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PinkMilkshake commented on Claude Code is being dumbed down?   symmetrybreak.ing/blog/cl... · Posted by u/WXLCKNO
jascha_eng · 16 hours ago
There are a lot of non developer claude code users these days. The hype about vibe coding lets everyone think they can now be an engineer. Problem is if anthropic caters to that crowd the devs that are using it to do somewhat serious engineering tasks and don't believe in the "run an army of parallel agents and pray" methodology are being alienated.

Maybe Claude Code web or desktop could be targeted to these new vibe coders instead? These folks often don't know how simple bash commands work so the terminal is the wrong UX anyway. Bash as a tool is just very powerful for any agentic experience.

PinkMilkshake · 4 hours ago
> The hype about vibe coding lets everyone think they can now be an engineer.

Programmers are just jealous that they are no longer the only ones that get to play pretend.

I don't know anything about you personally, but most "software engineers" are anything but.

PinkMilkshake commented on Bye Bye Humanity: The Potential AMOC Collapse   thatjoescott.com/2026/02/... · Posted by u/rolph
roenxi · 4 days ago
It isn't actually all that scary; humans cope pretty well over a wide variety of temperatures. If the change caught everyone by surprise it'd be a huge problem but it seems to be fairly well understood and there is lots of time to adjust.

Worst case scenario seems to be that people will stop migrating to Europe.

PinkMilkshake · 4 days ago
> humans cope pretty well over a wide variety of temperatures.

That's not the problem, though. The problem is almost nothing else can. Livestock, staple crops, pollinating insects, etc.

PinkMilkshake commented on Photos capture the breathtaking scale of China's wind and solar buildout   e360.yale.edu/digest/chin... · Posted by u/mrtksn
DavidPiper · a month ago
This is true, and I'm a big fan of SA leading the charge, having grown up there.

However, we could also build out more green energy technology to become a large energy exporter. (You could argue we are kind of that now, with the amount of coal we export.)

Especially given we have strong but complicated geopolitical ties to both China and the USA, it feels like guaranteeing our own energy sovereignty, plus gaining the ability to export power directly, would be a strong political as well as environmental move.

PinkMilkshake · a month ago
I only just learned about SunCable. I think using our vast swathes of empty, sun-drenched land to provide power to our Southeast Asian allies is a great idea.
PinkMilkshake commented on Show HN: I used Claude Code to discover connections between 100 books   trails.pieterma.es/... · Posted by u/pmaze
znnajdla · a month ago
This is a software engineering forum. Most of the engineer types here lack the critical education needed to appreciate this sort of thing. I have a literary education and I’m actually shocked at how good most of these threads are.
PinkMilkshake · a month ago
I think most engineer types avoid that kind of analysis on purpose.
PinkMilkshake commented on Microsoft Download Center Archive   legacyupdate.net/download... · Posted by u/luu
jamesdhutton · 2 months ago
Genuine question, not being sarcastic: why would someone want/need these downloads?
PinkMilkshake · 2 months ago
Lots of workshops, factories, university research labs, etc. still use old machinery that would be a huge waste of money to replace just because the computer that controls it runs Windows 95. In some cases it can't be replaced because the company that created the software, drivers, or IO cards is long gone.
PinkMilkshake commented on If Odin Had Macros   gingerbill.org/article/20... · Posted by u/mattwilsonn888
Imustaskforhelp · 4 months ago
FFI scares me if I am being honest and that is why I always try to think of a language which can do a lot of things themselves without having to reach for FFI thinking its going to be my last resort most of the time.

So that was my perspective when I had written up my comment.

What are some really good languages for FFI? Lua as you suggest?

I have always had this notion that FFI is really hard and so firstly I would like to ask if that's really true and secondly is there a langauge which can make it easy to work with FFI the most? Like do you suggest lua for something?

PinkMilkshake · 4 months ago
PUC Lua is supposedly a bit of a pain for ffi, but I havent tried it myself. Luajit is some kind of crazy magic. You can (almost) just copy and paste the c header file into the ffi.cdef function and then start using c functions as if they were lua functions.
PinkMilkshake commented on Go ahead, write the “stupid” code   spikepuppet.io/posts/writ... · Posted by u/spikepuppet
throwy98888 · 4 months ago
I appreciate the sentiment, but "There is no stupid code" is the dumbest sentence I've ever read.
PinkMilkshake · 4 months ago
Maybe you don't read much, but it's obvious they weren't making some universal statement about code. They are referring to the code you write when you are just experimenting by yourself, for yourself. The point is to not let irrelevant things like usefulness, quality, conventions, etc. limit just tinkering and learning.

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PinkMilkshake commented on Melonking Website   melonking.net/... · Posted by u/thecsw
PinkMilkshake · 6 months ago
Wonderful site. How are they sneaking in the auto-playing music? Firefox even displays a little icon saying audio is being blocked.
PinkMilkshake commented on I tried Servo   spacebar.news/servo-under... · Posted by u/robtherobber
bee_rider · 6 months ago
> […] and I can't think of anything particularly innovative coming from Mozilla that isn't a browser. I don't consider Rust to be a side project, it is a programming language for writing a browser, that it is useful for projects other than a web browser is a happy side effect.

I’m sure Rust started out as something intended to help with their browser work. But it became a general purpose programming language pretty early, right? I think it is… working pretty hard to find a reason to not include Rust as a innovative, non-browser piece of tech.

Anyway, I don’t really think it detracts from your broader point to count Rust as a separate thing from the browser.

PinkMilkshake · 6 months ago
> I’m sure Rust started out as something intended to help with their browser work.

It started out as something to make elevators more reliable. Not even joking (mostly).

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