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by bartread 8d ago
I think the main issue here is that the access point for many OSS projects most of the time is package managers. People often aren’t hitting up GitHub directly to get or install open source projects: they’re going via homebrew, npm, or what
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by bartread 8d ago
This is why wax motors are used for washing machine door locks.
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by bartread 10d ago
One thing I would like to see is how many of those hours are during normal business hours in my country. Not all hours are created equal when it comes to downtime and my intuition is that most of these 12 landed within my working hours. In
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by bartread 10d ago
> Horse Magnifier I can only imagine: clearly I need to check that out.
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by bartread 10d ago
That one predates vibe coding by quite a few years though: a lot of hard work went into Goat Simulator, and there were no doubt other more obvious choices for how the developers spent their time, but they still chose to make Goat Simulator.
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by bartread 12d ago
Same goes for highly regulated financial environments. If you work in banking you generally can't just FTX-and-hope your prototype, which is very much what GP sounds like they're advocating. For starters you're going to have
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by bartread 14d ago
I’ve seen and reported that exact ad, and variations thereof, multiple times. Each time my report has been rejected on the basis the ad didn’t violate ToS for advertisers. Google absolutely sucks nowadays.
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by bartread 16d ago
> People willingly do business with companies who are actively against them. Sometimes it's because they don't have a choice. Case in point, since we're already talking about them: Ryanair. I'd cheerfully never fly wi
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by bartread 16d ago
This is an amazing piece of satire but it's really not so far from reality. I've lost count of the number of times I've submitted a prompt to Claude, had it interview me about areas of uncertainty, iterated on the plan a hand
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by bartread 18d ago
> No religion knowingly offers its followers "bad teachings". Anybody who thinks a religion has "bad teachings" quickly becomes an impostor and gets pushed out. The self selection means that there are no "bad tea
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by bartread 18d ago
> I struggle with the hypocrisy of religion sometimes That doesn’t really make sense to me. Do you mean the hypocrisy of people who follow those religions? I tend to think that blaming outside forces for bad behaviour by people lets them
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by bartread 22d ago
Mate, I got rejected by Cambridge University. I've lived in and around Cambridge for a very long time now. I've met a lot of Cambridge undergrads and graduates. Let me tell you: they are a mixed bag. Don't misunderstand me: t
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by bartread 24d ago
I think the thing is it’s no easier to hire someone to do a job you need done outside of work (at least the first time you need that job done) than it is to hire someone for a job at your workplace. Genuinely qualified candidates are hard t
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by bartread 25d ago
That's correct. I said they tried it, as in tried to introduce it. It was never actually introduced. It is quite likely to be tried again in future.
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by bartread 25d ago
Cambridge in the UK tried it. They promised to improve the bus service only after introducing the charge. It didn’t go over well. And even for a small city like Cambridge it is a huge lift to go from an already inadequate public transport i
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by bartread 29d ago
I used to think the same but I've mellowed. Modern editors make this a non-issue. I use both Python and YAML fairly regularly, both have significant whitespace, and I don't have any issues with either. Also, because YAML doesn&#x2
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by bartread 29d ago
It's weird to me that people are pushing back on me for expecting anti-bot services to actually solve the problem they already claim to solve.
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by bartread 29d ago
> I assume you're offering to pay for the increased server costs? Such a non-argument. I'm expecting people to create better, more effective, and less intrusive anti-bot measures. Measures that accurately detect bots but don&#x
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by bartread 1mo ago
Delete the comments: I’ve gone on a tear with these recently because they’re nothing but trouble. The absolute least worst outcome is they chew up your token budget. But what tends to happen, and this is much more serious, is they poison fu
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by bartread 1mo ago
> Then this one really is a pattern that creates a lot of churn: > - Add a small, to the point, comment... As if you even need to tell Claude to add comments. Over the past few weeks I've noticed Claude over-commenting everythi
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by bartread 1mo ago
Yeah, that’s always an automatic nope. No explanation of who/what is really asking or why so, no: your shit software or website can’t go snooping around on whatever network I happen to be on, whether that’s at home or at work.
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by bartread 1mo ago
I mean, I’m British and I immediately thought of chlamydia. But, considering it, we are absolutely world renowned for our filthy and degenerate sense of humour, so it’s probably just that. Still, Common Lisp on an Amiga: interesting.
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by bartread 1mo ago
I think it’s the contrast that’s the problem, rather than the choice of font (although serif fonts can be slightly harder to read). Lighten the background slightly, and darken the text slightly, and it would be much more readable. (But I to
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by bartread 1mo ago
What makes it frustrating is that the information, assuming it’s accurate, is actually useful and interesting, but it’s swaddled and interleaved in these bulky layers of unnecessary verbiage. AI prose really is the thick crust pizza of writ
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by bartread 1mo ago
> IKEA also refuse to sell you spare parts. Sorry to call bullshit but I think that’s exactly what this statement is. Just looking at our wardrobe and thinking about how it’s actually not one thing at all, but made up of dozens of differ
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by bartread 1mo ago
Nothing clever about it: it’s a simple and unethical parlour trick. Every news website does it and, in the UK, the local news outlets are amongst the worst. The thing I don’t get: many of these sites are running Google Adsense, amongst othe
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by bartread 1mo ago
I will do almost anything to avoid flying, at least short haul. I don’t mind flying: I have no fear of it at all in fact. But I absolutely despise the airport experience, and consider it to be so unpleasant as to be worth avoiding whenever
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by bartread 2mo ago
I think it’s entirely possible for someone to clone an app with Claude without realising they’ve done it, if they don’t do your due diligence on it. I.e., if they don’t make any effort to dig into and really understand what they’ve built. B
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by bartread 2mo ago
Enormous monitors aside it's funny, even though more than a quarter of a century has passed, how contemporary those office scenes look. Even the on point trendiness of the "unfinished"/exposed industrial aesthetic really
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by bartread 2mo ago
We're not talking about the friend. I'm talking to the person I responded to: I'm saying they should have recommended a better tool to their friend. My HR friend found Lovable off her own bat. I imagine she probably Googled o

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