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yw3410··on Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub
Sourcehut is fantastic because you can also SSH into the CI machine.
yw3410··on Why I Left Google DeepMind
Yes; the student project you were talking about.

It wasn't clear to me it was _your_ project nor who pirated it. I was under the impression it was a well known scandal from your original, unedited comment.

Apologies if my comment sounded hostile; I was just asking for a clarification/more information on it.

yw3410··on Why I Left Google DeepMind
Apologies, but it would be good to add links for your anecdotes.

Not all of the readers of your comment have the appropriate context and know what you're talking about. I certainly don't.

yw3410··on Costco is the anti-Amazon
Similar - realistically, unless you're stuck at home in a city, you can also plan to stop off somewhere on your way back from some event. If you mostly walk/public transport the overhead of this is very low.

If your events are regular, then you don't need to do the research each time either; and it becomes maybe an extra five or ten minutes.

yw3410··on The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party
Re-migration almost always targets children _born_ in the country.

In this thread a speaker of the party is quoted as talking about people who had Swedish passports i.e. citizens.

Would you not see it as ethically bad to split the citizens into "true" citizens who can't have their citizenship stripped and second tier citizens who can?

And if the country only serves the former...

yw3410··on The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party
This is an extremely far right stance. It's essentially advocating systemic discrimination against ethnic minorities.

Ask yourself the following questions.

1. Who decides whether you don't belong into Swedish culture?

2. Do the requirements change?

3. How many generations removed before your rights aren't conditional?

yw3410··on The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party
Okay - but that doesn't mean I'm not going to weigh up what you say when I'm choosing a business to support; especially if it's not in a professional context.
yw3410··on Renting a sewing machine from the library
Interesting, it was indeed design and technology; we weren't given a choice - we did both for a a couple of lessons each (cooking, sewing, woodwork, electronics, metalwork and graphic design).

I guess it must have been dependent on the school then?

It was useful - I'm quite sure I wouldn't have gotten any exposure to those subjects without it.

yw3410··on Renting a sewing machine from the library
In the United Kingdom, we learn (maybe past tense, I've no idea if the curriculum has changed) how to use a sewing machine at secondary school.
yw3410··on Not everyone is using AI for everything
I know of a few shops (names you've heard of!) who are trying to transition to AI-only coding (i.e where engineers must vibe code...) - despite already having a few production bugs with their current approach.
yw3410··on How to earn a billion dollars
Not really? If the same value and wealth is being created - the redistribution of it raises the floor as well.
yw3410··on UK set to announce social media ban for under-16s
May I ask how long you've been teaching and generally how big the behavioural change and/or timespan has been?
yw3410··on Pokemon Emerald Ported to WebAssembly (100k FPS)
Perhaps I'm mistaken but the project doesn't need a copy of the original ROM at all right?

To be clear; I don't really understand the law around this - my own country is based on case law which means that even if I wanted to open source some of my reverse engineered games (I have a few private partial implementations of some old defunct game engines in-progress), the distinct lack of prior cases means, sadly, it's prudent not to release them at all while the companies are still active.

yw3410··on Pokemon Emerald Ported to WebAssembly (100k FPS)
Interesting; but the GitHub project linked seems to have the original animations from the ROM.
yw3410··on Did Claude increase bugs in rsync?
I don't believe so - it's not as though the original prompts asked for extra code churn (note that as soon as you look and edit the LLM code output extensively it ceases to be vibe coding, which I was talking about in my OP).

I'm not talking about extra feature s; I'm talking about for the same single feature the code is either convoulted because the algorithm is overly complicated or the abstractions are just wrong for the domain.

The PRs typically are already focused in that they address a single feature; or at least a single "usable" feature in a complex system which necessarily has a lot of connected parts and behaviors.

> then the tool is probably not fit for the job.

Perhaps; but with an LLM I haven't found which jobs it _does_ work for and which it doesn't. I already use planning mode extensively; and capture the major points, but then it makes a stupid decision mid implementation and just starts churning.

yw3410··on Did Claude increase bugs in rsync?
I am anti-vibe coding if that meets your criteria?

Reviewing vibe-coded PRs and features has been utterly exhausting over the past few months.

I work on critical, mature software - a small change in behaviour can mean data loss or non-compliance with regulations for our customers. The biggest problem with AI PRs is the sheer amount of churn, extra code and lack of intent with the PRs it generates.

The only way I can describe the latter is that an AI-only PR feels to me like a painting where everything is high detail - and you have to comb over each part before you understand why it's there because so much is superfluous. A well written human PR on the other hand, is painted such that your eye naturally follows the thought process of the author so you can just nod along during the review, as if the solution was obvious.

Also when I'm _using_ the agent; at least 50 percent of my time is spent telling it to stop with it's approach so it doesn't go down a useless rabbit hole and waste tokens.

yw3410··on Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software
Happened to me, 3 days ago - deleted some tests and flipped assertions after outlining that it wasn't to change any assertions.

Our team was doing a similar task to move between test frameworks, and I had to do a git diff of hundreds of thousands of lines to try and work out where a test had disappeared to.

yw3410··on Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software
Yes, according to the git diff and the comment here https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/issues/929#issuecommen....

A change in the sys calls that are used. That's pretty sensitive in general I think; I can see if it were introduced by an LLM why people would be upset if they experienced data loss from it.

yw3410··on SF startup is testing robots in Airbnbs, and trashing them, lawsuit claims
Fixing scratched hardwood furniture is an absolute pain.
yw3410··on Expertise in the age of AI
Noone trusts a new graduate to do a code review - especially for big or novel features.
yw3410··on I Miss Terry Pratchett
Pratchett himself spent years as a journalist for a local newspaper before Colour of Magic.

These writing jobs in print media have mostly disappeared in the UK. It's certainly harder to make a living as a writer today than it was in the 70's and 80's.

yw3410··on The hypocrisy of cyberlibertarianism
Then I think you're lucky; I live in a major city (London) and can attest that there are parking spaces where the kiosk and booths are gone and the app the only way to pay.
yw3410··on Technical, cognitive, and intent debt
But someone needs to review and maintain the computational geometry code; or edit it to use a novel algorithm/optimize it.

And even if they didn't every line of extra code without sufficient abstraction adds cognitive overload.

yw3410··on The future of everything is lies, I guess: Where do we go from here?
I'm not sure where you're based, but having friends who are tradies most of the procurement and service infrastructure isn't owned by them at all.

Putting in a new kitchen or rewiring a house isn't beyond the physical abilities of most people and their customers tend to be the same middle class knowledge workers which AI is expecting to cannibalize.

As to your point about the knowledge being freely available; just as it's easier to ask an LLM about software questions, the same is true for other fields. It might not be accurate, but it doesn't really need to be - it just needs to lower the barrier for people to try.

Basically what I'm saying is that I absolutely expect secondary side effects for the trades if it has a big impact on knowledge workers as well.

yw3410··on The future of everything is lies, I guess: Where do we go from here?
I really don't see why you think trades are insulated; as someone who dabbles in plumbing, plastering and electrical wiring.

A significant amount of demand for both is due to knowledge barriers - and the fact that you need to certify work.

yw3410··on The future of everything is lies, I guess – Part 5: Annoyances
That's interesting; have you talked to your friends about their changes in behaviour? Is it something they've noticed themselves?
yw3410··on AI may be making us think and write more alike
It's odd to me that you live in a place where it's hard to find a theatre. Living in a cosmopolitan city there's so many theatres with anything from professional shows to amateur dramatics all at very reasonable price points.
yw3410··on Claude Code Unpacked : A visual guide
It's satire - just see the About page.
yw3410··on Qwen3.5 Fine-Tuning Guide
How small a model are we talking? Don't even the smallest models which would work need gigabytes of memory?
yw3410··on AI is killing B2B SaaS
Not to detract from your wider point, but there's a few ISPs which own IP blocks which aren't blacklisted.

I had quite a bit of success with it and of course, DKIM and the other measures you can take some years back.

For personal emails, I don't think I had any which fed straight into spam.

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