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by tom_ 2mo ago
I write a Python script for this stuff. argparse with subparsers makes (fairly) light work of creating a command line tool with git-/svn-/etc.-style subcommands, and you get very useful autogenerated --help output. (The fact you h
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by tom_ 2mo ago
The elided part is presumably some command that the llm was coaxed into inserting, even though it'd make no sense to do that and a human operator just wouldn't.
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by tom_ 2mo ago
I don't remember ever seeing one before either. Will the floodgates now open?
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by tom_ 2mo ago
I dunno, man. I just... dunno.
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by tom_ 2mo ago
I split the difference and write it "int*w". (Most style guides tell you to declare one name per line anyway...)
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by tom_ 2mo ago
It feels like we're witness to the possible appearance of a new archetype: a whole new kind of capital-P-Person! A hitherto-unnoticed plane in personality space is slowly becoming discernible. (Time will tell. It's possible this w
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by tom_ 2mo ago
It read to me like a book review written by a person. What do you see as the bot tells? I didn't spot the usual obvious things, and by the time I got to the end I wasn't feeling vaguely suspicious. (But, if this is actually AI-wri
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by tom_ 2mo ago
Well, rather your ears than mine.
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by tom_ 2mo ago
My thinking was that the landlord would be providing the same internet either way, work from home or no, and it costs the same whatever happens. Sure, you'll maybe use it more if you're working from home - but that costs exactly t
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by tom_ 2mo ago
It looks like it supports NEON: https://github.com/erincatto/box3d/blob/781673be801569a94be7...
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by tom_ 2mo ago
"Or threaten to hurt them, or their family, or their friends. Then just take the money. What about that option? Didn't think of that, did ya son." "Don, I..." "Listen. I think this racket just ain't for yo
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by tom_ 2mo ago
I found it quite tiring to read as well.
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by tom_ 2mo ago
I assume "AI people" is in quotes to indicate that it's kind of a term of art. Like Car People. Or Computer People. Some visible, bothersome subset of the (much larger (like, how many people these days don't use a car?
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by tom_ 2mo ago
It's definitely a theme, but some people are just like that (as has always been the case), and maybe they're the ones most inclined to comment on this matter. Another theory: https://lobste.rs/s/omq8rt/vi
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by tom_ 2mo ago
Who pays per byte for internet?! The other points are well made, though. The lesson, I suppose: bills included is a bad idea. The incentives are misaligned all round.
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by tom_ 2mo ago
You misunderstand. They are going to force everybody to pay $5, then force everybody to use chatgpt. 8 billion times 5 isn't much money, but the advertisers will surely pay a lot for that many captive eyeballs! (I have no MBA eithe
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by tom_ 2mo ago
I never liked xargs either. My replacement is kind of like "xargs -n 1 -d '\n' -J '{}'", which experience has taught me is almost always what I want. It consumes all of its input before starting, so it knows ho
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by tom_ 2mo ago
Not unrelated: https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2025/07/06/content-creator/
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by tom_ 2mo ago
The link is to the BingeEatingDisorder subreddit. From the link, > I know that at least for me, the actual process of ordering food delivery is part of the addiction
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by tom_ 2mo ago
Visual Studio Code asks you if you trust the files in the folder you open, or at least it always has done for me. Presumably this stuff stops working if you don't?
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by tom_ 2mo ago
Nuance quietly surfaced.
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by tom_ 2mo ago
The new editorialised title is an improvement, given that most of HN's readership is probably not in the UK, especially not at time of writing: 0130 BST on a Tuesday.
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by tom_ 2mo ago
So need to think about it now. Our future selves will be much better placed to deal with it.
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by tom_ 2mo ago
The article is on the BBC site, so Asia means India/Pakistan/Bangladesh/etc. Japan is Japan.
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by tom_ 3mo ago
A problem for us to deal with when we encounter it.
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by tom_ 3mo ago
Running is harder work than walking. Try it!
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by tom_ 3mo ago
Centiseconds was one of the ways time was measured on the BBC Micro. Your convenient options for accurately measuring the passage of time were vsyncs (50/sec), centiseconds (100/sec), microseconds (1,000,000/sec), or cycles (
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by tom_ 3mo ago
else{ *rwr--=x; }
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by tom_ 3mo ago
It's just less effort all round to have everybody using the same supported set of tools. I don't know if I've ever worked on a project that's gone so far as to actually mandate this, but a "should" (possibly in
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by tom_ 3mo ago
Add -1.f, or pick another handedness.

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