vermilingua

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by vermilingua 6mo ago
Literally the first person to understand the reference in ~14 years of using this handle, thank you.
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by vermilingua 6mo ago
ButlerianJihad… had Gemini explain it to you…
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by vermilingua 6mo ago
https://www.catb.org/jargon/html/H/hacker.html Definition 7 would be the relevant one here.
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by vermilingua 6mo ago
This idea makes me deeply uncomfortable, and I shouldn't have included the name of the book in my original comment (now too late to edit).
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by vermilingua 6mo ago
Don’t get me wrong, I agree; but the odds of that coincidence are extremely long.
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by vermilingua 6mo ago
I had a very odd experience the other day; while waiting for a doctor’s appointment, I had a book I’d read pop into my head (Mercy of Gods, very good) and looked up when the sequel was going to release. It had come out that morning. I can’t
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by vermilingua 6mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47757803
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The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: Psychological Hazards(aphyr.com)
6 points by vermilingua 6mo ago|1 comments
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The Raft consensus algorithm explained through "Mean Girls" (2019)(cockroachlabs.com)
136 points by vermilingua 6mo ago|29 comments
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by vermilingua 6mo ago
Another incredible 256b demo: https://linusakesson.net/scene/a-mind-is-born/
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by vermilingua 6mo ago
I think you may have missed the point of GEoD
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by vermilingua 6mo ago
Yep, ensuring RERERE and autostash are enabled eliminate 80% of the tedium for me, but honestly just try jj; it seriously is a gamechanger and (so far, in ~6mth of use) it has had literally zero drawbacks in comparison to git, because it is
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by vermilingua 6mo ago
The platform this is an ad for looks to be very bare-bones, but I’m still very glad to see a new entry in the code forge space focusing on stacked PRs since Graphite went all-in on clanker review. Extremely keen to see what will come out of
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by vermilingua 6mo ago
If you’re getting to the point where you’re submitting PRs if you don’t know whether the foundation of the change is flawed, you have more pressing issues than wasting time in code review fixes.
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by vermilingua 6mo ago
The last option is absolutely not unreasonable to expect people to do by hand, as the article states it’s simply a problem of tooling. JJ makes this extremely easy to do, but some of us have been doing just the same in git for a long time a
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by vermilingua 7mo ago
The lspconfig depreciation was a very painful upgrade for me too, as it seems to be very poorly documented; but ultimately it came down to moving all of the LSP server configuration to `vim.lsp.config` blocks, then calling `vim.lsp.enable`
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by vermilingua 7mo ago
Finding it hard to compete with the rigorous ICE recruitment standards?
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by vermilingua 7mo ago
Yes, I don’t doubt that there was some very high quality human-moderated output. The point is that you likely can’t accurately distinguish the human-moderated output from the entirely generated slop (especially as it’s being trained and ref
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by vermilingua 7mo ago
Good riddence to bad trash. To me, this idea represents the absolute worst of the AI wave (out of a lot to choose from): a corporate controlled endless stream of the feelies to keep people plugged in and scrolling for nobody’s benefit exc
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by vermilingua 7mo ago
Not only is it gambling, it has the full force of the industry that built the attention market behind it. I find it extremely hard to believe that these tools have not been optimised to keep developers prompting the same way tiktok keeps pe
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by vermilingua 7mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47340079
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by vermilingua 7mo ago
It is really truly incredible that this mess of microscopic meat plumbing encodes everything we see, think, and do. Terrifying and amazing all at once.
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by vermilingua 7mo ago
Absolutely not
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David Foster Wallace: This Is Water (2005)(fs.blog)
4 points by vermilingua 7mo ago|0 comments
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by vermilingua 7mo ago
Please don't, can't we just have one thread without this shit
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by vermilingua 7mo ago
It baffles me that so many people are so willing to pay for the privilege of training their own replacement.
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by vermilingua 7mo ago
Most modern TVs (not to mention SBCs you could just connect with HDMI) have bluetooth/USB for keyboard & mouse
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by vermilingua 7mo ago
I believe that’s a matinee
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by vermilingua 8mo ago
Except that companies are not a black box, at every step there is a human making a comprehensible decision (probably with a paper trail). Yes, they dilute accountability to nearly nothing in some cases, but LLMs are sufficiently opaque to
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by vermilingua 8mo ago
Is it feasible to differentiate increased agent-traffic from the organic growth in popularity HN has been seeing?

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