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by insin 1y ago
Being stuck in the typing rabbit hole for more than X minutes is a free pass to // @ts-ignore that one problematic line in the middle (particularly when it's "these objects I'm merging add up to the expected thing,
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Examining some of YouTube's current anti-adblock detection checks(bsky.app)
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by insin 1y ago
"SlopDetector has detected 2 x seamlessly and 7 x em-dash, would you like to continue?"
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by insin 1y ago
Control Panel for YouTube [1] has an option to add a new "Download" item to the menu in the video Transcript box (which I've just noticed is currently broken, as YouTube must have changed the implementation again recently) He
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by insin 1y ago
Missing my favourite when you don't care about a return value, which I personally find less fussy to type and look at (good for confusing Java developers who don't share the fullness of the stack, too): void function() {
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by insin 1y ago
Happy birthday, Django. I've used, read and loved just about every part of you from the magic-removal days onwards when I had the Rails book on my desk and your docs in my browser, and you (and Python) won. I loved spending thousands o
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by insin 1y ago
They're only going to get harder to find as they disable unauthenticated access to topics due to being swamped with thousands of LLM company scrapers, if the user-owned-and-run forum I've been a member of for more than 20 years is
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by insin 1y ago
Trying _not_ to create another subscriptions for your browser extension platform, but I want to solve the problems with the storage.sync API (limited support, limited data, not cross browser/cross device) for my own extensions, so I&#
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by insin 1y ago
We'd need a good API for UI components to go with it
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by insin 1y ago
I have grown to absolutely despise the LLM "voice". Gemini Pro switching from showing full "reasoning" output to mind-grating cutesy LLM titles and summaries was the last straw.
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by insin 1y ago
The "Emerging" diagram on the Agentic Engineering page [1] linked from this post is the first time I've seen the exact thing I think of when people start frothing about fleets of agents driving fleets of agents, while just as
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by insin 1y ago
I get the feeling the first paragraph was intended to make people who immediately went "this is is absolute horseshit" stop reading, in the same way an obvious spam email does
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by insin 1y ago
We'll get that shortly after he delivers the infinite polygon engine…
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by insin 1y ago
Affordable yachts for me, something something for thee
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by insin 1y ago
If you hide the boosted replies, you find Twitter's thread loading stopping after about 200 while it's trying to fill the space you made, so you're lucky to get more than a few non-boosted replies under one of his "popul
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by insin 1y ago
> Besides, as the vilest Writer has his Readers, so the greatest Liar has his Believers; and it often happens, that if a Lie be believ’d only for an Hour, it has done its Work, and there is no farther occasion for it. Falsehood flies, an
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by insin 1y ago
Why would you expect them to be able to given how they work? [1] Someone where I work was trying to get an LLM to evaluate responses to an internal multiple-choice quiz (A, B or C), putting people into different buckets based on a combinati
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by insin 1y ago
Prompting is like XML, which is like violence
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by insin 1y ago
@grok is this suspicious?
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by insin 1y ago
Weird first principle, but have been using Preact + htm for my own no-build stuff recently, so looking forward to what Ryan and Michael are cooking.
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by insin 1y ago
Finally, some Monster Hunter on Hac... never mind.
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by insin 1y ago
The published version appears to be CommonJS only: $ node index.mjs import { isString } from 'super-utils-plus' ^^^^^^^^ SyntaxError: Named export 'isString' not found. The requested module &#x
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by insin 1y ago
Nothing but 503s from https://twitter.com/i/api/graphql
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by insin 1y ago
Nice work, I love extensions which feel like natural... well, extensions of the target site.
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by insin 1y ago
What's the collective noun for the "but humans!" people in these threads? It's "I Want To Believe (ufo)" but for LLMs as "AI"
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by insin 1y ago
Look at this poor dev, an entire workday's worth of hours into babysitting this PR, still having to say "fix whitespace": https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/pull/115826
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by insin 1y ago
TIL bbLean [1] still works in Windows 11! Currently digging through my archives for my old BB4Win styles repository [1] https://bb4win.sourceforge.net/bblean/
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by insin 1y ago
The opposite of a clockwatcher isn't a workaholic, it's someone enjoying writing code and the collaboration, problem solving and design process which leads to what you end up writing, and enjoying _doing it well_ inside normal wor
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by insin 1y ago
I'd interpret the original statement as "tests which don't matter" and "documentation nobody will ever read", the ones which only exist because someone said they _have_ to, and nobody's ever going to check
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by insin 1y ago
Is it too late to rescue the phrase "one-shotted" or is it already too far gone, like "AI" and "agent"?

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