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Funny how some people get triggered by this. If you read the whole thing, I actually explain how fucking dumb and clueless LLMs still are once you go past boilerplate. You basically need to keep them in check constantly, even for a pet project like mine. I'm not celebrating anything here, just sharing my journey, the fun and frustrations I've had, going through the stages of vibe-coding: from god-mode euphoria to realizing how deceiving the first rush is.

But I do believe we'll get to the point they will replace more and more engineers. yes, I don't know how fast, I don't know if LLM will be able to reach that point. But eventually, all that money in research will get somewhere I believe.


Coming from Clojure, I get a high level impression that Java is nice for libraries. They're generally pleasant to interact with. OO gives some nice logical organization to the library "API". But I don't get the impression it's great for application development and "green field" projects.

Granted I've never worked with Java "properly" with the whole IDE experience. Just looking at code it's extremely verbose and seems like it'd be really not fun to refactor.


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As I understand it, this is a dataset of claimed causation. It should contain vaccines->autism, not because it's true, but because someone, in public, claimed that it was.

So, by design, it's pretty useless for finding new, true causes. But maybe it's useful for something else, such as teaching a model what a causal claim is in a deeper sense? Or mapping out causal claims which are related somehow? Or conflicting? Either way, it's about humans, not about ontological truth.


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This is a kind of engineering activity I would refer to as "digging your own grave".

Maybe in specific fields this is true, but a lot of folks in Big Tech view open source as where developers who couldn't hack the interviews end up (they also hold a pretty similar view of startup engineers, unless they are ex-FAANG)

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this will be super cool if it can be done!

I think I'm right in saying that AWS, rather than deliveries, is by far the most profitable part of Amazon.

Also a smart move is to be selling shovels in a gold rush - and that's exactly what Amazon is doing with AWS.


I'm using it, thanks so much for making it :-) It should have been part of the swift base tools, it is very useful.

Quarkus is just a little too much like magic for me. Too many annotations hides what's going on underneath, which makes me feel a bit uncomfortable. But I'll accept that's probably just me.

Vertx on the other hand, which it is built on and which itself builds on Netty, is excellent, and very performant for typical backend services. It now has support for virtual threads too.


Alternate browser engines are now possible in the EU, there is just not much interest in porting to iOS. To me it sounds just bad UX that the first thing you need to do on Chrome to enable Adblock is to switch browser, vs. just installing an extension with the default browser that probably 90%+ of Android users use.

Yeah this is very

    npm i is-even

I modern Word you can use Ctrl + Enter to create a page break.


Anyone who is running back-end code in Next.js has no idea what they are doing. It could be acceptable if it is a toy project and you want to get something quickly but even for a small operation or MVP, the whole thing is not coherent.

I've wrote previously about nextjs: https://omarabid.com/nextjs-vercel My opinion remains the same: Most of the issues in Nextjs are not a bug but a feature. A feature that only functions and locks you in Vercel platform.

Since their routing/SEO/content features are also now less functional, there is really very little reason to use Nextjs especially with React Server Components.


> If I'm writing a document for human consumption then why would I expect the dates to be sortable by a naive string sorting algorithm?

If you're naming a document for human consumption, having the files sorted by date easily without relying on modification date (which is changed by fixing a typo/etc...) is pretty neat


Well the "contains ads" part will drive some people away.

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UBI has many different defenses.

One of them is that means tested benefits are harmful, and I think it's a really strong one.

But another very common defense of UBI is that mass unemployment is inevitable, but because of technological developments that cause wide abundance, so UBI can be used to make that abundance available to the newly unemployed.

The harms of means testing are many. They include:

- Massive organizational overhead to do the means testing, have appeals process, have fraud detection, and fraud punishment. - Personal overhead on those who have to 'pass' the means-testing. This can be non-trivial procedurally, and appeals tend to be very complicated. Moreover, the consequences of making a mistake that gets marked as fraudulent are severe. This makes it quite time- and stress-costly to get these benefits, and makes some people skip them. - It creates weird economic incentives, if done exceptionally poorly, it creates situations where an increase in net income causes a decrease in gross income. In other situations you get an effective marginal tax rate of nearly 100%, which discourages work and prevents the building of wealth by advancing a career.


That is completely untrue. Companies frequently own their own stock, and issue more when the price is high it continues to be quite valuable to the company

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There is a lack of proof that the developer is linked to a sanctioned entity. Not saying it isn't, but The Verge should be at least trying to verify that IMHO (instead of taking the statement at face value); I'd even trust a "we verified it but won't publish to protect the developer".

Unfortunately, said grandma isn't all that mythical. Scams of all kinds cost US citizens alone 158 billion dollars a year [1].

[1] https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ftc-states-scams-cost-us-cons...


You say it's purposeful, they say it's incidental. Israel still supplies Gaza with water, albeit at a substantially reduced rate. Roughly 40% of the water infrastructure remains operational[1]. Therefore, your maximalist claim of "destroying all life supporting infrastructure" is false.

Russia has hit plenty of life-supporting infrastructure in the affected areas of Ukraine and millions have been displaced. Will you therefore admit a genocide committed by Russia?

[1] https://water.fanack.com/water-situation-in-gaza-current-ove...


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With a proper sandbox, a password manager won't have internet access.

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