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replygirl commented on GPT-5.3-Codex openai.com/index/introduc... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

sealeck · 9 days ago

Converge towards what though... I think the level of testing/verification you need to have an LLM output a non-trivial feature (e.g. Paxos/anything with concurrency, business logic that isn't just "fetch value from spreadsheet, add to another number and save to the database") is pretty high.

replygirl · 9 days ago

in the new world, engineers have to actually be good at capturing and interpreting requirements

replygirl commented on How I estimate work seangoedecke.com/how-i-es... · Posted by u/mattjhall

dorn64 · 21 days ago

It all starts with sales and marketing cramming every possible feature and half-rumour they heard about competitors' features into a 6 month project deadline. That's a long time, 6 months, no? How hard can it be? Respectfully, it'll be done when it's done.

replygirl · 21 days ago

we are the ones qualified to say what needs to be cut to provide reasonable certainty for the deadline. it is not the job of non-technical stakeholders to mitigate risk in technical projects

replygirl commented on Exploring PostgreSQL 18's new UUIDv7 support aiven.io/blog/exploring-p... · Posted by u/s4i

wredcoll · 4 months ago

It seems wildly paranoid, even for securitt researchers.

replygirl · 4 months ago

it's not about the individual record, it's about correlating records. if you can sequence everything in time it gets a lot easier to deanonymize data

replygirl commented on Bitwig Studio 6 details revealed, and editing gets a big boost cdm.link/bitwig-studio-6-... · Posted by u/robenkleene

oh_my_goodness · 5 months ago

Can anyone give a few specific advantages of Bigwig over say Logic or Ableton?

replygirl · 5 months ago

bitwig is the leader in probabilistic sequencing and automation. they entered the space with three big ideas: (1) you can modulate anything by anything else, (2) any modulation can have probability applied, and (3) automation can be applied to individual notes. these ideas were always around but relegated to more niche tools like reason and max. thanks to bitwig, the other daws have spent a lot of the last ten years applying these ideas as well, but bitwig still has the most complete solution. it's a great primary daw for outboard- and plugin-averse recording engineers and bedroom producers; it's the best _secondary_ daw if you use one of the majors for work and want something fresh for play, inspiration, or continuing education.

i use ableton. every time i get excited for an update, it's because i'm finally getting something bitwig users have had for years

replygirl commented on Code formatting comes to uv experimentally pydevtools.com/blog/uv-fo... · Posted by u/tanelpoder

cwyers · 6 months ago

I'm just going to ask this: if your coworkers ask "can we upgrade from ruff to uv format," and it takes you that much time to explain it, have you just considered going "sure thing," spending two hours on Twitter, and pushing a commit and getting paid for it?

replygirl · 6 months ago

now i've spent 2 minutes implementing, 1 minute drafting and assigning the pr, 10 minutes checking everything, 10 minutes each of two reviewers' time, 10 minutes of qa's time, and 1 minute reporting. it's also likely i spend 2 minutes explaining what it is to each of our PMs and our CTO and why they don't need to worry about it. then i still need to field questions from devs, this time "why did we change this?" and still "what's the difference?". so that costs the company even more.

replygirl commented on Code formatting comes to uv experimentally pydevtools.com/blog/uv-fo... · Posted by u/tanelpoder

cwyers · 6 months ago

The HN commenters in a nutshell:

ruff: Aww, you're sweet!

uv format: Hello, human resources?

Meanwhile, they provide identical functionality. (`Under the hood, it calls Ruff’s formatter to automatically style your code according to consistent standards.`)

replygirl · 6 months ago

i expect to hear "hey replygirl, can we upgrade from ruff to uv format?" from 5 of my coworkers in the next month, and "what's the difference between ruff and uv format?" from another 10. per interaction i expect 2 minutes of reading and explaining, plus an average 5 minutes listening to the other party wax philosophical. so the convenience costs my job $400

replygirl commented on Code formatting comes to uv experimentally pydevtools.com/blog/uv-fo... · Posted by u/tanelpoder

dkdcio · 6 months ago

that’s a bit slow typically

replygirl · 6 months ago

so install ruff?

replygirl commented on Casual Viewing – Why Netflix looks like that nplusonemag.com/issue-49/... · Posted by u/exitb

stavros · a year ago

What, this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWvt3E5a-AA

replygirl · a year ago

https://youtu.be/OAca0JsIQe4

replygirl commented on AMD records its highest server market share in decades tomshardware.com/pc-compo... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico