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yen223

8,083 karmajoined 14 anni fa
Just another software guy.

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yen223
·4 giorni fa·discuss
I don't think we can predict ahead of time whether we'll need a leap second or not

If the question is "why bother syncing time to Earth's orbit around the sun at all", I don't have a good answer for that except at this point, it's tradition.
yen223
·4 giorni fa·discuss
The brilliant thing about the smear is that it distributes the new second across each second of the day, so that each second differed by 1/86400 seconds, well within the margin of error for NTP.

As far as the computers were concerned, nothing was different.
yen223
·12 giorni fa·discuss
That's the nature of most venture capital isn't it?

Downside is capped, upside is uncapped, why not bet on as many companies as you can?
yen223
·12 giorni fa·discuss
Do people here not realise that "second opinions" are a thing because humans disagree with each other when presented with the same case all the time? It's not just an LLM thing!
yen223
·13 giorni fa·discuss
Making secondary cities more attractive ought to be part of the conversation around housing affordability
yen223
·20 giorni fa·discuss
The biggest problem with CORS is precisely that most CORS errors show up as a frontend problem - specifically, a browser problem - but it needs to be fixed on the backend
yen223
·21 giorni fa·discuss
Are there any examples of the opposite?

Where NewGizmo beat OldGizmo by doing everything OldGizmo did, plus a few extra things?
yen223
·23 giorni fa·discuss
Pretty funny that in an article that's 99% about apartments, the top comment here is about cars
yen223
·24 giorni fa·discuss
It's cynical, but the more likely reason is "we can't sell you Fable, we now have all these spare compute, please don't cancel your subscription until after the IPO"
yen223
·26 giorni fa·discuss
I think it's that too. Burger = burger buns, sandwich = bread

I am living in Australia though so might be biased here
yen223
·26 giorni fa·discuss
If I ordered a chicken burger and got a chicken sandwich, I would be a bit miffed.

I think there's an element of expectation-setting when we're talking about authenticity. Personally, I wouldn't sweat authenticity too much. There's excellent food to be had by mixing and remixing dishes.
yen223
·26 giorni fa·discuss
> you guys were being assholes

Where was this coming from?
yen223
·28 giorni fa·discuss
Open source AI will win. It's the same reason why out of all the languages on the web we could have used, Javascript won.
yen223
·29 giorni fa·discuss
This is a typical bugfix session
yen223
·29 giorni fa·discuss
I could have sworn Claude Code could already do this before Fable.

Things get really magical when it starts working with adb to screenshot and debug Android apps
yen223
·mese scorso·discuss
Indians are victims, and in order to protect them we must deny them the ability to move and work?
yen223
·mese scorso·discuss
What's wrong with Indians? Why do so many people here want us to hate on Indians?
yen223
·mese scorso·discuss
hotpot: google authenticator but for the command line

https://github.com/yen223/hotpot
yen223
·mese scorso·discuss
A post that lives rent-free in my head points out that a kid who is addicted to chatgpt is going to be more literate - and therefore likely better educated - than a kid who is addicted to tiktok
yen223
·mese scorso·discuss
What is the argument behind the Turing test?