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New comment by bfLives in "Tiger Style: Coding philosophy (2024)"

bfLives — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 15:40:15 +0000

I got this sense as well, particularly from the section about assertions. Most of the use cases they describe (e.g checking function arguments and return values) are much better handled by an expressive type system than ad-hoc checks.

New comment by bfLives in "ChatGPT terms disallow its use in providing legal and medical advice to others"

bfLives — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 01:12:32 +0000

Does it matter? I’d rather use a 90% accurate tool than an 80% accurate one that I can subject to retribution.

New comment by bfLives in "Is Sora the beginning of the end for OpenAI?"

bfLives — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 22:50:20 +0000

On the other hand, I’ve found the integration in Confluence quite helpful, particularly for making sense of acronyms.

New comment by bfLives in "TiVo exiting legacy DVR business"

bfLives — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 04:23:40 +0000

> TiVo has stopped selling Edge DVR hardware products,” the company said in an AI-based message.

What does this actually mean? An AI-authored press release? A customer support bot message?

New comment by bfLives in "Arenas in Rust"

bfLives — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 18:00:50 +0000

It’s even in the standard library now: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/cell/struct.OnceCell.html

New comment by bfLives in "[dead]"

bfLives — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 19:07:51 +0000

You can use pgrep to avoid this.

New comment by bfLives in "Claude Code now supports hooks"

bfLives — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 02:21:56 +0000

For the `-j` issue specifically, exporting `MAKEFLAGS=-j8` should work.

New comment by bfLives in "Define policy forbidding use of AI code generators"

bfLives — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 01:08:47 +0000

> There is a well settled practice in computing that you just don't plagiarize code. Even a small snippet.

I think way many developers use StackOverflow suggests otherwise.

New comment by bfLives in "Show HN: Semantic Calculator (king-man+woman=?)"

bfLives — Wed, 14 May 2025 20:45:18 +0000

“Man” is probably being interpreted as the Isle of Man.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isle_of_Man

New comment by bfLives in "Orpheus-3B – Emotive TTS by Canopy Labs"

bfLives — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 14:20:53 +0000

Looks like only the code is Apache, not the weights:

> the code in this repo is Apache 2 now added, the model weights are the same as the Llama license as they are a derivative work.

https://github.com/canopyai/Orpheus-TTS/issues/33#issuecomme...

New comment by bfLives in "Show HN: Shelgon: A Framework for Building Interactive REPL Shells in Rust"

bfLives — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 20:52:04 +0000

Looks really interesting. I like the approach of writing pure functions that return descriptions of IO tasks to perform. A couple of questions:

1. Why async?

2. Why couple to anyhow instead of using an associated error type?

New comment by bfLives in "2025 Hiring Pause"

bfLives — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 01:56:21 +0000

From the sound of it, a whole bunch of them.

New comment by bfLives in "Broadcom, TSMC eye possible Intel deals to split storied chipmaker"

bfLives — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 02:20:30 +0000

What would HP bring to this hypothetical merger?

New comment by bfLives in "Just: Just a Command Runner"

bfLives — Sat, 07 Dec 2024 19:04:23 +0000

I think this is exactly the intended use case for Ninja. It’s discussed in this recently posted article.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42268310

New comment by bfLives in "Disrupting a covert Iranian influence operation"

bfLives — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 23:39:11 +0000

> and it’s ultimately done to show that OpenAI is making an effort to mitigate the risks that regulators claim it creates.

I’d go one step further — the subtext is that only Open AI is willing to do this, and that LLMs are just too dangerous to open source/not another with regulation that only big companies have the resources to adhere to.

New comment by bfLives in "Awsviz.dev simplifying AWS IAM policies"

bfLives — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 21:44:19 +0000

I think IAM would be a lot easier to interact with from a dev perspective if the error messages were more clear. I suspect that they are sometimes intentionally vague (or misleading) as a kind of security-through-obscurity. For example, S3 returns “file does not exist” errors when the real problem is that the caller doesn’t have permission to access the bucket/prefix.

New comment by bfLives in "Exploring Gleam, a type-safe language on the BEAM"

bfLives — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 12:43:25 +0000

> Gleam's labelled arguments are AFAIK a unique feature. This lets you have named function argument appear differently to the caller than they do internally. The caller may way to refer by verb ("multiply_by") and the function may want to refer to it as a noun ("multiplier").

Swift has this feature as well.

New comment by bfLives in "I built an ROV to solve missing person cases"

bfLives — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 01:38:20 +0000

It’s accessible via the Wayback Machine, fortunately.

New comment by bfLives in "Falcon 2"

bfLives — Mon, 13 May 2024 23:20:19 +0000

I find that kind of surprising; the lack of “customer service voice” is one of the main reasons I prefer the Mistral models over Open AI’s, even if the latter are somewhat better at complex/specific tasks.

New comment by bfLives in "The Oxford Comma and the Internet (2013)"

bfLives — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 00:05:07 +0000

The fact that, at the time of writing, all of the comments on this post are about the Oxford comma rather than the actual thesis of the article goes a long way to proving its point.