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riknox commented on Show HN: I vibecoded a 35k LoC recipe app recipeninja.ai... · Posted by u/tomblomfield

farzd · 5 months ago

Vibe coders will be so busy solving the problem of making something work that they wont invest time into understanding the business problem at hand

riknox · 5 months ago

To be fair the author of this did found two massively successful businesses so I imagine he does understand tackling a business problem.

riknox commented on Cities need more trees herman.bearblog.dev/citie... · Posted by u/HermanMartinus

helsinkiandrew · a year ago

> and the general public has the right to roam on it

There's no right to freely roam in the UK unlike Finland and other countries [1], although there are public footpaths/rights of way that cross private land [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_to_roam

[2] https://www.gov.uk/right-of-way-open-access-land/use-public-...

riknox · a year ago

That applies outside of Scotland as far as I'm aware, whereas in Scotland there is a right to roam on all land as long as you're not disturbing housing/farm activities etc.

riknox commented on I spend £8,500 a year to live on a train metro.co.uk/2024/03/03/sp... · Posted by u/surprisetalk

cool_dude85 · a year ago

>That is why we have a system where a ~350 mile journey from London to Glasgow takes more than twice as long and typically costs more than twice as much for half the legroom compared to a ~350 mile journey from Paris to Bordeaux.

Just for my own interest as an American, I can take a 350 mile journey on a train from where I live (Jacksonville, FL) to Miami. There are two trains a day, one of which takes 11 hours and costs $72, the other takes 9 hours and costs $94. Based on my experience, both of these trains are likely to be between 3 and 6 hours later than the scheduled time. How does that compare to the London to Glasgow cost and time?

riknox · a year ago

That's not far off the same cost as to get to Glasgow from London, looking for tomorrow it's between £55 and £70. Significantly longer though for yourself, the train here is around 4 hours 45 mins (give or take). It's also generally close to on time, and we have delay repay for anything over 15 minutes.

riknox commented on Purple Llama: Towards open trust and safety in generative AI ai.meta.com/blog/purple-l... · Posted by u/amrrs

a2128 · 2 years ago

I don't see OpenAI as a member on https://thealliance.ai/members or any news about them joining the AI Alliance. What makes you believe they should be mentioned?

riknox · 2 years ago

I meant more it's interesting that they're not a member or signed up to something led by big players in AI and operating for AI safety. You'd think that one of, if not the largest, AI company would be a part of this. Equally though those other companies aren't listed as members, as the sibling comment says.

riknox commented on Purple Llama: Towards open trust and safety in generative AI ai.meta.com/blog/purple-l... · Posted by u/amrrs

riknox · 2 years ago

I assume it's deliberate that they've not mentioned OpenAI as one of the members when the other big players in AI are specifically called out. Hard to tell what this achieves but it at least looks good that a group of these companies are looking at this sort of thing going forward.

riknox commented on Modules, not microservices blogs.newardassociates.co... · Posted by u/PretzelFisch

xnorswap · 3 years ago

Broadly my heuristic for this is, "Would it make sense to run these functions in the other other?".

If you split up MegaFunction(){} to Func1(){} Func2(){}, etc, but it never makes sense to call Func2 except after Func1, then you haven't actually created two functions, you've just created one function in two places.

Refactoring should be about logical separation not about just dicing a steak because it's prettier that way.

riknox · 3 years ago

I think that's a reasonable heuristic, but I'd also say you have to take into account the human readability aspect of it. It sometimes does make sense IMO to split solely for that, if it allows you to "reduce" a complicated/confusing operation to a string name, leading to it being easier to understand at a glance.

riknox commented on Tell HN: Royal Mail Data Leak · Posted by u/pmx

ratg13 · 3 years ago

Problem with their cache (redis / elasticsearch / etc.)

Happens even to the best companies.

riknox · 3 years ago

Interesting how many people go straight to the cache - seems like we've all been there when we're accidentally overwriting keys with the wrong data!

Experience is the best teacher I guess, although we all seem to be doomed to make the same mistakes.

riknox commented on Glasgow council four-day week on full pay moves closer after study agreed glasgowlive.co.uk/news/gl... · Posted by u/s0l1dsnak3123

riknox · 3 years ago

The title for this article is misleading. It only says they've agreed to a study to investigate it. There's a world of difference between that and actually approving a 4-day week for all.

riknox commented on The worst part of working from home is now haunting reopened offices slate.com/human-interest/... · Posted by u/RickJWagner

bob2222 · 3 years ago

This exactly the mindset at Barclays in the UK except we are a globally distributed across 5 offices. When they started their back to office nonsense they caused an exodus on our team in Glasgow and now we are all working fully remote for for 50% more money

riknox · 3 years ago

Got to justify the absolutely massive campus they've built by the Clyde somehow. In my experience, there's been quite the PR push recently on how amazing this new campus is (I'm not a Barclays employee).

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