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kibiz0r

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  • "Clean" Code, Horrible Performance

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  • Congratulations, you’ve caught up to 1994.

    https://youtube.com/watch?v=5l2wMgm7ZOk

    Clean code is still a relevant lens for thinking about code, but the key word there is “a”. You can’t try to drive wearing your reading glasses and conclude that reading glasses are useless.

  • PSA Huggingface is scraping GitHub

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  • Really? In front of my Elinor Ostrom poster?

  • PSA Huggingface is scraping GitHub

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  • Welp

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  • Not even. Your job isn’t to protect prod, it’s to take the blame when prod goes down.

  • The Session You Cannot take with you

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  • Kimi-K3 Releases on HuggingFace 6/27

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  • Or two-three 768GB Mac Studios if Apple manages to get CXMT up to speed. Probably ~$50K. Not cheap, but an order of magnitude cheaper than a Blackwell stack.

  • How do you handle visual regression detection in production?

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  • I can say a little bit on tooling: We’ve experimented with Chromatic. We’re on a mobile app though, so the idea with Chromatic is to render via react-native-web, which has its own issues, so the ROI is such that we haven’t taken it beyond POC. Seems nice though, and probably more in line with your domain.

    But for org strategy, I take it you’re on a much bigger team than I ever have been. (10 people max for me) So I can’t speak to personal experience there, but what I will say is that being able to control your entire env top to bottom is crucial for pretty much anything where you want high fidelity testing.

    Like, being able to set up an env that allows you to play with stuff like externally-sourced ads and CDN caches in a space that’s private and temporary. No small feat, but that’s pretty much what you have to do if you want to catch those Rube Goldberg style failures before prod.

    It depends how much it’s worth it to you, to have a test env that’s 99.999% realistic. As with anything, the first two 9s are the cheapest.

  • Huggingface have scraped the entirety of Github.

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  • Meanwhile at work we just had a training course that specifically said doing “opt out” instead of “opt in” violates the principle of informed consent.

  • Huggingface have scraped the entirety of Github.

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  • I did it to invite collaboration and connect with other developers with similar interests. FOSS is more about building communities than building software, after all.

    I did not anticipate that it could be (legally) used to dismantle the kinds of communities I wanted to build. (I did anticipate that it could be illegally used to that end, but historically that has tended to cause a Streisand Effect, so that risk seemed worth it.)

  • Qwen3.8 is launching and going open-weight soon

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  • RIP Kimi K3. For a brief moment, it was nice for Kim Kardashian to be the strongest open weight model in the world.

  • Young adults are poor despite every metric which suggests otherwise

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  • Price indexes measure the individual cost of discrete goods, but they are not intended to convey the total cost of personally repurchasing a destroyed commons.

    Succinct way to encapsulate the entire decline of a society. Author’s got some bars.

  • Locked

    Not a single one

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  • The question was “why is public sentiment so against nuclear?” and they answered, with a note that they personally support it over fossil fuels.

  • Don't You Mean Extinct?

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  • The thing that the “it’s simply yet another tool” crowd miss is that tools are not neutral or inert.

    “Web 2.0” and “mobile first” had some politics baked into them from the start, even though it may have been hard to see at first. AI is no different.

    When you use the tool, it makes you see the world a certain way.

    That is, quite obviously, the point — you use a tool because you behave differently when using the tool. If you did exactly the same things in exactly the same way as without the tool, it’s not much of a tool, is it?

  • Claude Code sends 33k tokens before reading the prompt; OpenCode sends 7k

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  • Unsurprising. What incentive do they have, when it comes to efficient use of the tokens they sell you?

    It’s like if Exxon gasoline only worked in Exxon cars and you had to obey the Exxon GPS.

  • The 'Father of the Internet' is finally retiring

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  • I get it man. Retire while you’re on top. The internet has never been better!

  • Oh dear, did someone steal something from Apple?

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  • I mean, yeah. Someone literally stole a laptop and exploited an authentication bug to give confidential info to a rival company. Did the author not read any of the articles they linked to? Why are they so obsessed with Jony Ive?

  • A font that humans can read but AI cannot

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  • Every time I look at HN comments, I’m disappointed in humanity. Tech-oriented forums used to be where I went to refill my supply of hope.

  • AI doesn't know how to forgive and cannot forget

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  • General Ludd has a posse.

  • How do you handle cron jobs that silently stop working?

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  • Can’t answer for them, but I can explain a similar situation I ran into:

    Large external RAID I was using for telescoping backups with a restic cron job. Didn’t want to have it on all the time cuz it was noisy, so I put it on a smart plug and had it turn on and off as part of the job.

    I really wanted a set of backup rules that worked like… “always a full snapshot of current state, plus as much of the following as will fit into the destination: daily for the past 7 days, weekly for the past 4 weeks, monthly for the rest until full” …but restic doesn’t (or didn’t) support that kind of dynamic rule set.

    I tried to estimate it programmatically, but it never worked 100% and I frequently ran into out of space errors.

    But of course, I never saw the actual disk usage in my day-to-day, because the RAID was only on at like 4 AM.

  • Programmer Humor @programming.dev
    kibiz0r @midwest.social

    Fractions of a Module

  • Today I Learned @lemmy.world
    kibiz0r @midwest.social

    TIL the phrase "Do Not Split", meaning leftist pacificists and leftist radicals shouldn't condemn each others' tactics

    www.teamhuman.fm /episodes/329-matthew-remski