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empthought
·5 days ago·discuss
We don’t need aggregators like HN pitching AI-authored content, no matter how pedagogically sound. We can direct our own AIs to generate our own AI-authored content.
empthought
·last month·discuss
Almost nobody has DNSSEC enabled.

Against DNSSEC: https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2015/01/15/against-dnssec/
empthought
·2 months ago·discuss
Stop posting slop.
empthought
·2 months ago·discuss
How about

  for wmv in Path(sys.argv[1]).rglob("\*.wmv"):
        print(wmv, end=" ")
        r = subprocess.run(
            ["ffmpeg", "-i", wmv, wmv.with_suffix(".mpg")],
            stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT,
        )
        lines = [l for l in r.stdout.decode().splitlines() if "kb/s:" in l]
        print("\n".join(lines) if lines else f"ERROR {r.returncode}")
?

If you go outside stdlib you can use the sh library instead of subprocess.run.
empthought
·2 months ago·discuss
We're not talking about Nazis though, are we? We're talking about well over two billion people (possibly more than six billion if it extends beyond Christianity). Your prejudice against them is almost prima facie unreasonable.
empthought
·2 months ago·discuss
I am an atheist.

There's no desperation and no casting here. I am just pointing out objective facts.

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/bigotry

> stubborn and complete intolerance of any creed, belief, or opinion that differs from one's own.

You:

> But this is a SQL database engine and they chose to publicly affiliate it with religion. That's concerning. I've been considering switching to H2 for a while now to avoid depending on a fat-jar full of binaries. This nonsense has persuaded me to make that switch.

It's textbook. Your decision is not based on any actual technical consideration, but rather "stubborn and complete intolerance." You can't conceive of a publicly Christian person who wouldn't use the software they wrote to somehow attack you, even though Dr. Hipp would never dream of doing anything like that.

Why can't you conceive of this? Because of your bigotry.
empthought
·2 months ago·discuss
1. There is no religious affiliation for this project, official or otherwise. It is not “religious software.” The project founder is a Christian, that’s all.

2. You clearly are bigoted against Christians and likely all religious people. Every comment is infused with bigotry. You likely don’t even notice it because you’re swimming in it like a fish.

3. You are free to ignore the code of ethics and the software as much as you like. The code of ethics is not intended to apply to you. This is all clearly spelled out in the document, but you saw the word “Christ” and let your prejudice guide you instead of exercising basic reading comprehension.
empthought
·2 months ago·discuss
I don’t know, wouldn’t you be pissed if you tried to search your browser history for “gay” and nothing was found? After all, that’s the threat model you’re proposing that you’re worried about — the thinnest of excuses for your clear and deep bigotry.
empthought
·2 months ago·discuss
Good luck! It’s the most widely-deployed database software by far. I’m sure you have hundreds or thousands of SQLite files among devices you own.

https://sqlite.org/mostdeployed.html
empthought
·2 months ago·discuss
The source code is in the public domain. You can inspect it, fork it, and redistribute it as you like.

Nothing is being shoved down anyone’s throat.
empthought
·2 months ago·discuss
“No one is required to follow The Rule, to know The Rule, or even to think that The Rule is a good idea. The Founder of SQLite believes that anyone who follows The Rule will live a happier and more productive life, but individuals are free to dispute or ignore that advice if they wish.”
empthought
·2 months ago·discuss
As the first section notes, the only reason they posted this is to fulfill a checklist requirement for certain commercial users. The external requirement for a code of conduct, which requesters never read and don’t actually care about, is the actual nonsense here.
empthought
·2 months ago·discuss
Hetzner astroturf?
empthought
·2 months ago·discuss
Engineers that didn't move past src.v35.final.zip version control don't really have jobs today, either.
empthought
·2 months ago·discuss
He absolutely is.
empthought
·2 months ago·discuss
You're trying to turn flexibility and the ability to adapt to new circumstances into a vice.

You're wrong. It's a virtue.
empthought
·2 months ago·discuss
I don’t think you’ve actually used any of these tools. 10 different examples in the same session would almost certainly make them perform worse.
empthought
·2 months ago·discuss
You don't need a special feature for this. Just tell the coding assistant what to do.
empthought
·2 months ago·discuss
You should try using the existing agents for your semi-manual editing. You don't need editor support. The coding agent can find "things like this" faster than you can. Just tell it what to look for and how to change it.

What I did was make one commit by hand (involving multiple files), and then told Codex (last year's Codex!) to make the equivalent changes to other instances in the code base.
empthought
·2 months ago·discuss
> But ultimately, the only situation in which LLMs could meaningfully democratize access to software development is one where they achieve a true silver bullet, by significantly reducing or removing essential difficulty from the software development process.

The author didn't seem to read the Brooks essay for comprehension. There is an entire section about expert systems that foreshadows agents. While there is no singular silver bullet, Brooks explores the most promising techniques to reduce essential complexity that were anticipated in 1986.

> The most powerful contribution of expert systems will surely be to put at the service of the inexperienced programmer the experience and accumulated wisdom of the best programmers. This is no small contribution.

Furthermore, his objection to automatic programming was simply an argument from incredulity, which is an understandable opinion at the time, yet quite vacuous in hindsight.