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by tharkun__ 2mo ago
From my own experiments with local, low VRAM model use vs. what I'm used to from using Claude at work is that being good at "coding" is of no use, if you're worse at "tool calling" as coding in an agentic way r
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by tharkun__ 2mo ago
And if every malware developer worth their salt now introduces code to "wait out" that period of time, we're back to square one. This assumes that they employ clandestine enough techniques that you have to actually install, w
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by tharkun__ 3mo ago
Caveat: I have not been able to try that model locally, so no personal experience. Running this locally at usable speeds would be cost prohibitive for personal coding use for me. But if we can believe you that it's doing what a Claude
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by tharkun__ 3mo ago
This reminds me of Xiaomanyc. When I first found the channel I was like "wow that dude speaks so many languages so well!". He does not. I can't really judge for most languages of course, but for the ones I can, he really isn&
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by tharkun__ 3mo ago
Hah, this reminds me of my "ancient past". This must have been CS 1.4 or 1.5 times. I had terrible internet. 36k modem times, super high (ish - 150+ms at the very least, been a while, don't quote me, maybe it was way higher e
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by tharkun__ 3mo ago
Exactly, as in, really, will they? Where and at what price, especially across an actual enterprise that needs to deploy them to lots of devs? There's much more than just the actual model. Of course my numbers are a sample of one and I
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by tharkun__ 3mo ago
And for the love of reading, please do not bold stuff all the time. It's the single worst thing for reading attention. I can't help but jump from bolded text to bolded text and in the end I'm not reading anything.
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by tharkun__ 3mo ago
That and the fact that you can rotate w/ left click as well. Turns out I naturally drag the mouse a little. So having rotate on right click only would be way less annoying, especially when combined with the momentum.
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by tharkun__ 3mo ago
Not sure what you're seeing, but I see quite a few overlapping lines. One of them easily solvable if you move `addresses` down. It starts with the `orders->users` overlapping `orders->addresses`. Also, the `reviews` table overlap
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by tharkun__ 4mo ago
Yeah they told me the same. But it doesn't work that way. I've had them for months now and I still notice them. While walking, while looking around. While driving. Is it much better? Yes. Stop noticing? Heck no. I'm still giv
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by tharkun__ 4mo ago
Oh so much. Progressives here. The very bottom irritates me to no end during the day. If I drive in the morning or walk around I feel absolutely horrible. Like I'm drunk. Sure, if I need to read something really really close on my phon
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by tharkun__ 4mo ago
Tap water if chlorinated is not great for the coatings on modern glasses I've been told. YMMV if you're not in such a place. I mix my own spray bottles from dish soap, non chlorinated water and a bit of rubbing alcohol actually. W
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by tharkun__ 4mo ago
Not the one down-voting you btw. Disagreeing is fine by me. I would ask you tho: What incentive do AI vendors have to even try and detect this? It's in their interest to use the most naive interpretation, i.e. what my original comment
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by tharkun__ 4mo ago
No sawdust is bad. But it's also bad if you cut all your boards into sawdust. Completely. Obliterated. No useful output, only sawdust. % of AI suggestions accepted vs. edited is also a BS metric that Anthropic et. al. like to push, sim
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by tharkun__ 5mo ago
Sorry, didn't see this until now. I understand you may not want my conversations and I might believe you. You seems like a nice dude. I don't want my conversations to be forever recorded. I need my private corner. As an analog
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by tharkun__ 5mo ago
This type of thing so much. AI is being pushed so much at work right now. For non-dev stuff even. The amount of things that people think are "awesome never seen this" is staggering. Just because you haven't seen file format X
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by tharkun__ 5mo ago
If that is your manager, do so, sure. But make sure your manager is "such a manager". If I was your manager, and you sent me your seventeen page AI generated thing coz you think I'm just gonna summarize anyway and I expect so
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by tharkun__ 5mo ago
Hehe, same, this is fun and enlightening, both because of my own reflections in order to reply to you and in seeing your take on things. I don't mix identities tho, so HN it must stay. what is bad about preserving the conversatio
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by tharkun__ 5mo ago
TL;DR: If it's not cached, does it really matter if it's offline for some time? Long version: If you're so popular all around that you really really want a very very short TTL, people will query all the time from all the plac
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by tharkun__ 5mo ago
No it doesn't. DNS breaks as soon as TTLs run out. It's your choice to set them so low that stuff breaks immediately.
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by tharkun__ 5mo ago
Funnily enough capitalism is trying to do the exact same thing! I guess communism was more efficient at doing it! (bit tongue in cheek of course - I guess capitalism is better at pretending/leaving enough scraps for the masses so they
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by tharkun__ 5mo ago
Haha, OK, we both tend to "text-wall" it seems, so seems we both shouldn't complain about LLMs. Or I guess: now we know how everyone always felt reading our stuff :P no dude rules Yes, I have these. That's how w
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by tharkun__ 5mo ago
I don't understand how "wall of text" is related to git large file support. The wall of text is a problem for me, the human. Sure, there are ways, like "be brief", caveman etc. In a large repo with lots of different
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by tharkun__ 5mo ago
FWIW, BDD and frameworks like Cucumber don't work at all in my experience. The people that'd need to fill these out don't do it properly (they can't) and then we, devs, are stuck with brittle and un-debuggable stuff that
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by tharkun__ 5mo ago
I know you're trying to be funny but ... technically it's 100% clear: You should talk HTTP, because that's the URL scheme here. The port makes no difference. You just happened to use a port by name. For all we know I run my H
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by tharkun__ 5mo ago
“people like me are still needed” is just a desperate form of self-persuasion. No, no it's not. I've seen what "PM armed with an LLM" will do. Trust me, if you're a decent enough Full Stack software engine
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by tharkun__ 5mo ago
If it's anything like the animated Babylon 5, no thanks :( If you love animated stuff I guess it might be fine. Damn, now I want to binge-re-watch Firefly.
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by tharkun__ 5mo ago
You'd be (half-jokingly) amazed at how many people are entirely incapable of understanding and debugging an existing code base. Like, literally: "Error message has string 'abdc-1234-something-whatever'". They can ba
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by tharkun__ 5mo ago
For every class with a required language, it was not taught during class. This. We did have the oblig "learn language X" course. Which used to be C and had just switched to Java at our uni. But it was just to learn a
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by tharkun__ 5mo ago
How many military bases does the US have in Switzerland again? Oh, the number is zero? Germany? Well guess what, the US has a very prominent airbase and listening station in Ramstein and a bunch of other military installations there. Also:

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