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cake-ruskon 'Neanderthals Among Us' review

Indians are already a mixed race: ancient (pre Aryan) Iranian hunter-gatherers + eurasian steppe (Aryan) + ancient south Indians etc.

cake-ruskon I Don't Like LLMs

It would have been okay if he stopped there. I think success went to his head and he became the BSer-in-chief of the software industry after that. The Emperor has no clothes.

cake-ruskon I Don't Like LLMs

No he did not. For some reason people think he did.

See following article where he talks about the inventors of refactoring: https://martinfowler.com/bliki/EtymologyOfRefactoring.html?u...

cake-ruskon I Don't Like LLMs

I don't like Martin Fowler. He is the archetype of the architect astronaut. The OG bullshit meister.

I like LLMs for stuff I don't care about. Programming is not one of them.

cake-ruskon Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?

> serious question: do you program in machine code or assembler

Sometimes yes.

> or use a higher level language? do you use design patterns and functional approaches? metaprogramming, code generation, templating, app frameworks?

Most of the time.

> Each tool, abstraction, language feature elevates coding to get more done with less (more concisely)

Sure. I hope you understand AI is fundamentally different. It's nothing like the things you listed above.

cake-ruskon Ask HN: Are 80s high school hobby programmers overwhelmingly pro-AI?

90's high school hobby programmer. I'd rather not use AI for programming if given the chance. For everything else I am pro AI.

cake-ruskon Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?

Sure, if that is what you like. I for one did not get into this field because I wanted to hire people (artificial or natural) to write the programs for me. Programming as an activity / art is what I enjoyed the most. Managing people / agents is a total turn off.

cake-ruskon Houthis 'take control' of key island in global shipping route

This is precisely what the word quote means!

cake-ruskon Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?

> I can prototype working projects in possibly 1/30th the time, and I can do them simultaneously.

This takes all the fun out of programming for me.

cake-ruskon Why does the U.S. military seem stymied in the war with Iran?

Some say this war was started to distract from the Epstein files issue.

cake-ruskon Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did

Most laypeople I know haven't seen an ad blocker in action ever.

cake-ruskon I'm 38 and I Can't Support Myself Anymore

Is there a name for the phenomenon in which you look at something and know that there is something wrong with it but struggle to identify the problem?

I got this feeling looking at the (non)word cantine.

cake-ruskon GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our benchmarks

How do you run this thing? What kind of hardware do you need?

cake-ruskon AI Engineer Claims to Have Cracked Linear A

Isn't this like the P vs NP problems? Once you have a solution it is easy to verify?

cake-ruskon How many of the 170k English words do you know?

Strangely, I knew this one. Once you hear this word it refuses to leave your head.

cake-ruskon How many of the 170k English words do you know?

Apparently I am Stephen Fry in disguise :D

My score: 78,000 words, 20/20/19/18/18.

cake-ruskon What was nice about the UI of Windows 2000

Windows Vista / 7 was peak UI for me.

cake-ruskon I indexed 669 GB of my GoPro videos using my M1 Max computer and local ML models

I have an RTX 5090 card but it only has 32 GB RAM, can something like this work on my machine?

cake-ruskon AMD pulls a bait-and-switch on Linux users with Vivado licensing changes

What are some good alternatives (to Xilinx/AMD) for hobbyists / small outfits?

cake-ruskon Talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930

English is a "romance" language then.

cake-ruskon A Japanese glossary of chopsticks faux pas (2022)

Cringe?

cake-ruskon LotusNotes

Here's a quote from the article. Hopefully this helps the people with rose tinted glasses get some perspective...

>Lotus Notes is used by millions of people, but almost all of them seem to hate it. How can a program be so bad, yet thrive?

cake-ruskon LotusNotes

It was bad. There was a dedicated site called lotusnotessucks.com or something like that. It does not exist anymore but here is an article about it: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2006/feb/09/guardianw...

cake-ruskon A Visual Introduction to Machine Learning (2015)

Where's the rest of it?

cake-ruskon It Can Now Be Plainly Said: Trump Is Planning a November Coup D'État

India went through something similar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emergency_(India).

cake-ruskon Trump revokes landmark ruling that greenhouse gases endanger public health

It will use robots to replace pesky humans. The robots can refuel and maintain the power plant etc.

cake-ruskon D Programming Language

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/carpente...

a person whose job is making and repairing wooden objects and structures

cake-ruskon D Programming Language

I think you have misunderstood what a carpenter is. A carpenter is someone who makes wooden furniture (among other things).

cake-ruskon In praise of –dry-run

I am not sure I if I can speak to that in general but personally I discovered functional programming late. Object oriented programming was all the rage when I got initiated and that is all that was taught in colleges.

cake-ruskon In praise of –dry-run

IMO the ELM architecture only works with pure functions. It doesn't work with languages which cannot provide this compile time guarantee. Also functional programming needs a different mindset / training. You won't benefit from it until you understand what it actually brings to the table (and what it leaves out).