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by eterm 5mo ago
You've never hit the wrong button by mistake on a phone touchscreen? I can only envy your adroitness.
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by eterm 5mo ago
No, because the default is to present you 3 numbers and asks you which your number is! 1 in 3 and easy to hit by mistake.
123.
by eterm 5mo ago
I've been getting this too, authenticator prompts saying "logged in" and asking for confirmation, but no history whatsoever when I went to security to check. It freaked me out the first time, I went through all the security s
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by eterm 5mo ago
Yes, you can have two different record types which both wrap a string value. As a (bad) trivial example, you could wrap reading a file in this kind of monstrosity: var fileResult = Helpers.ReadFile(@"c:\temp\test.txt");
125.
by eterm 5mo ago
Could you be clearer about what you mean, since string is a sealed type in C#, so what exactly do you mean T1 and T2 of string?
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by eterm 5mo ago
I'm sorry, I don't understand what you're trying to say by this either. Monty Python was deliberately absurdist humour and nonsensical. Prachett however was much more grounded and observational, with a satirical rather than f
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by eterm 5mo ago
I spent ages trying to work out what "who knew more about furniture than most" meant, thinking it would be expanded upon or referenced later. It hadn't occurred to me that it's just slop.
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by eterm 5mo ago
I'm always surprised at the nostalgia for Space Cadet Pinball. Perhaps it was just chance that I grew up playing what seemed like a much better pinball game ( Hyper-3D Pinball, aka Tilt!* ), but I was always underwhelmed by Space Cadet
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by eterm 5mo ago
There's no rage, and often I like or agree with the article, but it's still written by LLM. That doesn't fill me with rage, just a sadness that people aren't sharing their own work and aren't using their own voice.
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by eterm 5mo ago
You may be sleeping on just how good LLMs have got at writing blog-posts. Go ahead and ask your favourite one this: > Can you draft a blog post titled, "All my clients wanted a carousel, now it's an AI chatbot!" > Don&#
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by eterm 5mo ago
My own take, and it's veering into the Philosophy of Mathematics, but there's a debate about whether Mathematics is "Invented" or "Discovered". If it's "invented", then it requires ingenuity. If
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by eterm 5mo ago
Indeed, consider these two posts linked below also from this blog. They look the same, they maintain the same impersonal writing style. There's no humanity to it at all. They maintain such a consistent paragraph length that they'r
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by eterm 5mo ago
It isn't "clearly human-written" at all, the entire blog looks like LLM output, right from the very first post. I'm not witch-hunting, there are just a lot of witches.
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by eterm 5mo ago
I've noticed that's changed over the past month or so. Claude-code used to happily pipe build commands straight into context, but recently it's been running them as background tasks that pipe to file, and it'll search an
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by eterm 5mo ago
> No pop-ups. No blinking corners. Just content Your clients seem to have got what they wanted, or at least someone who has learned to write like one.
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by eterm 5mo ago
If your bottleneck is product spec rather than QA & testing, then you're doing well. And that hints at one solution, if you demand better quality then you'll slow down engineering back to a level you can control.
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by eterm 5mo ago
Remarkably, I found a blog where I thought "This sounds like AI" but I wasn't sure, so I went to their back catalogue from decades ago, and the writing was similar so I gave them a pass. Then I checked the internet archive. T
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by eterm 5mo ago
Ambiguity is the grease that keeps everything turning.
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by eterm 5mo ago
Legislate that the banks are liable for refunding this class of fraud and you'll find they suddenly take this stuff a lot more seriously and "discover" the technology.
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by eterm 5mo ago
It's been a long time since I read it, but it was one of the better books I've read. It changed my approach to how to think about old code-bases.
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by eterm 5mo ago
"is the real" is such a strong Claude tell, whenever I encounter it, it makes me question what i'm reading. Another I've noticed more recently is a slight obsession over refering to "Framing".
142.
by eterm 5mo ago
Thank you for pointing this out, it left me confused. It would have been a lot clearer if the text were in a quote block!
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by eterm 5mo ago
This is pretty relevant for things like claude-code, which has a fairly rudimentary way of dealing with permissions with block-lists and allow-lists. I once accidentally gave my claude "powershell" permissions in one session, and
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by eterm 5mo ago
If this will solve the problem with boards, you need to be able to answer 2 questions: 1. What does this do that Trello doesn't? 2. What does Trello do that this doesn't?
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by eterm 5mo ago
That's exactly what claude-code does these days. If you AFK for ~5 minutes it also produces a summary of where you are, which is useful if you're juggling multiple windows.
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by eterm 5mo ago
Azure-dev ops explicitly has an "Approve with suggestions", I suspect it was designed for when there are multiple acceptances required, but I sometimes use it anyway. Whether those comments get read once approved, I don't kno
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by eterm 6mo ago
I found the same, it was super careful handling the environment variable until it hit an API error, and I caught in it's thinking "Let me check the token is actually set correctly" and it just echoed the token out. ( This was
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by eterm 6mo ago
It's funny, because the wisdom that was often taught ( but essentially never practiced ) was "Refactor as you go". The idea being that if you're working in an area, you should refactor and tidy it up and clean up "t
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by eterm 6mo ago
Trains are barely staffed, I can't believe it's a significant cost. Staff per passenger hour has got to be far higher in the airline industry.
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by eterm 6mo ago
The goal is to migrate everyone to EVs, and it sounds like the government incentive mechanism is working, albeit in a roundabout way.

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