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by jghn 3mo ago
The problem is that for nearly all apps I want them to have neither notifications nor access to data. For instance, with few exceptions, the only apps I allow to give me notifications are the default apple apps, like iMessage. The only reas
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by jghn 3mo ago
This is the *intended* difference. As with all of these new terms, it's quickly becoming co-opted and winds up being the case that most companies using it treat it no different than the old term.
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by jghn 3mo ago
My primary care suggested I hold off to mid-late 50s instead of right at 50 for this reason. Between not wanting shingles, and some of the newer research into neuroprotective angles I'm not sure I'm going to do this however.
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by jghn 3mo ago
Even then, it's overblown. The fibers embedded in the cement siding that was common for a while as an example, that's just never going to be friable to a degree that matters. Not to mention the issue is really more of a long term
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by jghn 3mo ago
Asbestos gets a bit of a bad rap. There's an enormous difference from e.g. asbestos tiles and siding in a house vs loose clumps of insulation at mass scale in large factories and such. But at some point people decided that any asbestos
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by jghn 3mo ago
Interesting. For me it seems to be much more common that even basic requests start spinning up sub-agents. But I also routinely ask it to do this so maybe it's stored this as a preference somewhere deep in its bowels. And yes, I agree.
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by jghn 3mo ago
What about when claude code starts spawning sub-agents? it's pretty good about doing that now even if a user doesn't request it. Does this could as parallel inference?
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by jghn 3mo ago
> What's the point of the rewrite if it doesn't fix the underlying issues, though? Depends on what you mean by underlying issues. If you're in a regulated environment, it may be such a mountain of red tape to change behavi
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by jghn 3mo ago
I have found Claude Code to be so much better than other common harnesses that it's kept me solely in the Anthropic ecosystem.
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by jghn 3mo ago
Perhaps before embarking on one of these rewrites the first step should be a heavy round of mutation testing and property based testing. Contribute any new testing code from this back to the original project. And *then* embark on the rewrit
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by jghn 3mo ago
All one needs to do is look at the Claude Science thread here last week and note how many comments were surprised that it appeared to be a statistical/analysis tool.
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by jghn 3mo ago
> built one for Java, in the early 90s So was your ORM for Oak? Java didn't hit the public sphere until 1995 IIRC
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by jghn 3mo ago
The second issue is, if these queries are just "select * from table where id in ...", WTF bother with a library to abstract that away in the first place? It's trivially easy to handle this as SQL
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by jghn 3mo ago
The problem is that "ORM" does a lot of heavy lifting as a term and can mean different things to different people. Like yes, obviously, one needs some sort of SQL -> data structure transition on the boundary (using "object
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by jghn 3mo ago
To make matters worse, most of the time I've successfully argued a project to just use SQL instead of an ORM, what has happened is that people over time built a home rolled ORM in the development language. It's like people can&#x2
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by jghn 3mo ago
I have a mid-aughts VW and have never had any of these issues. So I suppose you can count mid-aughts VWs.
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by jghn 3mo ago
What I like about superpowers is that for my workflow, I spend most of my time brainstorming with the claude session. Using its brainstorm mode helps to keep it from shifting to just writing code. That's basically never what I want unt
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by jghn 3mo ago
I'm in this camp: I will not buy a car without CarPlay. And I put so few miles on my car that while I'd like a new one, if the vendors make this impossible then no one gets my money.
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by jghn 3mo ago
I started my career in the mid-90s and 4GLs making all of us obsolete was already a thing by then!
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by jghn 3mo ago
I'd take this a step further, but that step also curls back to the other side a small bit. The real skill is being able to both pull the necessary information from these sources as well as being able to intuit gaps in that knowledge ba
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by jghn 3mo ago
This. I only dealt with a non-threaded take on usenet for about 1 week in the early 90s.
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by jghn 3mo ago
> Who could possibly have predicted that happening? Charles Goodhart :-)
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by jghn 3mo ago
Iff the engineer's incentives are aligned with the businesses. Which is far from always true.
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by jghn 3mo ago
This is true, but then one should be able to assume that the justice wouldn't neatly fall along partisan lines whenever they choose to be an originalist or not. When it always toggles on and off ever so conveniently along partisan boun
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by jghn 3mo ago
I have a fair amount of code available via open source repositories. As in the kind that real people actually use, not just up on my personal GitHub. If someone is going to ask me to do leetcode problems it means they haven't done thei
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by jghn 3mo ago
Don’t threaten me with a good time
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by jghn 3mo ago
I'm not going to do any of those 3 things for a would-be employer.
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by jghn 4mo ago
Heck, for a lot of activities, NT 4.0 was better than Win 95. And while NT4 came out after 95, it was the same relative time period.
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by jghn 4mo ago
> taking an officially-experimental vaccine by the back door Two things. 1) mRNA technology was not experimental 2) I don't know about you but I got my shot in the shoulder, not the back door
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by jghn 4mo ago
There are a handful of factors, I'll approach this as if you're acting in good faith. 1) Most people who claim to have "the flu" don't actually have influenza. Thus, if they take a flu vaccine, and get "the flu

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