mikeocool

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by mikeocool 2mo ago
> mentioned a Telegram bot idea > Fast forward: she now runs Arch Linux with Hyprland (I use Xorg/i3 though), fully riced with cats. Did she end up building the bot or did the LLM just lead her down a desktop Linux rabbit hole?
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by mikeocool 2mo ago
This can sometimes be a challenge with OSM, if the way you want to structure data doesn’t align with the way the community has decided to structure data. I was looking into building a canoeing map based on OSM data. An important thing to ma
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by mikeocool 2mo ago
One of the nice things about OSM is you can profit from it from it if you want to. I don’t think you’ll find even most the die hard OSM fan disagree with you on the POI data. On the other hand, the road network in OSM is very high quality.
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by mikeocool 2mo ago
Yeah, Claude told me what a great idea converting my LLC to an S Corp would be and how much I would save in taxes. When I asked my accountant about he told me it would actually cost me more, because of NYC taxes S Corps. I didn’t tell Claud
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by mikeocool 2mo ago
I used to quite like instagram when it was a good way to keep up with a well curated group of friends who would share occasional interesting photos (though even then it could end up being performative). But you’re right, these days I’ve lar
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by mikeocool 2mo ago
Yeah, seriously, New York just passed law that makes it illegal to show engagement-driven feeds to kids. I can’t wait to not age verify on instagram and permanently get back a feed that’s only people I follow.
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by mikeocool 2mo ago
Generally I think lifestyle business means a business that is going to make the owners a comfortable living but not likely to make anyone filthy-rich. In silicon valley/tech it's sometimes treated as a derogatory term.
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by mikeocool 2mo ago
Like notable lifestyle businesses Datadog, Squarespace, Etsy, Tinder, and Snap.
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by mikeocool 2mo ago
I dunno, not losing data and minimizing unnecessary downtime is table-stakes for a pretty significant class of businesses. If for no other reason, dealing with these at any scale often distracts from running your actual business.
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by mikeocool 2mo ago
I love SQLite, and I really want to run it in production, but my clients expect minimal data loss and downtime when one of my servers goes down. The answer to that being running it on top of LiteFS or LiteStream seems like starts to make th
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by mikeocool 2mo ago
If that is really what they are concerned with, they probably could have just had Claude Code rewrite Claude Code in rust? That likely would be far more efficient than changing the language of your typescript runtime that ships to run your
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by mikeocool 2mo ago
As I recall, OSM already tends to have many golf courses mapped in extreme detail, because there’s a game that lets you play OSM golf courses on your golf simulator. This sometimes leads to conflict between the game’s passionate users and O
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by mikeocool 2mo ago
I continual find the amount of ink spilled on having a clean commit history amazing, when you can basically get all the same benefits with: git log --first-parent git bisect --first-parent
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by mikeocool 2mo ago
If your end point does something like: * read from the database * make a request to an API (or really any kind of long running non-database thing) * write to the database You're going to end up with a transaction that is open way longe
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by mikeocool 2mo ago
I love SQLite, but my clients expect minimal data loss and downtime when one of my servers goes down. How are people solving that issue with SQLite? Everytime I’ve investigated it, it seems like the state of the art is not very battle teste
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by mikeocool 2mo ago
Clean!
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by mikeocool 3mo ago
If I'm understanding this correctly, you're going to need a LOT of user ratings before the rating content is worthwhile to most people. Maybe focus the site on capturing ratings to start instead of sharing ratings for products tha
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by mikeocool 3mo ago
Kinda seems like OpenAI didn’t actually have that idea or the ability to execute it, if they had to go to apple’s supplier and lie to them to get them do it.
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by mikeocool 3mo ago
Yeah, the models have all been really good at generating greenfield apps for a really long time (in the scope of LLM time). I suppose it’s interesting to see how they make better greenfield apps. But I am much more interested in how they so
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by mikeocool 3mo ago
I'm sure they could technically do that if they have the right wording in their terms. But most consumer services are not actually going to give you a paid service without billing info, because it'd create such a headache for them
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by mikeocool 3mo ago
Yeah I find the Mac mini trend is kind of baffling. It seems like it's driven either by 1) people hearing Macs are good for AI, buying one, and using Claude for inference, not realizing that you interact with the anthropic API from an
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by mikeocool 3mo ago
My Claude.md is a maybe 30 lines. I only adid something if it repeatedly does something that annoys me. It still tends to do those things, but maybe 40% less.
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by mikeocool 3mo ago
I think you’re probably right about people’s feelings on the matter. Though in my experience dogs that are ok with fireworks are the edge case.
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The Unstoppable Force of A.I. Hype Is Meeting One Immovable Fact(nytimes.com)
4 points by mikeocool 3mo ago|5 comments
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by mikeocool 3mo ago
Her instagram account (yourowkelsey) is probably the best thing my algorithm has served up in a while (not a high bar, but hers is in fact really good). She posted through the trip and answered a lot questions about logistics and the experi
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by mikeocool 3mo ago
I think I get your point, but few PhD candidates pay tuition in the US and most actually receive a living stipend. In exchange they act as teaching and/or research assistants.
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by mikeocool 3mo ago
I drive a 2026 Toyota, how do I enable this new good native infotainment system of which you speak? The one in my car sucks, and to use the most basic features (navigation, music) that cost nothing on CarPlay (beyond my phone bill) cost $15
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Api.weather.gov's robots.txt disallows all bots(api.weather.gov)
2 points by mikeocool 3mo ago|0 comments
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by mikeocool 3mo ago
> dynamically share resources This has been a big pain point me with various VM solutions I’ve tried. Having to allocate say 8GB to a sandbox, and a) having that RAM eaten up when I’m not using it and b) only having 8GB when I am using k
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by mikeocool 3mo ago
I love Postgres. I buy using it for many many things. I really don’t understand why everyone insists that you should use it as a work/message queue. There are lots of purpose-built bullet proof queuing systems that are simple to setup

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