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New comment by andy24 in "Show HN: Lnk – Git-native dotfiles manager"

andy24 — Sat, 24 May 2025 15:56:04 +0000

I use this approach as well, works absolutely great for me.

New comment by andy24 in "Multi-threading is always the wrong design (2023)"

andy24 — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 09:43:16 +0000

Interesting perspective, I’ve never been thinking about this problem in terms of whether workers need shared memory space. Thank you!

New comment by andy24 in "Multi-threading is always the wrong design (2023)"

andy24 — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 17:59:04 +0000

Isn’t Nginx multithreaded rather than multiprocess? I’m not an expert in web stuff but it’s always felt intuitively that worker threads map nocely into typical web server workloads.

Also, any UI app should basically be multithreaded to prevent interface hiccups.

New comment by andy24 in "Multi-threading is always the wrong design (2023)"

andy24 — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 10:24:56 +0000

Or games. Or web servers. I think the author might have forgotten to suffix the title with “for the work I do”.

New comment by andy24 in "Literate Development: AI-Enhanced Software Engineering"

andy24 — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 20:11:40 +0000

Can’t use AI at my day job unfortunately. I tried LLMs for code reviews and “opinions” in personal projects, it does pick up things I didn’t know about that I then explore myself, but these are small projects where I practice specific things rather than product development.

New comment by andy24 in "Literate Development: AI-Enhanced Software Engineering"

andy24 — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 20:03:53 +0000

Ehm, I’m kind of in a weird position now. Responding with “I didn’t ask for personal story” sounds rude and I have no way if asking for more details without this. Like, if I was writing an article about optimisasation of an algorithm, I’d include information on the problem before and after, as well as some details how it was measured (the most interesting part). Otherwise it’s hard to discuss anything.

New comment by andy24 in "Literate Development: AI-Enhanced Software Engineering"

andy24 — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 18:45:10 +0000

This article describes a method for LLM-assisted coding process but don’t provide anything of substance to back it up. It’s unclear whether the suggestions and techniques mentioned in the article came from personal experience or have otherwise been verified or experimented with with a real team and a real project.

New comment by andy24 in "Microsoft Cancels Leases for AI Data Centers, Analyst Says"

andy24 — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 14:38:32 +0000

Ah yeah, I can totally see how it can be useful for churning put tons of code. Even without copy-paste, just generating a ton of references and rewriting/improving them. Anecdotally, I’ve tried asking deepseek to review a few files of my code — it wasn’t bad at all, though not without false positives.

New comment by andy24 in "Microsoft Cancels Leases for AI Data Centers, Analyst Says"

andy24 — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 12:46:30 +0000

What kinds of projects are you working on? My experience is jot very good with these tools (expanded in a sibling comment).

New comment by andy24 in "Microsoft cancels leases for AI data centers, analyst says"

andy24 — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 12:44:30 +0000

I have a similar experience. Tried to use it for real work and got frustrated by the chat’s inability to say “I don’t know”. It’s okay for code snippets demonstrating how something can be used (stack overflow essentially), also code reviews can be helpful if doing something for the first time. But they fail to answer questions I’m interested in like “what’s the purpose of X”.

New comment by andy24 in "TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday"

andy24 — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 13:17:21 +0000

The amount of mental gymnastics to justify censorship in this thread is off the charts. A really solid anti utopia material. One can probably make a dystopian museum exhibition with quotes from this thread.

On a similar note, I have never seen so much bigotry and populism on HN as in this and H1B threads.

New comment by andy24 in "Nordic neighbours release new advice on surviving war"

andy24 — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 18:15:38 +0000

How is ‘the Russians’ considered ideology? Also look a sibling comment making qualitative claims of 80% Russians are X.

New comment by andy24 in "Nordic neighbours release new advice on surviving war"

andy24 — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 17:33:41 +0000

I’m Russian, am I the problem? We need @dang here to address this racism here.

New comment by andy24 in "Notes on Tajikistan"

andy24 — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 08:47:25 +0000

The article studies properties of a nationalist group, which is in extreme minority, especially after 2010s, and doesn’t make claims that ‘most Russians are nationalists’.

You have to lurk really hard to find a nationalist there unless you count people love Dostoyevsky into this group. There are also a lot of glass ceilings in place for ethnical Russians, and distribution in elite universities, politics, and business don’t represent the country average, which suggests there’s an intentional ’reverse racism’ in place towards majority. Moreover, the word ‘Russian’ is banned in media and is replaced by ‘citizen of Russia’.

New comment by andy24 in "Notes on Tajikistan"

andy24 — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 06:53:33 +0000

This blanked statement is false. I’m speechless somebody can make claims like this tbh.