lloydatkinson's comments

On: You need to rewrite your CLI for AI agents

[lloydatkinson]

No I don’t thanks.

On: Google Workspace CLI

[lloydatkinson]

Google will wait for businesses to become very coupled to this and then kill off the CLI just because.

On: “Microslop” filtered in the official Microsoft Copilot Discord server

[lloydatkinson]

Discord/Reddit moderators living up to their obnoxious stereotype as usual.

[marcyb5st → lloydatkinson]

I don't know for certain, but moderators (on a company Discord) are likely random people in a 3rd world country that are payed peanuts and that is their only income. If higher ups tell them "I don't want to see the Microslop word anywhere" they just do it.

You should be angry at the higher ups that instead of saying: "maybe they are right and we can do better" they decided to hide the problem through censorship. Which, btw, always has the opposite effect of putting what you are trying to hide in the spotlight.

[JasonADrury → lloydatkinson]

Spamming "microslop" is obnoxious, filtering out childish behaviour is not obnoxious.

But if you don't want childish behaviour, Discord is an ... interesting choice.

On: Ask HN: How are you all staying sane?

[lloydatkinson]

Off topic? By a throwaway account AI slopper no less.

[flowerthoughts → lloydatkinson]

I saw a similar issue on r/PrivatEkonomi (Swedish.) Two doomerism post with subject somewhat adapted to the forum at hand. The two users were young accounts with private comment history.

Someone is definitely on a propaganda tour trying to seed negative sentiment.

[lloydatkinson → flowerthoughts]

I'm glad you said this otherwise someone would call me paranoid. Over on https://lobste.rs/ there is a user currently on their third account called "datarama3" who doom posts exactly like this once a week. It's really tiring.

On: WebMCP is available for early preview

[lloydatkinson]

Sadly I do see this slop taking off purely because something something AI, investors, shareholders, hype. I mean even the Chrome devtools now push AI in my face at least once a week, so the slop has saturated all the layers.

They don't give a fuck about accessibility unless it results in fines. Otherwise it's totally invisible to them. AI on the other hand is everywhere at the moment.

On: Show HN: Better Hub – A better GitHub experience

[lloydatkinson]

Thanks for sharing my article :)

[robtherobber → lloydatkinson]

Of course.

On: Looks like it is happening

[lloydatkinson]

Isn't there a rule about vague titles like this?

[VerifiedReports → lloydatkinson]

They ARE the rule on HN. If you criticize bullshit titles like this, you'll be downvoted and shadow-banned.

Ask me how I know.

[lloydatkinson → VerifiedReports]

Oh I know I’ve experienced it too

On: Goodbye InnerHTML, Hello SetHTML: Stronger XSS Protection in Firefox 148

[lloydatkinson]

To be pedantic that’s the DOM API, which is exposed to JavaScript.

The DOM API has always felt like, and still does, it was written by people that have never made an API.

[pier25 → lloydatkinson]

I don't think that's pedantic. Seems like a valid objection to me.

So many issues in the client JS world originate from insufficient or bad browser APIs.

[lloydatkinson → pier25]

I don’t really think it’s pedantic it’s just that unless you preface a lot of comments on HN these days, you’ll get a lot of whataboutism and straw man arguments.

On: The challenges of porting Shufflepuck Cafe to the 8 bits Apple II

[lloydatkinson]

Fascinating, but no video of the multiplayer over serial?

[colinlm → lloydatkinson]

I should add one. Check this in the meantime ! https://youtu.be/A9NqiPYullU

On: Pipelined Relational Query Language, Pronounced "Prequel"

[lloydatkinson]

Does it really help to call SQL a graph?

[data_ders → lloydatkinson]

right? like it's a graph and a relational model query and a pipeline and a language and an abstract syntax tree and declarative logical plan

[thesz → lloydatkinson]

It does. Just like any other programming language.

[lloydatkinson → thesz]

May as well call everything a graph at that point; meaningless.

[thesz → lloydatkinson]

  > meaningless.

No.

You present "programs are graphs" as trivial truth. True trivial truths are, as you pointed out, meaningless. But you leave out degree of applicability - information in the dependence graph differs between programming languages.

Dependencies form a graph, and analyses needed to optimize execution of the program graph differ wildly between languages. Look at С++ aliasing rules and C's "restrict" keyword.

One can't escape the dependence graph. But one can execute dependence graph better or worse, depending (pun intended) on the programming language.