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nothrowson Markdown in /src

Couldn't agree more. Rot is rot. People hate reading giant verbose AI generated PRs. Imagine mandating your codebase requires people now also read AI generated markdown files to compare the AI intent with the AI outcome. What a laugh and this is the guy giving out CS degrees and opposing React.

nothrowson LG says we're fake news [video]

I'm so tired of "smart" tech. I don't want my TV, or fridge, or dryer or anything connecting to wifi and bluetooth and having an app to manage settings. It's hard to believe there's demand for any of these terrible "features". The peak of smart tech were watches you could do math on.

nothrowson Humans missed 1 in 3 threats approving AI agent commands across 40k game runs

Anyone else play Warhammer 40k? I went into this article really excited for a genius war game bot haha.

nothrowson Go 1.27 Interactive Tour

generics were a slippery slope. give it a decade and Go will be indistinguishable from c++

nothrowson Cloudflare CEO is lying to you about the bot traffic jump

Cloudflare is junk. Their entire billion dollar service can't distinguish my (DAILY) GET request to mainstream news sites from bot traffic, nothing they say or do is of any value. I've had the same IP for decades.

nothrowson Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI

This is sort of hilarious if you think about it. The Firefox browser is completely written in Rust. Now Ladybird is a "human-directed ai" Rust browser. Makes you wonder how much of the code the two browsers will share going forward given llm assisted autocompletes will pull from the same Rust Browser dataset.

nothrowson Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux

My wife was complaining about her Windows 11 laptop crashing. I tried everything and even did fresh installs. Still crashing (and honestly pretty slow). I gave up on Windows and installed Ubuntu and Chromium for her. She can instagram, facebook, save her memes, and its all fast. No crashes. She's a happy camper now. I think a lot of (even) non technical people would like Linux a lot more than they realize if they gave it a shot.

nothrowson Boeing 737 Max pilots complained to feds for months about suspected safety flaw

Here are a few links to petitions you can sign to help out and ground boeing:

https://groundboeing.com

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/ground-boeing-737-...

https://www.change.org/p/your-government-ground-the-boeing-7...

nothrowson Boeing 737 Max pilots complained to feds for months about suspected safety flaw

man fuck canada and the usa. how are we the only ones in the world to not care about safety. even if its a 0.5% chance 150+ people die, isn't that enough to warrant temporarily grounding a handful of planes. sigh common

nothrowson Runnit – Make Terminal Shortcuts

> runn cu "curl https://raw.blah/master/bin/runn.js" ; run cu

-- vs --

> alias cu="nodejs <(curl -s https://raw.blah/master/bin/runn.js)" ; cu

I dunno man... aha.

nothrowson Reading in the Age of Constant Distraction

I recently discovered I score very low on VVIQ. Vividness of Visual Imagery Questionnaire. I don't have full on Aphantasia. But listening to how for other people reading a book is like watching a movie in their heads blows my mind. Being able to imagine with any level of depth sounds pretty amazing. As a kid I never really played pretend or was into fiction. But I'm curious that possibly long form reading is on the decline is associated with lower abilities to imagine in the general public?

nothrowson Vanlife: Build your own van to live on the road

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ws23jj...

site seems slow or down here's cache

nothrowson Cancelling Dropbox Pro is hard

Got this email from them a couple days ago:

We’ve noticed you haven’t used your XXX@XXX.com Dropbox account in over one year and have closed your account for you. Devices connected to this account have now stopped syncing. Any remaining files in your account will be subject to deletion.

Sincerely, - The Dropbox Team

There goes my files. Fuck dropbox. Stick to google drive.

nothrowson Dropbox buys HelloSign (YC W11) for $230M

Got this email from them a couple days ago:

Sincerely, - The Dropbox Team

There goes my files. Fuck dropbox. Stick to google drive.

nothrowson Ask HN: How to incorporate machine learning into day job?

Try implementing a genetic learning algorithm to send and reply to your work emails. For the fitness score try using your yearly salary in dollars. I haven't yet implemented this, but theoretically there's no upper bounds to how much money this will earn you.

nothrowson React Redux 6.0 released

I'm curious about the direction react redux will take with the new hook api. What will the react redux hooks will look like? Will that be something that lands soon in an alpha?

nothrowson The State of the TclQuadcode compiler (2017) [pdf]

TCL is fun to write. And with Tk desktop apps are fast and easy to whip up. Kicks Atoms Ass for internal apps and doesn't eat all your ram. I don't get why its gets so much flack. It's sort of a fun mix between lisp and perl. I hope it never dies.

nothrowson Ripgrep 0.10.0 released (PCRE2 and multi-line support)

sticking with ack. a tool for humans with decent .ignore file support. ag and rg never seem to ignore the subdirectories I want.

nothrowson Self-driving Uber car kills Arizona woman crossing street

> “The pedestrian was outside of the crosswalk. As soon as she walked into the lane of traffic she was struck”

Uber has some fucking shitty programmers guaranteed. They murdered this lady. Think about it:

Smart cars basically have 360 degrees of sensors. There’s no way it didn’t detect that lady coming up on the car and the fact that it kills her says to me there was no counter measure. It probably didn’t even slow down until the moment of impact. That's some fucking elementary school shit.

> Chance of Collision? 100%. Maintain Speed

In structural engineering if you designed a bridge poorly and it collapsed killing people you'd lose your ability to practice engineering. The same should be applied.

nothrowson In Praise of ADHD

man fuck articles like this. I was diagnosed with ADHD in elementary. school was extremely difficult for me and I even flunked grade 2, but was pushed onto the next grade after my parents complained. My parents didn't believe in giving me the meds. I graduated high school with honors, but it took hours and hours of study because I was never able to focus. Then I started university... I was completely overwhelmed and dropped out. We've built a society where its a detriment not to be able to focus, denying your children a level playing field is absolutely cruel.

nothrowson How GraphQL Replaces Redux

I reread it several times trying to understand how simply using GraphQL allowed you to eliminate the need for all actions / stores for your entire client side stack. It wasn't until I looked into Apollo that I understood what you had actually implemented.

nothrowson How GraphQL Replaces Redux

TL;DR click bait. The author is replacing Redux with Apollo - a client side graphql library that HAS BUILT IN STATE MANAGEMENT, which he fails to differentiate or mention... Apollo is similar to the firebase event / subscription model.

https://dev-blog.apollodata.com/tutorial-graphql-subscriptio...

nothrowson Feature comparison of ack, ag, git-grep, GNU grep and ripgrep

as a long time user of `find . -name "*.foo" -exec grep -Hin {} \;` moving to ack has been great! I love the syntax and the speed and the fact that it actually respects your ignore files. ripgrep is great too. ag on the other hand is recommended by everyone but doesn't seem to respect ignores or understand modern ignore syntax. give it a pass.

https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher/issues/385

its been over 4 years... its had its chance.

nothrowson CouchDB 2.1.0

no Per Document Authorization is still my biggest issue with couch that keeps me from using it https://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/PerDocumentAuthorization

nothrowson Show HN: API Bootstrap – A better way to build your API

agreed. looked at the front page. looks kinda bad. nothing to click on besides sign up? im out.

nothrowson Show HN: Quick JavaScript Tetris – Based on Yesterday's Show HN

Love these short 1 file code things.

C https://gist.github.com/spaceexperiment/4d6b116ef577a2971259...

Tcl https://gist.github.com/nickbarth/cba8cc9996cc3ebe8427726fae...

nothrowson Shame on Y Combinator

no one should be shamed or fired for their political beliefs. go fuck yourself marco.org

nothrowson Introducing SpotMini, a smaller version of the Spot robot [video]

You can see the deep sadness in its googly eyes.

nothrowson BCHS Stack - BSD, C, Httpd, SQLite

this page is garbage. no useable information what so ever. just a fucking joke site

nothrowson AlphaGo given honorary 9 dan rank by Korean Baduk Association

I think one of the most interesting things is it was mostly trained on millions of games against itself. Therefore the professional level moves its playing are just emergent strategy.