alexchantavy

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by alexchantavy 11mo ago
As an open source maintainer, I don't have an issue with AI; I have an issue with low quality slop whether it comes from a machine or from a human. The responsibility then is for an open source project to not be shy on calling out low
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by alexchantavy 11mo ago
At least they did a s/—/-/ in the copy
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by alexchantavy 11mo ago
newgrounds.com in its heyday was so fun. Also anyone else remember when websites used to make Flash intros that you'd have to skip to get to the content?
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by alexchantavy 11mo ago
Wow that's a great idea thanks for sharing
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by alexchantavy 11mo ago
Off topic completely but I really like the font used in this blog
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by alexchantavy 11mo ago
> What moved the needle: Query Generation What does query generation mean in this context, it’s probably not SQL queries right?
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by alexchantavy 11mo ago
I miss when Facebook Messenger let you connect to it with XMPP back in the day so you could have it together with your other msging services on Adium/Pidgin
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by alexchantavy 11mo ago
> no need to ask permission to anyone, ownership of your resources, etc In a large enough org that experience doesn’t happen though - you have to go through and understand how the org’s infra-as-code repo works, where to make your change
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by alexchantavy 1y ago
Around 5 years ago the metagame was to make everything horizontally scalable. Now it seems things are swinging back the other direction and articles like "Use One Big Server" are getting re-discussed: https://news.ycomb
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by alexchantavy 1y ago
> They’re doing sweet battle with bots that are more interested in getting their newly-generated test suite to pass than solving the user’s problem in the simplest way possible. Makes having good tests even more important. One technique
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by alexchantavy 1y ago
Neat! I don't know much about the Linux ecosystem so I didn't realize how Linus himself is still so deeply involved in the day-to-day review and release process.
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by alexchantavy 1y ago
In recent years I noticed RSS has gotten way less popular, even in hacker circles (or maybe that's just my perception). I remember browsers used to have a native RSS button in the main interface and then you could curate your feed. See
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by alexchantavy 1y ago
> It makes me want to move into something completely different like sales Aaand that's startup founder life :) Intense multitasking, needing to accept a lower engineering quality bar, and ignoring scale problems because you don&#x27
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by alexchantavy 1y ago
I would buy a PS5 if I didn't already have a gaming rig tbh. For PC I enjoy the tinkering and the ability to basically do anything with it, but nowadays the cost compared to console is stupid and after a long day's work the last t
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by alexchantavy 1y ago
Yeah it bugs me. We've got enough examples in this article to make Cards Against Humanity ChatGPT edition > One panelist shared a personal story that crystallized the challenge: his wife refuses to let him use Tesla’s autopilot. Why
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by alexchantavy 1y ago
Can't make a custom gaming rig with Mac. Linux gaming isn't quite there yet too.
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by alexchantavy 1y ago
I love the idea of GamePass (unlimited games for one small monthly fee) because it reminds me of Sega Channel on the Genesis back in the 90s. But in practice, games that I’m into take 20+ hours to finish, and with my busy schedule, a $60 ga
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by alexchantavy 1y ago
Neo4j has a GraphRAG book that I've found very helpful: https://neo4j.com/essential-graphrag/ It depends on the shape of your data. In my domain (cloud security), there are many many entities and it's very va
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by alexchantavy 1y ago
There are a lot of good AI code reviewers out there where they learn project conventions based on prior PRs and make rules from them. I've found they definitely save time and catch things I would have missed - things like cubic.dev or
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by alexchantavy 1y ago
+1, cursor and Claude code do this automatically for me. Take a big analysis task and they’ll write python scripts to find the needles in the haystacks that I’m looking through
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by alexchantavy 1y ago
Excellent concrete examples with video demos here: https://embracethered.com/blog/ The researcher has gotten actual shells on oai machines before via prompt injection
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by alexchantavy 1y ago
Shame they said they’re not going to do more in the Forgotten Realms though, I love this campaign setting
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by alexchantavy 1y ago
Oh wow this is from the same author as https://walzr.com/bop-spotter -- love these projects
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by alexchantavy 1y ago
I didn’t know people used Insta for b2b outbound like LinkedIn haha. > Build it and they will come is a fallacy. You have to tell people about the damn thing. Great lesson for engineering types
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by alexchantavy 1y ago
Bunch of negativity on Apple UI recently, but you gotta give Apple credit for supporting really old phones. Google Pixel, forget about it lol
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by alexchantavy 1y ago
Yeahh computer-use agents remind me of game automators like RuneScape autoclickers back in the day like SCAR: I posted on this a while back haha https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29716900#29720860
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by alexchantavy 1y ago
Kind of like if /r/im14andthisisdeep met LinkedIn B2B SaaS prose :) (side note in all seriousness I did enjoy the article)
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by alexchantavy 1y ago
Yeah, the 13pro is 204g and in my opinion pretty uncomfortable to one-hand. The 17pro according to the website is 206g :\
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by alexchantavy 1y ago
Do it in Neo4j now lmao
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by alexchantavy 1y ago
When I was in college, I bought Demon's Souls and also started the most difficult semester I'd had yet with 3 classes deeply into my CS major. I was terrified of what lay ahead of academically, so I procrastinated by playing Demon

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