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facorreia

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facorreia··on Senior SWE-Bench: open-source benchmark that assesses agents as senior engineers
It's nice to see a new public benchmark from Snorkel. They're doing some pretty sophisticated stuff over there.
facorreia··on Cook: A simple CLI for orchestrating Claude Code
It seems to be in the spirit of automated vibecoding. I assume it skips all permission checks.
facorreia··on LT6502: A 6502-based homebrew laptop
This would have been absolutely mind blowing back in the day!
facorreia··on We put Claude Code in Rollercoaster Tycoon
Start in plan mode, generating a markdown file with the plan, keep it up to date as it is executed, and after each iteration commit, clear the context and tell it to read the plan and execute the next step.
facorreia··on ASCII-Driven Development
Good idea to build low-fidelity mockups. SVG in my opinion is a better format for this job than text. For instance, in the screenshots from the article, not a single example is properly aligned. That is distracting and makes these assets hard to share.
facorreia··on Pre-emptive Z80 multitasking explainer
It would usually be lightweight data entry, and it would work as fast as people could type (which was pretty fast for dedicated data entry workers).
facorreia··on How one of the world’s major money laundering networks operates
The Brazilian media reported that the Bolsonaro family bought at least 51 properties with cash.

https://noticias.uol.com.br/politica/ultimas-noticias/2022/0...

facorreia··on Why Half-Life 3 speculation is reaching a fever pitch again
What bothers me is that there's no mention of Half-Life 2 episode 3. Valve announced that they would switch to episodic development to "release games more frequently."

It was supposed to be a 3-episode story. They released parts 1 and 2 and part 3 was supposed to wrap up the story using the same engine.

facorreia··on Ask HN: Is it wrong to use my personal laptop for work?
Rephrase that as “is it a good idea to fake app usage to create misleading metrics for IT, while bypassing their filters for ISO compliance” and hopefully you will get your answer.
facorreia··on Ask HN: What's a software project that made people's lives better?
I worked on a data science platform that is being used to accelerate research for diagnosing cancer at early stages and for researching treatments for cancer and other diseases.
facorreia··on COBOL has been “dead” for so long, my grandpa wrote about it
I worked for a company in the late 1980s that started developing with a 4GL product (Dataflex) instead of COBOL. The article is right that COBOL has outlasted most (all?) of those 4GL solutions.

Looking back, COBOL would have been a better technical choice back then. Dataflex's metadata-based dynamic UI and report generation saved some simple, repetitive work, but much more effort was wasted working around its limitations.

facorreia··on Entire staff of game publisher Annapurna Interactive has reportedly resigned
I don't know the answer, but I imagine that the execs and staff that left as a block have some plan lined up.
facorreia··on Entire staff of game publisher Annapurna Interactive has reportedly resigned
I agree. Seeing the Annapurna logo in a game has become a signal to me that I will really enjoy that game and that it has a unique, fresh perspective to offer.
facorreia··on Brazilian court orders suspension of X
That's explained in Article 102 of the Brazilian Constitution (in Portuguese):

https://constituicao.stf.jus.br/dispositivo/cf-88-parte-1-ti...

facorreia··on Brazilian court orders suspension of X
In Brazil, a Justice of the Supreme Court has the power to impose fines on people and companies that violate the law. In this case, federal law #12.965.
facorreia··on Brazilian court orders suspension of X
For the curious, this is the main Brazilian legislation about the topic:

https://www.cgi.br/pagina/marco-civil-law-of-the-internet-in...

facorreia··on NASA is about to make its most important safety decision in nearly a generation
I believe that this page answers your question: https://www.boeing.com/defense#products
facorreia··on CrowdStrike representatives issue trademark infringement notice to ClownStrike
To be fair, it's easy to confuse clownstrike.lol with clownstrike.com.
facorreia··on Writing HTML by hand is easier than debugging your static site generator
Another option is having the site generator packaged as a docker image and executed via a CI pipeline when the static files are pushed to a git server. Relying on stuff installed on a local laptop for the publishing pipeline isn't sustainable.
facorreia··on Ask HN: What older games are you playing through?
Starcraft. The campaign is oddly memorable.
facorreia··on Bluesky signups are now open to the public
Why is it collecting dates of birth?
facorreia··on EVs work fine in the cold in Norway
It talks about keeping the cars in garages or wrapping them up in blankets.
facorreia··on GitUI
I use GitUI daily. It’s fast and I find it very useful to double check changes before committing.
facorreia··on Niklaus Wirth has died
Rest in peace. I owe a lot to his work.

"Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs" was a seminal book for me when I was learning about software development and it has influenced how I think about programming. Also, Pascal (in its various dialects) was my main language for many years on multiple platforms (CP/M, MS-DOS, Windows).

facorreia··on Ask HN: Terrified I wont find another job
Or Paid Interview Preparation.
facorreia··on California suspends Cruise's autonomous vehicle deployment
It may be related to the AI driving the vehicle continuing to drive to pull over after hitting a person:

"When the AV tried to pull over, it continued before coming to a final stop, pulling the pedestrian forward," the company said.

facorreia··on Reorient GitHub pull requests around changesets
It’s very weird that PR approvals remain “approved” after changes to the PR that was approved.
facorreia··on KIP-932: Queues for Kafka
This blog post does a good job of explaining how they compare on different use cases:

https://eranstiller.com/rabbitmq-vs-kafka-an-architects-dile...

facorreia··on I open-sourced Even the Ocean
Indeed, the title needs to be edited. It clearly states:

> This is NOT an Open Source license

facorreia··on Show HN: My Single-File Python Script I Used to Replace Splunk in My Startup
It's not that much code and it has sensible function names. I appreciate that OP took the time to share his tool with us.
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