no way to check whether you're talking to a human (on HN or any other digital messaging service)
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by smt88 1y ago
WhatsApp is the core of Indian society, so Meta (not just Facebook) must have well over 3 billion MAUs at this point.
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by smt88 1y ago
As someone who has written multiple Node and C# backends, Node isn't even close to the ecosystem quality. It's not in the same solar system. Npm has tons of libraries, but they're mostly abandoned. Many barely worked in the f
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by smt88 1y ago
His personal philosophy was deeply anti-industrial. He felt as though industrialization was destroying everything good and pure and green in the world. That's why the orcs burn forests to produce their assembly lines.
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by smt88 1y ago
It's been exclusively used by right-wing people, mostly those close to Peter Thiel
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by smt88 1y ago
This is 100% nonsense and why we need to teach science better. Anecdotes of a single person's objective experience can't tell you anything about humans' relationship to "compound foods" (a novel term here that is to
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by smt88 1y ago
In what universe?
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by smt88 1y ago
Unless it gets broken up, I'd wager Meta will continue buying competitors and have a market cap above $1T in 10 years.

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