luciole (he/him)

Lisp dialects attract me but HN’s culture repulses me more.

I think it’s established genAI can spit straightforward toy examples of a few hundred lines. Bungalows aren’t simply big birdhouses though.

Good on you for owning up and best of luck. You did well being transparent about your process. I’m going to add two things about generative AI:

• Writing is thinking. If you’re interested in thinking, then be all means do it yourself. You don’t need to have perfect grammar, syntax and such. Lots of extraordinary authors don’t. Strive for improvement, don’t worry about perfection.
• Absolutely beware of generative AI’s biases. They may actually amplify their sources’ biases while occluding them. AI text is just rehashed human text, with all that it entails.

I’m not going to read in detail a text you can’t be assed to write in detail. From a glean I’ll say two things:

• Your alternative voices are basically all privileged white guys commenting carefully from the sidelines. How is that a counterbalance to Chinese activists literally disappearing? You know what it means to disappear in China, right?
• The common thread of your text is one massive, obvious false dilemma. It’s common knowledge that China is under a repressive regime, that the POTUS gives clear signals of envying such regimes, AND that democracy has issues. We can and do talk about all of them.

That sounds really awesome. Can you be bullied by stronger players, or you can just do your thing and interact if you wanna? Not into competing/fighting other players personally.

His “I’m not playing cards” comeback was very strong as well.

IT is not known to be a very diverse field, so I guess it’s not surprising that some music would be more popular with our crowd.

I like post-punk, post-rock, shoegaze, synthpop, electronica, dungeon synth, ambient, chanson française, that’s mostly it. If I had to pick one all time favorite band Cranes would be it. Discovery of the moment is Dry Cleaning.

On one hand some posters don’t give a shit. On the other hand, proofreading your own text is systematically harder than one that you didn’t write. I’m sure there’s some scientific explanation; it’s some kind of fact of life. It’s way easier to spot mistakes in other people’s texts. So don’t be too harsh on other posters; they didn’t hire a proofreader and that’s alright.

LLMs will replace software engineers any day now!

Also LLMs:

Meh. You can make numbers say anything you want. And any metric ceases being useful once it’s known. All in all these lines tell such a partial story as to be useless and I’m immensely suspicious of any manager that enjoys reading in tea leaves.

See I think you’re onto something. Playing music you consider abhorrent during a visit may actually increase the likelihood of ending up with a neighbor that enjoys said music. You either need to discover something universally repugnent or spy on the visitors and make a quick judgment call based on their appearance on what would repulse them better. Anyways fast tempo baby shark.

I don’t understand how one would equate YAGNI with writing everything half assed. Is this actually an issue?

I hope you work in a field where worrying about your integers hitting larger values than 9 quadrillion is justified.

The JavaScript Number type is implemented as an IEEE 754 double and as such any integer between -2⁵³ and 2⁵³ are represented without loss of precision. I can’t say I’ve ever missed explicitly declaring a value as an integer in JS. It’s dynamically typed anyways. There’s the languages people complain about and the ones nobody uses.

Floating-point arithmetic is important to understand at least vaguely since it’s a pretty leaky abstraction. Fortunately, we don’t need a “✨Member-only story” on Medium to get acquainted with the underlying concepts.

That is a lot of bile even for a rant. Agreed that it’s nonsensical to blame the dev though. This is software, human error should not be enough to cause such massive damage. Real question is: what’s wrong with the test suites? Did someone consciously decided the team would skimp on them?

As for blame, if we take the word of Crowdstrike’s CEO then there is no individual negligence nor malice involved. Therefore this it is the company’s responsibility as a whole, plain and simple.

Agreed that it’s an entirely acceptable position to try and avoid being stuck in the crossfire of cyber warfare. Let’s be clear though, cyber warfare is already going on and Russia+China are pulling no punches routinely wiping American and European servers in various ways. Anyone on the front line of cybersecurity sees them knocking ceaselessly.

Whether it is being offered to the end users as free (as in freedom) software or as paid closed source has the usual implications. Ease of use, accessibility measures and support impacts inclusivity. Supported languages (natural and programming) will influence further who uses them or not. What constitutes the user base will determine what’s it’s used for and in turn will apply pressure to the editor to take a certain direction.

Political impact is not always obvious and not every single grain of software will be infused with a powerful one. The point is that our choice is either to ignore it or to acknowledge it. We can’t opt out of the world; blind neutrality is as political as any other position.

I would like to offer as a counterpoint that everything is political. Tech is no exception. Tech is a tool, a tool comes with a specific affordance and an affordance suggests to the wielder a certain worldview. To wilfully ignore the social and political impact of one’s work does not protect it from the world’s turmoil.

Holy crap that’s a lot of devs 😳