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Re:Don't be a meat proxy on Monday August 03, 2026 @05:21AM (#49153270)
I do not think people should stop asking questions. What is the point of teams / departments / orgs ?
Re:The Software Engineering Identity Crisis on Monday March 24, 2025 @06:39AM (#43459364)
There is no such a thing as a 10x engineer. Anyone who appears as 10x only do whatever that maintains that illusion. (don't help anyone else, don't do support, keep all knowledge in head, bad documentation, etc)
Re:The Software Engineering Identity Crisis on Monday March 24, 2025 @06:36AM (#43459340)
Yes this is what I call "the accountant/spreadsheet theory", and I think this is the most likely scenario.
Re:The Software Engineering Identity Crisis on Monday March 24, 2025 @06:00AM (#43459125)
What I do is turn off copilot, do the design, get in the zone and enable copilot. This way I do not get it to slow me down, otherwise I just wait for it to do API calls. Even then, I turn it off when it create complete wrong implementations.

Problem is it doesn't know the layer of utilities we have and just rewrite everything from scratch. Which is too much duplicatation. I have to now delete it and type correct code again.

One advantage I have seen is that, it can defenitely translate / simplify what my collegues say, fix typos or partial-words. Which is very useful when you are working with lot of different people.

Re:UK's elite hardware talent is being wasted on Monday January 20, 2025 @07:44AM (#42768134)
Could you elaborate further? I am a skilled immigrant in the UK. I pay my taxes and have not used any benefits. I even pay for my medication; the only free service I have used is a GP appointment or a hospital scan, which was likely covered by the IHS (Immigration Health Surcharge).

What have I done to make the country worse off?

Re:What the TP-Link Ban in the US Means for You on Monday January 13, 2025 @05:07AM (#42681875)
What about exports? do you want to stop those too
Re:Kenney.nl: Free Game Assets on Monday January 13, 2025 @05:00AM (#42681831)
Kenny is great, I used Kenny Shape to draw Yaksha lang logo :)
Re:Pdfcpu – A PDF Processor on Saturday January 11, 2025 @04:56PM (#42669238)
Looks impressive - it can do lot of PDF modifications using a single static binary.

Show HN: Xido – SF2 player for jamming and learning

https://pandabunnytech.itch.io/xido

Hi All,I just released this new application to my itch.io store, I have created a new way of snapping to scale.Instead of just snapping to closest note, now you can translate from C Major scale to any other scale/root. (Since C major is just the white notes starting from C it is easier to learn)PS: I made this application in Yaksha programing language. (I'm also the author of Yaksha)I'd...

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Good stuff, I like how individual tokens have colours in the tree view. it seems like a visual syntax tree.
Re:Things we learned about LLMs in 2024 on Thursday January 02, 2025 @06:08AM (#42573485)
What you think of samples and FL Studio / DAWs?
Re:Things we learned about LLMs in 2024 on Tuesday December 31, 2024 @02:14PM (#42561026)
I think LLM web applications need a big red warning (non interactive, I don't want more cookie dialogs) like in cigarettes.

> LLM generated content need to be verified.

Re:Orbit. Mozilla's AI Assistant for Firefox on Tuesday December 31, 2024 @02:07PM (#42560984)
What is a free speech plugin? were there political discussions in these threads? If so it seems like they did the correct thing removing such political plugin right?

> basic utility program decided to become political

looks like they wanted to avoid it, isn't it?

Re:Jaguar Land Rover electric car whistleblower sacked on Wednesday December 18, 2024 @10:47AM (#42451412)
Both speak Germanic languages, close enough?
Fun alternative is to get a paid number. You can complain for but it will cost $100 per minute.
But you do not need to know about them if abstraction works, I assume it is sufficient for SQLite use case.
I remember making my own distro with TCL :)
Re:Chebyshev Polynomials in the 16th Century (2022) on Sunday December 01, 2024 @03:15AM (#42287034)
That is even better :)
Re:Chebyshev Polynomials in the 16th Century (2022) on Thursday November 28, 2024 @04:55AM (#42263989)
Nice I did not know about this servie. looks cool. Replace x with 5 and view the PDF rendered
Re:TheDesk Desktop Environment on Monday May 06, 2024 @07:00AM (#40273234)
Even if this is a serious project, particular author of this project has a right to build something, and try to carve out an audience for it. Nothing wrong with that.
yeah, even the disclaimer is identical. Original Secretllama poster at least talked about web-llm package which powers it. But this is a just a clone. How sad.
Pixel phone's ability to answer calls for you is very useful. Rarely scammers want to talk to a bot.

Does any of you know similar software for (non-google) Android?

Re:Go's Error Handling Is Perfect on Friday April 05, 2024 @11:23AM (#39943533)
What is with the site - `very good software not virus . ru`
Good cop bad cop play maybe.
Re:Akira Toriyama has died on Friday March 08, 2024 @12:14AM (#39638005)
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Re:V Language Review (2023) on Saturday February 24, 2024 @09:09PM (#39496976)
Hey banning someone for suggesting use of Go doesn't make sense. That is quite sad.

Shameless plug:

Please take a kind look at https://yakshalang.github.io/. I'd like to receive some criticism.

We discussed this on discord :)
Re:Container2wasm: Convert Containers to WASM Blobs on Thursday January 04, 2024 @03:49AM (#38864676)
Yup. this is what I use for Yaksha playground (I use v86 though). See -- https://yaksha.pages.dev/
Re:Making Small Games, Which Is Fun in Itself on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @01:59PM (#38858189)
haha, nice mine are basically what I wrote as demos for Yaksha https://yakshalang.github.io/demos/

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