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by sph 5mo ago
I'd have felt a little bad if the person complaining was a human. Hard to feel sorry for a machine, or a person that has delegated thinking to one.
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by sph 5mo ago
WTF has US law got to do with this, a German project by a German maintainer?
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by sph 5mo ago
Why would a system break if you SIGKILL a process? I’ve seen plenty of server log with OOM killing mariadb processes, and then being restarted automatically by systemd, often with no one noticing if not days later. The thing that bogs down
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by sph 5mo ago
At what point it’s just easier to do the whole thing yourself, perhaps prompting AI to give you guidelines and which whom to discuss the design, but never using it to code? But then again, the day one is lazy or tired, one will choose the s
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by sph 5mo ago
You'll find that vast majority, working at FAANG and hyperscalers, are pretty fine with the status quo. The tech oligarchy didn't form in a vacuum.
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by sph 5mo ago
Many such cases
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Openrsync: An implementation of rsync, by the OpenBSD team(github.com)
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by sph 5mo ago
This is a common fallacy: that vibecoding is not that bad if one carefully reviews the output. It's true in a vacuum, but what happens when you're late and stressed out and can't be bothered with doing a proper job. Humans ar
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by sph 5mo ago
A human also learns from their mistakes and grows their skillset. I cringe any time I read loaded questions like GP's. Have they ever met a human in their life?
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by sph 5mo ago
Well it is a scourge in both.
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by sph 5mo ago
I reckon we will soon see a growing movement of maintainers forking popular open-source projects to the point before vibecoding was introduced to the development process. I can definitely see myself supporting this. Vibecoding promotes the
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by sph 5mo ago
Do you guys feel any sort of shame in your lives?
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by sph 5mo ago
I hoped no one asked because I'm not sure I have an easy answer. When I'm saying it's taken me 6 years to get out of burn out, I'm not joking. That, which includes 2 years sabbatical and as many years in therapy. My only
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by sph 5mo ago
First time I heard Northern Italy compared to Soviet Russia, but my fault for discussing this stuff with Americans, trying to pass people as poor because they only have one car. Did you know that life expectancy in US is 5-7 years lower tha
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by sph 5mo ago
It's coming for the type of industrialised, commoditized art. Then there's art where human touch is the crucial ingredients. The problem is that it doesn't sell as well, but that has never stopped any starving artist from c
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by sph 5mo ago
> Banning online advertising It's probably easier to end world hunger at this point.
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by sph 5mo ago
You can ask your favourite LLM to write all the fiction you desire.
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by sph 5mo ago
I built an x86 kernel 25 years ago at this point, this time around I chose RISC-V because it's much simpler to get it running, and speed of iteration is paramount on a prototype. There's less documentation but much less cruft. I e
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by sph 5mo ago
People in tech, especially from US, are so accustomed to spending $5,000/mo just to survive, that they cannot fathom one is able to live without having a tech job in San Francisco. It's a pretty sad state of affairs. I live in a
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by sph 5mo ago
1. Please do link your microkernel, I'm very curious to learn from other people working in this space 2. I'm not exactly looking to recreate the BEAM. I'm building a message-passing microkernel built on my interpretation of c
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by sph 5mo ago
Yes: work for 90% of the world that isn't a purely tech company, but just need a working product delivered on time and at cost. No one has asked me to use adopt LLMs in my consulting work, at least as of yet.
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by sph 5mo ago
"reduce expenses and maximize savings" simply means spend less than you earn. Live below your means. We call that 'living humbly' in the modern world, when you're not buying the latest phone and watching the latest
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by sph 5mo ago
Definitely not my first rodeo, but feel free to gloat.
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by sph 5mo ago
Maybe I know what you mean: after burning out 6 years ago, I have managed to dedicate 3-4h per day to work, and I didn’t know what to do with all the free time I had. It was excruciating. It made my recovery longer than it had to be. After
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by sph 5mo ago
Funny, if all goes well today is my last day as professional software engineer, after 20 years. I have enough savings to buy a modest cottage and to last me a year or two being frugal. After that it’s anyone’s guess, but I am beyond excit
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by sph 5mo ago
Only when I post, because I’m superstitious that if I don’t upvote new posts no one is gonna upvote mine. It doesn’t work.
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by sph 5mo ago
I am Italian as well and love the joke, but it always makes it sound like any other culture doesn’t use their hands to convey meaning, which is obviously false. I do not notice a large difference between a northern Italian like me and any o
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by sph 5mo ago
Americans, elsewhere in this thread, are pretty jaded at this. “My country is going to invade another, possibly killing hundred of innocent people. What else can I do but shrug?” I cannot hide the fact this makes me irrationally angry, and
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by sph 5mo ago
> so that I can focus on doing things just for myself that make me happy Is that using LLMs by any chance, llmlover? Interesting that you chose that nickname to post this work of fiction.
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by sph 5mo ago
Given how many idiotic ideas are ‘patched’ or worked around in software, it’s probably pretty easy. Especially in the world of modern GPUs when only a handful of people at the factory are able to write drivers for it. Hardware vendors lost

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