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dgan··on The foolishness of "natural language programming" (1978)
"trust" and "responsibility" mean nothing for a fully digital entity who isn't required to feed its family, looking for an eventual new job, and being under pressure for not being fired
dgan··on Dogs seem to agree with humans that 'bouba' is round and 'kiki' is spiky
the participants wore headphones blasting music, explicitly to avoid the counting horse effect
dgan··on California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops
i am in Paris, and I don't see much variety. Obviously there is so much more choice in big hypermarkets, but I don't go there daily, unlike my local, 30sqm store next my apartment
dgan··on California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops
se here. i enjoy beer but annoyes me that they all have the same 5% alcohol content. its too much, I just like the taste, I don't want to be sleepy. non alcoholic beers taste terrible
dgan··on Nissan's third generation e-POWER powertrain
I don't use my car daily (thanks subway), only for rare monthly trips, 400km one way. How does hybrid helps here? it just adds weight for no reason
dgan··on One Piece of Flock Camera Data Put This Innocent Woman in Jail for 13 Days
"using facebook", unironically presented as evidence of "technologically literate" is so funny
dgan··on Devil's Arrows: Ancient builders hauled 55k-lb stones 11 miles for UK stone row
Need 7 more paragraphes telling us that the stones, weren't in fact, chosen from the nearest location, but were chosen from a distant location.

Without ever telling *how" they were moved of course, that would give out too much

dgan··on Canonical backs new project to translate large C codebases into safe Rust
can it be done? C codebase are obviously missing the lifetime information, type-generic arguments are just void*, in/out arguments aren't explicit... or at least, the information is scattered across the codebase, and might be inconsistent. a "safe rust" might not be even possible
dgan··on An OpenAI Strategist Says AI Labs Should Rival Government Power
nope, still not buying it. i understand we must live in different jurisdictions, and hère (France) it is explicitly stated that Employer must provide all tools necessary to the work. moreover, the Employee has the explicit right to refuse any request to use his own tools for the job. And finally, any costs for the employee must be reimbursed by the Employer.
dgan··on An OpenAI Strategist Says AI Labs Should Rival Government Power
for one, because that's like requiring a particular brand of a tool to be used. That's even ignoring the "required" because usually I can't require that my hide uses a tool unless I, as employer, provide it to him/her
dgan··on NetBSD 11.0
i really want to use one on my Linode, wondering if is it possible
dgan··on The human-in-the-loop is tired
The whole premise of Anthropic and openai is to replace developers. I don't understand what mental gymnastics people are going thru to justify their 5 open claude sessions and tokenmaxxing

Like, they want to professionnaly, kill you. Theh are as much as a tool as is a cord pending from the ceiling

dgan··on Rewriting Bun in Rust
You and the parent are arguing over different, orthogonal things. I believe the parent argues over "efficiency"(=being able to achieve a goal for given amount of ressources) while you are replying over "efficacy" (=being able to achieve a goal). Both could be called 'maintainability' and nobody explicitely tells what definition they use, so all the long pointless discussions could be avoided if people agreed on terms
dgan··on Show HN: CleverCrow: give tokens to your favorite projects
Just finance the project for god sake, why introducing another "gift card" that they sell at cashiers? Let the maintainer spend the money, maybe he/she needs bread, not tokens
dgan··on Think of the children: How to force real ID for all internet traffic (2023)
But somehow "force all adults to sort their thrash" instead of "let's standardize the packaging and materials" is fine? Oh I see

Not addressing to you specifically, just figure of speech

dgan··on LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do
At least he has a reputational/commercial risk. LLM has none
dgan··on LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do
Lol thats brave on your part, given that a mistake can cost thousands and you have no accountability (punch!) from an LLM
dgan··on Dutch gov't will only allow European company to operate DigiD platform
I ve had exactly same idea for many years now, but apparently that's not as obvisous to others

Developing new software? Universities! Maintaining/migrating old software? Universities! IT counseling and advise? You won't believe it ... Unive okey i stop here you got the point

dgan··on Alphabet announces $80B equity capital raise to expand AI infra and compute
So they are buying another 32GB RAM stick, interesting
dgan··on Can You Stop a Hypersonic Missile?
What could I read in order to understand different tradeoffs between types of missiles and the interceptors? It's just curiosity, i dont need hard math, but let's say i d like to implement a somewhat realistic system for real time strategy game
dgan··on 'Backrooms' Stuns with $81M Debut
I practically never watch any movies because they are almost always trash, but decided to go watch Obsession after seeing a youtuber (penguinZ) talking positively about it

Yeah it's pretty good. I am in my late 30. Excited for Backrooms which isnt yet available

dgan··on Zig: Build System Reworked
I wanted to try zig, but the language still moves way, way too fast, they break API for every release, so i simply couldbt keep up, while learning the language/debugging the build system/trying to actually implement what i wanted

After watching the Jetbrains interview, I still want to try again but maybe i ll wait till the 1.0 is out

dgan··on DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode
"Surely the last time after handing out carrots long enough to kill all competition, they switched from carrots to sticks, that sucks; but look? now they started giving out carrots again!! It will be such a sad day when no more carrots"
dgan··on Key, in sight – A guide, of sorts, to keyboard customization
The website crashed my firefox (149.0.2 android) 3 times in a row. How to reproduce: open the website, start scrolling
dgan··on Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment
Well i am in France, and what I said is factually true for some banks; at least mine (LCL)
dgan··on Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment
I doubt so, because i need to type god-knows-how-many characters by hand, while visually separating them into chunks by 4, then explicitly authorize the receiver. Oh, and explicitly authorise the country
dgan··on Nonprofit hospitals spend billions on consultants with no clear effect
TIL gnome-lib has a meaning outside of programming
dgan··on Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy
Industry really went from "prove you are not a robot", to "but also if you are, this way please"
dgan··on Is my blue your blue?
> For you, the turquoise is green!

No, turquoise is turquoise. You gave me two options, and you act like I didn't know that word exists

dgan··on Used La Marzocco machines are coveted by cafe owners and collectors
This is the first commercial website where i just couldnt find the price, neither the "buy" button ..
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