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by wrs 1y ago
Copyright is not on “information”, It’s on the tangible expression (i.e., the actual words). “Transformative use” is a defense in copyright infringement.
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by wrs 1y ago
I don’t know, Claude is very good at writing that utterly useless kind of unit test where every dependency is mocked out and the test is just the inverted dual of the original code. 100% coverage, nothing tested.
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by wrs 1y ago
I have been using Unix since 1983, and Linux since version <1.0, and I would respectfully suggest that the author has missed the point of Docker. However, if you want to use a shell script for setup instead of a Dockerfile, and don’t min
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by wrs 1y ago
Now the MCP kool-aid is about how we’re finally going to make that work, because the computer on either end can literally read the field descriptions and intuit the interaction. MCP uses LLMs to supply the magic that the WSDL folks never ad
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by wrs 1y ago
I’m not comparing anything blindly; that is in fact the exact opposite of my advice. Nor am I saying all big hypes are equivalent, just that there’s always a big hype about something , and you need a strategy to stay levelheaded about them
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by wrs 1y ago
Were you around for the OOP craze? It definitely affected a lot of peoples’ day job. I mean, quite a few people use C++ and Java, no? In my list I didn’t even mention the internet, the web, smartphones, and the cloud, all of which had a ver
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by wrs 1y ago
I know with only 5 years experience this may not be obvious, but this is only the first of many “revolutionary” technologies making everyone around you lose their minds that you’ll have to deal with in your career. Like every other such tec
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by wrs 1y ago
I’m very good at one thing (thank goodness), but I do some other things that I’m not good at, to remind myself how nice it feels to just do something without the pressure of having to be good at it. I also think being a beginner at other th
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by wrs 1y ago
Yeah, that's why I said "not much" difference. I don't think it's much, because LLMs do quite well generating JSON without turning on constrained output mode, and I can't remember them ever messing up a bash
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by wrs 1y ago
MCP is literally the same as giving an LLM a set of man page summaries and a very limited shell over HTTP. It’s just in a different syntax (JSON instead of man macros and CLI args). It would be better for MCP to deliver function definitions
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by wrs 1y ago
Well, with MCP you’re giving textual instructions to Claude in hopes that it correctly generates a tool call for you. It’s not like tool calls have access to some secret deterministic mode of the LLM; it’s still just text. To an LLM there’s
702.
by wrs 1y ago
This is fantastic. But wow, the home inspector was really phoning it in that day!
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by wrs 1y ago
You would have the option to do what they’re doing if you prefer. You just wouldn’t have as much disposable income. Why are you pay for other people to use the roads or have their fires put out or have health care? Because society is more p
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by wrs 1y ago
So many words there carrying too much weight. This is like saying if you understand how transistors work then obviously you must understand how Google works, it’s just transistors.
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by wrs 1y ago
For one thing, what you learned can stop working when you switch to a new model, or just a newer version of the “same” model.
706.
by wrs 1y ago
What was the goal of an attack lasting only 45 seconds?
707.
by wrs 1y ago
Based on my 35 years of hiring and being hired in the tech industry, that kind of company is also extremely rare.
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by wrs 1y ago
`-S` is a disassembler , or an assembly generator . You definitely want that when developing a compiler. But an assembler that goes the other direction, that’s entirely optional.
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by wrs 1y ago
In theory, Anaconda solves the next higher level of the Python package management nightmare, namely knowing what versions are compatible with each other. But that could presumably be done on top of uv.
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by wrs 1y ago
That exists! [0] But IMHO the guides should be linked in big text as the first thing on the homepage. Right now you have to read through a bunch of meaningless comparative bullet points and reassurances then click a few times to get to the
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by wrs 1y ago
Why would you think that just because nobody negotiated, somehow everyone doing the same job will be making the same amount? In reality, they will all be making the lowest amount the hiring manager was comfortable offering at the time. You
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by wrs 1y ago
It could be, but I doubt you’ll find any commercial LED driver that is a linear regulator, so I don’t think that’s what they mean.
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by wrs 1y ago
In the world of LEDs, a switched-mode power supply with regulated output current is called a "constant current driver". I assume that's what this calls "DC dimming".
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by wrs 1y ago
This certainly applies to office printers. Printers that accept new jobs while printing have to store them somewhere. There have been many incidents of finding old documents on disposed printers because it doesn’t occur to anyone to wipe th
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by wrs 1y ago
Well, I mean, it sort of did one-shot the parser in my case (with a few bugs, of course). It just didn't one-shot the parser I wanted , largely because my definition was unclear. It would be interesting to see how it did if I went t
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by wrs 1y ago
I guess I don't really understand the goal of "one-shot" parser generation, since I can't even do that as a human using a parser generator! There's always an iterative process, as I find out how the language I wante
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by wrs 1y ago
A few weeks ago I gave an LLM (Gemini 2.5 something in Cursor) a bunch of examples of a new language, and asked it to write a recursive descent parser in Ruby. The language was nothing crazy, intentionally reminiscent of C/JS style, bu
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by wrs 1y ago
As with so many other things the executive branch is doing right now, it doesn’t have exclusive power to do this. Congress sets the rules for how procurement works.
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by wrs 1y ago
This would have been a great time to explain how Purism protects users from malware better than Google while giving users more freedom, instead of just repeating the word “security”. If, in fact, that is the case.
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by wrs 1y ago
They are in court.

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