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by gwking 1y ago
I paid for a subscription to both cursor and zed, without configuring any different LLMs or other options as far as I recall.
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by gwking 1y ago
I went from VS Code to Cursor, then got frustrated with Cursor breaking keybindings and other things, tried to go back to VS Code but missed the superior tab completion. Then I gave Zed a long hard try, but after over a month of daily usage
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by gwking 1y ago
Even after figuring this out for myself I still struggle to do it fluently.
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by gwking 1y ago
It seems to me that you need to think about your server as the production database, rather than a web server instance that can be trivially spawned by a management layer. When I deploy a new version of my python/sqlite web app, I do no
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by gwking 1y ago
I started using swift with a lot of enthusiasm for the type system, but at times it was a huge time suck. There were lots of obscure interface types that read like BipartisanPoliticallyCorrectSequence<T> that made writing my own gener
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by gwking 1y ago
I merely saw the domain name 'yarchive' and had a strange inkling that there might be a connection. A quick search yielded this: https://unlimitedhangout.com/2021/08/investigative-reports/t... . I ha
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by gwking 2y ago
His website is tonykingart.com. It is sorely in need of an update. I don't have any photos of the Farallon paintings, but a small one hangs in my childhood bedroom. You could contact him through his site and I'm sure he'd obl
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by gwking 2y ago
My dad got to go out there in the 90s on an unusual artist permit and painted landscapes for a few days. It sounded incredible. There was white shark research going on and he saw a seal get eaten through a spotting scope.
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by gwking 2y ago
I depend on litestream for production backups and as the months wear on without any releases I am getting more nervous. To be clear, I don’t feel entitled to anything with an open source project like this, but bug reports and fixes seem to
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by gwking 2y ago
I believe the locking models are different making DuckDB less suitable for concurrent read/write but you will have to look up the specifics. As always, for a server environment SQLite should be set to WAL mode and comparisons should be
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by gwking 2y ago
The trackball implementation appears to have a numerical bug in it. Occasionally (on mac safari at least) the rendering will be blank white. If you happen to let go of the mouse during that frame, then it gets permanently stuck and requires
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by gwking 2y ago
As many others have mentioned, the comment about AI failing to cough up good answers is intriguing. But what has not been said is that this may also be evidence that the HTMX documentation needs improvement. In particular it needs (many) mo
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by gwking 2y ago
This anecdote intrigues me because it sounds like a group-think dynamic. Perhaps I'm reading too much into the "designate one partner" aspect. But I imagine that behind this is a desire for the partners to all be in agreement
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by gwking 2y ago
An example related to JSON content is HTML content. I have a Python library that represents all of the standard HTML tags as a family of classes. It is like a lightweight DOM on the server side, and has resulted in a web server that does no
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by gwking 2y ago
It is the design of JSON! Which is a reflection of the same dynamic typing choice made in the original design of Javascript.
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by gwking 2y ago
This sort of candor about hard won lessons is what I value most about this community. Thank you!
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by gwking 2y ago
For what it's worth, I don't think it has to be all bad. Among many possibilities, I really do believe that AI could change education for the better, and profoundly. Super-intelligent machines might end up helping generations of p
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by gwking 2y ago
This is a topic about which I have long simmering opinions. I suspect that several things happened. First, expectations and requirements went up. Laying stuff out with a mouse and snap-to alignment guides is ok for simple UI, but the more c
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by gwking 2y ago
I am in the US and have been using Fastmail for years. I have no problem with automated billing to a consumer credit card. I have recently begun using Hetzner as well, and this also bills to the same card. I just looked at the Hetzner charg
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by gwking 2y ago
This appears to have been published in 2015. Perhaps update the title with the year?
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by gwking 2y ago
Perhaps one of several reasons is the failed promise of the App Store. If Apple had cultivated a different dynamic between consumers and developers we would have a different landscape of market segments today. Instead they created (or allow
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by gwking 2y ago
The point coordinates are defined at the very bottom of the ".style" tab, after the commented out code. I had the same question!
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by gwking 2y ago
In fact, early objective-c was a preprocessor according to Wikipedia!
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by gwking 3y ago
I have been writing python for 15 years now and only occasionally have needed or wanted to optimize algorithms. When I have, the general takeaways have been: * Flattening data from hierarchical, custom types into flatter, builtin collection
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by gwking 3y ago
I am using WAL mode. Without it the site cannot really function. I am starting to think that the connection errors I have have to do with a combination of the crash recovery process, which takes an exclusive lock, and the fact that I am usi
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by gwking 3y ago
I have spent the last 18 months building a web app using SQLite, python (starlette) and htmx. It is a back office app that now runs daily operations for a 60 person tax firm. The load is low, and it runs on a very cheap ec2 instance with li
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by gwking 3y ago
I have done it. I picked a lodge cast iron off of a stoop once and it had started to rust. I used fine grit sandpaper in an electric sander and got a decent result. Compared to the other lodge pan that I bought new, the one I polished is sm
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by gwking 3y ago
I am currently working on a low traffic (back office) web app for a client. It runs off of a single AWS EC2 instance (2 vcpu arm). When I looked at the hourly pricing I thought it would be $30/month, but the actual bill has been more l
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by gwking 4y ago
There certainly are. I grew up in a very liberal area and have met lots of people that fit the description. Picture a guy who was raised by ex-hippies and doesn't read the news or care about politics.
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by gwking 4y ago
On macOS Safari, it causes the mouse to disappear when you transition from the browser window to another screen. I can't help but wonder how much money they spent creating that nuisance.

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