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by eterm 1mo ago
Some cool stuff in C# 15 such as Union Types and closed hierarchies, but I can't help but feel we also just got alternate syntax for GOTO LABEL and it feels very old-school with it.
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C# 15 Preview(devblogs.microsoft.com)
6 points by eterm 1mo ago|1 comments
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by eterm 1mo ago
So it turns out that a lot of these unix utilities have such bad UX that having a tool that knows how to really leverage them feels like a superpower. If you've ever used an LLM to deal with ffmpeg you'll know exactly what I mean.
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by eterm 1mo ago
I about to splutter that 1.9MB is a huge sitemap, but it's 12kB. Do you mean crawling the entire sitemap and concatenating the results is 1.9MB?
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by eterm 1mo ago
It's incredible, because I Feel like you've been watching me work. The only thing you're missing is the "open question" that was stuck in page 14 of a 17 page report, which since it went unanswered, caused claude to
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by eterm 1mo ago
I had that when opus 4.8 was first out. It repeated refused to make a PoC for an issue it suspected. I eventually gave up and just asked it to fix the issue. The first thing it did? Write a PoC to verify the issue was still valid...
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by eterm 1mo ago
The .NET team have been similarly busy on post-quantum lately, it completely dominated the .NET API reviews for the dotnet 11 release. It seems there's a big push happening behind the scenes.
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by eterm 1mo ago
We have one in my town, meets once a month at the local community centre. I've only been there once, but It's pretty awesome seeing all the stuff people bring in to get repaired.
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by eterm 1mo ago
Disadvantage: You have to coordinate with teammates to make sure you don't need the same file at the same time. Advantage: You have to coordinate with teammates to make sure you don't need the same file at the same time. Sometimes
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by eterm 1mo ago
I love AI development, but I wish product announcements were self-authored.
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by eterm 1mo ago
What you're describing as "gatekeeping" is actually Product Ownership and should be applauded, because the alternative is a product owner who abdicates responsibility to the customer.
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by eterm 1mo ago
Breaking changes matter even with controlled code, because you can have requests that straddle upgrade boundaries, it's fiction to believe that all services are upgraded at the same moment, and pretending that is the case is the sort o
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by eterm 1mo ago
Shit, you're right, I'm trying to remember the one that used to trip us up all the time, maybe it was removing fields? There was definitely one that kept tripping up the checks and it was something people like to do.
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by eterm 1mo ago
Lots of naysayers here, but an advantage of protobuf is that proto files are hand-writeable, and therefore having an LSP for that could be useful. That said, proto itself dissuades or forbids the kind of common things you might do with a LS
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Martin Kleppmann – Local-first in an unstable world [YouTube] [video](youtube.com)
1 points by eterm 1mo ago|0 comments
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by eterm 1mo ago
My comment was a bit tongue in cheek, I'm not actually convinced there was real degradation in opus 5 beyond a tendency to try to plough ahead without stopping to clarify things. I don't really think 1 line in lengthy system promp
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by eterm 1mo ago
It'd be ironic if the "Opus 5 nerf" effect is from telling Opus that it sits a tier down from Fable and Mythos, while Opus4.8 believed it was the best of the best, just a note that it was "Preceded by Mythos".
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by eterm 1mo ago
I've not seen any difference between the spotify "AI DJ" and their daily playlists, they literally just pick a song you like and run similar. The only difference is that every so often the DJ yaps at you and rotates to a diff
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by eterm 1mo ago
I did something similar recently with Google's C# protobuf library. I had spotted I was getting CPU bound rather than memory bandwidth bound when doing streaming of uint32 buffers in dotnet gRPC. I then asked claude to compare the C#&#
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by eterm 1mo ago
What name do you suggest they choose, "Roger Thornhill" perhaps?
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by eterm 1mo ago
Because Temu pushed advertising hard and fast at the US market and it paid off in a big way.
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by eterm 1mo ago
I wonder if the odd phrasing is related to achieving the watermarking that was recently touted by Anthropic.
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by eterm 2mo ago
Unfortunately "something windows specific" was pretty broad. Between MSMQ, WCF over named pipes, MSDTC, and MSI installers, there's a lot to replace that is hard to provide the same guarantees or performance with straight rep
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by eterm 2mo ago
Perhaps it's the crowd I've followed and I've fallen down a niche, but I keep getting pushed threads such as this: https://bsky.app/profile/palle.eurosky.social/post/3msirglff... And a whole bu
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by eterm 2mo ago
Microsoft pulled it off with dotnet, sort of, because they approached it like a completely new language, sold people on the benefits of it. And the people they were selling that to, ( It's free and open souce now! ), were a very differ
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Abstraction Is Expensive (2022)(specbranch.com)
3 points by eterm 2mo ago|0 comments
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by eterm 2mo ago
I wanted to like bluesky, I really tried, but when 90% of it ( after filtering out politics ) is people talking about the platform itself, it's off-putting. I don't want to hear about atproto, or "the atmosophere", I wan
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by eterm 2mo ago
It is completely unimaginable in comparison to previous administrations. Pre-trump, even just pre-2025 Trump, this would read like a parody of corruption.
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by eterm 2mo ago
I'm convinced that the majority of upvotes are based on reading a title rather than clicking through to an article. People want a token efficient MCP CLI client. Whether this actually is one is less relevant.
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by eterm 2mo ago
Zstd gets rather easier from dotnet 11, it becomes a near one-limer since it's getting added into System.IO.comoression. I know this because my agent already knew this the other day when I was evaluating compression, but that's be

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