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robalni

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About robalni

This is where I put interesting things: https://www.almnil.se/

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    Comment #49192795

    I think another reason to write code by hand is that you want to know what you get. If you have an idea, then you can implement it better than an LLM, just like you can implement i…

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    Comment #49165793

    Here is my list: - A server package containing: web server, smtp server, database engine, page generating language and a supervisor that keeps everything alive. All written in C an…

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    Comment #49165066

    The article is about only one side of the solution: using AI to make it easier to work with code. I think the other side of it is more important: making software simpler so that pe…

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    Comment #49142876

    There are so many formats and standards and people using different sets of them that I feel like we need an organisation that selects some of them and decides that those are the on…

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    Ask HN: Any New Computer Ideas?

    Have there been any experiments lately on new ways for computers to work that would make them easier to understand/build/program?

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    Comment #49056361

    Interesting, I have had ideas about having that feature in a language: being able to make subtypes, like "this is an integer but on the next level it is a shoe size". Can you give …

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    Comment #49056163

    I think the point you missed or don't want to accept is that I think of all layers of memory management as the same thing just on different layers. Where you say that I mix differe…

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    Comment #49055658

    I don't know if there can be any memory safe languages. Programming is always unsafe because you can always make mistakes. The best we can do is to use tools that help us avoid the…

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    Comment #48931308

    First, AI is not just a tool like other tools. It's much more random and complex, which makes it very different from other tools. You can't simply say that it's useful. How useful …

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    Comment #48819104

    Expect is not what I do but I fight for it.

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    Comment #48818391

    I don't like treating people like numbers. 98% isn't much and it isn't little. It's just wrong. If I'm one of the 2% then that's everything for me. Maybe I have good reasons to be …

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    Comment #48818270

    This is not just a question of browser age. I use a browser that had its last release less than a year ago. It doesn't do CSS, it doesn't do javascript and I love it. I also love t…

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    Comment #48733336

    Just a general rule of thumb: If I am not able to use any digital service or product on a computer that I could have built entirely myself (or had anyone of my choice build for me)…

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    Comment #48717375

    Sorry for nitpicking, maybe you didn't think through the choice of word, but what is a "technical" argument and how is it different from other types of arguments? I think all argum…

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    Comment #48699144

    It's time we change the economy for digital products and services. * The current economy is bad: The company that can require or lure the most money from people wins. * This would …

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    Comment #48697232

    After reading a few answers I still feel like I haven't seen an intuitive answer to the question: why does it take so much more energy to go from 1 to 2 than from 0 to 1? I have be…

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    Comment #48583661

    It might be a good thing that companies kill games, actually. I want Non-free Software to suck as much as possible to give people more reasons to use Free/Open-source Software, whi…

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    Comment #47659009

    Me too with w3m. Wow, look at the page source! It's an insane amount of javascript. I wonder what it does.

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    Comment #47646906

    Do you think it makes a difference to replace the AI with another human then? If I have an original idea and ask you to do the work, should I get copyright?