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Makes sense for small tool like ls, and doesn't for things that are actually complex like the python language or sqlite.

https://github.com/psf/black/tree/main/profiling

The 2000x number is based on a pathological directory in black's repo https://github.com/psf/black/tree/main/profiling which make duplicate-code really slow and a fix was done in p…

ruff is a rust rewrite of flake8. Got bought by OpenAI after a meteoric rise in the python ecosystem.

Great case where rust works well too. I won't cite every famous libs that got rewritten in rust but it wasn't all with LLM.

Turn out people like to ask low quality questions, as evidenced by the reputation of Stackoverflow moderators.

Profession (1957) by Isaac Asimov is relevant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46664195

I once copy pasted a spam email in https://www.bullshitremover.com/ and it simply returned "bullshit".

The worse system is already getting gamed. There's already too much on the line for researchers/students, so they don't admit any wrong doing or retract anything. What's the worse …

The metaphor doesn't match very well here because stackoverflow is not selling new tape at a premium but giving them for free and reading a stackoverflow answer is harder than aski…

Remind me of a recent discussion we had among Stackoverflow moderator: > “Think about it,” he continued. “Who discovers the edge cases the docs don’t mention? Who answers the quest…

A half conversation is a lot more disruptive because your brain try to fill in the gap of information.

Plus, how many shell can one individual open in a day ? I'm doing that once per day on a good day, maybe twenty if I have a lot of unplanned work on subprojects that needs to be do…

shadowsocks was the winner of the state of the art I had to do at work. It address the "long-term statistical analysis will often reveal a VPN connection regardless of obfuscation …

There's a script to update from python2 to python3, it's now the most used language in the world, and they learned their lessons about the python2 to python3 migration. A python3 s…

Meanwhile, as a maintainer, I've been reviewing more than a dozen false positives slop CVEs in my library and not a single one found an actual issue. This article's is probably goi…

> There is probably more JS written than any other language by orders of magnitude. And the quantity of js code available/discoverable when scrapping the web is larger by an order …

Yeah ok. I was viewing AI as "a tool to help you code better", not as "you literally can't do anything without it generating everything for you". I could do some assembly if I real…

> I fear that LLMs have already fostered the first batch of developers who cannot function without it. Playing the contrarian here, but I'm from a batch of developers that can't fu…

Code coverage tools allow to pragma the defensive code which will appear reasonable to most reviewers ?

I've hired by Linkedin recently and had to triage that stream of shit. There's 50% of candidate with no qualifications at all, then 25% that are somewhat qualified for something bu…

> Well, nobody will be able to reproduce their work (unless other people also publish fraudulent work from there) In theory, yes, in practice, the original result for amyloid beta …

> Many jurisdictions are downright hostile and obstructionist for any renewable investment. Right, as long as energy prices are not guaranteed no one is going to invest massively. …

> As for employees? They are typically not calling the shots about company direction. They can be motivated or not, knowing that the founder made big bucks and they made nothing is…

> I recently need to find some details of hardware implementations for a feature. I used Google to find specs for this hardware. The specs were hard to read or didn't explain thing…