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dionian
·13 ore fa·discuss
sounds like a recipe for over-commenting. The code should be self-documenting. Comments are for the places where there are dragons.
dionian
·13 ore fa·discuss
my LLM does this pretty well with my coaching. i use a good model and i encourage it to make such improvements. and since the llm is trained on human maintainers it works fine.
dionian
·5 giorni fa·discuss
i cant reply to hn_user2, but i have the same experience, i find myself never using emdash where i would have before
dionian
·7 giorni fa·discuss
> But in the wild the gains shrink to about 3% of your hours

not my experience at all
dionian
·8 giorni fa·discuss
on what?
dionian
·11 giorni fa·discuss
The stuff i dreamed of doing but was smart enough to avoid in Java many years ago, is what I now use FP to do on the JVM, in scala, without any of the drawbacks of AOP. if i was stuck in java languiage on the jvm for some reason i could see the appeal of trying AOP now that LLM can assist with it. Thinking of the annoying stuff like setting up automated builds/compiler etc
dionian
·13 giorni fa·discuss
Great name
dionian
·15 giorni fa·discuss
Great article, easy to read, and not ai slop! thanks for sharing
dionian
·21 giorni fa·discuss
yes and the proof was the spam email phoning home to russia. or, whatever other hoaxes they cooked up along the way. strangely most of them didnt make it into the trial where he was acquitted.
dionian
·24 giorni fa·discuss
we seem to be doing some pretty cool science still. like invented AI
dionian
·24 giorni fa·discuss
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·25 giorni fa·discuss
" it may be hard to believe that merely a few decades ago the most convenient way to keep track of time was a mechanical watch." I guess quartz is more convenient if you often take the watch off for more than a day. But my swiss automatics dont need a regular battery change, just a servicing every decade (or longer). I guess there are solar powered quartz watches though.
dionian
·25 giorni fa·discuss
Or buy a nice Swiss automatic in the 1-2000 range.
dionian
·29 giorni fa·discuss
homebrew is so nice, thank you for all your effort
dionian
·mese scorso·discuss
But Claude will actually read it
dionian
·mese scorso·discuss
"much of wall street is in a fatalistic mood" yeah the SPY is going vertical, sure sure.
dionian
·mese scorso·discuss
KPI cards, purple gradients
dionian
·2 mesi fa·discuss
Large codebases are much easier to manage with type safety. Not a fan of Go but definitely much better than python in this regard.
dionian
·2 mesi fa·discuss
"Voters turn towards fascist leaders when democracy no longer serves workers, Kurz says. “New Deal” reforms during the Great Depression limited monopoly power and provided benefits to the vulnerable. According to Private Power and Democracy’s Decline, these reforms precipitated a “half-century of sustained innovations, rapid economic growth and stable income distribution”. Reagan-era reversals of those reforms led to what Kurz calls the “second Gilded Age”, when technological firms could accumulate monopoly power and wealth while most Americans, especially blue-collar workers without college degrees, saw their wages stagnate as the cost of living rose. It was this economic disenfranchisement, rather than cultural forces, that led to the rise of Maga, according to Kurz."

The MSM has been pushing hard for establishment Rs and most Ds, and tech oligarchs were sinking money in D areas like Zuckerberg in WI in 2020. (A "maga" election, per the articles comment)

I agree that tech oligarchy shouldn't be influencing politics so much, but i dont think this makes Dems or anyone else 'fascist' necessarily.
dionian
·2 mesi fa·discuss
Call me a skeptic, but it's certainly odd all the errors always lean to one side. Maybe this has to do with the leftward trend of the mainstream press.

> What happened in 2024 isn’t something I’d have scripted, though. Basically, their new election model was literally broken, continuing to show Joe Biden virtually tied with Trump even after his disastrous debate. (Evidently because Morris’s design for it had been overcomplicated. These models are hard to design, by the way.)