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baptou12··on Write code like a human will maintain it
Humans can share context outside the code, while LLMs need it to be more explicitly structured inside. And if we keep the slightly verbose good practices that already help humans understand the intent, we kind of get the best of both worlds.
baptou12··on Write code like a human will maintain it
I agree, but “write code like a human will maintain it” can also be limiting: if LLMs reduce the cost of maintaining more explicit or verbose code, we should use that to raise the standard, not preserve compromises made for human convenience.
baptou12··on If society had a scorecard, what would be on it?
Good invariant !
baptou12··on If society had a scorecard, what would be on it?
Interesting, but this feels very economic.

It seems possible to optimize for these metrics and still end up with a society where I wouldn’t want to live if I were randomly placed in it (high stress, low trust, poor quality of life).

Would you add anything to capture that?

baptou12··on If society had a scorecard, what would be on it?
so social rating as a key signal ?
baptou12··on Show HN: OmniTools – Self-Hosted Open-Source Swiss Army Knife for Everyday Tasks
You can find crypto tool here also https://github.com/CorentinTh/it-tools
baptou12··on Is there still a need for non-linear Git histories in product development?

  But to me, what matters is the actual change to main/master at the time the thing is merged — that is what affects the team.
Totally agree, if the developper goes in wrong product direction at the beginning and add 10 additional commits afterwards: team + 6 month actually don't care about it.

  I certainly see no point in merging it in when it based on an ancient ancestor
If you want the CI to run, before the merge on the result it will produce on main branch ?
baptou12··on Try/Catch Considered Harmful
I think that doesn't solve the problem of the variable scope
baptou12··on Amazon’s Project Kuiper is more than the company’s response to SpaceX
To some extent Tesla could be Starlink's AWS. Every Tesla user could be a potential starlink customer. Could we even imagine a more efficient data collection?
baptou12··on Ask HN: How do you scale with ActiveAdmin
We are using ActiveAdmin to manage our backoffice since few years, but we are facing some issue, especially in dev env, where the more you have models, the slower will be hot reloading of the code. Before considering to kill it to create a new backoffice in our rails app from scratch, I wonder if some HN people faced these issue and found some best practice to put AA at scale.
baptou12··on Accelerating Photosynthesis
"Add Green & Infrared Antennae Proteins" => Nature will become sad to watch
baptou12··on My Chromecast Ultra would not start until I began answering 8.8.8.8
Other IOT manufacturers who hardcode the DNS into devices do not own the DNS servers, do they ?
baptou12··on iPhone 7
millidollar would be better
baptou12··on Less stress, more productivity: working fewer hours is good for you and your boss
"Why does working longer hours not improve the situation? Because working longer makes you less productive at the same time that it encourages bad practices by your boss. Working fewer hours does the opposite."
baptou12··on Feature Request: Manual Refresh of external calendar feeds
Ok sorry :-)
baptou12··on Feature Request: Manual Refresh of external calendar feeds
I was just wondering why a feature as simple as this one with lots of demands is still not implemented (or rejected). (6 years !!)
baptou12··on Any good alternatives to Google app for work?
My emails are managed with google app for work, however I feel it's expensive any other options ?
baptou12··on Best PC Laptop for Development (July 2016)?
Thanks, I'll have a look.