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RobRivera

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Deez mudkips.

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RobRivera··on Every layer of review makes you 10x slower
I am very similar in this respect, however once I get to a place where I am implementing something very similar to something in my past, it becomes easier to draft a doc first because I have been down that path before
RobRivera··on Give Django your time and money, not your tokens
LLMs are to open source contributions as photoshop os to Tinder.
RobRivera··on 'Pokémon Go' players unknowingly trained delivery robots with 30B images
Lmao - well done Niantic
RobRivera··on Show HN: Hackerbrief – Top posts on Hacker News summarized daily
Am I being fair when I immediately categorize anything as a summary as a data dump from an AI?
RobRivera··on Bus travel from Lima to Rio de Janeiro
I cannot tell if this is sarcasm.
RobRivera··on Airbus is preparing two uncrewed combat aircraft
No you didnt
RobRivera··on Online astroturfing: A problem beyond disinformation (2022)
Its already here.
RobRivera··on Montana passes Right to Compute act (2025)
Im not asking for policy mechanics, I'm asking for implementation detail clarification.
RobRivera··on Coding after coders: The end of computer programming as we know it?
Yea! Back to my amazing Pax Americana of friendly neighbors, high trust in my authorities, and cheerful joyous days in oeace and harmony with my fellow man, complete with gum drop smiles and firm faith in my institutions. A truly brave new world
RobRivera··on Montana passes Right to Compute act (2025)
How?

I know the whole 90s meme of 'I am a controlled munition' went around because cryptography was labeled an ordnance subject to export control laws, and therefore code that performed those kind of computations were forbidden to be sold abroad, liable to a felony.

What happens today? Government gets rights to source code, logs, and rubber stamps/rejects your code from executing in the cloud?

Government limits your access to commodity infrastructure?

RobRivera··on AI didn't simplify software engineering: It just made bad engineering easier
I'm trying to wrap my head around here.

So there are tests that leverage mocks. Those mocks help validate software is performing as desired by enabling tests to see the software behaves as desired in varying contexts.

If the software fails, it is because the mocks exposed that under certain inputs, undesired behavior occurs, an assert fails, and a red line flags the test output.

Validating that the mocks return the desired output.... Maybe there is a desire that the mocks return a stream of random numbers and the mock validation tests asserts said stream adheres to a particular distribution?

Maybe someone in the past pushed a bad mock into prod, that mock validated a test that would have failed given better mock, and a post mortem when the bad software, now pushed into prod, was traced to a bad mock derived a requirement that all mocks must be validated?

RobRivera··on Montana passes Right to Compute act (2025)
So the government is afforded the opportunity to constrict compute if for a government interest.

This bill seems to expand powers, not restrict

RobRivera··on Digg is gone again
>When you can't trust that the votes, the comments, and the engagement you're seeing are real, you've lost the foundation a community platform is built on.

This 1000x times

RobRivera··on Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters
[X] doubt
RobRivera··on Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters
I think there is an implied "given the company you joined turns out to be nonethically aligned"
RobRivera··on E2E encrypted messaging on Instagram will no longer be supported after 8 May
I understand this reference.
RobRivera··on The wild six weeks for NanoClaw's creator that led to a deal with Docker
So I am late to the party on this; I can ABSOLUTELY see what would fuel a 48 hr code binge. I would be LIVID if a package I downloaded did such a bulk pull from my Whatsapp, and even further enraged if I found a bulk of packages integrated that led me to believe security was never a single thought.

Future innovators, don't take security for granted; someone who cares will eat your lunch.

RobRivera··on Innocent woman jailed after being misidentified using AI facial recognition
I think it's more nuanced; it is one error in a Tragedy of Errors.
RobRivera··on Innocent woman jailed after being misidentified using AI facial recognition
>Unable to pay her bills from jail, she lost her home, her car and even her dog. Fargo police say the bank fraud case is still under investigation and no arrests have been made.

I smell a lawsuit

RobRivera··on Malus – Clean Room as a Service
I hold the opinion that law is not about justice.
RobRivera··on Malus – Clean Room as a Service
Precise law enforcement would motivate political will to proactively law change to be more precise and appropriate, or tuned, to the public sentiment.

Imprecise law enforcement enables political office holders to arbitrarily leverage the law to arrest people they label as a political enemy, e.g. Aaron Swartz.

If everyone that ever shared publications outside the legal subscriber base was precisely arrested, charged, and punished, I dont think the punishment amd current legal terrain regarding the charges leveraged against him would have lasted.

But this is a feature, not a bug.

RobRivera··on US private credit defaults hit record 9.2% in 2025, Fitch says
If lenders are in fact not performing due diligence and passing off good credit as bad...sounds suspiciously like a 2008-like era where noone cared about the credit worthiness but just wanted to generate lines of credit.

Oh boy, if this is the case, oh boy.

Lessons not learned indeed.

RobRivera··on US- and Greek-owned tankers ablaze after Iran claims 'underwater drone' strike
I see what you did there
RobRivera··on US private credit defaults hit record 9.2% in 2025, Fitch says
What kind of trouble is brewing from the migration of partner capital committment to credit based on NAV?

What is the risk, probability of actualizing the risk, and the outcome of actualized risk?

The ticktock ticktock routine reads like baseless fearmongering to me.

RobRivera··on US private credit defaults hit record 9.2% in 2025, Fitch says
Deutsche gonna Deutsche.

Recruitment tables should just have a banner that reads 'we've already spent your bonus on legal fees, here's some chocolate'

RobRivera··on Show HN: s@: decentralized social networking over static sites
So a database, that you can send a network response or request with that data, that when received by a client, builds a static website.

I see.

I see...

RobRivera··on I was interviewed by an AI bot for a job
At that point just send an email with attachments for regular outprocessing information
RobRivera··on Google closes deal to acquire Wiz
Are you not entertained?
RobRivera··on The dead Internet is not a theory anymore
Maybe we should get more Jannies. They only cost zero dollars and zero cents
RobRivera··on Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans
Aye
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