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by wvenable 8mo ago
The compiler now mostly solves this now but the abstraction is a little leaky. I heavily use nullable types but I always want them to be declared nullable.
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by wvenable 8mo ago
All non-generic container classes and nullable reference types.
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by wvenable 9mo ago
> These can be subtle because you're not looking for them After any agent run, I'm always looking the git comparison between the new version and the previous one. This helps catch things that you might otherwise not notice.
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by wvenable 9mo ago
What do you suggest then to stay informed for those without televisions?
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by wvenable 9mo ago
Microsoft gets a lot of flak for their approach to updating the settings up but I think they did that exactly right. There was no way that were going to be able to re-implement every setting available in one go and have it be good. So the
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by wvenable 9mo ago
I disagree with this in the article: "Last, but not least, the technical debt of Windows has become almost unbearable. 30+ years of Windows NT certainly adds up." The actual design of the Windows internals has mostly remained unch
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by wvenable 9mo ago
Vibe-coding is a more marketable term. Agent-assisted coding doesn't have the same ring to it. Maybe "Agentive Coding". ChatGPT wasn't much help coming up with alternative here.
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by wvenable 9mo ago
Not everything can be built by one person. This is why a lot of software requires entire teams of developers. And someone has to have vision of that completed software and wants it made even if they had to delegate to other people. I h
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by wvenable 9mo ago
That is the correct definition of vibe coding "fully giv[ing] in to the vibes, embrac[ing] exponentials, and forget[ting] that the code even exists." I think we need another term for using an LLM to write code but absolutely not f
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by wvenable 9mo ago
> I dunno, maybe I have high standards I don't get it. I have insanely high standards so I don't let the LLM get away with not meeting my standards. Simple.
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by wvenable 9mo ago
> That costs significantly more and involves the creation of jobs. I see this as a great outcome. I don't see it that way. If whatever you're doing can now be automated then it's become a bullshit job. It no longer a ben
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by wvenable 9mo ago
> If I use my knowledge to produce code, under a specific license, then you take that code, and reproduce it without the license, you have broken the law. Correct. But if read your code, produce a detailed specification of that code, a
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by wvenable 9mo ago
I read all the code and it sometimes make mistakes -- but I wouldn't call it really bad. And often merely pointing it out will get a correction. Sometimes it is funny. It's not perfect but nothing is perfect. I have noticed
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by wvenable 9mo ago
I've been using it to do big refactors are large changes that I would simply avoid because, before, the benefits don't outweigh the costs of the doing it. I think half the problem people have is just using AI for the wrong stuff.
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by wvenable 9mo ago
> You mean the knowledge that Claude has stolen from all of us and regurgitated into your projects without any copyright attributions? You can't, and shouldn't be able to, copyright and hoard "knowledge".
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by wvenable 9mo ago
We are still massively lacking in software. We're not at the stage of making websites faster, we're at the stage of making more of them. We haven't come close to hitting the point where we have enough software and now the j
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by wvenable 9mo ago
If you're young, healthy, and unattached there's almost no reason not to move to the US.
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by wvenable 9mo ago
A few years ago, at my company, we would get random TPM crashes every few months on all our machines. You'd be working and the TPM would just disappear and then any apps that rely on it for key retrieval would error out. Even worse,
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by wvenable 9mo ago
Looking at this ban list, they've removed everything from C++ that makes it fun. Come on people, who doesn't love a little std::function?!? On banning exceptions:"Things would probably be different if we had to do it all ov
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by wvenable 9mo ago
> XML is still the implementation tool for Microsoft Office and Open Office docs. It is and that is a good thing. I can't tell you the number of times that an application storing it's data in XML has made it possible for me to
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by wvenable 9mo ago
As Douglas Crockford says: JSON was discovered, not invented.
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by wvenable 9mo ago
I think XML for documents lost to markdown. Between markdown and HTML, there is no need for XML in that domain anymore either.
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by wvenable 9mo ago
I read the article and my first thought was it was entirely missing the complexity of XML. It started out relatively simple and easy to understand and most people/programs wrote simple XML that looked a lot like HTML still does. But i
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by wvenable 9mo ago
It doesn't loop though -- it has continuously updating context -- and if that context continues to head one direction it will eventually break down. My own personal experience with LLMs is that after enough context they just become use
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by wvenable 9mo ago
> It's pretty similar to Windows Vista where it annoyed you with a disruptive popup so many times during the normal course of actions that most people ended up disabling the whole UAC system. Nothing changed post-Vista. It's e
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by wvenable 9mo ago
An array isn't a function -- indexing an array could be a function. But an array is a data structure. An array doesn't satisfy the requirements to be a function -- people are just confusing an array with array indexing.
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by wvenable 9mo ago
Correct. But indexing into an array is logic that computes a result when it is called.
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by wvenable 9mo ago
> Is the world going to de-dollarize though? I think they already are -- it's just not going to happen all at once overnight. The shift has happened already and the consequences will take decades to come forward. But it's stil
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by wvenable 9mo ago
A weak dollar is good for manufacturing and a strong dollar is bad for it. China tightly controls to the Yuan to purposely keep it's value low to benefit it's manufacturing. The current US administration wants to something simil
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by wvenable 9mo ago
It might be cooperation through abdication, but it's still abdication. They are choosing to allow the executive to do things that would be under their control.

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