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JaDogg

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Stuff I build: https://github.com/JaDogg --- I am a large potato that can think or a programmar. I work on Yaksha programming language. --- email username - hackernewsUsername -plus- ".Coder" email host - gmail -dot- com

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JaDogg··on Don't be a meat proxy
I do not think people should stop asking questions. What is the point of teams / departments / orgs ?
JaDogg··on The Software Engineering Identity Crisis
There is no such a thing as a 10x engineer. Anyone who appears as 10x only do whatever that maintains that illusion. (don't help anyone else, don't do support, keep all knowledge in head, bad documentation, etc)
JaDogg··on The Software Engineering Identity Crisis
Yes this is what I call "the accountant/spreadsheet theory", and I think this is the most likely scenario.
JaDogg··on The Software Engineering Identity Crisis
What I do is turn off copilot, do the design, get in the zone and enable copilot. This way I do not get it to slow me down, otherwise I just wait for it to do API calls. Even then, I turn it off when it create complete wrong implementations.

Problem is it doesn't know the layer of utilities we have and just rewrite everything from scratch. Which is too much duplicatation. I have to now delete it and type correct code again.

One advantage I have seen is that, it can defenitely translate / simplify what my collegues say, fix typos or partial-words. Which is very useful when you are working with lot of different people.

JaDogg··on UK's hardware talent is being wasted
Could you elaborate further? I am a skilled immigrant in the UK. I pay my taxes and have not used any benefits. I even pay for my medication; the only free service I have used is a GP appointment or a hospital scan, which was likely covered by the IHS (Immigration Health Surcharge).

What have I done to make the country worse off?

JaDogg··on What the TP-Link Ban in the US Means for You
What about exports? do you want to stop those too
JaDogg··on Kenney.nl: Free Game Assets
Kenny is great, I used Kenny Shape to draw Yaksha lang logo :)
JaDogg··on Pdfcpu – A PDF Processor
Looks impressive - it can do lot of PDF modifications using a single static binary.
JaDogg··on PWCT2: Programming Without Coding Technology – Written in Ring
Good stuff, I like how individual tokens have colours in the tree view. it seems like a visual syntax tree.
JaDogg··on Things we learned about LLMs in 2024
What you think of samples and FL Studio / DAWs?
JaDogg··on Things we learned about LLMs in 2024
I think LLM web applications need a big red warning (non interactive, I don't want more cookie dialogs) like in cigarettes.

> LLM generated content need to be verified.

JaDogg··on Orbit by Mozilla
What is a free speech plugin? were there political discussions in these threads? If so it seems like they did the correct thing removing such political plugin right?

> basic utility program decided to become political

looks like they wanted to avoid it, isn't it?

JaDogg··on Jaguar Land Rover electric car whistleblower sacked
Both speak Germanic languages, close enough?
JaDogg··on SQLite changed temp file prefix after McAfee users called devs to complain (2006)
Fun alternative is to get a paid number. You can complain for but it will cost $100 per minute.
JaDogg··on SQLite changed temp file prefix after McAfee users called devs to complain (2006)
But you do not need to know about them if abstraction works, I assume it is sufficient for SQLite use case.
JaDogg··on Interview of Robert Shingledecker, Tiny Core Linux and DSL Developer (2009)
I remember making my own distro with TCL :)
JaDogg··on Chebyshev Polynomials in the 16th Century (2022)
That is even better :)
JaDogg··on Chebyshev Polynomials in the 16th Century (2022)
Nice I did not know about this servie. looks cool. Replace x with 5 and view the PDF rendered
JaDogg··on TheDesk desktop environment
Even if this is a serious project, particular author of this project has a right to build something, and try to carve out an audience for it. Nothing wrong with that.
JaDogg··on [dead]
yeah, even the disclaimer is identical. Original Secretllama poster at least talked about web-llm package which powers it. But this is a just a clone. How sad.
JaDogg··on You receive a call on your phone. The caller says they're from your bank
Pixel phone's ability to answer calls for you is very useful. Rarely scammers want to talk to a bot.

Does any of you know similar software for (non-google) Android?

JaDogg··on Go's Error Handling Is Perfect
What is with the site - `very good software not virus . ru`
JaDogg··on Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server compromise
Good cop bad cop play maybe.
JaDogg··on Akira Toriyama has died
Rest in peace.
JaDogg··on V Language Review (2023)
Hey banning someone for suggesting use of Go doesn't make sense. That is quite sad.

Shameless plug:

Please take a kind look at https://yakshalang.github.io/. I'd like to receive some criticism.

JaDogg··on My Journey to build daisyUI: Why Tailwind CSS was not enough?
We discussed this on discord :)
JaDogg··on Container2wasm: Convert Containers to WASM Blobs
Yup. this is what I use for Yaksha playground (I use v86 though). See -- https://yaksha.pages.dev/
JaDogg··on Making small games, which is fun in itself
haha, nice mine are basically what I wrote as demos for Yaksha https://yakshalang.github.io/demos/
JaDogg··on My Journey to build daisyUI: Why Tailwind CSS was not enough?
Hello, thank you for this. I recently got PR(s) to add astro/tailwind/daisyui to yakshalang.github.io from 2 devs. I'm blown away from how good the website looks now. :) Happily deleted my homegrown and badly written CSS.
JaDogg··on Goodbye, clean code (2020)
mmm.. this is an interesting take. I have been a zealot of sort in the past (intern/junior time), but now coming to same conclusions about these cargo cults.
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