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Makhini··on Why host your own LLM?
Except it's never reproducible. It's a bug probably.
Makhini··on Austrian leader proposes enshrining the use of cash in country's constitution
In Poland cashless payments thrive, more than in Germany.
Makhini··on The bigger the interface, the weaker the abstraction
It's principle, not principal.
Makhini··on Why software projects take longer than you think: a statistical model (2019)
Yes, that's absolutely possible. My company is making a b2b product. We have challenges and sometimes the scope of the new features can be huge. But I never felt big pressure.
Makhini··on GPT-Prompt-Engineer
I think it's exactly what they do here
Makhini··on AI weights are not open “source”
Funny
Makhini··on AI weights are not open “source”
What if you change the weights slightly? Kaboom, not breaking the copyright anymore.
Makhini··on JavaScript Gom Jabbar
As a Java developer, why the hell does Javascript still doesn't have a equivalent of Gradle or Maven? An extensible build tool that does it all and uses sensible defaults?
Makhini··on GPT-Migrate converts repos from one lang/framework to another
How can ChatGPT translate a comedy show without knowing what's going on on screen, and various context that contribute to the humor?
Makhini··on The Lava Layer Anti-Pattern (2014)
As it has been said bazillion of times, the problem is that comments get outdated quickly. And yes, there is self descriptive code,and I'd wager 80 percent of the code is self descriptive. Comments should be reserved to describe something that might be surprising or not obvious. And for the apis.
Makhini··on [dead]
Haven't learned much from this post.
Makhini··on Ask HN: Best Practices Guides You're Aware Of
Agreed. 9/10 times you don't need this abstraction just yet. But you can write code in such a way that it's easy to abstract, if such need arises.
Makhini··on Night of the Runbooks: a DevOps horror story
And rightly so, because noone writes prose like that. It sounds unnatural.
Makhini··on Google doesn’t want employees working remotely anymore
This is a completely stereotypical and offensive view of extraverted people. You conflated them with loud and inconsiderate individuals. I suggest you read up on what extraversion is, because it's not pestering random people with small talk.
Makhini··on Dell in hot water for making shoppers think overpriced monitors were discounted
That's why the UE law that requires the shops to display the lowest price over last 30 days is pretty useful
Makhini··on Defining a new HTTP method: HTTP Search (2021)
It already does.
Makhini··on Detecting the use of “curl | bash” server side (2016)
As a side note: the culture or installing stuff via curl is like a virus. If you check the npm docs, they say "We strongly recommend using a Node version manager like nvm to install Node.js and npm". Then if you check nvm docs, the primary installation method is curl to bash, and not even from their official website - it pulls stuff from github...