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New comment by heisenbit in "The Return of Aspect Oriented Programming"

heisenbit — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 21:20:30 +0000

Not necessarily. By handling certain aspects orthogonal to the main flow it reduces the context the llm has to keep track of and should enable deeper reasoning of the main functional logic.

New comment by heisenbit in "The anxiety of the perfect loaf: the illusion of culinary precision"

heisenbit — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 06:17:04 +0000

Reproducibly through measurements has a lot of value if you do not have a coach like the author for his mother. Yes a lot of recipes can be handed down but the space of recipes is so much larger. We don‘t need books as we can tell stories and this bring out the feel so much better is true but where would we be without the encyclopedia.

New comment by heisenbit in "The worthlessness of Vitamin D is mildly exaggerated"

heisenbit — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 19:59:23 +0000

In December by chance I put a pack of Vitamin D into my shopping basket. I did not think much, thought to take 1000IE but then decided that for the first week I take 3000 to catch up. Muscle pain went and control over eating improved. I did not expect any changes based on past experience with 1000 but this time I could not ignore it (age can play a role) and I stayed on 3000. Tests a month later showed I was just not deficient any-more. I continued on the regime and started having improvements in long running skin issues to the extent my dentist noticed. It may not be a miracle drug but one should not underestimate cumulative impact individual factors, age and lifestyle changes (less sun) that may change levels and demand.

New comment by heisenbit in "Code duplication is far cheaper than the wrong abstraction (2016)"

heisenbit — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 17:24:53 +0000

Changing abstraction is a high risk unlike agents refactoring scores of almost identical code.

New comment by heisenbit in "Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics"

heisenbit — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 08:03:13 +0000

Looking at actual combat robots in Ukraine Boston Dynamics robots are conceptually different and not necessarily in a convincing manner.

New comment by heisenbit in "Microsoft new Outlook takes 10 seconds to do what Outlook Classic does instantly"

heisenbit — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 18:31:42 +0000

You forgot to mention that all the people who made the original product great left and all the ones which could make the successor great did not join.

New comment by heisenbit in "[dead]"

heisenbit — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 13:41:00 +0000

More like: All the rules that determined how the internet services and content were financed are out of the window and are rewritten by AI.

New comment by heisenbit in "U.S. pulling ocean sensors a 'shock' for Canadian research as El Niño nears"

heisenbit — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 21:06:57 +0000

Ripping out sensors is the equivalent of shooting the messenger.

New comment by heisenbit in "Has AI already killed self-help nonfiction books?"

heisenbit — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 20:47:48 +0000

Some of the best books on JS which were online went recently off-line for that reason. Blog post by the author: https://2ality.com/ (Dr. Axel Rauschmayer)

New comment by heisenbit in "Ask HN: Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model for daily coding?"

heisenbit — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 21:33:49 +0000

I think it is work to set up but I'm also learning a lot setting it up. Mainly using qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b mlx with my 48GB M4 MBP which leaves me just enough headroom for docker dev-container and other basics. I use LM Studio to run and am using it via VSCode. A big difference made the system prompt improving the tool integration (I asked GPT for guidance on that). Before that it was not making changes but regenerating code often messing up than helping.

I mostly run my MBP on low power even when it is plugged in to avoid the noise and heat. Full power maybe doubles speed but more than doubles power.

What can it do: Simple restructuring of pages. Where did it and other models fail: Splitting up Pinia store which GPT-5.4 did without fail. I think with more tuning, guidance for tool use and maybe some support tooling around it performance can increase further.

New comment by heisenbit in "Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdown on Anthropic models"

heisenbit — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 18:03:36 +0000

Isn't Grok part of the IPO?

New comment by heisenbit in "German ruling declares Google liable for false answers in AI Overviews"

heisenbit — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 06:17:23 +0000

I just tried Google search in Germany on my iPhone: AI results AND the disclaimer was behind a „show more“ button i.e. the may not be any disclaimer (and when shown it was in a small font).

New comment by heisenbit in "German ruling declares Google liable for false answers in AI Overviews"

heisenbit — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 06:08:10 +0000

And the more you protest the more your name will be associated with child trafficking. Streisand effect multiplied by LLMs being not good in dealing with negative information.

New comment by heisenbit in "Apple WWDC 2026 Livestream"

heisenbit — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 19:21:28 +0000

Now if they just let me switch off the sound when I connect the charger. For any couple not going to bed at the same time and charging their phone at the bed this may be a welcome innovation. I'm willing to license this idea for free.

New comment by heisenbit in "The ways we contain Claude across products"

heisenbit — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 16:04:24 +0000

Limited liability makes taking unlimited risks a rational choice. AI ‚only‘ scales this corporate model up and compresses the timeframe to the next disaster.

New comment by heisenbit in "The just-say-no engineer was a ZIRP phenomenon"

heisenbit — Wed, 27 May 2026 06:08:09 +0000

The article vastly underestimates how often no was said before ZIRP. Getting to yes was very, very, very hard. Zirp moved the default to build it snd they will come.

New comment by heisenbit in "I manage teams without a single call"

heisenbit — Mon, 25 May 2026 17:16:23 +0000

It is so comforting to deal with known unknowns particularly when the unknown unknowns are the ones that get you.

New comment by heisenbit in "Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses"

heisenbit — Sat, 23 May 2026 13:20:58 +0000

How would one call such a strategy? Embrace and extend comes to mind.

New comment by heisenbit in "The memory shortage is causing a repricing of consumer electronics"

heisenbit — Fri, 22 May 2026 11:21:39 +0000

We always knew the limits to Moore‘s Law are first and foremost economic. Given an industry used over decades to predictable lowering of price per compute function and thus swallowed any advance for new user functions and overhead when the limits are reached there is going to be a squeeze. AI scaled up at the time the production capacity became more inelastic.

Maybe it is time not just shrink transistors but also software bundles. I can see decades of possible progress hiding in plain sight behind a browser screen.

New comment by heisenbit in "Was my $48K GPU server worth it?"

heisenbit — Fri, 22 May 2026 06:53:59 +0000

One value of learning on my Macbook is that mps is not as well supported as cuda which forces me to go down roads I would not have traveled.