> It’s all just physics and chemistry, and those are well understood. Not really. We cannot model physics and chemistry to a level which allows us to accurately predict a humans action (even a tiny time-step into the…
There's definitely trade-offs. I actually prefer a proper SPA to pure HTML when on a slow connection and interacting with a site a lot. Especially when trying to buy something. I much prefer to have a longer initial…
I use it for all my non-professional work and I find it works well enough for me. Mostly for things that I know are possible and have a vague idea of how I would do it, but it would take me longer. Some examples in no…
I hate that I have to change the way I write to avoid AI-isms. I loved using "load bearing" to describe weird code that you think you can delete but is actually holding everything together. Now people think I'm just…
You are not wrong, Jenkins had many problems. But I would argue that the solutions were always grounded in the Linux userland. And I also agree that you could use GitHub actions in a similar way to how I talk about…
Yeah, the YAMLification of everything kinda killed my ability to understand "everything". Previously, if you knew the Linux userland well, I felt like you could figure anything out with enough digging. Take CI for…
Surely it ends with alternative clients? Seems much easier and more efficient. Facebook UI is crap anyway, just have something scrape the data and present it in a format that's not optimized for whatever KPI FB cares…
> I was told I'm not supposed to read pull requests at my job anymore (we all do agentic coding now), I'm just supposed to click "approve" on PRs because for some stupid reason it still requires several humans to…
I guess it depends, but what are you doing with all your time if you aren't reviewing the code and trying to make it maintainable? The time I previously spent writing code is now spent reviewing code and giving feedback…
Yeah, I was very skeptical and now I've drank the kool-aid. Got multiple parallel cloud agents with independent loops making PRs and me reviewing them. AI is also reviewing PRs and sometimes even catches useful things.…
This matches what Gwern wrote years ago [0]. It does unequivocally make you stronger though. So if you're training anyway, may as well take it and hope it makes you smarter as well (just believing might be enough for…
Today I learned about the Bortle scale. I was completely ignorant about it. > If you've never seen truly dark skies, do yourself a favour and go see what they look like during true night I think I went from only ever…
> The worst part IMO for both is that they prioritize mobile apps over their PC software so if you want to edit on a computer like a normal reasonable person you lose features compared to idiotically doing things on a…
This is the complete opposite of those discussions. It's taking a specific quantifiable thing and measuring it, with enough information for anyone to try and reproduce the results. It's the epitome of science, comparing…
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I mostly travel around Africa & Asia (east, south east, central). Yeah, I used esim.dog with the HK break out IP and it was fine. I guess my usage falls into two categories: 1. I have reliable wifi, and don't need to…
How do you judge "the best" network? It normally depends on if you're in the city, countryside, island etc. I travel fulltime and constantly buy new esims. Normally I just go on esimdb and buy the cheapest one. Then…
Yeah, I remember some ad by an LLM security company hitting HN a year or so with a "challenge" to do prompt injection. The final level was their product and it was impossible. But it was also impossible to get the LLm…
> Do you want to iterate using for loop or using .iter().step(2).map()? This isn't really a good example, assuming both can be used to represent the same thing. The problem with the wrong abstraction is when your…
It's too hard to define what "works" even means in this case. Look at the example savings output. A lot of it is kubectl output. Your suggestion to using coding benchmarks doesn't really capture the whole picture. I…
> In which country can you emigrate to and be allowed votes in government representation just because you pay taxes? There are a few, with varying degrees of residency time (and possibly other conditions) required. New…
> Kids don't produce capital for the elites. Kids eventually grow up and "start producing capital". It's definitely beneficial for the "elite" in the long term for people to have kids.
I had to deal with the Japanese for the first time last week. My girlfriends bag was stolen with her passport. It happened in a Round1 (near Umeda in Osaka), we knew exactly when since we sat down to play Mario Kart and…
> Scattering the implementation in various files all over the source tree does not help much building the mental model. Yeah, that happens where I work and I hate it. A combination of lint rules and AI reviewer prompts…
What laptop has that much VRAM and RAM for $3500 with good/okay-ish Linux support? I was looking to upgrade my asus zephyrus g14 from 2021 and things were looking very expensive. Decided to just keep it chugging along…
> It’s all just physics and chemistry, and those are well understood. Not really. We cannot model physics and chemistry to a level which allows us to accurately predict a humans action (even a tiny time-step into the…
There's definitely trade-offs. I actually prefer a proper SPA to pure HTML when on a slow connection and interacting with a site a lot. Especially when trying to buy something. I much prefer to have a longer initial…
I use it for all my non-professional work and I find it works well enough for me. Mostly for things that I know are possible and have a vague idea of how I would do it, but it would take me longer. Some examples in no…
I hate that I have to change the way I write to avoid AI-isms. I loved using "load bearing" to describe weird code that you think you can delete but is actually holding everything together. Now people think I'm just…
You are not wrong, Jenkins had many problems. But I would argue that the solutions were always grounded in the Linux userland. And I also agree that you could use GitHub actions in a similar way to how I talk about…
Yeah, the YAMLification of everything kinda killed my ability to understand "everything". Previously, if you knew the Linux userland well, I felt like you could figure anything out with enough digging. Take CI for…
Surely it ends with alternative clients? Seems much easier and more efficient. Facebook UI is crap anyway, just have something scrape the data and present it in a format that's not optimized for whatever KPI FB cares…
> I was told I'm not supposed to read pull requests at my job anymore (we all do agentic coding now), I'm just supposed to click "approve" on PRs because for some stupid reason it still requires several humans to…
I guess it depends, but what are you doing with all your time if you aren't reviewing the code and trying to make it maintainable? The time I previously spent writing code is now spent reviewing code and giving feedback…
Yeah, I was very skeptical and now I've drank the kool-aid. Got multiple parallel cloud agents with independent loops making PRs and me reviewing them. AI is also reviewing PRs and sometimes even catches useful things.…
This matches what Gwern wrote years ago [0]. It does unequivocally make you stronger though. So if you're training anyway, may as well take it and hope it makes you smarter as well (just believing might be enough for…
Today I learned about the Bortle scale. I was completely ignorant about it. > If you've never seen truly dark skies, do yourself a favour and go see what they look like during true night I think I went from only ever…
> The worst part IMO for both is that they prioritize mobile apps over their PC software so if you want to edit on a computer like a normal reasonable person you lose features compared to idiotically doing things on a…
This is the complete opposite of those discussions. It's taking a specific quantifiable thing and measuring it, with enough information for anyone to try and reproduce the results. It's the epitome of science, comparing…
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I mostly travel around Africa & Asia (east, south east, central). Yeah, I used esim.dog with the HK break out IP and it was fine. I guess my usage falls into two categories: 1. I have reliable wifi, and don't need to…
How do you judge "the best" network? It normally depends on if you're in the city, countryside, island etc. I travel fulltime and constantly buy new esims. Normally I just go on esimdb and buy the cheapest one. Then…
Yeah, I remember some ad by an LLM security company hitting HN a year or so with a "challenge" to do prompt injection. The final level was their product and it was impossible. But it was also impossible to get the LLm…
> Do you want to iterate using for loop or using .iter().step(2).map()? This isn't really a good example, assuming both can be used to represent the same thing. The problem with the wrong abstraction is when your…
It's too hard to define what "works" even means in this case. Look at the example savings output. A lot of it is kubectl output. Your suggestion to using coding benchmarks doesn't really capture the whole picture. I…
> In which country can you emigrate to and be allowed votes in government representation just because you pay taxes? There are a few, with varying degrees of residency time (and possibly other conditions) required. New…
> Kids don't produce capital for the elites. Kids eventually grow up and "start producing capital". It's definitely beneficial for the "elite" in the long term for people to have kids.
I had to deal with the Japanese for the first time last week. My girlfriends bag was stolen with her passport. It happened in a Round1 (near Umeda in Osaka), we knew exactly when since we sat down to play Mario Kart and…
> Scattering the implementation in various files all over the source tree does not help much building the mental model. Yeah, that happens where I work and I hate it. A combination of lint rules and AI reviewer prompts…
What laptop has that much VRAM and RAM for $3500 with good/okay-ish Linux support? I was looking to upgrade my asus zephyrus g14 from 2021 and things were looking very expensive. Decided to just keep it chugging along…