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by rsanheim 1y ago
I wonder what kind of outage or incident or economic change will be required to cause a rejection of the big commercial clouds as the default deployment model. The costs, performance overhead, and complexity of a modern AWS deployment are i
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by rsanheim 1y ago
uhmm... wat? where was there any mention in the OP of Jobs about diversity or his Syrian background?
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by rsanheim 1y ago
Because Claude code does offer particular features. More important than “features” is the fact that it works and does the things you want like 60-70% of the time, with guardrails and practice and attention. Which is way better than competi
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by rsanheim 1y ago
The worst part about this is it just further reinforces horrible habits and expectations. Using a modern password manager, like 1password, is _easier_, safer, and faster than the stupid email-token flow. it takes a little bit of work and at
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by rsanheim 1y ago
Because their main business is selling ads and maintaining their stranglehold on that market via analytics, chrome, Chromebook, android, SSO via google, etc. The dev focused products are a sideshow amongst different fiefdoms at google. They
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by rsanheim 1y ago
Yeah, it turns out many nerds don't consider the fact that the amazing tools we are using to do constrained tasks aren't that great for more general purpose things. Writing a spike, spitting out unit tests, or vibe coding a front
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by rsanheim 1y ago
The top folks at big ai labs and research can't even agree on what AGI means or if it is a useful term or taget. I guarantee the folks building opus 5 or GPT 6oMiniPlus5.5++ are not concerned about if the new model 'achieves AGI&#
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by rsanheim 1y ago
Absolutely insane. Some silly comparisons to what software has changed the world at less than 50MB: - VisiCalc: ~27KB - i.e. the first killer app, and probably still the most successful. I wonder what DAUs on excel & google sheets compa
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by rsanheim 1y ago
yes, definitely. https://github.com/BeehiveInnovations/zen-mcp-server is one example of people going off on this, but i'm sure there are many others
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by rsanheim 1y ago
I don't think that dichotomy is true at all, at least not with experienced software people. Many folks I know are skeptical of the hype, or maybe full on anti/distrustful, due to reasons I think are valid. But many of those same p
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by rsanheim 1y ago
Mise is fantastic. Switched from asdf awhile ago and have not looked back. I don't use the advanced task / env stuff, mostly just the tool management. Its been stable, fast, and gets out of the way.
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by rsanheim 1y ago
_try_ being the operative word here: https://www.npr.org/2024/04/02/1241148577/table-saw-injuries... Sawstop has been mired in patent squatting and/or industry push back, depending on who you talk t
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by rsanheim 1y ago
Java still had slow startup and warmup time circa 2005-2007, on the order of 1-3 seconds for hello world and quite a bit more for real apps. That is horrendous for anything CLI based. And you left out classloader/classpath/JAR dep
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by rsanheim 1y ago
I've lived in Wisconsin my whole life as well, minus 5 years in NC for a job. The parent specifically mentioned _northwoods_ wisconsin, which is a different beast than Madison, Milwaukee, or some of the other cities. So not sure how mu
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by rsanheim 1y ago
It's just Pattern matching. Most APIs, and hell, most code is not unique or special. Its all been done a thousands of times before. Thats why an LLM can be helpful on some tool you've written just for yourself and never released
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by rsanheim 1y ago
> Any physical process can be computed Um, really? How so? Show me the computations that model gut biome. Or pain, or the immune system, or how plants communicate, or how the big bang happened (or didn’t). And now define “physical” wrt t
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by rsanheim 1y ago
Same experience here. I got a Cursor Pro sub towards the end of 2024. Once Claude Code because available, my Cursor usage dropped _dramatically_ as I got up to speed on how Claude Code worked. I still prefer Cursor for some things - namely
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by rsanheim 1y ago
We will have the equivalent of Claude Sonnet 4 in a local LLM that can run well on a modern Mac w/ 36+ GB of ram in a year or two. Maybe faster. The local/open models are developing very fast in terms of quantization and how well
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by rsanheim 1y ago
We've had open source CI. We still have it. I remember ye olde days of Hudson, before it was renamed Jenkins. Lotsa orgs still use Jenkins all over the place, it just doesn't get much press. It predates GHA, Circle, and many of t
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by rsanheim 1y ago
Not just small. _all_ businesses.
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by rsanheim 1y ago
`ETOOMANYMODELS` Is there a reputable, non-blogspam site that offers a 'cheat sheet' of sorts for what models to use, in particular for development? Not just openAI, but across the main cloud offerings and feasible local models? I
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by rsanheim 1y ago
It isn't a matter of trust, its a matter of developers are humans. Humans make mistakes, and continuous integration helps catch mistakes. I've been coding for 25+ years, and I sometimes I forget to remove debug output, or I forget
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by rsanheim 1y ago
This. Spotify hides the ability to just have your own stuff in favor of their algorithm they want to shove down your throat. It isn't just library management, but every part of their UI feels more like algo-driven exploration and recom
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by rsanheim 2y ago
I genuinely love this entry in the faq: https://gameoftrees.org/faq.html#pointless
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by rsanheim 2y ago
CircleCI.
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by rsanheim 2y ago
tldr but: don't use GitHub Actions. Its a mess, the availability is often atrocious, and the UI around it is _still_ as clunky as when they first rolled it out many years ago. There are better solutions out there.
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by rsanheim 2y ago
That great infographic at the top illustrates one big reason why 'dev instances in the cloud' is a bad idea.
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by rsanheim 2y ago
The days of Google engaging with the tech community, or even pretending to try and explain their decisions when it comes to Chrome, SEO, or search quality are long, long gone. There really is no need for an explanation here, its all laid ou
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by rsanheim 2y ago
Firefox is a less bad option, even with the recent stupid policy changes they've made. Or there are a bunch of other options that care about privacy (see https://privacytests.org/ ). Brave, Librewolf, Arc, Zen, Orion (K
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by rsanheim 2y ago
The Sienna is a great hybrid if you are wanting something larger for families or hauling stuff. Tons of space, really nice cabin, and far more practical for 90% of uses than a huge pickup or any of the large SUVs. I can haul groceries and

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