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anbende commented on Using Claude Code to modernize a 25-year-old kernel driver dmitrybrant.com/2025/09/0... · Posted by u/dmitrybrant

kccqzy · 4 months ago

This is more of a reflection of how our profession has not meaningfully advanced. OP talks about boilerplate. You talk about grunt work. We now have AI to do these things for us. But why do such things need to exist in the first place? Why hasn't there been a minimal-boilerplate language and framework and programming environment? Why haven't we collectively emphasized the creation of new tools to reduce boilerplate and grunt work?

anbende · 4 months ago

I think this one way of looking at what your parent was describing.

They weren’t just saying ‘AI writes the boilerplate for me.’ They were saying: once you’ve written the same glue the 3rd, 4th, 5th time, you can start folding that pattern into your own custom dev tooling.

AI not as a boilerplate writer but as an assistant to build out personal scaffolding toolset quickly and organically. Or maybe you think that should be more systemized and less personal?

anbende commented on Visualizing environmental costs of war in Hayao Miyazaki's Nausicaä jgeekstudies.org/2025/06/... · Posted by u/zdw

bena · 6 months ago

I caught this on HBO in the 80s. And over the years, I had forgotten the name, although it wouldn’t have helped much.

But I had remembered liking it. The glider, the giant bugs, etc.

I spent several years casually trying to find it. But “big ass bug anime” is kind of vague. Eventually I just started looking through catalogs of the timeframe from various distributors and studios.

I don’t know how or when, but eventually I was doing a deep dive on Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli and read the description of Naussica. Looked up screenshots. And there it was, that one bit from my childhood.

anbende · 6 months ago

I had a very similar experience, watching it at Japanese camp when I was about 8. I had recurring dreams of a ship going down into a poison jungle for many years and vague memories of this movie.

I found it again when mail order Netflix first came out in my early 20s. It was like rediscovering my childhood and completing a character arc.

anbende commented on OpenAI slams court order to save all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats arstechnica.com/tech-poli... · Posted by u/ColinWright

ryeguy_24 · 7 months ago

Would Microsoft have to comply with this also? Most enterprise users are acquiring LLM services through Microsoft's instance of the models in Azure? (i.e. data is not going to Open AI but enterprise gets to use Open AI models)

anbende · 7 months ago

My (not a lawyer) understanding is "no", because Microsoft is not administering the model (making available the chatbot and history logging), not retaining chats (typically, unless you configure it specifically to do this), and any logs or history are only retained on the customer's servers or tenant.

Accessing information on a customer's server or tenant (I have been assured) would require a court order for the customer directly.

But... as an 365 E5 user with an Azure account using the 4o through Foundry... I am much more nervous than I ever have been.

anbende commented on Tomorrow people: For a century, it felt like telepathy was around the corner aeon.co/essays/for-over-a... · Posted by u/Caiero

tshaddox · 2 years ago

Your understanding of the terminology sounds a lot different than mine. I always interpreted "hard" and "soft" to simply be references to "hard science" and "soft science."

In other words, I thought "hard sci-fi" means fiction that deals mostly with fictional facts in fields like physics, astronomy, geology, and biology, while "soft sci-fi" means fiction that deals mostly with fictional facts in fields like psychology, economics, and political science.

anbende · 2 years ago

Yes this is a reasonable way to misunderstand given the way we refer to “hard sciences” and “soft sciences”, but it does not map to the terms “hard scifi” and “soft scifi” in common usage.

It’s not exactly about rules consistency either as stated by the GP, though that’s part of it. It’s more about strong consistent application of scientific principles even theoretical or untested principles.

This is in contrast to futuristic fantasy with no real focus on the science. But futuristic or space fantasy can be very consistent just like magical systems in fantasy can be very consistent. Hard scifi has to be constrained by plausible consistent science and that science is typically a main character in the story, or even THE main character.

anbende commented on Tesla conducting more layoffs, including entire Supercharger team electrek.co/2024/04/29/te... · Posted by u/TheAlchemist

kibwen · 2 years ago

Reminder that a chessboard is a 3D object and the game of chess takes place over time, so 4D chess is just... chess. :P

anbende · 2 years ago

You’re getting downvoted because chess is 2D, not 3D. The pieces only move on a flat plane. 3D chess exists and pieces move up and down as well.

anbende commented on Nicotine (2016) gwern.net/nicotine... · Posted by u/blitz_skull

standardUser · 2 years ago

The addictive properties of nicotine aren't magic. It requires sustained, repeated consumption, like any physically addicting substances. And research has shown that different people have different propensities for addiction (same with cocaine and alcohol).

But if you do become addicted to nicotine, and are one of the people with a high propensity for nicotine addiction, you're fucked. It's one of the most challenging addictions to quit, as we all know. Is this a risk you want to take for some mild stimulation? As a former smoker, I can only believe that anyone who takes this risk does not fully appreciate the consequences. The exception might be people who have consumed nicotine on and off but have never had addictive tendencies. Those people definitely exist, but it still seems like a risky thing to assume about yourself since being wrong could be life altering.

I also take exception to the articles emphasis that moving on to cigarettes is the only real risk. Yes, that's where the majority of the health problems come from. But don't underestimate the negative consequences of a physical addiction, even one that does not lead to health problems. It is not fun to be addicted to anything that contorts your body and mind outside of your control.

anbende · 2 years ago

Research anecdote here. I’m a psychologist in a different area and a friend who did his PhD in cocaine research with rats told me this.

Addiction is highly dependent on the immediacy of the drug’s effect on the brain. For this reason, people who smoke cocaine (directly or as crack) are highly likely to get addicted. It may be the majority. People who snort it are less likely to get addicted. And there are a lot of casual cocaine users (snorting) who do not develop a long term life altering addiction. I believe he (researcher friend) said it was 10-15% who go on to become addicted. Still substantial and dangerous but much less than smoking.

His research was looking at delayed onset of cocaine in rats after they pushed their cocaine lever. At longer delays more and more rats showed little interest.

This is part of the overall addiction picture. Decoupling drug use behaviors (smoking, snorting, and lever pressing) from noticeable drug onset prevents reinforcement of the behavior and makes addiction less likely, often much less.

This would explain why nicotine patches and gum would potentially be much less addictive than cigarettes.

anbende commented on Metric Time metric-time.com/... · Posted by u/rickcarlino

bmacho · 2 years ago

Metric time is a better name, since it states that this time comes naturally from our common metric system, and something is very very off that we don't use it.

anbende · 2 years ago

As mentioned elsewhere in the thread, it's called the metric system because the values were derived from the meter. Decimal time has nothing to do with the meter, and "decimal" refers to it being base 10.

anbende commented on Metric Time metric-time.com/... · Posted by u/rickcarlino

jader201 · 2 years ago

Technically, yes. But measurements of weight, volume, and temperature are also part of the metric system, and those didn’t derive from the meter.

Seconds are also part of the metric system, but one of the few not based on decimal/base-10.

Again, I’m just speculating that the author used “metric” because it often represents decimal/base-10 measurements. Not really arguing whether they were technically correct in doing so.

anbende · 2 years ago

This isn't totally true. Mass and volume measurements were indeed derived from the meter. A gram is a cubic centimeter of water. A liter is 1/1000 of a cubic meter. Apparently Celsius is derived from Kelvin (really just translated so 0 is the freezing point of water), which is derived using metric units in a formula that is a bit beyond me but available here:

https://www.bipm.org/en/si-base-units/kelvin

Anyway, TIL.

anbende commented on How would you say “She said goodbye too many times before.” in Latin? latin.stackexchange.com/a... · Posted by u/micouay

stinos · 2 years ago

One could also say that French is 'rather different', not better or more clear. Let alone superior (though I do not know where that claim came from).

anbende · 2 years ago

If we’re talking about clarity I think there’s some merit to the claim. It has tense markers that English lacks which buys you information in the conjugation about tense, gender and speaker. And unlike other Latin languages you aren’t able to drop the subject and just rely on the verb to convey it which forces clarity one could argue. You get the best of both worlds for clarity though the worst of both worlds for conjugation complexity and overall verboseness.

At least that’s my attempt to defend the GP’s statement.