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by maccard 7mo ago
But most of the time it’s really, really not.
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by maccard 7mo ago
A dependency on a paperclip optimizing foregin megacorp is not remotely compara le to a "shock collar padlocked around your neck"
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by maccard 7mo ago
If you can't exist in society without a smart phone already, how is it going to get worse?
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by maccard 7mo ago
The openclaw website[0] 's headline paragraph is: > Clears your inbox, sends emails, manages your calendar, checks you in for flights. > All from WhatsApp, Telegram, or any chat app you already use. The _entire point_ is "gi
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by maccard 7mo ago
I don't think this analogy comes even close to holding water.
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by maccard 7mo ago
What does it look like if you pass -ldflags=“-s -w”?
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by maccard 7mo ago
I’m not an openclaw user or a vibe coder but - the use case of OpenClaw is “give me access to all of your data, programs and information, and I will make decisions and do stuff without asking you permission”. It’s the MO of the project. Eve
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by maccard 7mo ago
I think it's clearly back compatability.
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by maccard 7mo ago
It still is for a lot of Mac Apps. You download a DMG, and you get somethinglike [0] where you drag the icon over, and it installs. The last app I uninstalled also removed the matching Library Support folders, which was neat! [0] https:&#x
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by maccard 7mo ago
Azure container apps are a great (idea) and work mostly fine as long as you don’t need to touch them. But they’re just like GCR or what fargate should be - container + resources and off you go. We ran many internal workloads on ACA, but we
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by maccard 7mo ago
> Standardizing the build system and toolchain needs to happen. It's a hard problem that needs to be solved. I agree, and I also think it’s never happening. It requires agreeing on so many things that are subjective and likely chang
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by maccard 7mo ago
This is all great, but it doesn’t sound simple or like 200 lines of code.
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by maccard 7mo ago
> I have several times built my own system to do just that when it wasn't even my main job. Doesn't take more than a couple of days. Really? I'd love a link to even something that works as a toy project > Bazel is certa
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by maccard 7mo ago
The problem is doing this requires a team to support it that is realistically as large as your average product team. I know Bazel is the solution here but as someone who has used C++, modified build systems and maintained CI for teams for
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by maccard 7mo ago
Jira’s problem is that it’s effectively free-form, and there are no enforcements in place. You can have three teams - one using kanban with relative estimates, another using springs with story points, and a third using waterfall with time e
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by maccard 7mo ago
The answer is unfortunately jira.
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by maccard 7mo ago
I want my compiler, language server IDE, to do that not LinkedIn
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by maccard 7mo ago
My company started using slack in 2015 and at that time I put in a bug report to slack that their desktop app was using more memory than my IDE on a 1M+LOC C++ project. I used to stop slack to compile…
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by maccard 7mo ago
I wrote the comment, assertions being disabled was exactly what was being alluded to. > that is entirely expected by any C programmer That’s great. Every C programmer also knows to avoid all the footguns and nasties - yet we still have i
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by maccard 7mo ago
> There's nothing unexpected in the snippet posted. > The issue is cause by C declaring that dereferencing a null pointer is UB. It's not really an issue with assertions. > You can get the same optimisation-removes-code f
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by maccard 7mo ago
Indeed. bool is_even(int* valPtr) { assert(valPtr != nullptr); return *valPtr % 2; } Does not do what you think it does with nullptr. A major game engine [0] has a toggle to enable asserts in shipping builds, mostly
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by maccard 7mo ago
> I would suggest the prompt is an example of garbage in that's going to produce garbage out. Sitting down to confront the problem you're solving will show this, while Claude is going to happily spit out what looks like a plaus
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by maccard 7mo ago
Sure, now what happens if my laptop is asleep at 7am? Or if our scheduled build took an extra 30 minutes because of contention?
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by maccard 7mo ago
To use an example in the article, what does > Analyzing CI failures overnight and surfacing summaries Look like on ec2 with python? Because with Claude, it’s that prompt, and with your solution it’s infra + security groups + multiple API
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by maccard 7mo ago
We can get cheap computers, but we can't get $50/£40 passively cooled low power PC's.
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by maccard 7mo ago
Firewire user here! I have an old-but-very-functional rack mixer (Presonus) that will cost £700+ to replace, _plus_ I have to configure and set up the new one. I have a 2007 Macbook Pro that I keep around just for interfacing with it.
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by maccard 7mo ago
> The computer is a Qotom Q305p 3205u. > Total price with power adaptor: $60 I'd love to have a handful of tiny computers that I could do fun stuff on, but there is absolutely nothing available in the UK for less than double that
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by maccard 7mo ago
Claude is also down; https://status.claude.com/ This is the future apparently?
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by maccard 7mo ago
Agreed - this is also where Github is the most unreliable. our _number one_ reason for build failures is "GHA being down/degraded" in 2026.
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by maccard 7mo ago
Thr comment I replied to was talking about sending a http requests. Go’s server side net/http is excellent, the client side is clunky verbose and suffers from many of the problems that Python’s urllib does.

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