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dontlikeyoueith··on Show HN: Astra – a new js2exe compiler
This is just dishonest marketing then.
dontlikeyoueith··on The Myth of Developer Obsolescence
This is magical thinking. Please stop.
dontlikeyoueith··on Claude 4
Yes, it's still correct. Using the wrong words for things doesn't make them magical machine gods.
dontlikeyoueith··on Claude Code SDK
> Can you imagine paying for every command you run in your terminal?

Yes, because hardware and electricity aren't free.

I literally DO pay for every command. I just don't get an itemized bill so there's no transparency about it. Instead, I made some lump-sum hardware payment which is amortized over the total usage I get out of it, plus some marginal increase in my monthly electric bill when I use it.

dontlikeyoueith··on GitHub Copilot Coding Agent
And now we've come full circle back to UML-based code generation.

Everything old is new again!

dontlikeyoueith··on GitHub Copilot Coding Agent
>I’m always hesitant to listen to the line coders on projects because they’re getting a heavy dose of the internal hype every day.

I'm senior enough that I get to frequently see the gap between what my dev team thinks of our work and what actual customers think.

As a result, I no longer care at all what developers (including myself on my own projects) think about the quality of the thing they've built.

dontlikeyoueith··on In a high-stress work environment, prioritize relationships
> I really dislike all of this “reading between the lines” aren’t Americans supposed to be direct?

Only when talking to people beneath them. When talking to your superiors, you should be deferential and circumspect.

American society is more hierarchical than a feudal aristocracy. It's just based on money, skin color, and gender instead of family name.

dontlikeyoueith··on NSF faces shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions
It's quite possible tariffs will make us all rich too.

Why post something this useless?

dontlikeyoueith··on Notes on rolling out Cursor and Claude Code
If I wanted to be an EM, I'd apply for that job.
dontlikeyoueith··on Claude's system prompt is over 24k tokens with tools
This is such a confusion of ideas that I don't even know how to respond any more.

Good luck.

dontlikeyoueith··on Claude's system prompt is over 24k tokens with tools
:facepalm:

I ... did you respond to the wrong comment?

Or do you actually think the DB table can genuinely reason about things?

dontlikeyoueith··on Claude's system prompt is over 24k tokens with tools
A sufficiently large lookup table in DB is mathematically indistinguishable from a sufficiently complicated next token prediction algorithm is mathematically indistinguishable from general intelligence.

All that means is that treating something as a black box doesn't tell you anything about what's inside the box.

dontlikeyoueith··on Claude's system prompt is over 24k tokens with tools
> Anthropic's own research showed that Claude does actually "plan ahead", beyond the next token.

For a very vacuous sense of "plan ahead", sure.

By that logic, a basic Markov-chain with beam search plans ahead too.

dontlikeyoueith··on OpenAI reaches agreement to buy Windsurf for $3B
VS Code is pretty much the only exception to their overall quality level.

One exception in 50 years does not inspire confidence.

dontlikeyoueith··on OpenAI reaches agreement to buy Windsurf for $3B
> Microsoft will likely replicate Windsurf and Cursor's features within a year.

Probably.

> And deliver them with far greater stability and polish

That seems ... overly optimistic given MS's history.

dontlikeyoueith··on A single line of code cost $8000
Wait until you learn about non-blocking IO. And threads.

It's a whole new world out there.

dontlikeyoueith··on Electric Propulsion's Dirty Secret: Why Lithium Can't Fly (Or Float) Profitably
> the minerals in batteries don’t disappear after use.

For all practical purposes they might, depending on how the batteries are disposed of.

dontlikeyoueith··on Supervisors often prefer rule breakers, up to a point
> Even for the US I don't believe the law system is that crappy.

Then you're living in a fantasy world.

dontlikeyoueith··on AI 2027
Zero Dawn future confirmed.
dontlikeyoueith··on US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU
You aren't clever for re-inventing autarky.

It's a bad idea for the same reason.

dontlikeyoueith··on Reasoning models don't always say what they think
This comment is such a confusion of ideas its comical.
dontlikeyoueith··on US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU
Oh look, a Trump advisor who understands nothing.
dontlikeyoueith··on US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU
No, for the same reason I don't try to manufacture my own car in my backyard or build my own house, or grow all of my own food, or ...

This is basic fucking common sense: I'm good at some things and other people are good at other things. We each specialize in the things we're best at, and everyone ends up better off.

dontlikeyoueith··on John Cage recital set to last 639 years recently witnessed a chord change
Certainly every chef-run fine dining restaurant would agree with that.
dontlikeyoueith··on John Cage recital set to last 639 years recently witnessed a chord change
It's nothing like that, but you're entitled to be confused and wrong.
dontlikeyoueith··on John Cage recital set to last 639 years recently witnessed a chord change
Most of them don't value hard science either.
dontlikeyoueith··on Claude can now search the web
That's because the attention mechanism was designed for Seq2Seq models (i.e. translation in its most general form).

Any other use of it is a case of "I have a hammer, so that's a nail".

dontlikeyoueith··on Claude can now search the web
> Well first Zojirushi is unnecessarily expensive and difficult to clean

Expensive sure, but it's only difficult to clean if you're a double amputee.

dontlikeyoueith··on Claude can now search the web
They're probably doing RAG on a huge chunk of the internet, i.e. they built their own task-specific search engine.
dontlikeyoueith··on Mistral OCR
Why would you do this and not use Textract?
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