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smartmic

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The biggest problems in using AI

shearer.org
2 points·by smartmic·15 days ago·0 comments

Global heat stress intensification and its expanding footprint on humans

nature.com
4 points·by smartmic·18 days ago·0 comments

MMTk – Memory Management Toolkit

mmtk.io
2 points·by smartmic·19 days ago·0 comments

Loreline – Tools for writing interactive fiction

loreline.app
229 points·by smartmic·23 days ago·53 comments

Webview – cross-platform HTML5 UI abstraction layer

github.com
1 points·by smartmic·24 days ago·0 comments

The Environmental Cost of Artificial Intelligence: Carbon, Water and Land

unu.edu
3 points·by smartmic·29 days ago·1 comments

How Worried Should You Be About Climate Change?

mishaglouberman.substack.com
3 points·by smartmic·29 days ago·0 comments

LumoSQL – Add features to SQLite for security, privacy, speed and measurability

lumosql.org
1 points·by smartmic·30 days ago·0 comments

Okular – The Universal Document Viewer

okular.kde.org
7 points·by smartmic·last month·2 comments

XML and JSON in 2026

tbray.org
3 points·by smartmic·last month·0 comments

2 Kinds of People

2kindsofpeople.tumblr.com
4 points·by smartmic·last month·0 comments

EY Canada published a cybersecurity report and most citations were hallucinated

gptzero.me
326 points·by smartmic·last month·141 comments

Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names

kalzumeus.com
3 points·by smartmic·last month·0 comments

Open-source developers are working themselves sick on AI bugs

heise.de
7 points·by smartmic·last month·0 comments

Did Google's AI agents build an operating system for $916?

normaltech.ai
3 points·by smartmic·2 months ago·0 comments

OpenHamClock – Amateur Radio Dashboard

openhamclock.com
3 points·by smartmic·2 months ago·0 comments

Triad – a dynamic, scriptable window manager for the River Wayland compositor

github.com
2 points·by smartmic·2 months ago·0 comments

Outlandish Recursive Query Examples

sqlite.org
1 points·by smartmic·2 months ago·0 comments

500 Lines or Less: An Archaeology-Inspired Database

aosabook.org
1 points·by smartmic·2 months ago·0 comments

Earliest octopuses were giant top predators in Cretaceous oceans

science.org
5 points·by smartmic·2 months ago·0 comments

comments

smartmic
·3 days ago·discuss
The most absurde thing is that nobody will ever read those notes, transcripts anyhow.
smartmic
·15 days ago·discuss
The most important information is this:

> participants will contribute engineering resources

If it works out as planned, we will see. Apart from this, I am not overwhelmed by the claim of this project. It favors centralization and corporate circles, exactly the opposite of what the hacker ethics promotes for good reasons.
smartmic
·26 days ago·discuss
> Btw this was initially coded without AI, but I've used it for the recent clean up and features

Then it makes sense to update the submission title. To me it reads as if the project was written completely without the help of AI (which might be a quality badge to some), but it is not 100% true then.

Anyhow, cool project ;)
smartmic
·last month·discuss
The path is not closed; it must be earned through trust. It has always been this way. Also, note that "pull requests" are a GitHub invention; the concept is not native to Git or most other SCM systems. Before, you would have to submit your patch by email. It would be reviewed by the "maintainer" (or BDFL), who would then accept or reject it. If your contributions are accepted several times, you may be able to earn the rank of "maintainer."

Returning to the topic at hand, the challenge for new developers is to earn trust. I bet there are ways to do so aside from the muddy swamp of GitHub's (AI) bazaar.
smartmic
·last month·discuss
There are great Open Source projects doing fine with the cathedral style, just look at Sqlite and its siblings (Fossil, …).

So I do not see a problem with Ladybirds decision, in contrary, IMHO it strengthens the human aspect of software development and puts the brakes on AI free riders
smartmic
·last month·discuss
I am happy with https://github.com/pyrmont/churlish
smartmic
·last month·discuss
Not by me, but by the mods. They also changed from "full of hallucinations" to "and most citations were hallucinated". Maybe a rep from "EY Global" filed a complain ;)
smartmic
·last month·discuss
> This is a refreshing attitude!

Well, I think the attitude is that costs are allowed to escalate faster and more steeply than the features delivered. From that perspective, semantic versioning is a handy tool for adjusting pricing strategies. IMHO, it (versioning) only makes sense for open-source projects, where you can clearly see the actual changes made with each version upgrade. Anything else is more than a little suspicious…
smartmic
·last month·discuss
I am a happy user of dateutils [0], but I will try out Biff and see which one is more ergonomic.

[0]: https://www.fresse.org/dateutils/
smartmic
·2 months ago·discuss
As is often the case in the GenAI space, this also appears to be a solution to a non-existent problem.
smartmic
·2 months ago·discuss
Can't comment on Mercurial, but "for all my personal project where I don't need to care what anyone else thinks" I am using Fossil. Ever since that decision, I've felt a bit, well, held back, or rather, I don't feel quite as comfortable as I do at home when I have to use Git.
smartmic
·2 months ago·discuss
A culture rooted in φιλοσοφία (greek, philosophia in Latin). So yes, I meant that literally. There were times, already 2500 years ago, where people wanted to study to become wiser.
smartmic
·2 months ago·discuss
It is worth to have a detailed look into the original essay and its arguments. My interpretation is https://smartmic.bearblog.dev/no-ai-silver-bullet/
smartmic
·2 months ago·discuss
> I only work with LLMs in domains I'm expert in

This. Should become a general rule for any non-trivial use of LLM in a professionel setting.
smartmic
·2 months ago·discuss
Advertising prominently with "AI native" seems necessary today, at least for some folks. To me, that's kind of off-putting, since it doesn't really say anything.

Can anyone of the AI enthusiasts here explain, why, or, what is meant by

> As a compiled, statically-typed language, it's also ideal for agentic programming.
smartmic
·2 months ago·discuss
Many comments here to your creation, PeakSlab, but not yet a dedicated praise. I didn't know it but I have to say it is really cool and innovative! The performance of the dictionary is indeed superb and I will definitely bookmark this for future reuse. So, in a nutshell: thanks for sharing!
smartmic
·2 months ago·discuss
> I'm sure it was very difficult to program in machine code, but if now (or soon) anyone can just write software using a LLM without any sort of learning it changes everything. LLMs can plan and create something usable from simple instructions or ideas, and they will only get better.

Did you read the section "Power to the People?" ? In it, the author dismantles your thesis with powerful, highly plausible arguments.
smartmic
·2 months ago·discuss
If you're interested in Fred Brooks's "No Silver Bullet," I also explored it in the context of LLMs: https://smartmic.bearblog.dev/no-ai-silver-bullet/
smartmic
·2 months ago·discuss
I wonder, isn‘t any Lisp, be it Clojure, Scheme, etc. not exactly suited for such tasks?
smartmic
·2 months ago·discuss
> Many CLI tools, SDKs, and frameworks collect telemetry data by default.

Any of those are using a dark pattern and before exploring new ways to opt out you should look for and spend your energy on an alternative which respects your freedoms upfront.