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emrah

961 karma · joined April 28, 2009

https://emrahdiril.com

Hardcore engineer, AI whisperer, Product doctor

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emrah··on Zettlr: Note-Taking and Publishing with Markdown
Yep i use the mouse and I'm very fast with it. I bet I'm faster with it than you are with your keyboard ;-)
emrah··on Automating My /Now Page
One is position, one is velocity which are distinct and relevant I think
emrah··on Pragtical: Practical and pragmatic code editor
You skipped over "unless it is a memory hog". When an app uses multiple gigs, it's a memory hog :-)
emrah··on Zettlr: Note-Taking and Publishing with Markdown
Yes i suspect as much, especially on here but it is a biased sample here :-)
emrah··on Zettlr: Note-Taking and Publishing with Markdown
Hot take: Markdown was nice back in the day when in-browser editors sucked for the most part and we just wanted to get things done and didn't mind the little bit of noise it adds to content. It was an act of satisfysing.

In 2024 though, there is no need to have to deal with markdown. There are decent editors that are far nicer to use which support rich text without the need to see past the markdown noise. Any company serious enough with their app should invest in creating/using a rich text editor

emrah··on Pragtical: Practical and pragmatic code editor
> light weight

Honestly that's not an issue, I would personally not base my judgment on memory usage, unless it is a memory hog.

I know others do but for reasons that go beyond practical. For those that have things to get done, I suspect they think like I do.

emrah··on Magic Wormhole: get things from one computer to another, safely
Is it better or more appropriate than rsync in certain use cases?
emrah··on Automating My /Now Page
You are spot on. Some people intentionally or unintentionally misunderstood what it is
emrah··on Interviewing the Interviewer: Questions to Uncover a Company's True Culture
You are talking to humans. If there is dysfunction at the company, they are not going to let you discover it directly by asking questions.

I'm thinking back to all the places I worked at, unless the interviewers were being completely honest, there was no way to figure out the actual culture by asking questions.

emrah··on Microsoft is killing the Windows Paint 3D app after 8 years
Would MS opensource it and let it live on?
emrah··on Things I've learned building a modern TUI Framework (2022)
> The first trick is "overwrite, don't clear"

This is how games were written back in the day before DirectX was a thing. You'd write directly to the frame buffer and instead of clearing and redrawing, you'd redraw what changed and what was around and under it (because there was no time to refresh the entire view in time in addition to everything else you need to do)

emrah··on Things I've learned building a modern TUI Framework (2022)
In case you missed this: Casey vs Windows terminal https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27725559
emrah··on Costco membership scanners coming to clubs in sharing crackdown
They check them at the door but never verify the picture
emrah··on Chicken wings advertised as 'boneless' can have bones – Ohio Supreme Court
So don't label them as "boneless" then? :)
emrah··on Solving the out-of-context chunk problem for RAG
I think he is saying we should be making fine-tuning or otherwise similar model altering methods easier rather than messing with bolt-on solutions like RAG

Those are being worked on and RAG is the ducktape solution until they become available

emrah··on Install Docmost – open-source Notion Clone
While you have valid points, from a dev perspective, desktop UX is just as much shifting sand and land mines, which fuels the move to the browser for better or worse
emrah··on Supreme Court rules ex-presidents have immunity for official acts
> The Seal Team 6 example is batted around because it is specifically cited by Trump's legal counsel as an official act that isn't bound by law

No one and nothing should be above the law, even temporarily, period. That just opens up so many cans of worms.

emrah··on gRPC: The Bad Parts
While one can't refute the existence of the mentioned warts, they are not a big concern practically. We use gRPC in our Partner SDK[0] and Connector SDK[1].

[0] https://fivetran.com/docs/partner-built-program [1] https://fivetran.com/docs/connectors/connector-sdk

emrah··on Perplexity AI is lying about their user agent
This
emrah··on Show HN: I built a backend so simple that it fits in a YAML file
Example healthcare-app shows only the data(base) structure. How does one define the business logic?
emrah··on Tiny number of 'supersharers' spread the majority of fake news
Services like Twitter which serve a very very large number of people have a responsibility to maintain a civil, clean platform.

If the trouble makers are a small minority, it should be easy to cut them off then.

And for those who will cry "freedom of speech", liberty does not mean everyone gets to do whatever they want. Everyone's freedoms are bounded by the freedoms of others

emrah··on The Time I Lied to the CTO and Saved the Day
Honestly this is not necessarily a good reason not to invest. Sure this needs to be fixed, plus whoever allowed this to happen should be replaced but analyzing the business as an investment opportunity and passing because of this is just as insane in my opinion
emrah··on Show HN: Stock Trading Without Real Money to Learn about Investing
Safe simulated environment isn't going to teach about the psychological aspect of investing, which is a very large aspect of it.

Also what one learns that worked in the past is no guarantee it will continue to work in the future so there is less "learning" in the usual sense.

emrah··on Brainstorming sucks – give people some quiet time to generate ideas
In my experience brainstorming works best when people have had a chance to brainstorm independently first and then do it together in a small group, 3 maybe 4 people max, who feel safe with each other
emrah··on How to Lose Weight Fast, According to Experts
The article has general but sensible and useful advice
emrah··on Meta Llama 3
Let's be honest that he's probably not doing it due to goodness of his heart. He's most likely trying to commoditize the models so he can sell their complement. It's a strategy Joel Spolsky had talked about in the past (for those of you who remember who that is). I'm not sure what the complement of AI models is that Meta can sell exactly, so maybe it's not a good strategy but I'm certain it's a strategy of some sort
emrah··on What will humans do if technology solves everything?
As long as there is a need to make money to survive and live, technology doing more is actually a bad thing. It'll ultimately help the "owners" and crush the "doers".
emrah··on Alternative Code Editors
https://archive.ph/Nbsau
emrah··on China tells telecom firms to phase out foreign chips in blow to Intel, AMD
Here are a bunch of designs. Please build them, send them back to us so we can sell them to you :D
emrah··on Should You Pay for an Identity Theft Protection Service?
How could these services be better than simply freezing your credit?
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