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ngc248··on I'm helping my dog vibe code games
Management would get us all dogs and they would get cats for themselves ... like blofeld from James bond ...
ngc248··on I'm helping my dog vibe code games
Management already got us all copilot licenses .. soon they will get us all a dog
ngc248··on Looks like it is happening
looks like history runs in cycles ... Knowledge was strictly guarded and the powers that be used to decide who gets an education. Looks like you are espousing the same, discounting all the good that has come about because of open education.
ngc248··on Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court
they may start rcharging you warehouse storage fees and demurrage fees. chec out what happens if you dont take the delivery
ngc248··on Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court
Government is a poor spender, we should not be handing them more money
ngc248··on How uv got so fast
Parkinson's law of organizations clearly explains why orgs grow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_law
ngc248··on If you're going to vibe code, why not do it in C?
Exactly, I don't think ppl understand why programming languages even came about anymore. Lotsa ppl don't understand why a natural language is not suitable for programming and by extension prompting an LLM
ngc248··on Has the cost of building software dropped 90%?
Every use case has necessary complexity. The only things simple are CRUD apps.
ngc248··on Why are 38 percent of Stanford students saying they're disabled?
Yep, shame is the cornerstone of civilization and the scoiety right now seems to be more and more shameless.
ngc248··on I took all my projects off the cloud, saving thousands of dollars
nah filesystem snapshots may not lead to consistent DB backups. DB backup software usually use a plugin to tell the DB to coalesce data before taking a snapshot.
ngc248··on India's billion-dollar e-waste empire
I have access to airtel, act broadband, jio fiber, bsnl and earlier hathway and I have switched between them and no one cut my cable and gave me grief ... no mafia present in our and the surrounding areas. Ofc the kinda ppl you talk abt may be there, but we shld not generalize.
ngc248··on India's billion-dollar e-waste empire
what ... I am also a resident of bangalore ... Internet access etc is not controlled by any mafia
ngc248··on Some thoughts on LLMs and software development
Exactly, there is a reason why we don't program in natural languages and use "programming languages" which use a subset of keywords to program. Natural language is too ambiguous and not of use in serious programming.
ngc248··on Some thoughts on LLMs and software development
A better analogy is of an overconfident 5 year old kid, who never says that they don't know the answer and always has an "answer" for everything.
ngc248··on Tokyo's retro shotengai arcades are falling victim to gentrification
That is akihabara itself https://www.gotokyo.org/en/spot/55/index.html

It started out like that and then lot of otaku shops opened and now akiba is known more for its otaku shops than the electric ones.

ngc248··on Magnus Carlsen might walk away from classical chess
Wow .. you know how to put a positive spin on him losing
ngc248··on Why we still can't stop plagiarism in undergraduate computer science (2018)
Cheating is done by ppl who don't put in the effort and take the easy way out. Someone who is depressed wouldn't care enough to cheat. Too much empathy where it is not required has become the bane of society.
ngc248··on Flash Back: An “oral” history of Flash
Yep ... I never used flash studio, we used to use FlashDevelop and then Haxe to develop games and other applications using ActionScript
ngc248··on I'm starting a social club to solve the male loneliness epidemic
Also, as compared to before, the amount of solitary activities one can do have increased a lot. This has also led to these asspciations becoming smaller.
ngc248··on Persuasion methods for engineering managers
Different strokes for different folks and companies.
ngc248··on India launches attack on 9 sites in Pakistan and Pakistani Jammu and Kashmir
The conflict is not with Sikhs as a whole, but a subset which is separatist in nature.

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP06T00412R0006067...

ngc248··on India launches attack on 9 sites in Pakistan and Pakistani Jammu and Kashmir
The notion of what a fascist means, what a communist means has become so amorphous that ppl mostly use them for ppl/things whuch they don't like. On the political spectrum, for ppl on the left, everything to their right is fascist and for ppl on the right, everything to their left is communist.
ngc248··on India launches attack on 9 sites in Pakistan and Pakistani Jammu and Kashmir
If retaliating against a nation which does asymmetric warfare via terrorism is being a facist, then so be it.
ngc248··on India launches attack on 9 sites in Pakistan and Pakistani Jammu and Kashmir
Just because you harp over the same thing again and again about "India has been notoriously hostile to its minorities" does not make it true. Infact, the minorities in India have been notoriously hostile to the nation and care more about their ummah.
ngc248··on Math is still catching up to the genius of Ramanujan
yep ... we are all running our own individual races ... instead of reminiscing and thinking what coulda been ... better to look forward and look at what we can do now.
ngc248··on DevOps Isn't Dead, but It's Not in Great Health Either
Management just slaps agile onto everything nowadays. No time given for coming up with better solution, reducing tech debt. Most companies devolving into feature factories now. I call this methodology FRAGILE®
ngc248··on DevOps Isn't Dead, but It's Not in Great Health Either
Exactly, dunno what to call it ... but every new concept starts out good, gets crazier and crazier and sometimes it may become good again, but most of the time it just devolves into more crazy.

In one of the orgs I worked, ther was a team which worked on the basic devops framework which the application teams could use to then configure their resources. It was a very sane approach.

ngc248··on Ask HN: What were interviews like before Leetcode?
Ah the crossing the river puzzle, got that during my campus interviews.
ngc248··on Ask HN: How to pivot to a Machine Learning engineer?
Just basic stats, basic calculus etc to working with data and use ML algos/ML techniques etc.
ngc248··on Ask HN: How to pivot to a Machine Learning engineer?
yes, well enough to get by. Not enough for research or coming up with new ML algos etc
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