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alwaysbeconsing

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    Comment #49029401

    > I've put some serious work into vibe-coding them. Months of work, infinite polish, infinite revisions, without writing a single line of code. Not being pedantic, but this is not …

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    Comment #48854083

    > Andrew's job isn't to make a JS runtime Most likely too late for edit, but Jarred is who work for Anthropic, not Andrew.

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    Comment #48853501

    > You can be reckless even if everything ends up being perfect in the end. This. Something I expect any person who think they are "engineer" to understand without thinking.

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    Comment #48327511

    Quite right. I bemoan shortsightedness of managerial types often, but too many fellow techies had assume that gravy ride will last forever. In eyes of management we have not the sa…

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    Comment #47371965

    Competition. Using my open source projects directly doesn't kill my employment. AI company explicitly say they want to put me out of work, using my code aginst me.

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    Comment #47077258

    Problem come when a third-party code do that swizzling, looking at you every iOS analytics framework to this day.

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    Comment #40400594

    Siri original release came four or five years before Google assistant.

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    Comment #40400515

    If you have time, people, resources for such you might also interest in more elaborate variation, my favorite https://killerqueenarcade.com/fieldgame Three different win condition,…

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    Comment #40288453

    Need time and effort to ensure junior docs are thorough. Usually multiple revision in my experience. This require acceptance from management that "just write code fast" is not a su…

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    Comment #40275916

    Not a good look. But to precise, user had already second-highest score long prior to period of posting AI work. In that case AI answers did not affect ranking.

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    Comment #40190224

    > it's on pretty much every system Some system have GNU, some BSD. > at least trivial to install Then same for `just`, package manager have it.

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    Comment #40181060

    Incorrect. 1P orginally offer direct LAN syncing among machines.

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    Comment #40115871

    > but in an implicit structure that 'leader' is quickly sidelined when people figure out the quality of their decisions are poor More likely to end up in turf war unless exist legi…

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    Comment #40115426

    Mashup of Dunbar's Number with "The Magical Number 7 Plus or Minus One"

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    Comment #39867431

    +1 Can see from project homepage http://web.archive.org/web/20240329165859/https://xz.tukaani... they have some release responsibility from 5.2.12. > Versions 5.2.12, 5.4.3 and lat…

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    Comment #39808837

    Sum type is key, called "discriminated union" sometimes generally. In Rust this is an `enum`. Simulated in some languages as tuples with tag first element. Discrete number of state…

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    Comment #39796370

    Precedent for Python-like but C-level language in Nim; will be interested to see how yours develops too. Good luck!

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    Comment #39727419

    Agree, it is Curse of Lisp mixed in NIH syndrome. Syntax of cond* is no more straightforward than that of pcase. As was pointed out on mailing list. Awkward decision by maintainers…

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    Comment #39653956

    Looks readable with Reader Mode for me.

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    Comment #39643020

    Very frustrating that any place where I can store code has way more security than what's more important to me: place where I store my money. Financial companies still using SMS for…

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    Comment #39540582

    > I see zero issue with AI farming Stack Overflow, > Thought AI companies farming copyrighted work on the other hand, that's a different story. All post on Stack Overflow are still…

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    Comment #39432375

    I believe statement is about the playlist Spotify makes, not those made by user. Those called "Daily Mix", generated on user listening choices.

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    Comment #39030092

    It means they keep position as dominant Git forge, mindshare: people are most familiar with them, then think of them first for Enterprise contracts, are interested in other paid pr…

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    Comment #38992789

    Would not Ruby be the comparison to do? In which case it I think is nearly identical to the Crystal.

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    Comment #38914897

    Does sound rightfully terrible. It's exceptionally common cognitive mistake to discover a categorization (of people) and take it as prescriptive rather than descriptive. Especially…