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by sph 3mo ago
You say programming used to be a meditative activity. Then why get overwhelmed by LLMs and meditate to calm down, when you can just write the code yourself at a healthier pace? Tools are supposed to be designed around humans, it’s not the h
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by sph 3mo ago
You can as easily use pardons to tip the scales to a more corrupt society. If you assume, hypothetically, that the justice system is operating as it should, a pardon means giving one person the right to ignore the laws of the country for a
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by sph 3mo ago
To the egg lovers among us: what percentage of the mass you ingest over the lifetime do you think eggs total up to? Shall we say 5%? Suppose the remaining 95% is healthy vegetables, or a ludicrous amount of junk food. Do you think you can
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by sph 3mo ago
Can LLMs generate only one style of website? Inter font, dark background, elements that fade in, code in a macOS shell container, neverending lists of features, too many buzzwords. God they all look the same, and I have permanently associat
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by sph 3mo ago
Even in unstable or high latency I like the buffering. I’m thinking of a remote shell, where you want to type a command blindly, and see it appear seconds later, because keys got buffered in the Internet pipes. Without buffering it would fe
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by sph 3mo ago
Vim has been around for decades, supports a billion architectures and an entire modal editing system plus a scripting language. And it’s in C, not a high level language so verbosity is higher. It’s really not comparable to a glorified front
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by sph 3mo ago
Well, I disagree and I have seen the data.
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by sph 4mo ago
Jesus, is this cliché response going to be the default any time we talk about AI behaviour? No, humans do not always talk about AI. Hyperbole doesn’t make your point here, and is just obnoxious.
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by sph 4mo ago
I built a commercial link checker SaaS and this was one of the reason I decided to abandon the endeavour. Had plenty of customers complaining that some links had 403 or similar errors, when in reality it's because of Cloudflare. If you
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by sph 4mo ago
Unless you're writing enterprise Java, conciseness and simplicity of design is still the ideal to aim for; those are not the adjectives I would use to describe LLM generated code. Laziness is a feature. When you have a tool that is the
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by sph 4mo ago
#1 is a marketer at AAA studio's dream, not a gamer's dream. People consuming works of art appreciate quality of storytelling and immersiveness.
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by sph 4mo ago
> Cliche-driven, over-metaphor'd, statistically-average purple-purpose _content_ If this is expected from LLM generated prose, why don't we expect LLM generated code to exhibit the same qualities? > It's sad, really, th
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by sph 4mo ago
Here's what happens: person comes up with an idea, asks Claude to generate it, gasps in awe, tries out for a few minutes, moves on because the idea wasn't that interesting. When producing code is basically a solved problem, genera
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by sph 4mo ago
Didn’t know that; in modern italian vigili urbani is the traffic police.
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by sph 4mo ago
Starlink satellites are ~500 km in altitude. Regular satellite internet is in geostationary orbit at ~35,000 km in altitude. The difference in latency is massive. 3ms vs 220ms roundtrip time at the speed of light.
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by sph 4mo ago
Haha I definitely googled that, and I was not disappointed
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by sph 4mo ago
Except the nerds have become managers of an idiot savant.
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by sph 4mo ago
We must give this fallacy a name. It’s the facile way out of the argument used by boosters whenever one dares to criticize LLMs.
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by sph 4mo ago
1. The idea and implementation was decent, but very hard to effectively get companies to pay for it and would have been destroyed by the bot apocalypse on the web. Also, turns out I don’t really want to run a SaaS. Still happy I challenged
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by sph 4mo ago
Then why tf are you using it? I mean, seriously. Truly sounds like addiction.
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by sph 4mo ago
> Seeking approval Yea, that’s called narcissism. Their only drive in life is to be admired, and it’s much easier to lie and deceive to reach that goal, than doing something that’s truly praiseworthy
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by sph 4mo ago
You must not be from California
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by sph 4mo ago
Works pretty well in Italian as well
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by sph 4mo ago
I can tolerate the comma as thousands separator, but I hate the dot as thousands separator. Use a space or ' if you want to be fancy. I wish we’d rip the bandaid off and invent a new character that makes it unambiguous across the world
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by sph 4mo ago
The post is decidedly a question. It is a forum, people come to interact with humans and exchange opinions.
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by sph 4mo ago
Haven’t you heard? We barely have electricity here in Europe, let alone phones. Or so I keep reading online.
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by sph 4mo ago
? HN’s contrast is great. It’s black on a light yellow-beige.
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by sph 4mo ago
Motorsports: forums.autosport.com is very much alive Also f1technical.net
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by sph 4mo ago
I didn’t participate in its heydays but made an account during covid era and it has disappointed me greatly. Let’s say that if you wish BlueSky were a forum, it’s the place for you. All I found were a bunch of americans that were simultaneo
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by sph 4mo ago
I’m doing the same, and currently in the process of buying said farm.

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