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smartmic

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Submissions

The biggest problems in using AI

shearer.org
2 points·by smartmic·16 dni temu·0 comments

Global heat stress intensification and its expanding footprint on humans

nature.com
4 points·by smartmic·18 dni temu·0 comments

MMTk – Memory Management Toolkit

mmtk.io
2 points·by smartmic·20 dni temu·0 comments

Loreline – Tools for writing interactive fiction

loreline.app
229 points·by smartmic·23 dni temu·53 comments

Webview – cross-platform HTML5 UI abstraction layer

github.com
1 points·by smartmic·25 dni temu·0 comments

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

unu.edu
3 points·by smartmic·29 dni temu·1 comments

How Worried Should You Be About Climate Change?

mishaglouberman.substack.com
3 points·by smartmic·30 dni temu·0 comments

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

lumosql.org
1 points·by smartmic·w zeszłym miesiącu·0 comments

Okular – The Universal Document Viewer

okular.kde.org
7 points·by smartmic·w zeszłym miesiącu·2 comments

XML and JSON in 2026

tbray.org
3 points·by smartmic·w zeszłym miesiącu·0 comments

2 Kinds of People

2kindsofpeople.tumblr.com
4 points·by smartmic·w zeszłym miesiącu·0 comments

EY Canada published a cybersecurity report and most citations were hallucinated

gptzero.me
326 points·by smartmic·w zeszłym miesiącu·141 comments

Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names

kalzumeus.com
3 points·by smartmic·w zeszłym miesiącu·0 comments

Open-source developers are working themselves sick on AI bugs

heise.de
7 points·by smartmic·w zeszłym miesiącu·0 comments

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

normaltech.ai
3 points·by smartmic·2 miesiące temu·0 comments

OpenHamClock – Amateur Radio Dashboard

openhamclock.com
3 points·by smartmic·2 miesiące temu·0 comments

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

github.com
2 points·by smartmic·2 miesiące temu·0 comments

Outlandish Recursive Query Examples

sqlite.org
1 points·by smartmic·2 miesiące temu·0 comments

500 Lines or Less: An Archaeology-Inspired Database

aosabook.org
1 points·by smartmic·2 miesiące temu·0 comments

Earliest octopuses were giant top predators in Cretaceous oceans

science.org
5 points·by smartmic·2 miesiące temu·0 comments

comments

smartmic
·3 dni temu·discuss
The most absurde thing is that nobody will ever read those notes, transcripts anyhow.
smartmic
·15 dni temu·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 dni temu·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
·w zeszłym miesiącu·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
·w zeszłym miesiącu·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
·w zeszłym miesiącu·discuss
I am happy with https://github.com/pyrmont/churlish
smartmic
·w zeszłym miesiącu·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
·w zeszłym miesiącu·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
·w zeszłym miesiącu·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 miesiące temu·discuss
As is often the case in the GenAI space, this also appears to be a solution to a non-existent problem.
smartmic
·2 miesiące temu·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 miesiące temu·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 miesiące temu·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 miesiące temu·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 miesiące temu·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 miesiące temu·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 miesiące temu·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 miesiące temu·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 miesiące temu·discuss
I wonder, isn‘t any Lisp, be it Clojure, Scheme, etc. not exactly suited for such tasks?
smartmic
·2 miesiące temu·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.