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stoptheon Show HN: Create diagrams of complex data flows in software systems

In my dreams, you have docs and source code in the same repo, and update both in a single pull request. In reality, confluence...

stoptheon Show HN: Create diagrams of complex data flows in software systems

Wow, I'm glad that I visited HN when your tool was at the top. I'm going to use it to illustrate docs on our internal DAG-like system. By the way, is there a simple way to export the animated diagram as a GIF?

stoptheon Gen AI: too much spend, too little benefit?

Russian air force has already destroyed numerous civilian buildings, in many cases killing dozens of people far behind the frontlines[0]. In at least one case, when 59 people attending a soldier's funeral were killed, there are "reasonable grounds to believe that the reception was the intended target of an attack, using a precision weapon"[1]. I think it shows that the military will be happy with much lower quality of classification than e.g. acceptable for driving in downtown San Francisco.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attacks_on_civilians_in_the_Ru... [1] https://www.ohchr.org/en/documents/country-reports/attack-fu...

stoptheon Gen AI: too much spend, too little benefit?

My assumption is that only part of those $1 tn will go specifically into generative applications. The Goldman Sachs' paper in most instances mentions AI in general.

But one can also argue that actively seeking and choosing targets is a generative task, given a proper encoding of a battlefield situation and current mission.

stoptheon Gen AI: too much spend, too little benefit?

World military spending is estimated at over $2 tn per year. Ongoing Russia's invasion in Ukraine shows that a hypothetical UAV with fully autonomous capabilities (because every known frequency is soon jammed) will meet enormous demand.

stoptheon Ask HN: What boosted your confidence as a new programmer?

Deploying my pet project on a Linux virtual server.

At that time I worked with some enterprise software on Windows, and any particular setup was so fragile, that it caused anxiety to touch anything and learned helplessness preventing experimentation. It didn't help that built-in diagnostic tools on Windows in the XP era were virtually non-existent.

Linux VMs in contrast were (and are) disposable, have all their guts exposed, and CLI is your only way of doing things. You're welcome to experiment, and basically forced to automate.