writing code is not the fun part of coding. I only realized that after using claude code.
Well, I suppose we might have found one of the discriminators in why some people love LLMs and some hate them...
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phyzome commented on What makes Claude Code so damn good minusx.ai/blog/decoding-c... · Posted by u/samuelstros
> research has shown that people generally overestimate the productivity gains of LLM coding assistance.
I don’t think this research is fully baked. I don’t see a story in these results that aligns with my experience and makes me think “yeah, that actually is what I’m doing”. I get that at this point I’m supposed to go “the effect is so subtle that even I don’t notice it!” But experience tells me that’s not normally how this kind of thing works.
Perhaps we’re still figuring out how to describe the positive effects of these tools or what axes we should really be measuring on, but the idea that there’s some sort of placebo effect going on here doesn’t pass muster.
I mean, you're one person (so it doesn't have to match) and you're not carefully measuring everything (so you don't have a basis for comparison).
phyzome commented on Rolling the dice with CSS random() webkit.org/blog/17285/rol... · Posted by u/zdw
Security in the Stylesheet? Come on, you need to set boundaries for expectable use.
"Look, I implemented diceware in pure CSS!" is unfortunately not that hard to imagine.
I would bet someone is already working on it as we speak.
phyzome commented on The power of two random choices (2012) brooker.co.za/blog/2012/0... · Posted by u/signa11
I think that simulation claim that pick-2 can send 2.5x as much traffic to most loaded vs least loaded is a bit misleading: if the load metric is completely random then that might happen. The more correlation to load the better. Also, rather than looking at the ratio of most loaded to least loaded, it might be better to look at the ratio of most loaded to average: that is, how much extra work did we send to a poor server. In that, pick-2 has an absolute cap of 2xing the load on a server.
Real world case where I've observed these load characteristics: A cluster of three Redis nodes, one of which is primary and therefore has slightly (but persistently) worse latency. Pick-2 would send significantly less read traffic to that node. Like you say, it's no worse than a 2x difference, but I'd prefer better balancing than that.
(Pick-2 also can at most give 2x less traffic to a node with terrible performance, which is not awesome.)
phyzome commented on Happy 100000th birthday, Debian lists.debian.org/debian-d... · Posted by u/pabs3
It's not linguistically correct for Nth to be used with a binary number, right? It's not like we would say 0b10nd, would we?
I mean, I get the intent with Debian's post, and I think it's fun! I'm more curious if there's other suffixes to use for this kind of thing when it's not base10
All that matters is the last digit, so "th" is correct. In binary you would just have _th and _st.
phyzome commented on Beyond the Logo: How We're Weaving Full Images Inside QR Codes blog.nitroqr.com/beyond-t... · Posted by u/bhasinanant
I wonder how well these scan under less-than-ideal lighting and focus conditions. The standard QR code would be a lot more robust...
phyzome commented on AI tooling must be disclosed for contributions github.com/ghostty-org/gh... · Posted by u/freetonik
phyzome commented on The power of two random choices (2012) brooker.co.za/blog/2012/0... · Posted by u/signa11
I found less-than-great results in a simulation where there's a slight persistent difference between two of the options: https://www.brainonfire.net/blog/2019/07/21/load-balancing-b... (as part of a larger study on healthchecks that Don't Suck).
This is hilarious:
https://old.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/comments/1mw5yfg/force...
> Sounds like you have no product managers or your PMs suck. The platform must also be dead simple if it can be rewritten in two weeks.
And the OP's response:
> we pride ourselves in not hiring any product folks until after we raised our series A. this helped us stay super lean, move fast, and build exactly what our customers want.
...which then gets called out as pretty much in direct conflict with what came before.
phyzome commented on Weaponizing image scaling against production AI systems blog.trailofbits.com/2025... · Posted by u/tatersolid