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Comment · 20 days ago
I've thought about that and I agree. One thing I'm wondering though is, are we really ready to go all-in on making a codebase that is effectively unmaintainable by humans?
Comment · 1 month ago
The linked news story (https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-discovers-novel-enzyme...) spends quite a bit of time talking about the team of humans involved, their laboratory, their process, and how Claude augments it. The "How we work" section openly describes a process where Claude searches and writes a report, humans review and do experiments, then Claude helps interpret experimental data.
Comment · 3 months ago
You are using DeepSeek's services directly? Doesn't that end up sending at least snippets/chunks of code to a server where it is subject to Chinese government data access laws? Even if I was okay with that, my organization would never be. And even if they were, our partners/vendors/customers would not be. I think that's the sticking point for a lot of people.
Comment · 3 months ago
Have noticed similar things using it for code review. "Issue #3: This variable is defined but never used. It is actually used later in the method though. So this is not a real issue to be concerned about", that sort of thing.
Comment · 4 months ago
I don't know where's a good place to post a screenshot, but can confirm I get a dialog saying:

> Get an app to open this 'x-apple.systempreferences' link

> Your PC doesn't have an app that can open this link. Try looking for a compatible app in the Microsoft Store.

Comment · 5 months ago
One thing really stands out, which is that Bricks and Minifigs is pointing the finger at the franchisee for an "unauthorized" consignment deal. While the blog post has a screenshot of the contract specifically allowing consignments. Which undercuts a large part of the corporate argument.
Comment · 6 months ago
Yes but generally one cannot walk into a store and buy a fake id, then turn around and hand it to another cashier in the same store for a restricted purchase. Which I think would be the closer metaphor.
Comment · 6 months ago
He bought his way into politics, came in with a chainsaw (almost literally), realized he didn't want to be in politics after all and rage quit. It may not make him a dumbass, but it certainly makes him some sort of ass.
Comment · 6 months ago
As someone else mentioned above, with jam bands each performance is unique, and people definitely value getting access to every show. For bands repeating the same set as identically as possible on a tour, not sure how much it matters which performance you listen to. Although some people might be into it, for the "I was there" novelty factor.
Comment · 7 months ago
Using what mechanism? Most Linux updates are not pushed but rather pulled at the user request. You can use Linux totally offline. This is fundamentally different than a webapp, where code is sent with every visit
Comment · 7 months ago
I've been doing some RAG prototypes with hybrid search using pg_textsearch plus pgvector and have been very pleased with the results. Happy to see a 1.0 release!
Comment · 7 months ago
Relevant to this story, laser eye surgery was developed in the late 80s/early 90s and can improve sight to the level that some who were legally blind no longer are.
Comment · 7 months ago
It means that especially those who went to the island but also most of the others don't care about protecting children. They merely see a way to consolidate power and are jumping on it.
Comment · 8 months ago
I love using AI and find it greatly increases my productivity, but the dirty little secret is that you have to actually read what it writes. Both because it often makes mistakes both large and small that need to be corrected (or things that even if not outright wrong, do not match the style/architecture of the project), and because you have to be able to understand it for future maintenance. One other thing I've noticed through the years is that a surprising number of developers are "write only". Reading someone else's code and working out what it's doing and why is its own skillset. I am definitely concerned that the conflux of these two things is going to create a junk code mountain in the very near future. Humans willing to untangle it might find themselves in high demand.

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