stingraycharles

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by stingraycharles 28d ago
He’s quite well known on HN.
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by stingraycharles 29d ago
Fairly certain OP lives in The Netherlands.
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by stingraycharles 29d ago
It was at this moment I realized that people are talking about liking the non-classic-look XP. I always immediately put things in classic look, no grouped windows, etc.
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by stingraycharles 29d ago
I want to know how it compared to what I currently have.
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by stingraycharles 1mo ago
Wasn’t it actually not as successful as it could have been? I recall something about it spreading to more machines than it should have, which caused it to be detected earlier than it should have.
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by stingraycharles 1mo ago
That’s one, very narrow use case of skills.
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by stingraycharles 1mo ago
It’s a similar type of art like pottery can be. Edit: I see you changed your comment and now introduced it being a craft, which changes the comment entirely.
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by stingraycharles 1mo ago
People always say this about the evals, but I find it hard to have a practical implementation of such a thing where you won’t end up spending 100x the amount of time on the evals than building the skill itself. Like, ok, I have a debugging
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by stingraycharles 1mo ago
Yeah the amount of Python code that would work here is probably not a lot more than this specific FizzBuzz example. Lots of shortcuts taken, which I guess is understandable.
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by stingraycharles 1mo ago
I’m not saying that it’s not useful, I’m saying that it’s not useful in a “human in the loop” situation. This type of AI-to-AI review should be done agent-to-agent, not through Github PRs with tools like Devin. In a manual review, I then ex
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by stingraycharles 1mo ago
Yeah I personally don’t understand the point of AI code review tools all that much, as AI is already generating the code as well. All of these AI code review tools create so much noise, yet don’t catch the really important things.
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by stingraycharles 1mo ago
“On March 8th, 2026 - I launched the first-ever agent swarm where agents communicated with each other by reading and writing from a public message board, in order to collaborate with each other. ” Seems like you’re being a bit too self-cong
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by stingraycharles 1mo ago
Conspiracy and incompetence are very different.
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by stingraycharles 1mo ago
I’ve asked Claude to read this article for me and explain it to me. Somehow that makes it better, as then at least I know I’m talking to an AI: “The fix closed two chained flaws in RouterOS’s shared crypto and login libraries: a lax PKCS#1
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by stingraycharles 1mo ago
Is that the case with enterprise contracts as well? Can’t imagine any decent procurement / legal team accepting this.
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by stingraycharles 1mo ago
I think what changed is that coding agents adopted some of the features from Openclaw, eg the ability to access it remotely and for one Claude Code instance to “talk” to another, etc.
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by stingraycharles 1mo ago
Yeah this should be benchmarked against other systems that have flush() disabled. mmap is nice but it doesn’t support durable semantics in the way that we usually mean with databases. if a write is acknowledged it should not be forgotten, w
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by stingraycharles 1mo ago
Google Maps is also an acquisition from more than 2 decades ago, by the way.
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by stingraycharles 1mo ago
Google has such a much better reputation when it comes to contributing to and understanding open source. It’s unfair to Google to put Amazon above them. Heck AWS is the sole reason all these projects needed to go through these license chang
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by stingraycharles 1mo ago
Interesting to see how they will update their About page. Currently it says “Today, DuckLabs remains independent and fully owned by the original creators. We've deliberately chosen not to take venture capital, so we can focus on sustai
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by stingraycharles 1mo ago
But they’re not at all a new player.
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by stingraycharles 2mo ago
Not saying that, but at least that there must have been ample legal precedent that this is probably allowed.
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by stingraycharles 2mo ago
Haven’t printers done the same thing for decades?
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by stingraycharles 2mo ago
People were saying this last year, and they’ll be saying the exact same thing next year. The goalpost keeps moving.
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by stingraycharles 2mo ago
Not sure why you’re downvoted this much, as it’s a reasonable point of view. Reading as much as you can will not make you a better writer if you just read the same material and/or low quality material.
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by stingraycharles 2mo ago
I agree with what you’re saying, but the original statement was “why be a writer when you don’t love reading?”, to which I can give many arguments. But if it’s specifically about fiction novels, then sure, I agree.
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by stingraycharles 2mo ago
Yes I’m aware, and they’re probably suggesting that something on a higher level should instead retry, and I’m arguing that you need to coordinate the retry mechanisms and behavior between differently layers of your stack.
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by stingraycharles 2mo ago
Thundering herds and circuit breakers are extremely well documented and practiced in production. AI absolutely knows about this. But knowing when to use which strategy and when a simple retry suffices is precisely the type of thing humans w
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by stingraycharles 2mo ago
Google “thundering herd” and you’ll understand why uncontrolled retries can be / are bad.
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by stingraycharles 2mo ago
Retries without (exponential) backoff and/or circuit breakers are almost universally bad, and can even prevent a service from recovering. Source: decades of operational pain.

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