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New comment by Autious in "Fine-tuning an LLM to write docs like it's 1995"

Autious — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 10:59:29 +0000

I agree. I had such a strong revelation reading C Programming Language book, and the Lua Programming Language book (which is suspect is heavily influenced by the C book). It's so clear and concise while not skipping important details, answering all of the readers questions that come up. Kerningham et al really knows how to write and the value of doing so well, respecting the reader.

There's just so much shitty technical documentation out in the world.

New comment by Autious in "Fine-tuning an LLM to write docs like it's 1995"

Autious — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 08:18:59 +0000

I love reading docs. It's the best way to get as close as I can to understanding the intent and context of a piece of software. I feel like adding an LLM between myself and the original text for anything else than search is just adding risk and noise.

Am I the only one feeling this way?

New comment by Autious in "Twitter hands over messages at heart of Occupy case"

Autious — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 17:36:12 +0000

It sounds like the user had removed the tweets from his account to hide them from public viewing. (I might be wrong here, not the point)

But, is there some law or other reason that Twitter would continue to store tweets that have been removed by its users?

New comment by Autious in "WebGL around the net, 23 August 2012"

Autious — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 22:56:48 +0000

I've often heard that WebGL is very well a large security issue, and i've read about some rather frightening examples that could easily be extended to do severe damage.

But i don't understand how it could be fragmenting the Web in any way worse than what has been before and what might come as an alternative.

It's a fun addition, enabling hardware rendering on platform widely used, in a potentially simple way for the end user.

On top of that it's surprisingly open, enabling it to be implemented on almost any machine or OS.

It's still in its infancy and works like shit, with a bunch of browsers either having experimental, incomplete or a complete lack of an implementation (and a lack of interest thereof).

Still, i wouldn't want to have something like this go any other way.

I'm sincere in my question, because i don't want to fuck around or fight with people, i'm merely curious. How would you prefer it to be? Even if it's just a vague ideal?