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by nosefurhairdo 1mo ago
It's not good, they hide the model (their whole thing is hidden model routing to keep costs low, but predictably yields bad results), there are no novel integrations not available in any other harness, it's closed source, and bobc
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by nosefurhairdo 1mo ago
Official policy is to only use Bob. All of the best people I work with are using other tools because Bob is trash.
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by nosefurhairdo 7mo ago
Seems unlikely. We're already seeing specialized hardware optimized for LLM performance (taalas, groq, cerebras), and simple economies of scale result in these sorts of products being a better value when rented from a server vs purchas
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by nosefurhairdo 7mo ago
I dealt with eye strain that would bother me for hours after I stopped working. Improving the lighting around my desk basically solved it for me.
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by nosefurhairdo 7mo ago
I give my agents read permissions to all repos related to a given repo. Add a bit of context to AGENTS.md or equivalent and they do just fine with understanding service boundaries. Another concept I like is that we should optimize for next
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by nosefurhairdo 8mo ago
Re: excessive useEffects, this article from React docs is great: https://react.dev/learn/you-might-not-need-an-effect Re: unrefactorable, large components, you probably want to break these down into smaller pieces. Thi
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by nosefurhairdo 8mo ago
React + ReactDOM adds ~50kb to a production bundle, not even close to a couple of mbs. React with any popular routing library also makes it trivial to lazy load js per route, so even with a huge application your initial js payload stays sma
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by nosefurhairdo 9mo ago
AI is great at any styling solution via system prompt + established patterns in codebase. Tailwind is just slightly more convenient since it's consistent and very popular.
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by nosefurhairdo 9mo ago
Arthritis is a general term; need narrow down for useful advice on managing symptoms. Two most common types are osteoarthritis (wear-and-tear associated with aging and/or injuries) and rheumatoid arthritis (autoimmune). I only know abo
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by nosefurhairdo 9mo ago
I did not mean to suggest that our motives were purely humanitarian. As I understand it there are numerous geopolitical implications with Venezuela, from China's loans-for-oil relationship to the Iran assisted drone manufacturing facil
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by nosefurhairdo 9mo ago
My read of your argument: international law says don't intervene in foreign government, and by intervening we legitimize future violence. I'm not sure this argument makes sense. Maduro stole an election to force his way to dictato
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by nosefurhairdo 10mo ago
I'm with a company that was acquired by IBM ~2.5 years ago. The internal systems are definitely rough, but for the most part it's business as usual. I've heard chatter from our engineering leadership that IBM is trying to pus
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by nosefurhairdo 1y ago
"When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure." You are free to interpret the score within the broader context of your own experience, the problem domain your code addresses, time constraints, etc.
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by nosefurhairdo 1y ago
That's fine, but it shouldn't be enforced on all contributors. What matters is that failures don't get merged, not that they don't get committed.
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by nosefurhairdo 1y ago
Can't stand pre-commit hooks. I want zero delay on commits. Checks can be run against pull requests in a GitHub action runner; no reason to force me to run them on my machine.
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by nosefurhairdo 1y ago
Thank you. If we prosecuted scientists for a drug as well tolerated as finasteride we would cease to develop new medication and all of humanity would be worse for it. If there was some indication that the pharmaceutical company knew of and
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by nosefurhairdo 1y ago
Additionally, the kind of person who would reach for prescription medication vs accepting hair loss may be predisposed to depression. I.e. this may be selecting for people who struggle with self-acceptance generally. I also wonder whether t
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by nosefurhairdo 1y ago
No need to contemplate platonic ideals; we've all experienced code that is relatively easy to read and modify, performs well, handles error well, etc. The author's definition of taste as a prioritization of various engineering val
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by nosefurhairdo 1y ago
> I didn't say it's an abusive employer but an abusive company. A confusing distinction to make in a thread about employment. > It always fought against open source. They've since admitted this was a mistake, and in 202
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by nosefurhairdo 1y ago
Microsoft is not an abusive employer. Most people today or at any point in human history would envy the typical Microsoft job. Pretty much all large tech companies are similar in this respect. If your employer is actually abusing you in som
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by nosefurhairdo 1y ago
Gotcha. I'm unfamiliar with LiveKit and React native so appreciate your clarifications. You've convinced me that your grievances are legit haha.
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by nosefurhairdo 1y ago
You can't use their js sdk? https://github.com/livekit/client-sdk-js
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by nosefurhairdo 1y ago
You don't have to use their hooks! Looking at your pastebin link, I would probably opt for something like a factory pattern instead: https://pastebin.com/PbnBqX4a Just because you're in React land doesn't mea
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by nosefurhairdo 1y ago
It's hard to build non-trivial web UI with any technology—React is just what's familiar. If Angular had won (god forbid) we'd be seeing all the same articles written about how bad Angular is.
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by nosefurhairdo 1y ago
> I groan every single time I run into (yet another) hook rule. There are only two rules: 1. Only call Hooks at the top level 2. Only call Hooks from React functions Per https://react.dev/reference/rules/rules-o
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by nosefurhairdo 1y ago
The "winner" just had its 3000th release on GitHub, already a few patch versions past the version referenced in this article (which was published today): https://github.com/wppconnect-team/wa-version
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by nosefurhairdo 1y ago
A man holding open debates on college campuses, regardless of political beliefs, is categorically different to a man whose legacy was founding al-Qaeda and masterminding 9/11. Not to mention Kirk's views were not too different fro
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by nosefurhairdo 1y ago
The malware introduced here is a crypto address swapper. It's possible that even after deleting node_modules that some malicious code could persist in a browser cache. If you have crypto wallets on the potentially compromised machine,
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by nosefurhairdo 1y ago
I suspect Zed will aim to tackle this issue via DeltaDB: https://zed.dev/blog/sequoia-backs-zed#introducing-deltadb-o...
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by nosefurhairdo 1y ago
Huh, I just asked Grok "Who is the evilest figure of the 20th century in your opinion?" Response seems to conflict with your accusation: > It’s tough to pin down one figure as the "evilest" since the 20th century was

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