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by dceddia 2y ago
> The unfortunate thing about this is that going through the support emails in my case is something that takes about 2-3 hours a day – which is not enough to hire someone and train them. Not to mention that most of the reports actually n
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by dceddia 2y ago
Man, TFC was the greatest. I’m surprised there aren’t more threads mentioning it here. Got overshadowed by Counter-Strike of course (also great) but TFC was the “prototype mod” released by Valve themselves as an example of what could be don
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by dceddia 2y ago
> What's the last big budget release that actually left a strong artistic impression? Control was very good!
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by dceddia 2y ago
Chrome allowed hiding the extensions and the “current profile” icon until a handful of years ago (hmm maybe 6?). I remember because I was recording screencasts and I’d turn all the stuff off to keep it clean, and I was so mad when they intr
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by dceddia 2y ago
Interesting! What sort of stuff goes in the scaffold repo? Like examples of common patterns? Definitely agree I think Ruby's closeness to natural language is a big win, especially with the culture of naming methods in self-explanatory
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by dceddia 2y ago
I think types can help, but I don't think they're "strong" enough to overrule training data. I just ran into an example of this trying to get it (Windsurf + Claude) to "rewrite this Objective C into Rust using the o
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by dceddia 2y ago
The last time I tried this it created idiomatic code from scratch. I prompted it in phases though, and I suspect if I had asked it for more at once it might've used a generator.
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by dceddia 2y ago
I haven't seen it run into a ton of issues like this when it can see all of the files, but I did hit issues where it would make guesses about how e.g. the Stripe gem's API worked and they'd be wrong. Overall with Rails though
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by dceddia 2y ago
> lacks strong typing for AI coding tools I've heard this criticism a few times – the fear that LLMs will be bad at Rails because there's no types – and I don't think it's accurate. At least in my experience (using th
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by dceddia 2y ago
There’s a real double-edged sword to this whole “becoming a ‘better’ software engineer” thing. I remember just hacking stuff together when I was younger with not a care for whether I was doing it right or not. I just wanted to make it work.
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by dceddia 2y ago
Tin foil hat on? I suspect they also benefit from the massive amounts of data gathering. A huge portion of the entire internet's traffic is going through Cloudflare, SSL-terminated. It's like being plugged into the server-side (un
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by dceddia 2y ago
Can it get the wifi SSID? Is that a permissioned property on Android/iOS? I believe there are companies that build databases of SSIDs and their locations by driving around, so if an app can get wifi info it could be pinpointed to a pre
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by dceddia 2y ago
I would say #3 is to verify info before acting on it. I tend to doubt the LLM when it tells me about some great thing I didn’t know existed, and even though pretty often it’s right, I usually just go and google the thing just to be sure, es
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by dceddia 2y ago
Wow, what a shock. I cancelled my account just days before the annual renewal earlier this month. I feel for all of the small businesses this is going to hurt. The service had been getting worse for an while and the last straw was when they
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by dceddia 2y ago
The Science of Enlightenment by Shinzen Young has an interesting overview of multiple traditions and how they overlap in a lot of ways.
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by dceddia 2y ago
I felt the same. I took that as a bit of the author’s impostor syndrome showing through (perhaps feeling, even after all this time, that charging what he’s worth feels dishonest somehow).
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by dceddia 2y ago
I mean, that assumes there's anywhere else to go that's doing it differently. It feels like market forces can push things in either of 2 directions: (a) People hate practice X, so they shun companies that do it, and enough go to c
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by dceddia 2y ago
Somehow this feels like it could backfire spectacularly. “Sorry, we can’t ‘sell’ our cars anymore. The law says we have to call them a ‘lease’ and that’ll be be $X,XXX/year”
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by dceddia 2y ago
It feels like a middle ground to me. If you can export your list, and use your own domain, and have an easy way to get the content out, it might be worth whatever distribution they can provide. Just generally I’d always have an eye on the e
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by dceddia 2y ago
Astro is great. I love that I can mix and match between markdown, plain HTML, and Svelte components as needed (and even intermix them within a page). Pretty much the sweet spot I always wanted for a blog or marketing site: 98% static stuff,
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by dceddia 2y ago
You can. It adds a lot of work! It's surprisingly tough to sand. And sanding makes it look bad, so you end up having to use filler primer and/or bondo, then more sanding, and more painting. Here's an example: https:/&#x
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by dceddia 2y ago
This was my first thought too! Other stuff in this category I know of are the Roli instruments (Seaboard, Blocks) and the Haken Continuum. All of these are pretty darn expensive for the larger models and I wonder if this new tech would be a
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by dceddia 2y ago
Just to add to the sibling comment - you don’t get a choice to pass cookies or not, the browser just includes them automatically.
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by dceddia 2y ago
Oh yeah that’s not what I was going for here. Doing things is great. I just hope that they think through the pitfalls and loopholes of whatever they decide to do. I want to avoid the fates the article hinted at, stuff like “since you broke
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by dceddia 2y ago
Yeah I don’t know how this will go, but I’m not too optimistic. It feels like one of those situations where we “get exactly what we asked for”. Like those movies with an Evil Genie who delivers on their wishes in the sneakiest way possible
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by dceddia 2y ago
lol amazing, thank you for finding that.
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by dceddia 2y ago
I recall an article where Facebook or Uber or some other big tech co found something similar when they added some optimizations, and it turned out that it was being accessed by an entirely new market that couldn’t even load the page before.
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by dceddia 2y ago
> I've recently learnt that most Starbucks have filter coffee as an off-menu item And it’s faster to order, too! At least at the Starbucks’ I’ve been to, the barista/cashier will usually turn around and pour it immediately. Oth
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by dceddia 2y ago
Lots of feelings seeing Sierra come up again. Lots of good memories playing Sierra games as a kid. The story feels like it bears some similarity to the Dark Quiet Death episode from Mythic Quest. The video game industry, the husband-and-wif
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by dceddia 2y ago
Hah, this is a perfect example of why it's important to build products for an audience you know and understand. (I've barely used Lightroom and clearly I'm not part of this audience) On the other point though, there's a

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