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blikdak··on Pentagon says overreliance on AI contributed to missile strike on Iran school
A poor craftsman blames his tools.
blikdak··on Tell HN: Our paid Claude AI subscription unavailable >1 week and no support
while trying to recover massive debt switch to OpenAI they seem.
blikdak··on Who Is America's Homer?
Stop kidding yourself, you don't have the history or culture or wit to have a Homer, other than Simpson.
blikdak··on What 81,000 people want from AI
"What 81,000 users wish it could actually do"
blikdak··on Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not
What bugs me is the sheer number of people, and organisations, who still link to images and video or '1/20' long screeds on twitter, while the next article on their own site is bitching about how bad twatter/owner/politics etc is. Seriously if a site, blog, forum etc you know ever links to twitter then just stop interaction with them, they're lazy mofos need to do their own groundwork.
blikdak··on Replacing tmux in my dev workflow
I dunno what mess they got into with basic tumx use but yeah, just re-assign your ctrl^ key between local and remote and change your cursor and border colour you are fine. Scrollback on Windows, even using Terminal or Putty is, to me, a fail. Tell me 'cause it's a huge problem for me.
blikdak··on The Overengineered Resume with Zola, JSON Resume, Weasyprint, and Nix (2023)
OMg really hope you got 10x jobs that workflow.
blikdak··on Why Europe is dismantling its dams
A dam is many things; is it for generating electricity? Is it political or ideological? Does it give a geographical advantage? Is it extortionate? Is it for drinking water? Is it beavers? This thing doesn't explain what it thinks a dam is.
blikdak··on Why are Apple Silicon VMs so different?
AI generated nonsense, transition from intel to arm architecture has nothing to do with virtio.
blikdak··on Ask HN: Why do search functions everywhere not return what I search for?
Greed
blikdak··on Ask HN: Is Google becoming useless as a search engine, or is it just me?
True, it's not malice or stupidity, it's just "making money".
blikdak··on Ask HN: Is Google becoming useless as a search engine, or is it just me?
Google used to have an option to exclude sites from search - but then advertising... bit painful especially with all the scraping and frequent domain changes now, but better than nothing. IIRC there's some browser extensions which can do this for you.
blikdak··on Ask HN: Should a professional software dev know how many bits go in a byte?
Yes. Try adding 1 to a number which is already (in binary) all '1's. If you don't know the size of a byte, or an 'int' or a 'long int' etc for the language you are using you will be mystified why it is now 0, or maybe some other number your language decided was sensible to use (signed vs. unsigned etc). Then extrapolate that times 100 when dealing with floating point etc and presenting a sensible total in your shopping cart web app. If you don't know this stuff learn it or stay away from programming.
blikdak··on Ask HN: Has the quality of Google search declined for anyone else, or just me?
They want to make as much money as possible so they can go into space, or fund their extropian fantasies, and can afford to pay lots of unimaginative people like lawyers, marketing and bean-counting people lots of money to achieve it. Advertising is the crutch.
blikdak··on Tell HN: All .fj domains have gone offline
Is there anyone here in Fiji who can say they are OK?
blikdak··on Ask HN: What password managers can you recommend?
MacOS with iCloud has shared Keychain 1st party. People should stop thinking this integration is an app, it's a function of your entire online environment including how your OS talks to it. FBG
blikdak··on Ask HN: Why is today's Internet experience so user hostile?
Greed
blikdak··on Renesas enters FPGA market with the first ultra-low-power, low-cost family
I just ran a synthesis of their include demo Blinky and it ended with:

End of script. Logfile hash: 00b456ea46, CPU: user 3.19s system 0.13s Yosys 0.10.0 (git sha1 a743417f0, clang 12.0.0 -fPIC -Os) Time spent: 63% 17x read_verilog (2 sec), 6% 1x synth_xilinx (0 sec), ...

11/21/21 12:03 PM > Finished running Yosys with status: 0

(!!!)

blikdak··on Tell HN: Google issue tracker does not allow viewing issues unless signed-in
Is this for an Open Source or other project? Not that I think there's any distinction at Alphabet anymore of course.
blikdak··on Ask HN: How can an older worker going back to CS after a break find a position?
Well said. If you don't spend the time looking after your kids when they're younger you'll end up spending a lot more time sorting out problems when they're older.
blikdak··on Neighbour manages to pollute the 2.4 ghz spectrum with his 120 IoT devices
devrant.com looks like bro low pants to me.
blikdak··on Neighbour manages to pollute the 2.4 ghz spectrum with his 120 IoT devices
devrant looks like bullshit to me. Just saying.
blikdak··on Ruined over Ripple/Xrp Losses
To be fair this is the risk you take when you gamble.
blikdak··on Ask HN: Optimal cloud service to run tiny website with back end Python + SQLite?
AWS has a free tier for a year after signing up. A 'tiny' instance for webserver with letsencrypt on for your free ssl/tls certificates. You can automate backups via snapshots, though make sure they delete automatically after a week or so. I would recommend you use MySQL instead of SQlite, use RDS free tier there, SQlite not so good with concurrent connections and definately not if people are adding their own information. Look into haproxy as your gateway so you can scale to multiple servers if need to but not be tied into AWS specific Route 53, if you set it up right you can basically grab the configs, site source, files etc and a database dump and run it on a Raspberry PI in your home if you need to and have a static IP. Try not to get tied into one specific cloud provider too and keep shopping around for free or better deals. You can have a web presence for no money except your DNS registration with a little bit of tinkering and looking around.
blikdak··on Functional Programming? Don’t Even Bother, It’s a Silly Toy
Lols, thought it was serious at first, because enterprise.
blikdak··on Ask HN: Why Isn't Functional Programming Taking Over?
Organization of code seems to be an issue - with OOP it's part of the methodology and design process, code and data goes together into this named class which goes into a file and does what it's called. In FP there isn't an obvious way to seperate out your concerns while making it easy to find and maintain code. Once IDE's, annotations etc catch up this will be less of an issue, but for now I'm tending towards a hybrid approach of classes which operate mostly immutably except for where persistence of state is required, ie very little other state than that which eg mapped to a database.
blikdak··on The Fallacy of Imposter Syndrome
Click bait headline
blikdak··on Ask HN: What's one book that changed your life?
What do you do after you say hello - Transactional Analysis book, mindblowing.
blikdak··on Ask HN: Which non-programming books are a beneficial read for programmers?
I find it useful for labelling things, then its simple to remember the last time you did the same in a particular environment, assess wether or not the pattern is useful for solving the problem and either reject or use it.
blikdak··on Ask HN: Which non-programming books are a beneficial read for programmers?
Godel, Escher, Bach definitely to see how nearly everything can be made into symbols which computers can manipulate, eg how music is maths etc
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