JetSetIlly

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by JetSetIlly 7mo ago
"All of them are moving into the direction of "less human involved and agents do more", while what I really want is better tooling for me to work closer with AI and be better at reviewing/steering it, and be more involve
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by JetSetIlly 8mo ago
The golang.org/x/ namespace is the other half of the standard library in all but name. That gets iterated often. For stuff in the standard library proper, the versioning system is working well for it. For example, the json library
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by JetSetIlly 8mo ago
"These things are not intelligent. They're just tools." Correct. But they are being marketed as being intelligent and can easily convince a casual observer that they are through the confidence of their responses. I think that
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by JetSetIlly 8mo ago
"Okay. If you’re being vague, you get vague results." No. I was vague and got a concrete suggestion. I have no issue with people using Claude in an optimal way. The problem is that it's too easy to use in a poor way. My examp
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by JetSetIlly 8mo ago
I do have a test harness. That's how I could show that the code suggested was poor. If you mean, put the LLM in the test harness. Sure, I accept that that's the best way to use the tools. The problem is that there's nothing r
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by JetSetIlly 8mo ago
I accept what you say about the best way to use these agents. But my worry is that there is nothing that requires people to use them in that way. I was deliberately vague and general in my test. I don't think how Claude responded under
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by JetSetIlly 8mo ago
Interesting. I've only dipped my toe in the AI waters but my initial experience with a Go project wasn't good. I tried out the latest Claude model last weekend. As a test I asked it to identify areas for performance improvement in
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by JetSetIlly 8mo ago
This is a timely article for me. I was consulting Joe Decuir's Engineering Notebooks just yesterday and wondered if these sorts of notebooks were a common thing or whether it was just Atari. Joe Decuir was an engineer at Atari and was
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by JetSetIlly 8mo ago
I understand the issue is that Anthropic is not adhering to a standard. I was simply asking whether it's possible to solve the problem created by Anthropic in the way I was asking.
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by JetSetIlly 8mo ago
I've never used Claude or anything like it so this may be a dumb question: could you solve this problem by having a CLAUDE.md file that simply says to use AGENT.md if one is available. Can an AI agent not do that?
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by JetSetIlly 8mo ago
I'm the exact same demographic as the author, just turned 50, writing code since childhood in BASIC. I'm dealing with the AI in programming issue by ignoring it. I still enjoy the physical act of programming so I'm unsure why
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by JetSetIlly 8mo ago
Yes. When accounting I use a cheap calculator to do quick sums. Easier than using a calculator on the computer desktop.
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by JetSetIlly 9mo ago
Not really. Von Daniken talks about ancient aliens. Hancock talks about ancient human civilisations.
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by JetSetIlly 9mo ago
By default, all go mod downloads go through the golang proxy ( https://proxy.golang.org/ ). That is part of the verification process.
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by JetSetIlly 9mo ago
True. Maybe we experience jumps in time and location in our dreams because we've been conditioned to it by films.
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by JetSetIlly 9mo ago
> Films are more like dreams than like real life. Yes! The other happy accident of movies that contribute to the dream-like quality, besides the lower frame rate, is the edit. As Walter Murch says in "In the Blink of an Eye", w
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by JetSetIlly 10mo ago
Yes, even if it's not a legal requirement it's definitely best practice to have sequential invoice numbers. I thought about this at the time but these numbers aren't invoice numbers, only order numbers.
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by JetSetIlly 10mo ago
In a business I once worked for, one of the users of the online ordering system represented over 50% of the business' income, something you wouldn't necessarily want them to know. However, because the online ordering system assign
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by JetSetIlly 10mo ago
A couple of threads on AtariAge are exploring the possibility of using the "unstable" opcodes in this group (ARR, etc.) as a sort of fingerprint. The hope is that the instability is a prediction of the specific model of CPU. To wh
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by JetSetIlly 10mo ago
The problem with DRS is the zones and only being able to use it when close behind another car. My understanding is the X-Mode can be used pretty much anywhere and anytime.
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by JetSetIlly 10mo ago
One of his less famous works is a audio play based heavily on Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon. A recommended listen. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darkside_(radio_play)
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by JetSetIlly 10mo ago
The Hopkins Manuscript by R.C. Sherriff is one of my favourites on that list.
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by JetSetIlly 1y ago
I suspect HiFi culture was slightly different in different parts of the world. In my part of the world, the original HiFi guys rejected the EQ units. I was influenced by that I think (my father was an original). I still have a metre high st
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by JetSetIlly 1y ago
Maybe it doesn't make it any easier but your question does remind us that cataloguing and categorising people can be dangerous. I accept that there are good reasons that the state could use this information, but we should also be alert
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by JetSetIlly 1y ago
The census form in the UK requires disclosure of religion and ethnicity. It would be relatively easy to merge census data with ID. I might trust this government not to do that, but I don't trust a future government (because I don'
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by JetSetIlly 1y ago
Hopefully there will be. That will be a good solution for people like me, who want to live uncomplicated lives in peace.
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by JetSetIlly 1y ago
It really is mad. Whenever you hear someone say, "everyone has a phone these days", you must push back against that. It might seem like it to them but it's just not true. I've always chosen to point out that it isn'
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by JetSetIlly 1y ago
It's not so much the money but rather being forced to do business with a company I do not want to do business with. If this were an optional activity, like driving a car and being forced to do business with an insurance company, that&#
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by JetSetIlly 1y ago
That's not really the issue people have with it. The issue I have is that it provides a convenient way for people to hassle me for my identity. Being able to identify myself is not a problem I've ever had and I don't like the
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by JetSetIlly 1y ago
This is the most alarming aspect of the proposal to me. I find it wild that the government will require me, by law, to buy an expensive electronic device I don't want or otherwise need, in order to be employed. It's absolutely ama

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