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What point have we reached? All I see is HN drowning in insufferable, identical-sounding posts about how everything has changed forever. Meanwhile at work, in a high stakes environ…

> using complementary overhangs and toehold sequences to generate a 3-way heteroduplex, ligate knick, and then remove barcode duplex At first I thought this was about olympic figur…

This accepts the idea that the flickering problem (which is what that comment was about) is to do with slow rendering. It isn't. The solution to the flickering is almost certainly …

Great, so probably a pretty straightforward fix, albeit in a dependency. Ink does indeed write ansiEscapes.clearTerminal [1], which does indeed "Clear the whole terminal, including…

I figured they were doing something like Ink, but interesting to know that they're actually using Ink. Do you have any evidence that's the case? It doesn't answer the question, tho…

That's what they said, but as far as I can see it makes no sense at all. It's a console app. It's outputing to stdout, not a GPU buffer. The whole point of react is to update the r…

Idempotence of an operation means that if you perform it a second (or third, etc) time it won't do anything. The "action" all happens the first time and further goes at it do nothi…

I didn't say it did. I just pointed out that learning effectively isn't only a concern for "inexperienced developers still gaining knowledge".

I agree the title should be changed, but as I commented on the dupe of this submission learning is not something that happens as a beginner, student or "junior" programmer and then…

An important aspect of this for professional programmers is that learning is not something that happens as a beginner, student or "junior" and then stops. The job is learning, and …

> AI can code as well as Torvalds He used it to generate a little visualiser script in python, a language he doesn't know and doesn't care to learn, for a hobby project. It didn't …

It's like watching the standards-based web commit suicide.

As the immediate responder to this comment, I claim to be the next guy. I love systemd.

Like a couple of others here I tried checking out this project [1] and running these 2.3 million random battles. The README says everything needs to be run in docker, and indeed th…

It also says "Passed: 0". I probably got wooshed here. Anyway, the tests definitely aren't run. I checked it out and tried myself. The test script [1] outputs "ALL SEEDS PASSED!" w…

> Average people have never heard of them because they aren’t in popular lore. Everything I know about liquid explosives I learned from Die Hard 3.

Sounds like you want a time travel debugger, eg. rr. Sophisticated live debuggers are great when you can use them but you have to be able to reproduce the bug under the debugger. P…

Half an hour into a 2hr 47m video and I really must go to bed and resume tomorrow, probably in more than one instalment. This is wonderful stuff so far, and I'm glad I caught its b…

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I want car ownership to end. I want the road network to eventually become a giant, fully automated public transport system. I don't want it to be owned by silicon valley, though.

I've been using this for a couple of years in my home now, with the same German Gigacopper devices. It's rock solid, very much unlike my attempts at power-line ethernet in the past…

> Coordinates human operators "Thinking quickly, Dave constructs a homemade megaphone, using only some string, a squirrel, and a megaphone."

> Hard to take seriously with so many misspellings and duplicate punctuation. Very bad writing, too, with unnecessarily complicated constructions and big words seemingly used witho…

> Its not clear to me that LLMs hallucinating is because of they are extrapolating beyond their training data. Is that proven? Or are you extrapolating? It's a hypothesis at this s…

Why doubt? Transformers are a form of kernel smoothing [1]. It's literally interpolation [2]. That doesn't mean it can only echo the exact items in its training data - generating n…