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by williamcotton 5mo ago
> However, the process was far more important than the product (again!). Not every whimsy needs to become a reality. I mean, I get it, there's different kinds of people out there with different motivations, goals, spare time, etc.
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by williamcotton 6mo ago
> It all makes a strong case for universal grammar, IMO. What about through the lens of the Norvig-Chomsky debate?
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by williamcotton 6mo ago
One-shot converted my game from a 2D board to a 3D board along with all entities and animations. Sold! https://github.com/williamcotton/space-trader/commit/0859c65...
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Show HN: Grammar of Graphics CLI tool made in Rust(github.com)
1 points by williamcotton 6mo ago|0 comments
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by williamcotton 6mo ago
Space Trader! Imagine mixing Magic: The Gathering, StarCraft and Civilization’s hex grid combat. There’s multiplayer but I haven’t put the server anywhere yet. Check out the introduction here: https://github.com/williamcotto
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by williamcotton 6mo ago
So what's the legal issue here? How does the chardet achieve this? Explain in detail, with shortened code excerpts from the library itself if helpful to the explanation. The prompt is explicitly requesting the source!
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by williamcotton 6mo ago
"Just a few weeks ago a SOTA model was shown to reproduce non-trivial amounts of licensed code[0]." That LLM response is describing a specific project with full attribution.
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by williamcotton 7mo ago
What about trade secrets, breach of contract, etc, etc?
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by williamcotton 7mo ago
Undo: Ctrl + _ (Ctrl + underscore)
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by williamcotton 7mo ago
I agree 100%. Boring old software skills are part of what it took to "write" this DSL, complete with a fully featured LSP: https://github.com/williamcotton/webpipe https://github.com/williamco
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by williamcotton 7mo ago
Undo (typing): Ctrl + _ (Ctrl + underscore) Applies to the line editor outside of CC as well.
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by williamcotton 7mo ago
Lines of code are meaningful when taken in aggregate and useless as a metric for an individual’s contributions. COCOMO, which considers lines of code, is generally accepted as being accurate (enough) at estimating the value of a software sy
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by williamcotton 7mo ago
That’s not how we started down this path. See snark-free sibling comment from padjo.
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by williamcotton 7mo ago
”The current market share of custom-built homes is approximately 19% of total single-family starts” https://www.nahb.org/blog/2025/08/custom-home-building-grows...
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by williamcotton 7mo ago
Browser -> your server route -> server calls API -> server renders HTML -> htmx swaps it?
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Course Hero to Pay $75M to Post University in Copyright Metadata Case(usaherald.com)
1 points by williamcotton 7mo ago|0 comments
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by williamcotton 8mo ago
Sure it has. See the modernism as a whole.
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by williamcotton 8mo ago
Correct me if I’m wrong, but if you wrote a dependency-free recursive descent parser in C89 thirty years ago it should still compile and return the same AST.
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by williamcotton 8mo ago
Has the METR study been replicated?
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by williamcotton 8mo ago
Isn't it a bit of both? When it comes to noticing whether or not code will be a security nightmare, a performance nightmare, an architectural nightmare, etc, haven't experienced developers already learned to watch out for these is
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by williamcotton 8mo ago
Seems fun! It can take the ball a long time to reach a stop, so maybe either skip ahead or use a friction coefficient that is higher when it is rolling?
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by williamcotton 8mo ago
I'm speaking from the perspective of business and accounting.
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by williamcotton 8mo ago
Photography’s rapid commercialisation [21] meant that many painters – or prospective painters – were tempted to take up photography instead of, or in addition to, their painting careers. Most of these new photographers produced portraits.
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by williamcotton 8mo ago
> it can become a risk if you, others, or a business start to depend on it (just like spare time hacked tools). So that Excel spreadsheet that manages the entire sales funnel?
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by williamcotton 8mo ago
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/16/the-lethal-trifecta/
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by williamcotton 8mo ago
Software is not a liability, it's an asset. If you make it for less then it has a shorter shelf-life. Tech debt is a nonsense term to begin with.
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by williamcotton 8mo ago
> Experienced developers were 19% slower when using AI coding assistants—yet believed they were faster One paper is sure doing a lot of leg work these days...
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by williamcotton 9mo ago
Plenty of analysts call it the all-22, eg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sp2sVfSAlM
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by williamcotton 9mo ago
I mean, awk? jq? SQL?
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by williamcotton 9mo ago
I guess I am in my own bubble because I have never heard of Suno until now and I have yet to come across these heated discussions!

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