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New comment by monkpit in "Why Software Factories Fail (or: harness engineering is not enough)"

monkpit — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 03:52:34 +0000

And what percentage of the software in the world needs to come close to human-quality code? I’d argue the percentage of the whole is VERY low.

New comment by monkpit in "AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion"

monkpit — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 03:51:37 +0000

It doesn’t take any longer to have the llm script this kind of thing, one off or not.

New comment by monkpit in "AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion"

monkpit — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 03:38:35 +0000

Until someone comes along and changes it without updating the name, or the value comes from a remote service and they change without you changing your name… etc.

New comment by monkpit in "Demis Hassabis has a plan to harness AI safely"

monkpit — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 21:38:51 +0000

Plus the fact that there’s bias in the first place - citizens in a country where they know social programs will care for their needy would not need to donate.

New comment by monkpit in "Resetting Xbox"

monkpit — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 03:51:08 +0000

> gotcha

Gacha?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gacha_game

New comment by monkpit in "CarPlay Is Additive"

monkpit — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 04:33:30 +0000

You said “let them know after you already bought it” - again, why would they care?

New comment by monkpit in "CarPlay Is Additive"

monkpit — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 04:24:35 +0000

What makes you think they would care? If they cared they wouldn’t have done it in the first place.

New comment by monkpit in "CarPlay Is Additive"

monkpit — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 04:22:43 +0000

(n=1)

New comment by monkpit in "Words Are a Byproduct of Consciousness. For LLMs, It's Backwards"

monkpit — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 18:10:44 +0000

Words are a representation of an underlying something; LLMs do not deal with words, they deal with tokens and embeddings. There’s a transformation layer between words and inference and back.

New comment by monkpit in "Exercise intensity influences body composition in healthy older adults (2025)"

monkpit — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 17:35:59 +0000

> I highly doubt it.

Not a very convincing discussion point without some support.

New comment by monkpit in "A game where you're an OS and have to manage processes, memory and I/O events"

monkpit — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 22:40:18 +0000

Reminds me of psDooM

https://psdoom.sourceforge.net/

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

monkpit — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 02:53:51 +0000

For what definition of “tolerate”?

New comment by monkpit in "Job application asked for my SAT scores"

monkpit — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 22:37:58 +0000

wild to call out a random org like that…

New comment by monkpit in "Show HN: Make PDFs look scanned (CLI or in the browser via WASM)"

monkpit — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 04:23:26 +0000

How is it fraud? Who is being defrauded? What is the impact to the victim?

New comment by monkpit in "I told them forced consent was unlawful. 5 years later it cost Elkjop €1.8M"

monkpit — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 15:56:29 +0000

You can’t make a contract that breaks the law, it doesn’t work that way. It’s unenforceable and doesn’t hold up in court.

Otherwise, you could just make contracts anytime you wanted to break the law for any reason.

New comment by monkpit in "I told them forced consent was unlawful. 5 years later it cost Elkjop €1.8M"

monkpit — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 22:23:31 +0000

It doesn’t mean _inside_ the apartment. It means if they decide to film a commercial and you’re walking your dog in the background, they don’t have to ask you.

New comment by monkpit in "How we run Firecracker VMs inside EC2 and start browsers in less than 1s"

monkpit — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 04:01:14 +0000

> Unikraft needed an engineer to add capacity by hand

This seems a little unfair - the _architecture_, as designed, required the human in the loop. The tool doesn’t require it.

New comment by monkpit in "TIL: You can make HTTP requests without curl using Bash /dev/TCP"

monkpit — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 03:57:07 +0000

Important to whom?

New comment by monkpit in "Is Meta destroying its engineering organization?"

monkpit — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 23:08:48 +0000

Who controls the prompt? Shareholders? And how do you have confidence that the prompt is being used? Just thinking out loud, it’s an interesting idea (even if it might be terrible and dystopian).

New comment by monkpit in "TIL: You can make HTTP requests without curl using Bash /dev/TCP"

monkpit — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 20:30:00 +0000

You might not have any say on what image is in use, for example, in a cicd library project.