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dirkt commented on Knuth on ChatGPT (2023)   cs.stanford.edu/~knuth/ch... · Posted by u/b-man
hinkley · 18 days ago
Something a lot of people don’t get is that there are ways you can trust a consistently mediocre developer that you can’t trust a volatile but brilliant coworker. You almost always know how the formers’ work will be broken. The latter will blow up spectacularly on you at some terribly in opportune moment.

That’s not to say fire all your brilliant devs and hire mediocrity, but the reverse case is often made by loudmouths trying to fluff their own egos. Getting rid of the average devs is ignoring the vocational aspects of the job.

dirkt · 17 days ago
> You almost always know how the formers’ work will be broken.

The thing is that there are enough people who blindly trust ChatGPT's answers, and they don't know in which ways they could be broken, and they wouldn't have the knowledge to verify the answers because they are asking about things they themselves know very little about.

dirkt commented on What went wrong with wireless USB   oldvcr.blogspot.com/2025/... · Posted by u/goldenskye
dist-epoch · 4 months ago
> which makes the value proposition a lot less clear.

Wirelessly transferring files between a phone and a computer seems like a big use case. Still no easy standard way of doing it.

dirkt · 4 months ago
But that doesn't need new peripherals, I could do that in my home WLAN network if they'd just install standard software for it on the phone (which you can fix by installing it from F-Droid etc.)
dirkt commented on Philosophy of Coroutines (2023)   chiark.greenend.org.uk/~s... · Posted by u/HeliumHydride
ktpsns · 5 months ago
Something which bothers me about coroutines is the pure boilerplate -- I don't even mean the ridiculous verbose coroutine definitions in C++20 but just the spread of "await" and "async" keywords all over the code, for instance in Python and Rust. I understand that these keywords are the compromise to introduce the feature into the language without paying for it when not using it, but I wonder if there is not a more concise way. Something not mentioned at all in the particle is the "what color is your function" problem (https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2015/02/01/what-color-is-...) where I wonder whether there is a good solution.
dirkt · 5 months ago
I am always disappointed they didn't go all the way and made async/await syntactic sugar for a general Monad abstraction, like in Haskell.

And I like the Haskell do-blocks.

dirkt commented on Mutool – all purpose tool for dealing with PDF files   mankier.com/1/mutool... · Posted by u/rahimnathwani
daft_pink · 7 months ago
I really wish there was a way to view and edit pdf from the terminal vim style.
dirkt · 7 months ago
You can decompress the streams with mutool and edit the Postscript-like code in any editor, if you want. (That doesn't help a lot with editing text, of course...)
dirkt commented on Be Aware of the Makefile Effect   blog.yossarian.net/2025/0... · Posted by u/thunderbong
dirkt · 8 months ago
Same with programming: You just copy some old code and modify it, if you have something lying around.

Same with frameworks (Angular, Spring Boot, ...). The tools even come with templates to generate new boilerplate for people who don't have existing ones somewhere.

dirkt commented on VW Group Collects Vehicle Movement Data   twitter.com/alex_avoigt/s... · Posted by u/Luc
Etheryte · 8 months ago
Germany makes a big ruckus about their local industry struggling to compete with Chinese manufacturers, but meanwhile the Volkswagen Group stumbles from one scandal to the next. As far as I'm concerned, if that's the way you do business, go bankrupt. I know all big manufacturers have their warts and flaws, but VW continues to be the frontrunner year after year.
dirkt · 8 months ago
Don't forget that other manufacturers collect the same data, they just didn't have a collection of blunders that allowed access. No malicious intent this time, but it clearly highlights that companies need to learn to put policies in place to make double sure PII is actually protected to the degree the law already requires. We also need laws that force companies to make opting out of this kind of data collection much easier, or to make it opt-in in the first place.
dirkt commented on 38c3 Talk: Volkswagen, we know where you parked your car [German]   fahrplan.events.ccc.de/co... · Posted by u/bitschubser_
redrove · 8 months ago
Would love to listen to this but it’s German only :(

Is there an english version coming out any time soon?

dirkt · 8 months ago
Usually all the CCC talks get subtitled, give the hard working teams a few days, there's many talks...

Completed videos are here: https://media.ccc.de/c/38c3

dirkt commented on How WhatsApp for business changed the world   restofworld.org/2024/how-... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
1317 · 9 months ago
there are no adverts on whatsapp
dirkt · 9 months ago
But Facebook collects your interactions, adds them to your (shadow) profile, and sells this marketing data to advertisers.
dirkt commented on Demystifying Git Submodules   cyberdemon.org/2024/03/20... · Posted by u/signa11
vermilingua · 9 months ago
Can anyone speak to usecases for submodules that arent better served by your language’s package manager? Multi-language codebases, languages without appropriate package management perhaps?
dirkt · 9 months ago
I have used them for OpenAPI specs shared between frontend and backend, and database schemas together with values for a test database in the pipeline.

Yes, you can also solve this with a monorepo...

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