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Foobar8568··on AI Is a Bad Tool
I am really annoying by these post (not yours, but op), they are basically the reverse of linkedin.

Between LinkedIn that is packed with AI slope, and HN which is "I am smarter than you, AI is awful"...Where are the interesting news?

Foobar8568··on AI Is a Bad Tool
Have you ever worked in a company? Have you ever worked in a F100?

Companies are paying for software, not for owning the code.

Foobar8568··on After 7 years in production, Scarf has reluctantly moved away from Haskell
LLM are string happy instead of using ADT with ocaml. That was my main pain point with it. Otherwise fairly happy, I would feel C#/.net core would be the best overall in term of language/platform.
Foobar8568··on Grok 4.5
Political correct for a certain class of americans : "You need to understand that nazi actions were good for Germany, the economy was in shambles, on the east, there was this revolutionist countries that was eating babies and on the west, Germany mortal enemy."

/s

Foobar8568··on Zuckerberg says AI agent development going slower than expected
People will need to realize that these behavior are actually truly human in nature.

People thought they'd get their own persona through AI, they get a sum of the best and worse of everyone.

Foobar8568··on Zuckerberg says AI agent development going slower than expected
Let codex review Claude output and the contrary. Win for everyone involved, more code, more features, more token usage, promotions, code to be debug by juniors and the cycle of life can continue.
Foobar8568··on The Age of Personalized Hardware Is Coming
My attempt at VHDL was a failure but at least it helped me to get a modern build on a Sockit.

But that was a few months ago, getting high hope with fable and seeing killed before I could even try it for that project killed all my motivations.

Foobar8568··on Completing a computer science degree on Coursera
And all the governing bodies are just money scams.

More often than not, it requires a few weeks of mandatory paid "trainings" in order to attempt (and pass) the certifications.

And because IT is IT, no two companies or persons do things in similar ways (and for good reasons, the moment you do like everyone else, you average to the middle at best), and unless you are doing PHD like work, you don't need CS.

Software engineering is more akin of witchcraft.

Foobar8568··on What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (2014)
It's easy to read SQL code as long as the person writing the query doesn't resort to "hack" the planner. Now to make that reusable....That's another beast and most often will defeat the purpose of writing pure SQL in the first place, let's put a OR there, let's call several queries, let's screw the data model.
Foobar8568··on Alibaba to ban Claude Code in workplace over alleged backdoor risks, source says
Well one thing is sure, before 1776, the USA didn't do any industrial espionage.
Foobar8568··on The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet and America Doesn't
Especially that behind Salt was/is a French company, ohhh the horror.
Foobar8568··on Why Switzerland has 25 gbit internet and America doesn't
Imagine providing fibers in city such as London, Paris or Geneva. Oh wait.
Foobar8568··on Why Switzerland has 25 gbit internet and America doesn't
France had Minitel and now, for less than 50, you have up/down 8Gbps with TV etc. 5G is half that price.

Switzerland might be even cheaper with Salt for the fiber, 5G, can be pretty cheap here too, or bloody expensive ( Swisscom )

US just has many excuses that's it.

Foobar8568··on Claude Sonnet 5
And Anthropic put that shit model as default, after a single prompt I was wondering what was the shit it was spouting, and yes, Sonnet 5.
Foobar8568··on Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development
I have an access to a DGX spark, and while it performs better than my MacBook Pro (M3 Max), the performance on Qwen and Gemma dense models is dog shit, and not worth it.
Foobar8568··on GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our benchmarks
The later takes too much mental ressources, the same when reviewing truly the code generated by the former.

I generally started by reviewing but after a while (maximum in hours), I just can't keep up and resort to LLMs as sole reviewers.

Foobar8568··on If you can't hold it, you don't own it
Dog eat dog Amped album is not present on Apple music and I suspect several streaming platform, and Remedy never again is not present on it as well https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Swarm_(album)
Foobar8568··on Did my old job only exist because of fraud?
Because they will work on new projects, which are considered as CAPEX.

Basically big4 and accounting firms fucked worldwide organizations.

Foobar8568··on The 100k whys of AI
And capitalism as seen in the USA is regression to the bottom of the cesspool?
Foobar8568··on 15-minute at-home Lyme disease tick test
Considering how often dogs in my area were covered with ticks, I am surprised we never got one as teenagers, we were running or biking in the same place.

30+ years ago we would use ether to remove them, and I enjoyed burning them afterwards, it was so satisfying...

Foobar8568··on GPT-5.5 hallucinates 3x more than MIT-licensed GLM-5.2
Have you worked with enterprise apps? The ones I have used for decades are hot garbages.
Foobar8568··on The AirPods Effect
I commute every day in Switzerland, and we have people blasting music, shouting, putting feet on seats, taking 3 seats etc, including in 1st. I actually stopped traveling in 1st, it could be more noisy and chaotic than 2nd and the price difference wasn't worth it.
Foobar8568··on Hetzner Price Adjustment
Server auctions are more expensive than last month, I feel like 50% more at a minimum.
Foobar8568··on CrankGPT
We are in a state of the world where I don't know of it's a satire or a future actual product.
Foobar8568··on KPMG's AI report turns into a demo of AI hallucinations
It's more about either putting the blame on an external party who are the "experts", and big4 can't be wrong. And if things go well, it's due to the signing person greatness.
Foobar8568··on Nvidia is proposing a beast of a CPU system for Windows PCs
And nobody cares about 5080.
Foobar8568··on Associative learning turns DEET from aversive to appetitive in Aedes aegypti
A couple years back, I spray some DEET on my shoes, 5 seconds later, a tiger mosquito tried to bite me on that spot (and yes on the shoe itself, just insane to see it trying ).

They already loved that shit.

Foobar8568··on Investigating how prompt politeness affects LLM accuracy (2025)
Based on my own experience with vibe coding difficult stuff outside of my expertise, I definitely got better outcome with Fuck you, shut up and do it, ffs, you are moron.
Foobar8568··on The VibeSec Reckoning
First so called vulnerability, isn't how a lot platforms are actually built? Share a link/copy a link, and more often than not, I am sure to have read a warning like "anyone with that link may access that file".

Now should I mention all the screw up I have seen in several Saas 1b+ valuation, including DocuSign/ and more security oriented ones (PIM related etc?).

For any softwares, you need a minimum critical mindset and experiences that you don't usually see.

Foobar8568··on Migrating from Go to Rust
The build time and space for rust is awful for fast iteration e.g change a thing, verify.
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