Hacker News: barotalomey

New comment by barotalomey in "Wikipedia’s nonprofit status questioned by D.C. U.S. attorney"

barotalomey — Sat, 03 May 2025 11:40:42 +0000

Sure, I get that. But the term gained popularity in 2012 it seems, according to google trends.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=SJW&hl=e...

And there's a entry from 2011 in urbandictionary.com, so maybe that's around when it was coined.

New comment by barotalomey in "Redis is open source again"

barotalomey — Fri, 02 May 2025 04:36:44 +0000

> When my provisioning system installs a package by name, i expect it to work in the same way as before.

But where do you put the blame?

The distro for making that change, or the redis company for breaking your software stack?

New comment by barotalomey in "Redis is open source again"

barotalomey — Fri, 02 May 2025 04:32:13 +0000

Problem is, redis threw their users under the bus by relicensing [1], and user would end up with an outdated redis version.

1: https://github.com/redis/redis/commit/0b34396924eca4edc52446...

New comment by barotalomey in "Redis is open source again"

barotalomey — Fri, 02 May 2025 04:25:35 +0000

> But money are needed to pay the folks that work at open source software

Cute. Can I have a check for my redis contributions now please?

New comment by barotalomey in "Finland Bans Smartphones in Schools"

barotalomey — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 14:14:20 +0000

Awesome, finally!

New comment by barotalomey in "Satya Nadella says as much as 30% of Microsoft code is written by AI"

barotalomey — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 08:33:41 +0000

RIP Microsoft

New comment by barotalomey in "Show HN: Discorss – RSS Feeds for Discord"

barotalomey — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 17:37:59 +0000

Oh... I got too excited by the headline.

Thing is, I have a RSS reader already. It's free and open source, isn't updated 8 times a week, works without access to your microphone and it would never try to sell me Nitro.

What I want (and what I thought this was), is to be able to convert certain discord channels into rss feeds.

To OP: If you want a self hosted feature complete rss aggregator, I recommend you try https://www.freshrss.org/

New comment by barotalomey in "Did 5G kill the IMSI catcher?"

barotalomey — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 17:36:11 +0000

TLDR; No: just rebranded

New comment by barotalomey in "Wikipedia’s nonprofit status questioned by D.C. U.S. attorney"

barotalomey — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 14:14:33 +0000

> Usually, acronyms are followed by the full wording the first time they are mentioned.

I'm sure they did at the time this (SJW) acronym got popular. That was maybe 10-15 years ago.

New comment by barotalomey in "LLMs can see and hear without any training"

barotalomey — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 13:57:56 +0000

Primarily, processing input.

New comment by barotalomey in "Wikipedia’s nonprofit status questioned by D.C. U.S. attorney"

barotalomey — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 13:21:36 +0000

In 2025, most online users have learned how to look things up using.. the internet.

New comment by barotalomey in "Wikipedia’s nonprofit status questioned by D.C. U.S. attorney"

barotalomey — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 13:19:03 +0000

> by contesting the very existence of articles on individual episodes of TV shows, software, or video games, which are all completely uncontroversial on the English one.

In the first year or so of the english Wikipedia, I was very engaged in adding content but never really tried to engage with the community. I started adding articles about my topic of interest at the time, which was New York 80s punk and hardcore bands. Soon, I had the lot of my articles deleted for "lacking relevance".

I haven't been contributing much since.

New comment by barotalomey in "Paper2Code: Automating Code Generation from Scientific Papers"

barotalomey — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 13:10:16 +0000

That's how nothing ever works outside fiction.

New comment by barotalomey in "15,000 lines of verified cryptography now in Python"

barotalomey — Sat, 19 Apr 2025 07:37:58 +0000

That's why github added emoji reactions many years ago, so you can express "me too" without spamming the notification systems.

https://github.blog/news-insights/product-news/add-reactions...

New comment by barotalomey in "Defold: cross-platform game engine"

barotalomey — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 15:50:29 +0000

google "godot 4 tutorial", not "godot tutorial"

New comment by barotalomey in "Senior Developer Skills in the AI Age"

barotalomey — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 05:27:41 +0000

> You and I do not understand assembly language.

Having written z80 and x86 assembly since the 80s, being knee deep in several decompilation projects and a couple of emulators since then, I can safely tell you that I do know a handful assembly languages and at least 2 syntaxes.

I believe other seniors have similar skill sets, for now.

New comment by barotalomey in "Fedora change aims for 99% package reproducibility"

barotalomey — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 05:25:13 +0000

Rather, it's the version without a dependency on PERL.

New comment by barotalomey in "The problem with "vibe coding""

barotalomey — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 05:21:26 +0000

Eh, if that was the point then please, go ahead and show me this magical AI system that produce "edible" level of code then.

All I seen so far is badly generated boilerplate and enough template spaghetti to confuse some CS dropouts by the looks of it.

New comment by barotalomey in "The problem with "vibe coding""

barotalomey — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 04:16:37 +0000

Obtuse maybe, but I'm not missing the point. Their point is nonsensical, given that LLM generated code isn't "as good as fast food compared to home made meals" or even comparable to "food".

Go ahead and explain why I'm missing the point.

New comment by barotalomey in "The problem with "vibe coding""

barotalomey — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 04:11:45 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology)