zahlman

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by zahlman 3mo ago
> NEVER ONCE allowed me to post here at all, ever, period. > My first attempt at posting here was in 2021. That account was shadowbanned within hours, for no discernable reason. I was astounded. Have you considered emailing hn@ycombin
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by zahlman 3mo ago
> you'd often deal with people who were trying to show how smart they are and rather than answering your questions they demand to know "what are you really trying to do?" In over 30 years of using the Internet I have seen
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by zahlman 3mo ago
Yes; it is a fact that the post I was complaining about was in violation of HN guidelines, and a fact that it demonstrated the same behaviour it accused others of.
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by zahlman 3mo ago
I fail to understand how this relates to the original claim.
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by zahlman 3mo ago
Is that not just Emacs?
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by zahlman 3mo ago
Does it actually take 22 hours for a commercial airplane to get to the diametrically opposite point on the globe?
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by zahlman 3mo ago
The rest of the thread demonstrates well enough that flagging would have been a better response than trying to engage with it factually. But I do appreciate the attempt anyway.
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by zahlman 3mo ago
> There’s always an other. That’s what the [group I definitely don't belong to] have been doing for decades. Please reconsider your logic. And: > Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples
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by zahlman 3mo ago
Who connected the systems to the Internet in the first place? Why ?
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by zahlman 3mo ago
Reference to the emdash qua LLM-ism is now more of a cliche than the actual LLM use thereof. What grates about AI slop is the actual prose, and the writing here is just fine, frankly. Most importantly, it's not trying to pad out insi
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by zahlman 3mo ago
In European languages, and in many other languages that are not European.
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by zahlman 3mo ago
> Rarely in the past have the I-just-want-to-coast-doing-the-minimum folks called so much attention to it! You seem to presume that they realize they're calling attention to it. On Stack Overflow, there was this phenomenon for a w
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by zahlman 3mo ago
Consider the anecdotes in https://danluu.com/algorithms-interviews/ .
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by zahlman 3mo ago
I find plenty of nuanced takes on HN. Honestly I think it's easier here than elsewhere; I just have to filter down to them. On other platforms, polarized takes are incentivized by the struggle for "engagement". (Youtubers oft
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by zahlman 3mo ago
To write code, I effectively need to do a mini-review as I go, and type vastly slower than the AI. To review code, given that all the automated checks are out of the way, I need to consider the objectives of the code (in terms of fitting in
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by zahlman 3mo ago
> If models can spot 13 years old critical bugs, I think they can also produce fresh code without those bugs. The skillset is the same. As if humans are incapable of spotting critical bugs simply because they've existed for a long t
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by zahlman 3mo ago
More so than, say, Windows? Really? And no, "people using one Linux distro can opt in to possibly getting pwned by each other by making use of a third-party software depot" does not reflect upon the entirety of the Linux world.
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by zahlman 3mo ago
> What scenarios are there where the code is actually bad but refactoring does not reduce the lines of code? IMX: the scenarios where people hold higher standards than what you describe :) (i.e. such that "the function does five thi
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by zahlman 3mo ago
> Asking coding agents to refactor your codebase is maybe like asking trauma surgeons to increase your exercise capacity. The agents are gonna need a really holistic POV to do this properly If you ask it to implement a specific kind of r
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by zahlman 3mo ago
I don't have a smartphone to test on. What happens without this?
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by zahlman 3mo ago
We get submissions like this fairly commonly (we also get ones that are "modern" but use hand-crafted CSS, use only un-minified first-party-written JS for progressive enhancement, etc.). But a large fraction of them are about th
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by zahlman 3mo ago
It is, because the people currently defamed as Nazis have had ample opportunity to bring such a thing about, and they are clearly not doing so. Every aspect of the ideological comparison is a stretch.
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by zahlman 3mo ago
In pre-ChatGPT days, listening to discussions of "AI X-risk" and "boxing", I used to think that it should be easy to just ignore arguments presented by the AI on principle, and let it out of the box. It turns out that to
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by zahlman 3mo ago
> For example, the Nazis By "contemporary" I meant contemporary to today , since those are the people who would potentially be doing these Substacks. I guess that was the wrong word.
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by zahlman 3mo ago
For the "SWAB" techniques discussed in the previous piece ( https://www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog/python-swar.html ), using 5 bits per cell might be just fine anyway. In fact, because of how CPython implements
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by zahlman 3mo ago
What distributions are anywhere near that large?
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by zahlman 3mo ago
Regardless of not having any commercial intent, the difficulty with these things is always going to be the potential legal liability and the maintenance of servers, not the actual software. (Oh, and I guess building trust with users.) Cool
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by zahlman 3mo ago
I literally advocated for solar power and you want to be rude to me because you perceive me as an enemy here. Please reconsider.
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by zahlman 3mo ago
> There's one NYT link on the Andreessen Horowitz article I see no mention of the far right in the article; the only NYT source with "right" in the title that I can find is "The Tech Right Gets Its Own Phyllis Schlafl
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by zahlman 3mo ago
Your source is Taylor Lorenz, on her own Substack (with a custom domain). She apparently wasn't bothered enough to disassociate with the service. This is someone who makes claims like "Substack is primarily funded by Andreessen Ho

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