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by dgunay 1y ago
I think there are lots of valid ways of using TODO comments. In my org, TODO comments trigger the linter, so they usually have to be addressed, downgraded to a regular comment, or turned into a ticket. They're a nice way for me to mark
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by dgunay 1y ago
I saw an AI generated video the other day of security camera footage of a group of people attempting to rob a store, then running away after the owner shoots at them with a gun. The graininess and low framerate of the video made it a lot ha
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by dgunay 1y ago
kind of funny that no one seems to know them by name, only by the infamously panned reception of their main product
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by dgunay 1y ago
This is an actual thing on smaller aircraft: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cirrus_Airframe_Parachute_Sy...
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by dgunay 1y ago
All of these issues were at some point raised to leadership. I've spent a lot of political capital on the issue and decided that it's not a hill I'm prepared to die on. Either a crop of new hires will come along and improve t
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by dgunay 1y ago
I'm certainly not at liberty to invite a random to cover on-call shifts for us, but here's some anecdata about things I've witness that made on-call suck. We began with free food delivery over the weekend, and the expectation
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by dgunay 1y ago
Maybe "mismanaged" is too harsh. LA's patchwork governmental structure generally inhibits progress and keeps wealth and development concentrated in small areas instead of benefiting the broader metropolitan area. That's
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by dgunay 1y ago
It doesn't have as big of a pure software startup scene. I have worked for a couple, but the bulk of my career has been either in the local defense industry, or working remote for a startup in another state. A lot of people are respond
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by dgunay 1y ago
I am experimenting with a similar workflow and thought I'd share my experience. I might be a little too hung up on the details compared to a lot of these agent cluster testimonials I've read, but unlike the author I'll be ope
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by dgunay 1y ago
I don't know that it's necessarily about snootiness. You learn to understand thick accents through exposure, and many countries don't have such a high amount of non native speakers running around as English speaking ones do.
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by dgunay 1y ago
For me the appeal of self checkout is that everyone gets in the same line and then fans out to the next free checkout machine. I don't have to wonder if I chose wrong when I see all the other lines moving faster. Some places with human
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by dgunay 1y ago
I don't usually forget to eat, but this happens to me all the time for tasks that don't have a physical feedback mechanism. I missed a doctor's appointment today because I didn't remember to schedule a corresponding &quo
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by dgunay 1y ago
There are some non financial benefits. Many early stage startups are a low oversight environment. This can mean lots of things, beneficial to certain kinds of people: easily push code to prod, touch production databases directly, work weird
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by dgunay 1y ago
IMO you're better off just asking Aider to write one tailored to your specific use cases. Anonymizing the code so that I could post this gist is actually the first time I've read most of it, and it's really bad code. But in c
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by dgunay 1y ago
To be clear, I meant on the Steam Deck (and of course it depends on the game).
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by dgunay 1y ago
This looks like a much more sophisticated version of my setup. I had Aider vibe code me a script that just manages cloning a repo into a subfolder, optionally with some kind of identifying suffix on it, and then wrote a tiny script to autom
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by dgunay 1y ago
There was definitely a period of (at least subjective) declining battery life in the 2010s but IMO things are shifting the other way. Some devices these days have much improved battery life over what came before, like Apple silicon, the St
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by dgunay 1y ago
I had a bad habit of accumulating stuff that had some abstract value (may come in handy in the future, is a good deal, etc), and letting go of a lot of it was hard in part because of guilt surrounding environmentalism. Even something that I
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by dgunay 1y ago
Some friends of mine drilled some plywood into the trunks of a set of overgrown trees by the side of the road when I was a kid, to use as an airsoft arena. We didn't live there or anything, but it was cool to have a secret space that w
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by dgunay 1y ago
At the current capabilities of most LLMs + my personal tolerance for slop, the most productive workflow seems to be: spin up multiple agents in the background to work on small scope, straightforward tasks while I work on something bigger th
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by dgunay 1y ago
The worldwide obsession with dark roast coffee baffles me. I guess if you're adding sugar then it doesn't matter that the coffee is burnt to a crisp.
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by dgunay 1y ago
That's pretty much how a french press works, if anyone wants to try it. Loads of cheap french presses available everywhere. It's very portable too if you need to make coffee and have nothing but water, heat, and ground coffee.
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by dgunay 1y ago
I don't delete things by default but generally everything I might care about automatically gets backed up off device. I have seen lots of stress and turmoil from people needing to get data off of their old devices and being unable to d
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by dgunay 1y ago
Code review makes this a lot less scary. Honestly it seems like mostly a win. A while ago at my day job, a moderately technical manager on another team attempted to contribute a relatively simple feature to my team's codebase. It took
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by dgunay 1y ago
Many CLI tools that I love using now took some deliberate practice to establish a habit of using them.
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by dgunay 1y ago
Every time I've tried to get an LLM to find a piece of music for me based on a description of the texture, chord structure, instruments etc. it fails miserably.
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by dgunay 1y ago
My (limited) experience with this is that product owners will prefer to just let engineers figure out the best data model for what they're asking. This may come from either an awareness that they can't competently collaborate on t
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by dgunay 1y ago
This is a decent start. The sandboxing functionality is a really cool idea but can run into problems (e.g. with Go build cache being outside of the repository).
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by dgunay 1y ago
Aider doesn't have a more agentic/full-auto mode (at least not yet, there's a promising PR for this in review). There may or may not also be some finessing necessary in the prompting and feedback loop regardless of model, whi
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by dgunay 1y ago
If nothing else, it was just really cool to be able to view a 3D model of my heart when I got a CT scan done a while back.

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