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by macNchz 2y ago
I bought a small HP laser printer a couple of years ago, not realizing that the “e” in the model number meant it’d require an HP account and an always on internet connection. I did the initial setup and declined to create an account, after
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by macNchz 2y ago
There are some iOS apps that work as Safari extensions and enable Greasemonkey scripts. I use one called Userscripts.
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While it's totally possible to build competently, my impression is that, in the US at least, there are tons of existing houses—built roughly between the 70s (energy crisis) and the mid-2000s when ventilation requirements became more co
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by macNchz 2y ago
They’ve got a 19 year old engineer with some clear links to the cybercrime world seemingly plugging in to things, for one. https://www.wired.com/story/edward-coristine-tesla-sexy-path...
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by macNchz 2y ago
I've been saying for a while now that I'd love to see rules restricting the use of the term "Buy" such that it can only apply to digital products when they are DRM-free and fully downloadable. Anything where the seller r
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by macNchz 2y ago
Totally—on the hardware platform piece, I've owned Macs since the 90s, first installed Linux on one in like 2003ish, tried it on all of my various Macs since at some point, but switched to a desktop Linux machine full time in 2020. I&#
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by macNchz 2y ago
I don’t follow the Linux kernel development process closely, but on most projects—open source or proprietary—that I’ve been involved in, dropping a big diff without having proposed or discussed anything about it beforehand would have been f
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Many of the circumstances being called out as concerning in recent weeks map well to historical examples—the framing of the argument alone doesn’t inherently invalidate it when we have good examples of comparable events (e.g. purge and inst
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> slippery slope arguments If we review democracies through history that have at some point become less democratic, I think describing the process of how that actually happens as being a slippery slope is quite apt. I’d say it’s more of
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Is this not practically accessible? https://www.usaspending.gov/
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I feel this—I've really enjoyed working on some throwaway projects where I can work like this and not sweat the small stuff at all. That said, the one area that's tricky to reconcile in this mode is security: in my (fairly extensi
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by macNchz 2y ago
I see what you’re saying and I think that terming this “architect” mode has an implication that it’s more capable than it really is, but ultimately this two model pairing is mostly about combining disparate abilities to separate the “thinki
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You can start it with something like: aider --architect --model o1 --editor-model sonnet Then you'll be in "architect" mode, which first prompts o1 to design the solution, then you can accept it and allow sonnet to a
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by macNchz 2y ago
I’m a long-time Sublime user who also uses Emacs for single files/at the command line (I also have Emacs key bindings set up in ST), I have found over the years that I am prone to configuration rabbit holes with Emacs and that Sublime
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by macNchz 2y ago
I actually really like podcasts but never wanted my music app forcing theirs above links to actual music, or inserting extra ads into episodes that I could listen to from other sources. Their rollout of podcasts made me make a point to
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by macNchz 2y ago
I really don’t like this feature—I enjoyed their genre/mood oriented running playlists explicitly as a way to listen to stuff well outside of my usual listening while out on runs, but since they made them “made for you” they’re strictl
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by macNchz 2y ago
Browsers have been lying about their identities via their user agent strings since 1995.
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I’ve built and iterated a bunch of web applications with Claude in the past year—I think the author’s experience here was similar to some of my first tries, where I nearly just decided not to bother any further, but I’ve since come to see i
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by macNchz 2y ago
Sure, I wouldn't imagine it'd turn into a cluster of skyscrapers if the restrictions were not there, but I would imagine there might be some small apartment buildings near the train station. New Jersey has had some impressive hous
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by macNchz 2y ago
With video games at least there are still DRM-free digital purchases (as opposed to film and TV). I haven't bought a physical video game since like 2010 but still buy many games regularly that are DRM free—I don't necessarily buy
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by macNchz 2y ago
I imagine that at least one factor there is that building up is prohibited by zoning—a super brief glance at Concord's zoning map & code it looks like the only kind of residential buildings you can build anywhere without special pe
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by macNchz 2y ago
There’s a spectrum of reasonableness with technical interview questions—the process described in this post is unreasonable, but I think plain old fizzbuzz is about as reasonable as it gets. It’s actually pretty “real world” if the candidate
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The "real life" solution of leaving gaps & reindexing is actually my earliest programming memory (as a teenager)/lesson in cleverness, of feeling like I should have been able to come up with a more clever/optimal&#
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I’ve definitely become much more likely to start with small internal utility functions implemented by AI before adding a library than I would have been in the past—it’s quite effective for contained problems, I can have the AI write much mo
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by macNchz 2y ago
I went to a peer school that had at least a couple of math teachers with PhDs—my friends at the time who took their classes were, if I recall, nationally competitive in math olympiads.
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Additionally, a break might be an opportunity for your mind to continue working on whatever it was you left off with, whereas an interruption explicitly redirects your attention to another topic. When I’m deep in the weeds on a task, steppi
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by macNchz 2y ago
Arguably this is still on Apple, because they don’t let you access the full filesystem as you can on other operating systems, and in particular because an app developer may rightfully want to create a class of internal-use files that are n
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by macNchz 2y ago
I've used embeddings to define clusters, then passed sampled documents from each cluster to an LLM to create labels for each grouping. I had pretty impressive results from this approach when creating a category/subcategory labels
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To this point, I use AI programming assistants pretty heavily and find very frequently that they will write extremely inefficient or oddly baroque implementations of what I’m asking for in their first pass, that appear as if they don’t have
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I tried to get used to the tab completion tools a few times but always found it distracting like you describe. often I’d have a complete thought, start writing the code, get a suggested completion, start reading it, realize it was wrong, bu

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