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by tharkun__ 7mo ago
The plumber knows how many inches per foot the pipe has to drop in order for the poop to flow away and not get stuck in the pipe. It's easy enough to either not drop it enough and everything gets stuck or for it to drop too much and th
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by tharkun__ 7mo ago
That is not tacky design. I would call this malicious in and of itself. That is insane .
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by tharkun__ 7mo ago
Plug and Pray! They weren't fake long file names. They were actual long files names but of course the operating system that didn't support long files names didn't know what to do with the (very real) long file names. It only
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by tharkun__ 7mo ago
I never understood that pull. One of the very first things I always do in any OS is to set the desktop background to solid color, usually black. I almost never ever will see it, coz there's always going to be a window on top of it, exc
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by tharkun__ 7mo ago
That isn't the cars fault in that sense. Compare a lot of Europe with a lot of America. Both locations have cars. Exceptions in both locations prove some rules.
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by tharkun__ 8mo ago
Icelanders want a word with you :P
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by tharkun__ 8mo ago
I wanted to see what your own tool says about this very comment of yours. But vetter reports a 403.
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by tharkun__ 8mo ago
Yeah I'd sorta second that actually. I can't "judge" on everything they say in the blog post. But some things I definitely recognize as "bad-faith". Datadog RUM (browser-intake-datadoghq.com) - real-time
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by tharkun__ 8mo ago
You would need an army of thieves going around and physically pointing thermometers and the ROI isn't there. VS. just checking your computer once and going to the correct place. Heck, set up alerts and get notified where to break in ne
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by tharkun__ 8mo ago
We have this in some of our projects too but I always wonder how long it's going to take until it just fails. Nobody reads all those memory files for accuracy. And knowing what kind of BS the AI spews regularly in day to day use I bet
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by tharkun__ 8mo ago
I don't know of an actual paper either. It's rather just a really good anecdote that illustrates the point. The first time I heard this was actually just in person from a trainer at work. He told this over like 10 minutes or even
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by tharkun__ 8mo ago
This is a pet peeve of mine at work. Any and I mean any statistic someone throws at me I will try and dig in. And if I'm able to, I will usually find that something is very wrong somewhere. As in, the underlying data is usually just wr
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by tharkun__ 9mo ago
Meh, they work, sort of, sometimes. Don't get me wrong. I've been using Claude Code and Codex CLI for quite some times now and it's amazing what they can sometimes do. (I skipped the "Copilot" phase where AI was jus
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by tharkun__ 9mo ago
1. also helps you after the first 3-6 months. As in, you can't change the entire code base (if reasonably large). Not even with AI helping you with the tedious bits. Consistency is something that does have value, even if it's not
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by tharkun__ 9mo ago
I no longer do keto no. I also started keto after I had gotten better already from the probiotics but not much. I'm not sure where you read about that subtilis can only live off of glucose. I'm having a hard time finding primary
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by tharkun__ 9mo ago
I wouldn't say more disturbing, really. But more "enlightening". A shit umbrella is great to have if the alternative is a shit funnel. But how are you gonna appreciate the shit umbrella if it's pitch black, blocks everyt
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by tharkun__ 9mo ago
This reminds me of another recent comment in some other post, about doctors not diagnosing "hard to diagnose" things. There are probably ("good") reasons for this. But your own persistence, and today the help of AI, can
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by tharkun__ 9mo ago
Let's take it up a notch! var itemCount = items.Count; depends on what `items` is, no? Is the `.Count` O(1)? Do you really need a variable or is it fine for the (JIT) compiler to take care of it? Is it O(n) and n is significan
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by tharkun__ 9mo ago
What I find the most "enlightening" and also frightening thing is that I see people that I've worked with for quite some time and who I respected for their knowledge and abilities have started spewing AI nonsense and are swit
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by tharkun__ 9mo ago
That's one of the issues with these if you ask me. Either you're a hermit, that really can build that hermit cave in the mountains, far off and all the guns they're stockpiling won't really be used. Or you're way to
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by tharkun__ 9mo ago
Oldest I've worked with was a project started in ~1991. I don't recall when they started keeping history and for how long and they might have trimmed history after some legal period that's shorter but, I worked on it ~15 year
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by tharkun__ 9mo ago
Agreed. And if deletes are soft, you likely really just wanted a complete audit history of all updates too (at least that's for the cases I've been part of). And then performance _definitely_ would suffer if you don't have a
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by tharkun__ 9mo ago
You're speaking of Tesla here, correct?
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by tharkun__ 9mo ago
Or worth buying up. Which in many cases was the "purpose" of doing the startup in the first place. Sure, we'd all like to think that the goal was an idealistic "startup does things for bettering humankind". But let&
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by tharkun__ 9mo ago
That's fair about the definition of a market. But "the market" (i.e. consumers) did not "do it by itself". Regulations had to force car makers to care about fuel economy. And while once Tesla came around (or a bit e
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by tharkun__ 9mo ago
Not talking about consumers. Car makers , as that's what my parent posited. "The market made car makers do fuel efficiency all by itself!". Yeah, no. Which traditional car maker actually cared about EVs before Tesla came alo
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by tharkun__ 9mo ago
Car makers really don't care about fuel economy and have to be made to care about it by regulations and even those they try to skirt.
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by tharkun__ 9mo ago
I didn't mean reporting things that you wouldn't consider a bug and just close. FWIW tho, "Pasting War and Peace" is actually a good test case. While it is unlikely you need to support that size in your inputs, testing
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by tharkun__ 9mo ago
I think noticing other bugs that aren't related to the ticket at hand is actually a good thing. That's how you notice them, by "being in the area" anyway. What many QAs can't do / for me separates the good and

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