boomskats

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by boomskats 7mo ago
This is nice, I really like the style/tone/cadence. The only suggestion/nit I have is that you could add some kind of asterisk or hover helper to the part when you talk about 'Anthropic's message format', as it
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by boomskats 7mo ago
I shipped GlassFish 3.1 as an on-prem appserver for our observability product for a few years, and have nothing but good things to say about it. It's great to see the project recovering from the abandonment.
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by boomskats 7mo ago
I know right? Who wants sub-millisecond readiness, sub-second image replication and a measly couple of megs worth of memory alloc per service when everyone can just get themselves a 2 gig springboot heap by default? FWIW Wasm is hitting kub
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by boomskats 7mo ago
I agree with you. I think the 'wonky' comment was more to serve as justification for the plug than an actual criticism of Excalidraw. Excalidraw is my favourite thinking tool, and the style it produces is just the right level of l
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by boomskats 7mo ago
I mean yeah, but it's not like the guy's 'horrible attitude' came from nowhere. He naiively romanticised migrating to the US thinking the game was about scientific progress rather than capital, and so he got repeatedly s
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by boomskats 7mo ago
I find the official Chrome DevTools MCP excellent for this. Lighter than Playwright, the loop is shorter, and easy to jam into Electron too.
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by boomskats 7mo ago
Wow, the GitHub mobile app doesn't preview PNGs. TIL
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by boomskats 7mo ago
> Was it? Yes. Here's a quote for you from the original WWDC 2007 iPhone launch[0]: _"We've come up with a very sweet solution. An innovative new way to create applications... it’s all based on the fact that we have the fu
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by boomskats 7mo ago
This isn't about browsers, it's about Apple spending the last decade blocking PWAs on their platform by intentionally breaking something new with every new OS release, thus forcing people to build and ship bloated pointless 50meg
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by boomskats 7mo ago
It depends on what you're referring to when you say 'corruption'. The public officials involved in signing off on these contracts with Palantir will almost certainly be offered non-executive, board, or consulting positions wi
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by boomskats 7mo ago
The second edition of Maxwell Colonna-Dashwood's Water for Coffee came out v recently, and afaik it talks about good quality natural water a lot more than the diy reconstituted/resalted ro water approach discussed in the first boo
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by boomskats 7mo ago
I've been using opencode for a few months and really like it, both from a UX and a results perspective. It started getting increasingly flaky with Anthropic's API recently, so I switched back to Claude Code for a couple of days. O
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by boomskats 7mo ago
Been using this one for a while, mostly with codex on opencode. It's more reliable and token efficient than other devtools protocol MCPs i've tried. Favourite unexpected use case for me was telling gemini to use it as a SVG editin
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by boomskats 7mo ago
Isn't the idea that you get to do that with all the fertile land you liberate from the lettuce?
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by boomskats 8mo ago
Speak for yourself, I rooted my vacuum the day I bought it
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by boomskats 8mo ago
You mean the immediate personal macroeconomy of a very specific subset of the US political class?
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by boomskats 8mo ago
What I think is disappearing is not so much the quality of academic education, but the baptism by firehose that entry level CS positions used to offer - where you had no choice but learn how things actually work while having a safe space to
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by boomskats 8mo ago
Not my experience in the slightest, after two decades of personal thinkpads and around 20 issued to my team. Also if you'd just spent that extra 120 bucks for the 3 year onsite warranty, you'd have a lenovo technician replacing yo
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by boomskats 8mo ago
It's funny that you mention music and notation: sheet music is very compact for musical absolutes like pitch/rhythm/harmony, but a huge part of what we care about with music is nuance, which doesn't reduce cleanly to sym
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by boomskats 8mo ago
If you have automation that dumps things int your vault, that you built with their new CLI (which lets you create/tag docs etc. without running the full electron app), I guess this lets you sync those changes and propagate them to all
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by boomskats 9mo ago
None of what you've just said can be verified by looking at any of the references you just posted. However having just read through that wikipedia page, I realised that there I'd be paying almost half the income tax I pay living i
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by boomskats 9mo ago
You mean Tony didn't really make £20m in his first year out of office from just giving speeches? I mean, that's what his tax return says? You, sir, are a _conspiracy theorist_. Don't let that rotating door catch you on the wa
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by boomskats 10mo ago
Zero cost abstractions! I'd almost be interested in Bostrom's inevitable physics-based counter (if he wasn't such a racist bellend).
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by boomskats 10mo ago
Just the fact that your brain 'sums' those signals somewhere, to let you hear that interference frequency, has always fascinated me. Do you have a link to the pmeumatic headphones study you mention?
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by boomskats 11mo ago
RustFS vs MinIO latest performance comparisons here: https://github.com/rustfs/rustfs/issues/73#issuecomment-3385...
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by boomskats 11mo ago
Look at all those em-dashes. Et tu, Slavoj?
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by boomskats 11mo ago
> I like PHP because it allows access to core system calls on any platform. Lots of people _love_ PHP precisely because of the size of its attack surface. Do you have any examples of something you've built in PHP which benefitted fr
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by boomskats 11mo ago
When you work for a big corp and someone asks you to have a conversation like this where there is no upside for you, one of the best things you can do is copy the lawyers in and nope out of there as soon as you can.
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by boomskats 1y ago
> My working theory is that British management over large groups of British workers collapses into class warfare. Interesting. Care to share a bit more about your reasoning here?
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by boomskats 1y ago
You mean a friend with a lobbying budget and a revolving door?

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