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by pmarreck 9mo ago
Related but not sure how much attention it's getting: GPL is a dead man walking since you can have any LLM cleanroom a new implementation in a new language from a public spec with verifiable "never looked at the original source&qu
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by pmarreck 9mo ago
both guix and nix are 1000% better for setting up and managing per-project deps deterministically
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by pmarreck 9mo ago
The irony with the chess example is that chess has never been more popular. Perhaps we're about to experience yet another renaissance of computer languages.
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by pmarreck 9mo ago
> the Catholic ones are notorious for firing employees that get divorced Wow. catholics> divorce is bad mmkay? also catholics> refuse to openly discuss the 2 biggest causes of divorce, sex and money (I once got a dating profile ban
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by pmarreck 9mo ago
I don't know how this is the first time I'm hearing this word, but thank you for that lesson! "Amathia" is indeed a source of evil IMHO.
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by pmarreck 9mo ago
I am ENTIRELY fine with faith providing moral support or justification to tangible human benefits. One of my favorite (and possibly world-famous) hospitals is St. Francis Heart Center https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._F
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by pmarreck 9mo ago
This is one of the biggest hacks in software engineering IMHO That and Bluetooth
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by pmarreck 9mo ago
> faith-based entities Look, believe what you want, but praying literally has no known demonstrable deterministic scientific or medical effect on people https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efficacy_of_prayer
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by pmarreck 9mo ago
> they are going to want to monetize LLMs more and more Not only can you run reasonably intelligent models on recent relatively powerful PC's "for free", but advances are undoubtedly coming that will increase the efficient
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by pmarreck 9mo ago
While I have you on the line, I'm also experiencing tons of API request timeouts using Claude Code's own TUI client (on the $200/mo plan!!) and I don't know how to mitigate that, and it is frustrating I'm not even u
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by pmarreck 9mo ago
i’ve noticed the issue with tmux more than with specific terminals. basically, the rapid replay of the entire conversation history (the CC bug) somehow interacts destructively with something in tmux, causing it to be 10 times worse. The “fl
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by pmarreck 9mo ago
I'll partially acknowledge this point (nice move btw) but frankly, if I MUST see ads, being shown ads that would at least target my demographic is at least more interesting to me. For example, I often get shown stuff that only nerds wo
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by pmarreck 9mo ago
... All so I can have ads that are actually more relevant to me. Sounds horrible. >..< The (...fortunately a) handful of places I've worked at which dealt with this sort of thing were very strict about removing PII. I'm more
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by pmarreck 9mo ago
"just databases" /eyeroll
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by pmarreck 9mo ago
I actually had no idea javascript Date was this bad until now.
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by pmarreck 9mo ago
Yes, but you can't leave it running and working on something and then resume from wherever that left off that way from wherever you are. Or are you saying you can resume a conversation that is still open in another terminal? What happe
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by pmarreck 9mo ago
Apple guy here who actually liked Metro. Party of one, for sure, LOL Glad to see an attempt to revive it on Linux
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by pmarreck 9mo ago
> I usually find AI written CSS to be slightly visually flawed and almost always logically flawed. Funny, this also qualifies most of the _human_ written CSS I've seen. !important all the things!
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by pmarreck 9mo ago
Just my preference, but I'd like to know where said restaurant is, lol
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by pmarreck 9mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46534071
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by pmarreck 9mo ago
Having spent years doing software dev myself and now months with the latest frontier models, I don't see a path forward in any software-development capacity that values productivity where AI is not featured. So I hope for your sake tha
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by pmarreck 9mo ago
> With Python, it wasn't so smooth, and I had to spent half a day to get it working. Next is boring details that I wish I knew from the start. that's not unusual for python. in fact, that is why I avoid python.
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by pmarreck 9mo ago
i use both tmux and mosh-server i install them via nix-darwin (I've abandoned homebrew) i am on Tahoe latest beta
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by pmarreck 9mo ago
yes but I've never seen a terminal interface embedded in a browser that is as good as a native terminal app interface, and blink shell has been well worth the upfront cost to me (way better than Termius, which was suggested in the writ
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by pmarreck 9mo ago
You need tmux to be able to resume the same session from anywhere, mosh-server to make ssh resilient to sketchy mobile connections, and blink shell https://blink.sh/ to have a high quality iOS shell with a mosh and ssh clie
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by pmarreck 9mo ago
> seems easier then getting a vpn working it could not possibly be easier to get Tailscale up and running on your mac or linux machine, install tmux and mosh on your mac or linux machine, connect to it with Blink Shell https:/&#x2F
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by pmarreck 9mo ago
this is literally my setup and it is a game-changer: tailscale, tmux, codex/claude code, mosh, blink shell (iOS) https://blink.sh/
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by pmarreck 10mo ago
LuaJIT’s C FFI integration is super useful in a scripting language and I’ve replaced numerous functions previously written in things like Bash with it. it also helps that it has ridiculously high performance for a scripting language
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by pmarreck 10mo ago
I guess a private announcement makes more sense to people than a public announcement, unless you wanted to make a blog post about a phenomenon related to it, which she appears to be trying to do
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by pmarreck 10mo ago
It's the bigotry of low expectations that the right often accuses the left of (arguably justifiably). Each side has their shibboleths and hypocrisies, and this is a very "left" one. Everything is the fault of the "other&

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