stakhanov

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by stakhanov 11d ago
LLMs do this to communicate with their future selves to avoid retracing what turned out to be the garden path. Another pattern is where they put comments in multiple places in the code to say that those need to be kept in sync in a very par
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by stakhanov 15d ago
It's so friggin' transparent what they're up to: "Hey government: This is a really dangerous technology if it were allowed to get out there without proper policing. Fortunately, we are the stand-up guys who can be trus
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by stakhanov 3mo ago
> People who haven't used Perl to its full power have little how idea just how magical a language it was/is. ...why would you prefer to reach for the "no true scotsman ...", rather than read in any one of two other pl
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by stakhanov 3mo ago
> The goal of programming languages is to execute instructions on the machine. The goal of a general purpose programming language is to communicate a program from one human to another, and from one human today to the same human tomorrow,
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by stakhanov 3mo ago
3.5 years of using Perl5 for 8 hours a day every day. I'd like to take the other side on more of your bets please ;-)
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by stakhanov 3mo ago
> Python programmers would [...] bad mouth Perl all over the internet [...] I am one of those, and I disagree with the moral connotation of that framing. When you're in the know and give advice to someone who isn't, or when you
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by stakhanov 3mo ago
> Perl/Raku haters don't have anything of actual meat in their complaints For a random complaint of mine (one of many) see [1]. Using Perl as my main programming language for 3.5 years has given me plenty of "meat" t
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by stakhanov 3mo ago
Not everything, but languages do serve a purpose tied to how many (and which) people speak them, and that's true for general purpose programming languages in the same way as for human languages. If learning Klingon is someone's
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by stakhanov 3mo ago
What if it had taken Nintendo 35 years to release the next GameBoy, and they now came along and said: "Listen up, everybody! We finally did it! It has a 16 bit processor now instead of 8 and 4 bit shades of green instead of 2, but i
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by stakhanov 3mo ago
I'm curious: What software is driving this? Is it a re-skin of the lobste.rs or HN open source software, or is it its own thing? EDIT: ...just realized that's in the FAQ. > Is it open source? > Not yet. Maybe someday.
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U.S. House Report: E.U. Campaign to Censor the Internet [pdf](judiciary.house.gov)
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by stakhanov 9mo ago
SuSE/openSuSE is innovating plenty of stuff which other distros find it worth to immitate, e.g. CachyOS and omarchy as Arch-derivatives felt that openSuSE-style btrfs snapshots were pretty cool. It's a rock-solid distro, and if I
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by stakhanov 9mo ago
Always reminds me of the quote "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." by T. J. Watson Sr. The quote is usually delivered as a punchline of sorts, but we're rapidly approaching a world where there truly wi
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by stakhanov 9mo ago
I agree. I'm not sure about "toy", but something that gives the child zero agency definitely falls hort of the definition of "play".
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by stakhanov 9mo ago
The E.U. making life difficult for U.S.-based monopolists, and the U.S. making life difficult for E.U.-based monopolists? For a net effect of life being difficult for all monopolists? Well, that sounds like a wonderful idea! I am all for
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by stakhanov 10mo ago
Where it says "jesus", shouldn't it read "jesus [flagged]"?
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by stakhanov 11mo ago
I wouldn't do a take-home unless they do an interview first, to signal they value my time and are acting in good faith. (HR people don't count). Then, when they give me the take-home, I would ask how many other people are in the
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by stakhanov 1y ago
Thanks!
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by stakhanov 1y ago
Is the Mac Pro pretty much no longer a thing, going forward? -- Not trying to be a smartass, just asking out of genuine curiosity, because I know next to nothing about the Apple lineup. But the naming ("M2" vs "M5") wo
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by stakhanov 1y ago
CachyOS and openSUSE have you covered with btrfs and snapper pre-configured to take snapshots before/after doing potentially damaging things (and, of course, you can make them manually, whenever the thought occurs to you that you'
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by stakhanov 1y ago
> [...] due to their strong nationalism. The problem IMO is politics, not nationalism (which only enters into the politics indirectly). European integration is a half-done project. Political forces that want to finish the job get cance
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by stakhanov 1y ago
A Foolish Consistency is the Hobgoblin of Little Minds https://peps.python.org/pep-0008/#a-foolish-consistency-is-t... I wonder how a code formatting tool is going to implement that.
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by stakhanov 1y ago
Thanks a lot! I have a section on my reading list for books that are available as e-books, but not as audiobooks, and that section just keeps growing ad infinitum. I seldom find the time to read, but I often have time for audiobooks, as I
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by stakhanov 1y ago
Asking in good faith out of genuine curiosity: I kind of associate ClickHouse with Yandex. What's the present-day relationship and legal setup, and how does it jive with Western sanctions against Russia?
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by stakhanov 1y ago
When I read that title, I was expecting the following story: "Academic ghostwriters", thanks to AI, are now completing online degrees by the hundreds per actual human headcount, selling the opportunity to put one's name on t
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by stakhanov 1y ago
What jumps out at me is the paragraph: "Governance and leadership reforms." in the original letter sent by the government to the university. The other stuff is hard to make sense of, but this part is crystal clear: The authoritari
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by stakhanov 1y ago
Services are ignored by Trump for precisely the reason you mention. The big question is: What will other countries do, like Germany, who tend to export goods to the U.S. but import services. Right now, those are the countries who would ra
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by stakhanov 1y ago
Services aren't traditionally part of tariffs; tariffs apply only to physical stuff moving across borders. That being said: I work in a services-oriented business right now "exporting" services to the U.S. and the leadership
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by stakhanov 2y ago
The place where my argument is coming from is that the MxN nature is pretty much inescapable. > What kind of integration do you mean? See? The "integration" is something you only notice when it breaks (or when you're work
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by stakhanov 2y ago
In what I wrote above, I wasn't referring to NixOS or Guix. I was thinking of the other ones (SteamOS, Fedora Silverblue, OpenSuSE Aeon, Vanilla OS, etc.) -- In fact, I think it's a bit misleading to lump them together in the sa

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