vanschelven

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by vanschelven 7d ago
Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute. -- Hal Abelson
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by vanschelven 7d ago
I can't help but think that some of the arguments here apply equally well to writing _code_ as they to to other substantive writings. Writing code is thinking, AI code is often vague and wrong in hard-to-notice ways, and the (human) re
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by vanschelven 8d ago
Passkeys remind me of ipv6 in that they are a "solution" coming from the supply-side, without (apparently) having done any research in what motivates actual users (and what would motivate them to switch). <<ducks>>
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by vanschelven 8d ago
> The cartoon symbolizes the liberation of one's Internet presence from popular prejudices. As the kind of human that prefer to not communicate with dogs (bots) I've always interpreted the comic much more negatively than implie
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by vanschelven 8d ago
Author here; I admit this is basically just a rant but it might just be the kind of rant that does well here on HN. Anyway, sticking around for questions, also on (vaguely) related subjects
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Bring Your Own Agent(bugsink.com)
2 points by vanschelven 8d ago|1 comments
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by vanschelven 13d ago
but it's at least somewhat stronger than that: if you don't pay attention during the stick-beating whether the agents whether the agents cheat or not, you are actually training them to cheat (because cheating wins). In the Hugging
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by vanschelven 15d ago
count yourself lucky, tomorrow it will be 9
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by vanschelven 15d ago
> I was disappointed at how “vibes based” the industry seems at the moment. Alan Kay called programming "Pop Culture" some 20 years ago[0] [0] https://queue.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1039511.1039523
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by vanschelven 15d ago
Presumably to indicate that the parts in quotes are indeed quoted literally from the source that is mentioned in the same sentence?
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by vanschelven 15d ago
As inspired by this tumblr which did not age well: https://www.tumblr.com/picturesofpeoplescanningqrcodes
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by vanschelven 15d ago
This is just asking for a parody-site that displays literally an empty page though.
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by vanschelven 15d ago
> CRM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crew_resource_management
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by vanschelven 15d ago
given the fact that they communicated about this as a CVE, and Forgejo is a fork of gitea, one could say that this is on Forgejo though.
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by vanschelven 15d ago
Part of the explanation (for me) is that the slow down comes later, and that part of the cost is externalized to team members. If you go all-in agentic on a project that has at least reasonable code quality, you can certainly gain a tempora
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by vanschelven 15d ago
This post is basically Futurama's "assorted lengths of wire" in text-form, right? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wxu7z7hfVns
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by vanschelven 15d ago
"resolved" it says now...
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Archive.ubuntu.com and a few other components are down(status.canonical.com)
1 points by vanschelven 15d ago|1 comments
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by vanschelven 5mo ago
Dropping Google Analytics on a page is indeed precisely active sharing of data with Google; it just happens to use your own browser against you rather than sending the data to Google from the server of the website. There's no "act
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by vanschelven 5mo ago
Google Analytics as well as Microsoft, which indeed makes "tech companies". What are you implying here really?
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by vanschelven 5mo ago
The fact that these "move off US infra" posts now routinely hit #1 on HN is itself pretty telling. Another example is the public outcry here in the Netherlands over selling off the company doing the infra for an important citizen-
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by vanschelven 5mo ago
Trump may genuinely end up being the best salesman European hosting companies ever had. I run one of the tools mentioned in this post (Bugsink) and I literally had an uptick of Danish people/companies (specifically) reaching out to me
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by vanschelven 5mo ago
If you/your company is already inside the EU, you can't really escape the EU's unpredictability, but you can to some extend reduce the blast radius of the American government's whims.
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by vanschelven 5mo ago
They say > Not everything moved. Cloudflare is a US company, I still use it, and I’m at peace with that. which you admittedly couldn't read when you complained about it.
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by vanschelven 7mo ago
Indeed both the "..." and "disabling over removing" were in the windows 95 UI manual
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by vanschelven 7mo ago
Before clicking the link I thought this was going to be about over-usage of the term by LLMs... it's not in my personal "red flag" list but it does seem to have a general applicability that's not connected to actually ha
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by vanschelven 7mo ago
The rebuttal is especially interesting because it simply let's the actual usages of the term speak for themselves. It turns out (ha!) that the Cambridge example is the only case that supports the OPs case.
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by vanschelven 7mo ago
How do you actually measure likeness?
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by vanschelven 7mo ago
Every journey starts with the first step... And those steps are finally being taken now. Don't see why this kind of naysaying would be the top comment here
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by vanschelven 7mo ago
I read a text from the 60s by my grandfather this week and seeing an emdash made the LLM alarm in my head go off... Had to really stop myself before I went all "and you" on him

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