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by kelnos 2mo ago
That doesn't really pass the smell test for me. How do you get this "reliable, but not spectacular" income in one of these places? What are these places?
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by kelnos 2mo ago
No such thing. There are levels of security, where higher levels mean more cost. And even with the most secure facility, there are no guarantees. And certainly we don't have the funding to provide that level of security for every si
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by kelnos 2mo ago
Doesn't auto mode also auto-accept code changes? Assuming their data is good, I'd be fine trying an auto mode for permission prompts (as the article says, I do eventually get prompt fatigue and stop examining them too deeply). But
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by kelnos 2mo ago
For free? (Legally.)
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by kelnos 2mo ago
I agree that devtools should be open source, but... I very much disagree with the premise that no tools should have config files, options, or plugin systems, and instead when you want to change something like your text editor's font s
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by kelnos 2mo ago
Even if the government remains perpetually trustworthy (good luck with that), it's inevitable that the database will be hacked by a bad actor, if the information is valuable.
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by kelnos 2mo ago
Your argument boils down to "if people were 100% just, fair, and good, we could do this", so I'm not sure what the point of it is. (Entertainingly, if people were 100% just, fair, and good, we wouldn't need this databa
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by kelnos 2mo ago
How so? They have a way of storing that specific information, so why shouldn't we (in part) judge it by the completeness of the information they allow people to store?
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by kelnos 2mo ago
I dunno, this may have been him. He's always been writing crazy long blog posts, it's sort of his signature.
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by kelnos 2mo ago
> They were all way too long And still are. When I got to his "Lots to cover today! Let's get to it.", I was like "wait, we haven't started yet?" I used to read his stuff regularly prior to his Sourcegrap
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by kelnos 2mo ago
A month or so ago I asked Claude about using open-weight models through another provider (after describing my usage patterns), and, amusingly, it told me that I could probably save money ditching my Claude Max 5x sub and switching to someth
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by kelnos 2mo ago
That sounds incredibly annoying to me. Not cool at all. (I would assume you're being sarcastic except for the smiley at the end of your comment.) The thing about it, though, is that LLMs aren't "your" tools. They&#x27
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by kelnos 2mo ago
I feel like everyone is forgetting Windows 2000, which IMO is the best Windows that MS ever released. The main problem with it was hardware support, since people were hesitant to move away from the 95/98/ME line, and hardware man
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by kelnos 2mo ago
I think the problem with the vi/vim example is that it's very much not for everyone. I use it, and have used it for 25-odd years, but I'm not an expert at it by any means (because I haven't taken the time to try to be),
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by kelnos 2mo ago
I don't think infinite customizeability is a problem. Poor default configurations are the problem when you build in the ability to customize. The idea is that the user should be able to be productive more or less immediately after ins
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by kelnos 2mo ago
> Customers...never wanted to update, due to risk of changes [...] We’d get escalations on things that were fixed years ago [...] as upstart competitors stole [our] market share. This is so weird to me, though. Your customers had two
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by kelnos 2mo ago
Because I don't need to. I've never even once thought "my terminal feels slow and I want to find a different one". My terminal (xfce4-terminal) also uses a GUI toolkit that makes it visually fit in my desktop, and I li
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by kelnos 2mo ago
> At best it's juvenile humor. I thought it was quite clever, and was surprised I hadn't thought of it (given the prevalence of "tty" puns like kitty and ghostty). But I'm a 14 year old boy living in a 45 year
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by kelnos 2mo ago
> If the computer can't do it better than a human being, then what's the point? It can certainly do it better than I can. Sometimes you don't have a human handy with the required skills to do something.
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by kelnos 2mo ago
I don't think we're quite at the point of laying off AI agents and offering them tokens as severance. But who knows, some companies do wacky things these days.
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by kelnos 2mo ago
God I hate when people say that. I should start acting surprised, and ask why they're telling me about someone being constipated.
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by kelnos 2mo ago
Whenever I voluntarily leave a company, I always give my 2-week notice 13 days before the end of the month, and ask to set my last day for the 1st of the following month. My former managers have never cared what date I pick, and always a
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by kelnos 2mo ago
It's expensive in the sense that you now have to pay what your former employer paid (well, 2 or 3 percent more), when often the employer was paying most or all of it for you. After my COBRA ran out a month ago I found that the ACA pla
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by kelnos 2mo ago
How is it useless? It's exactly the same as the plan you were on at your company. (Source: was on COBRA for the past 18 months, was annoyed that it ran out. Equivalent plans on my ACA exchange cost significantly more.)
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by kelnos 2mo ago
> would you like to have your physical card to be lost or stolen and someone paying with it? I don't really care, as I'm protected from fraud by the card issuer and regulations in my country. > Having my phone stolen is p
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by kelnos 2mo ago
> I’m not sure I personally know people who use physical cards over Google or Apple Pay. You live in a pretty weird bubble. (And I live in San Francisco, so I know about weird bubbles.)
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by kelnos 2mo ago
I seriously doubt that. There used to be more NFC payment apps, but most banks abandoned them since it was cheaper to just pay Google their cut through Google Pay. Or Wallet, or whatever the hell they renamed it to. Banks letting an open
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by kelnos 2mo ago
Because people have different priorities than you do, and just because you can't imagine something, it doesn't mean it's not real or reasonable.
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by kelnos 2mo ago
You're conflating 128-bit registers with 128-bit memory addressing. This article is about the latter.
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by kelnos 2mo ago
I wish they wouldn't call them "open source models". They aren't open source. They didn't publish the training data. They didn't publish the tools they used to train the model. They published the weights. I

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