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maniflames

38 karma · joined August 21, 2019

Student Developer curious about what is happening in the world.
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maniflames··on system design in depth – 200 topics, 118 diagrams, interactive demos
Feels like its generated with the speed of light. Is the content linked actually quality content or are these convenient suggestions that rolled out of GPT/Claude?
maniflames··on Small Models Have Arrived
What purpose does AI serve here apart from lowering costs by generating a plan?

Especially if I need to ‘consult an expert’ isn’t this just a customer company using AI?

maniflames··on Why Vivaldi won't follow the current AI trend?
Yes you have full control over when you use ai and when you don’t
maniflames··on Why Vivaldi won't follow the current AI trend?
Not sure if it’s biased, it’s a serious limitation of the technology. Some countries are already struggling with their energy grid and water demands as is.

I think it’s fair to ensure that you create something that isn’t subject to possible quotas in the future

maniflames··on How we communicate
Probably because basecamp is a product by 37Signals
maniflames··on Figma and Adobe abandon proposed merger
It’s not about the quality of the tool but the fact that regulators will most likely think that this merger will violate anti-trust laws and lawyers from both companies can’t argue for why this isn’t the case
maniflames··on Tell HN: Postman update removes all your stuff if you refuse to create account
I’ve been using https://insomnia.rest/ and it has everything you need and does not require you to log in
maniflames··on We Don’t Do Legacy (2012)
Good on them, if you want a spot at a top uni/college you need to deserve it
maniflames··on Why I Left Rust
They’re working on it. RFC: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfc-leadership-council
maniflames··on The collapsing quality of dev.to (2021)
I'm very glad that others are observing this as well. My last DEV post was literally the question of where I should hang out with possible future content to discuss on a more intermediate level.

It's great that beginners can start by diving into DEV but at some point you're just not a beginner anymore but because of all the noise your only option is to move on. Even if you put your 'experience level' to expert the relevant content shown in the DEV feed is for beginners. I think 'fostering a community for experienced developers' is really the only way for DEV if it wants to move beyond beginners.

maniflames··on Tell HN: If You Are in Russia
Definitely, just not right now. As far as I know most western countries have stopped taking in Russian citizens.
maniflames··on An alarming trend in K-12 math education: a guest post and an open letter
Honest question from someone from the Netherlands: when are kids in the states old enough for these topics?

Me and all of my friends were thaught the fundamentals of algebra & trigonomatry (admittedly not calculus) at 13 years old. I had no idea the wasn't the case in the US and it honestly kind of blows my mind.

maniflames··on Formal Methods of Software Design an Online Course by Eric Hehner
If you want to write software using principles from linear algebra you should definitely google some computer graphics courses
maniflames··on Hacker News sentiment towards Big Tech companies
Right? Effectively these graphs do not communicate anything other than the numbers of comments on big tech companies over time.
maniflames··on ICE Confirms New Foreign Students Can't Take Online-Only Course Loads in the US
Online lectures in a lot of uni's will still happen in real time. Meaning that some students have to take classes at 3 AM. Being in the same time zone will still make a difference for a lot of them.
maniflames··on Teach Yourself Computer Science
A lot of people link CS with a career as software engineer for the web but leave out a lot of other software engineering and research opportunities. I get that a deep knowledge of CS doesn't always directly help while doing web development but it can really help in other area's of software development (embedded systems, OS, graphics, etc.)
maniflames··on Help me ask why you didn't just
'Is there a reason for not using sshd? It seems to be a great tool for the problem you're trying to solve.'
maniflames··on Falsehoods CS Students (Still) Believe Upon Graduating
Unfortunately I really know people in my class who believe that if people are in fear of getting fired and missing deadlines they will be more productive :/
maniflames··on Consume less, create more
To be fair creating something that has to resemble someone else's vision feels very different from creating something that you envision yourself.

Finding balance is important and apart from that I guess not everyone likes creating stuff equally.

(Edit: grammar lol)

maniflames··on After September 18th, you’ll no longer be able to send messages on YouTube
I feel you. Unfortunately if a feature or product doesn't hit the high numbers Google kills it.
maniflames··on [dead]
Scary, I just got mine for vacation purposes but stories like this definitely remind me to not put too much money on that card