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To be honest I would love for someone to work on the structuring of pg_dump for example, which is entirely driven by regexes and binary structures. It’s awful and absolutely not programmable - a real shame.

I don’t like that he keeps renaming it. This is “Humans Need Not Apply” and it even has its own Wikipedia page under that name!

And yes it’s deeply true. I remember watching this at the time and it was one of the reasons I got into AI. (That, and watching Person of Interest).

I even kept re-linking it every year around Christmas, watching it on a yearly basis. And then …

What do you mean? Factorio is an extremely calculable game and tends to show most of its information (ratios aside, those are in the wikis)

Here is a great video on the topic.

https://youtu.be/ZOXymrplqCg

Buddy, maybe make fun of grandparent instead of me here?

As someone who reviews a lot of AI shit and can generally tell ai generated down to the model version … nah, it doesn’t.

It’s obscene to think they would be so successful however without Russia’s active role in it.

Okay I’ll bite.

Thanks to AI, I was able to finish my bookkeeping and accounting app I had been working on years ago. https://financica.app

It’s not just “vibe coded”, it’s really damn good. Because thanks to AI, whenever I spot an issue, a quality of life increase etc I can just immediately implement it rather than have it seat in a perpetually growing backlog of “maybe one day”.

And there’s SO MANY standards to comply with especially in Europe and I just … implemented all of them. It’s more full featured than any of its competitors.

It runs the bookkeeping and accounting for all of my own companies plus plenty of customers. And the funny thing is for me, this is pretty much a side project. I just have people helping on sales, but all the development is me.

HN discover the defence industry…

Panther, Jaguar … Wait, wrong company.

So I take it that some people are voting "No" on things just to troll / ostrich out of reality?

Like, who's still denying that AI can "write software" (https://stoppels.ch/goalposts/?c=13650937) or pass the turing test (https://stoppels.ch/goalposts/?c=11255120)?

Hey, sorry to bother you but I was about to google something and I figured I'd ask you instead. Can you remind me the year John Herivel was born, and how old he was when he discovered the Herivel tip?

Please?

To add to it… I can’t find the video of it right now, but a while back I saw people taking a stopped escalator, and the escalator failing into an open hole essentially. Since then I’ve started following said recommendations on not using stopped escalators.

Your president literally does illegal things all the time and your Supreme Court just declares it’s legal because it’s the president.

You have zero moral ground or credibility to stand on.

Confidence votes are a very different type of vote than electoral votes. There’s an argument to make for them. There’s also an argument that it turns a professional job into a popularity contest.

I know it sounds like the commission is full of buddy-buddy jobs but, living in Brussels and seeing the bubble from up close I can tell you that is seldom the case. I can’t say it never happens but the processes and scrutiny these people go through is extremely high.

Don’t get me wrong, there’s often a lot of incompetence that ends up at the helm. But this isn’t something elections solve. Elections turned the leader of the free world into the leader of incompetence.

Adding elections adds democracy, it does not add expertise. If your issue is with bad decisions being made, your issue is not with how the people got in the position to make those decisions, it’s with the systems that allowed bad decisions to be made.

A bad plane pilot can crash your plane and kill you; the fix isn’t to elect your pilots.

Peak 2026 hn to think vibe coding a mobile app for elections is going to “solve” a problem they don’t understand. Do you even hear yourself?

> there needs to be a popular vote across the EU for every commissioner job and the EU Commission head.

Your talking points are misinformed and pretty ridiculous which makes me think you're a troll rather than having a faithful argument. But on the off chance you are trying to have a real discussion: The Council and Parliament both get elected and the commission cannot do anything without them, so it's not like the system is not democratic.

I don't see the US asking for their attorney general or supreme court justices to be democratically elected. At some point you have to trust that the people you actually elect will appoint people who know what they're doing.

Just because there's someone in the chain you're not doing a round of elections on doesn't make the system bad. You need the system to have agency at some point.

Yes, I know Russia. I got to know it even better lately: It's waging war on my continent right now, and murdering my fellow Europeans and their families. I've seen its bombs fall on schools, malls, churches and libraries. I've seen videos of its conscripts having fun, bragging about stealing, raping and murdering civilians.

If you're on the side of history that North Korea supports, you're on the wrong side of it.

Pretty sure that's an intended joke.

Reminds me of this: https://www.reddit.com/r/ITcrowd/comments/tg05j1/i_cant_beli...

The price is far too small. Active propaganda on behalf of a rogue state is an act of war and should be treated as such, IMO.

I’m not profiting from the war, I’m donating my time. Idfk what’s wrong with you.

(I mean, I know exactly what’s wrong with you… but you get my drift)

Yeah mate whatever. Instead of scrolling twitter or whatever, donate some of your actual time to Ukraine and start getting up to speed with what Russia is really doing, straight from the source.

Otherwise you’re just going to continue being what is commonly called a “useful idiot”.

Edit: seeing your other posts, seems like you’re well beyond useful idiot territory and either a Russian agent or plain and simply a troll. Of course it’s always the ones you most expect.

Little by little, people are realising that Europe is at war. Politicians are trying so hard not to say it because of the implications, but there’s only so long you can keep your head buried in the sand.

We’re under constant attacks from Russia… drones, sabotage, cyberattacks, propaganda campaigns derailing our elections…

I’m sick of it.

Not being impressed must make you feel very smart, yeah?

Is that why you feel the need to share it with the class?

For this I'd need to be any good at mathematics.

There are two VOs by Matt berry during the video. There’s more than one voice.

Put simply, I expected better, friend.

I am utterly fascinated by the amount of comments here from engineers that clearly have zero experience with mathematics making utter fool of themselves by claiming to know better than mathematicians what their jargon is/means, how publishing works/should work, etc…

I try not to go down the route of “hn was better before!” but… jeez, do better, people. What happened to this community, there used to be some effort to not be bottom-barrel like this.

Ok but why are you comparing different Claude sessions then? Of course they’re different, they have different experiences. Just because they have the same “name” doesn’t make them the same persona.

Compare a single session. It’ll be extremely consistent.

Unmistakably so.