mattacular

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by mattacular 10mo ago
Really nice, I found it highly intuitive on first use. Only thing I might suggest is making it more obvious what the "handle" button is that initiates the pick.
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by mattacular 10mo ago
They can detect golang pretty reliably by fingerprinting the requests they handle (ie. TLS handshake) unless the app developer has taken some explicit measures to counter it.
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by mattacular 10mo ago
> The whole web ecosystem was first run by VC money and everything was great until every corner was taken, Categorically untrue and weird revisionism. Basically the opposite of what actually happened.
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by mattacular 10mo ago
> And the industry might finally be waking up to the fact that writing code is a small part of producing software. Typing code and navigating syntax is the smallest part. We're a solid 30 years into industrialized software developme
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by mattacular 10mo ago
Genuine question: Why would anyone want to read that? I glanced at the first sentence and decided not to go any further. It is hollow text. It has no properties of what I'd want to get out of even the worst book produced by human minds
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by mattacular 10mo ago
Try TCL. I just got a second one after 6 years with a previous model of theirs that was showing signs of death. On both this new (Google-based OS) and old one (Roku-based OS), I have done the steps I mentioned above. I wouldn't have bo
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by mattacular 10mo ago
1. buy any model that meets your specs (i like TCL) 2. setup a one time use wifi network with randomized SSID and password (hotspot from your phone works well) 3. connect your tv to it and update to latest software 4. delete the wifi config
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by mattacular 10mo ago
What does that have to do with the current CEO's assessment of the situation?
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by mattacular 11mo ago
I pay for YouTube Premium too (probably not much longer) but can only 'comfortably' use the site through a series of increasingly hacky extensions for Firefox. On non-web apps, there is no recourse from the UI enshittification. Th
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by mattacular 11mo ago
Lay off LLMs for a while
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by mattacular 11mo ago
There is a prevailing mentality that LLMs make it easy to become productive in new languages, if you are already proficient in one. That's perhaps true until you suddenly bump up against the need to go beyond your superficial understan
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by mattacular 11mo ago
> * A thin glue layer orchestrating all of the above: injecting the list of available tools into the LLM context, parsing LLM output to detect tool calls and invoke them with appropriate args, and inject results back into LLM context Yea
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by mattacular 1y ago
> This is so dangerous, but it’s also key to getting the most productive results where do i sign up?
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by mattacular 1y ago
For cache, having TTL is invaluable. Having to tune cleanup jobs in Postgres is annoying. Deletes create dead rows (so do updates) so now you have to deal with vacuum as well. The method the author suggested will run into a lot more problem
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by mattacular 1y ago
there is for iOS - passforios - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pass-password-store/id12058205... works great.
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by mattacular 1y ago
> What really struck me was how Amazon's product decisions were driven by internal KPIs rather than user empathy. First day on the job or what?
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by mattacular 1y ago
Does anybody really believe that SalesForce of all companies has successfully replaced 4000 real and necessary jobs with AI? Or is that more likely just an excuse to justify more layoffs in the tech industry for the usual reasons.
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by mattacular 1y ago
> The best way I've found is to have it write small functions, and then I tell it to compose them together. Pretty much how I code without AI, except making my brain break the problem down into small functions and expressing them in
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by mattacular 1y ago
It's not really like your examples because MCP has been around for about 1 year whereas those others have been around for decades and are completely ubiquitous throughout the software industry as a result.
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by mattacular 2y ago
I strongly agree with almost all of this except the last part about project managers - a good one is invaluable, an ok one can still be helpful. The majority probably are neither (and their ability to be good at managing projects depends a
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by mattacular 2y ago
Interesting (but perhaps not surprising) none of the top comments mention meeting or learning how to work with the people who build, operate, and maintain the software product that they're managing. Understanding the dynamic (ie. inher
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by mattacular 2y ago
> You launch your local service locally, you consume whatever you need to consume straight from a cloud environment, you test the contract with a local test set, and you deploy the service. That's it. If your services are mostly sta
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by mattacular 2y ago
> Striking during election week is kind of a crappy move to pull Hard disagree. They're exerting what little leverage they have. Also there's plenty of places to get reliable election coverage besides NYT so who cares?
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by mattacular 2y ago
Nope
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by mattacular 2y ago
What if it's a nice bear
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by mattacular 2y ago
> Just up the RAM and CPU up to TB levels not sure what CPU at TB levels means but hope your wallet scales better vertically
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by mattacular 2y ago
Those are often the same person, at different points in their career.
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by mattacular 2y ago
Dream bigger? We could make it illegal to advertise period.
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by mattacular 2y ago
I don't get what they mean by "Version control kept me attached to the past." You don't have to look at the history to use other features of version control. Typically everything is moving forwards in a repository.
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by mattacular 2y ago
Infra, devops, and (software engineering) org decisions ARE part of software design. Application layer is not the only consideration worth prioritizing design time over. Microservices is just a buzz word for an overly prescriptive (thankful

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