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phito··on Show HN: Recommendarr – AI Driven Recommendations Based on Sonarr/Radarr Media
This sounds amazing, giving it a try right now
phito··on Copilot for Everything: Training your AI replacement one keystroke at a time
How could you tell without being very close to him personally?
phito··on Vibe Coding and the Future of Software Engineering
You're not alone. Fixing bugs is usually really easy anyway, and it takes me more effort to feed the context to the LLM than to fix them myself.

The real complicated "bugs" often come from unclear requirements and the hard part is clearing up the requirements. It's more about design than logic errors in the code. And LLMs suck hard at this.

phito··on A new proposal for how mind emerges from matter
This is 100% my experience. There are different captains, but since they share the same memory, there's an illusion that they are one. When you look into who is in the driver seat now at different times, it is clear that there are multiple drivers. Which one is driving now depends on the context and state of my brain.
phito··on GPT-4.5
Not if people just try a few prompts then stop using it.
phito··on How to change your settings to make yourself less valuable to Meta
Indeed, and in the end, these groups are just a marketing platform for the youtuber. In my experience, they bring very little value other than a fake sense of community.
phito··on Egg prices are soaring. Are backyard chickens the answer?
Ever ate a carrot? The whole plant has to be "killed". Killing doesn't even make sense in the context of plants, a lot of them can just be cloned from a leaf, stem or root. Where do you draw the line between damaging and killing a plant, the termination of the apical meristem? The plant will stop growing but it can still clone itself, or grow more apical meristems...

This whole argument is absolutely meaningless.

edit: just pointing out I'm not directly replying to you but to the whole thread.

phito··on Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System
I literally have seen that screen only once and then forgot about it. It's really not a big deal.
phito··on My Life in Weeks
I have something similar in an excel sheet! The horizontal axis is time and the vertical one is different categories like school, relationship, work, ... Then I merge and color cells for the duration of each "event". The thing I like about this is that I can see how different subjects in my life overlapped.
phito··on Complex dynamics require complex solutions
There's also the many cases where the code is an actual mess because it had unclear requirements during its whole development, or it was written by someone who doesn't fully grasp the language they're using.

I've rewritten several of such projects, successfully reduced complexity and improved performances just by knowing what I am doing.

phito··on Did Semgrep Just Get a Lot More Interesting?
I love using LLMs to generate plantUML diagrams
phito··on AI is stifling new tech adoption?
Looking at the react devs in my company, they already live in a world of pain and confusion. So many simple, silly things turn complicated because of it.
phito··on A decade later, a decade lost (2024)
How about we don't gatekeep or make a contest out of suffering, which is a subjective experience?
phito··on YouTube's New Hue
Seems like the designers are trying to justify the utterly useless busy-work they've done here. That gradient is horrendous.
phito··on Firing programmers for AI is a mistake
> Just look at the insane rate of progress in the past 2 years.

Are we living on the same planet? I haven't seen much real progress since the release of chatGPT. Sure brenchmarks and graphs are going up, but in practice, meh...

phito··on How about trailing commas in SQL?
Yes but this one isn't it.
phito··on Surnames from nicknames nobody has any more
wouldn't micro-, nano-, mini- be diminutives?
phito··on LibreOffice 400M Downloads, and Counting
I opened LibreOffice Calc by mistake so many times, when trying to open the calculator
phito··on A Young Man Used AI to Build a Nuclear Fusor
I've seen a lot of that happening recently. People claiming they did this and that, when they actually followed the steps from a LLM. I actually don't mind this, except for the part where they omit the use of a LLM to get all the credits to themselves.

Reminds me of all these YouTubers making video essays parotting something they have just learned, without actually mastering the subject.

phito··on Find Your Footing After Installing Arch Linux
Agreed, I would never recommend i3 for someone new to arch...
phito··on EFF statement on U.S. Supreme Court's decision to uphold TikTok ban
The consumer doesn't choose what gets fed to them. Neither does the producer. Tiktok chooses who gets to see what. It's absolutely centralised, with crowd sourced content.
phito··on Reverse Engineering Bambu Connect
Maybe bamboo printers were too cheap which lead them towards their subscription based model.

Everyone complains about enshittification (YouTube ads, subscription models etc..), but then refuse to pay the real price premium goods and services cost. You get what you pay for.

phito··on EFF statement on U.S. Supreme Court's decision to uphold TikTok ban
Wait, since when is TikTok decentralised?
phito··on Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban, but Trump might offer lifeline
So many people in this thread trying to justify their addiction.
phito··on Nepenthes is a tarpit to catch AI web crawlers
As a carnivorous plant enthusiast, I love the name.
phito··on Nobody cares
Except he is talking about the color of the LEDs. Blue LEDs are terrible, just put orange ones. Has nothing to do with the fact that it's LEDs or hallogen.
phito··on It's okay to code on nights and weekends
That's absurd.
phito··on Microsoft Bob: Microsoft's biggest flop of the 1990s
You just unlocked a core memory for me. I remember that house so well but haven't thought of it in decades!
phito··on It's okay to code on nights and weekends
What? Do you know you can code for yourself and not for your employer?
phito··on AI companies cause most of traffic on forums
Why not?
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