zeroCalories

Joined 3 years ago

Karma
1,352
Submissions
857
Member since
Nov 29
View on Hacker News

Recent submissions

Comment · 9 days ago
Those are horrible cases if you're anything more than a hobbyist.

I don't want to update every place someone matches on my enum, when it's something not even in my project, just to get my PR to merge. Three teams use it? Fine. Ten? More? Not fine. You are adding cases into someone else's code just to unblock your own work.

The second case is actually not the same at all. Realistically, they will just pin your dependency to an older version. Now they can't benefit from new features and security fixes without going in and adding in a new case. Massive waste of time for them.

And of course I'm not just taking whatever Google says at face value. I read their justification, and it makes total sense for anyone that works on a non-trivial project. It follows how any stable public API is supposed to be designed.

Comment · 9 days ago
Why? Their justification seems reasonable to me. If other teams depend on your enum then you could end up in two really bad cases. First is that you end up having to fix a ton of code just to update your enum, which has it's own headaches. Second is another team's build starts to fail when they update dependencies. Horrible churn to cause for your org. Better to just have them design around non_exhaustive.
Comment · 17 days ago
The only greater evil in this world than mass adoption of AI will have been the normalization of hour long commutes.
Comment · 19 days ago
A wheelchair is also a tool! A very efficient one too! People claim they've 2x'd their energy efficiency by not ever walking or standing, and they are much more happy now that they don't need to suffer the pain of walking! I'm thinking of amputating my feet just to make footoids seethe more!
Comment · 26 days ago
Should have vented to your Chinese chat bot
Comment · 1 month ago
I've always been more afraid of these types of models than LLMs. These are what enable mass surveillance at scale and autonomous real time combat drones. Now they are spreading and being optimized. Gg.
Comment · 1 month ago
Can it? Last I checked, all my free software operating systems and browsers were still hacked together trash. I can't wait for AI to actually be good so I can spam a bunch of AGPL code with it.
Comment · 3 months ago
The stigma is pure cope. Most nerdy types I know wasted a ton of time on some stupid hobby. If not video games, it was some other dumb geek thing like anime, comic books, or furries.
Comment · 3 months ago
That's the cost of doing business. Luckily, you can't go bankrupt from hurt feelings....
Comment · 3 months ago
Lol this feels trite to say, but tech bros are not ideologically homogenous. You and the author are mixing up different people commonly identified as tech bros.
Comment · 3 months ago
These are not mere personal goals, they provide value back to society, which in turn helps others to achieve these goals. That's why we are concerned with them. We have a generation of leeches and losers that are only concerned with maximizing their consumption, not leaving behind a legacy.
Comment · 3 months ago
Hi can you please delete my account? I'm trying to quit posting on social media
Comment · 4 months ago
I'm a horrible communicator, but these are some tips that have helped me:

1. Give the conclusion first, ramble the details after so people don't get lost.

2. Only share something if it impacts decision making, otherwise it's just noise.

3. Prefer arguments based on facts, because "I don't like it" is too vague for others to make decisions on.

Comment · 5 months ago
Then you would expect to see several related CVEs and outages related to this? How many? Would you be willing to bet on it?
Comment · 5 months ago
To be fair, who cares about ai slop websites? To be honest, they're often better than the average webdev garbage. Language runtimes are held to a much, much, higher standard.

Live from the official Hacker News API

A modern reader for Hacker News · SvelteKit + Skeleton