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bhaak

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About bhaak

Programmer of Roguelikes and E-Book readers

https://bhaak.net/

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49254073

    The default AI text output reads like a LinkedIn post. Marketing material probably outweighs concise literature by several orders of magnitude. Maybe it’s as simple as that.

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    Comment #49230896

    A partial eclipse is still cool. I witnessed a 70% partial eclipse once and it was still impressing. The colors changed, the sun was visibly dimmer. A total eclipse is just on a wh…

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    Comment #49110113

    > Oh and if you really love that dumb, sophomoric ending, you can also get Return to Monkey Island, which is yet another game Gilbert ruined with this tired trope. Isn't it a bit d…

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    Comment #49066796

    The EU law already allowed technically necessary cookies without any banner. Every time you get a cookie banner with options, the website wants to know more about you than the law …

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    Comment #49049780

    For me the 2001 OSX looks wishy washy and does not have a professional look.

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    Comment #49042741

    Arch is bleeding edge. Breakage is expected there. It breaks so others can be stable. Thank you for your service.

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    Comment #49004997

    I wonder if anyone has already written a git over fax extension.

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    Comment #48911546

    > the cost of adding features is basically zero Adding features was always the easy part. Maintaining the code OTOH is not going to be easier. I see this with an experimental proje…

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    Comment #48880264

    But why aren't you pissed at a database where the columns have types that aren't enforced?

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    Comment #48880202

    I knew most of he issues that you mentioned ... but 'ID re-use in AUTOINCREMENT'? What the ...?

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    Comment #48839634

    You don't need top engineers to port a program from one language to the other. Outsource it to India. Of course, then you can also ask, could it have been done with a cheaper model…

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    Comment #48696409

    They are like us. If you could take a baby from the past and let it grow up in our time, you wouldn't be able to distinguish it from a baby born in modern times. If you see value i…

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    Comment #48507311

    I remember reading about this feature for Oracle in the 2000s and was always interested to use it in a production environment. It never came to pass when we used Oracle, maybe now …

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    Comment #48409567

    They don't. After running, for the values in small_numbers from 0 to smlen-1 they are equivalent. But if the last value of numbers[] is not smaller than 500, small_numbers[smlen] w…

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    Comment #48395659

    > but I am being cautious, or as cautious as I can be given my desire to be sailing Then step down as maintainer if you don't want to do it properly.

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    Comment #48336793

    The human is missing form OP's description. "and it fills in the implementation". No human in sight. You can't call it "engineering" if you don't care about verification.

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    Comment #48336659

    Vibe coding is not engineering. Neither is copying answers from Stack Overflow. Who even puts forward such claims?

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    Comment #48336637

    Who ensures it followed the specs? The more context an LLM gets, the more likely it will start to ignore instructions. If the LLM runs a context compression, all bets are off. Ther…

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    Comment #48335207

    Your post makes no sense unless you speak about project management in general. The commits in question are no pull requests.

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    Comment #48334534

    The commits were all from the original inventor of rsync. Not a low quality newbie coder.

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    Comment #48334510

    A human preserves more context and might remember what they did and when pointing out a new bug, they often have an idea what's wrong.

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    Comment #48334456

    > If TRIDGE of all people can't handle #LLMs without a slopocalypse, no one can. > That means you. That means someone you admire who is intelligent and careful and considerate. Not…

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    Comment #48247185

    But the code that does the transcoding has been read. Somebody needs to have read deterministic code to even have a chance of noticing something being wrong. This has not happened …

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    Comment #48240305

    The whole code base is a vibe coded rewrite, half a year after Bun was acquired by Anthropic. I see lots of ground for that claim.

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    Comment #48181608

    Show me a forum or topics based platform that handle threads as good as proper mail clients? Don’t mistake the poor HTML view for how managing threads with thousands of replies loo…