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by mceachen 11mo ago
X11 color names are atrociously bad. Inconsistent prefixes and suffixes, flatly wrong names for many handfuls of RGB triplets, and it’s what got hard wired into CSS and HTML.
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by mceachen 1y ago
Ugh, you’re totally right. I always get optimize and vacuum mixed up. https://sqlite.org/pragma.html#pragma_optimize
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by mceachen 1y ago
You can VACUUM INTO, ~~but standard vacuum won’t rewrite the whole db~~ (vacuum rewrites the whole db) https://sqlite.org/lang_vacuum.html (Edit: if multiple processes are concurrently reading and writing, and one process v
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by mceachen 1y ago
I have to balance this with what I know about my reptile brain. It’s distracting to me when Claude declares that I’m “absolutely right!” or making a “brilliant insight,” so it’s worth it to me to spend the couple context tokens and tell th
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by mceachen 1y ago
"Refrain from including estimated task completion times." has been in my ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md for a while. It helps.
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by mceachen 1y ago
afaict macOS only (there's a waitlist for windows and nothing for linux)
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by mceachen 1y ago
Don't worry, they will always have new Minecraft mobs and biomes to discuss.
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by mceachen 1y ago
npm-check-updates has a PR for --cooldown as well: https://github.com/raineorshine/npm-check-updates/pull/1547
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by mceachen 1y ago
You need to scroll that table: 8601 has so so many formats that are just as worthless without context as MDY. %C or %h%m are egregious.
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by mceachen 1y ago
Each record encodes optional FROM and TO fields: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tz_database
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by mceachen 1y ago
You can, but with Claude, be sure to watch what files it reads—I’ve seen close to entirely incorrect analysis due to shallow/lazy reading. If you think it’s phoning it in, tell them to study upstream and downstream consumers, consider
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by mceachen 1y ago
I use git and when necessary, git worktrees to keep parallel Claudes from bothering/actively-undoing each other’s edits (esp when an edit requires multiple files of changes, so the tree is temporarily broken).
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by mceachen 1y ago
On a desktop browser, tap YouTube's "show transcript" and "hide timecodes", then copy-paste the whole transcript into Claude or chatgpt and tell it to summarize with whatever resolution you want-a couple sentences,
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by mceachen 1y ago
pow(infinity, infinity) is aliased to no_i_love_you_more in CSS5
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by mceachen 1y ago
Is it not relevant to reiterate the bias (or lobotomization) for people new to this space?
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by mceachen 1y ago
Correct. The number of times I’ve had Claude ask permission to rm -rf paths with .. elements is more than zero.
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by mceachen 1y ago
Are you remembering the same BASIC that I’m remembering? With fixed line numbers? Refactoring was near impossible. Spaghetti code was par for the course. You were forced to build everything twice or thrice if you wanted a final product that
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by mceachen 1y ago
If you send a clear email to their support channel to cancel your subscription, even if they ignore it, I suspect that may help your case? IANAL and would like to hear if this is a valid strategy.
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by mceachen 1y ago
Not the op, but I’d guess islands become a PITA when there is user-visible state that must be synchronized and rendered coherently across multiple islands.
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by mceachen 1y ago
There were really only teletypes and dot-matrix printers available at that point. Look at how "effective immediately" is underlined, and how inconsistent the letterforms are. Also, 1980 is 5 years before the Apple LaserWriter, 11
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by mceachen 1y ago
That’s what their usage warning prompts seem to indicate.
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by mceachen 1y ago
There’s an infinitesimal chance that it’ll p0wn your repo. There’s a strong chance it will remove your web service auth filter chain to make an integration test pass.
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by mceachen 1y ago
If you don’t have lookup tables for your lookup tables you aren’t doing it right
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by mceachen 1y ago
Having a design doc, implementation and testing plan, strict linter, and strict compiler helps keep the robots on the rails IMHO. But even then, I never let it git add or git commit, and about half the time it runs in “ask me before you do
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by mceachen 1y ago
Their new MAX 5x plan is flat rate $3/day but IME it's enough to drive all-day multi-concurrent-sessions if you stay on sonnet. Their MAX 20x is double the cost $~6/day for quadruple the quota. Keep in mind that Opus chows qu
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by mceachen 1y ago
Other posters correctly described _what_ this is, but I didn't see anyone answer _why_. Using a Symbol as the method name disambiguates this method from any previously-defined methods. In other words, by using a Symbol for the method n
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by mceachen 1y ago
By design. We're all supposed to be exhausted at this point.
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by mceachen 1y ago
I suspect the intersection of gun-carrying civilians and foreign PhD students is rather small.
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by mceachen 1y ago
IME large linear algebra algos run like molasses in a jvm compared to compiled solutions. You're always fighting the gc.
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by mceachen 1y ago
Driving with your lights off at dusk or dark gets you (rightfully) pulled over by law enforcement in CA. It's well-correllated with driving under the influence. I'm a huge fan of many car safety regulations, but this isn't on

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