sally_glance

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by sally_glance 9mo ago
Yeah I feel that, if it happens your only way out is to write down a more extensive implementation plan first. For me that is the point where I start regretting to have tried implementing something using AI,.. But admittedly most of the tim
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by sally_glance 10mo ago
They absolutely can do that if you give them the tools. Seeing Claude (I use it with opencode agents) run curl and playwright to verify and then fix it's implementation was a real 'wow' moment for me.
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by sally_glance 10mo ago
To me the phrasing seems objective. Making your binaries available to the public is good (though source would be better). Replace [firmware] with [random popular GitHub repo] and nobody would blink. Replace [firmware] with [customer email a
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by sally_glance 10mo ago
Having observed an average of two mgmt rotations at most of the clients our company is working for this comes at absolutely no surprise to me. Engineering is acting perfectly reasonable, optimizing for cost and time within the constraints t
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by sally_glance 11mo ago
Thanks for the insights! A bit disappointing that this avenue didn't turn out to be the one worth pursuing at the time, although I don't think the ball was completely dropped. Some light prodding surfaces recent research into dark
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by sally_glance 11mo ago
I enjoy following academic discourse, review and collaboration give me the feeling that actual progress is being made. So I love that you linked the rebuttal paper. In the last paragraph the authors mention that some ideas could lead to &qu
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by sally_glance 11mo ago
Theoretically you're supposed to assign lower prio to issues with known workarounds but then there should also be reporting for product management (which assigns weight by age of first occurrence and total count of similar issues). Ama
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by sally_glance 11mo ago
I actually didn't try ESPHome yet, thx for mentioning it. That will be my next experiment then. The adaptive lighting also sounds really cool, will try that as well. Do you know if the Athom bulbs even have some kind of persistent memo
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by sally_glance 11mo ago
Thanks for the response! Refreshing to hear that it can actually work - I think the main difference between your setup and mine might be that I actually needed the mesh because I had bulbs in behind a couple of steel concrete walls. I insta
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by sally_glance 11mo ago
Interesting, I had a similar setup with smart bulbs, dumb switches and HA. My experience was that when the bulbs lose connectivity (Zigbee or Wifi in my case) you could maybe still turn them on but they would start flashing like crazy or us
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by sally_glance 11mo ago
Nothing, but looking at the current results either no one tried yet or it didn't work very well. And the pelican benchmark has been around for a while so the opportunity was there.
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by sally_glance 11mo ago
I would give them some leeway, sometimes you have to learn the hard way. But I was also kind of surprised didn't mention contacting the client anywhere.
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by sally_glance 11mo ago
Very accurate - that was one of the steps that caused me to fiddle quite a bit. Had to add an entrypoint to chown the mounts and also some Buildkit cache volumes for all the package managers. You can skip the uid/chown stuff if you wor
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by sally_glance 11mo ago
From what I understood they provide a kind of shared platform where anyone can run things, and it was one of their clients/users performing the commits.
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by sally_glance 11mo ago
fwiw I recently bootstrapped a small Debian image for myself, originally intended to sandbox coding agents I was evaluating. Shortly after I got annoyed by baseline vim and added my tmux & nvim dotfiles, now I find myself working inside
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by sally_glance 1y ago
Would be really nice if we had more of the "just pay" options. As it is the "just pay" options mostly also can't be trusted any more than the free(-mium) options, and both will try their best to "squeeze every
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by sally_glance 1y ago
Agreed. The tradition has been continued by workflow engines, low code tools, platforms like Salesforce and lately AI-builders. The issue is generally not that these are bad, but because they don't _feel_ like software development ever
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by sally_glance 1y ago
Or "diversify", basically don't put all of your eggs in one basket. Can be done at any scale too, from storing backup copies of important documents at your parents house to buying a few apartments in Indonesia.
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by sally_glance 1y ago
Compared to what? Granted, Excel incidents are probably underreported and might produce "silent" consequential losses. But compared to that, for enterprise or custom software in general we have pretty scary estimates of the damage
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by sally_glance 1y ago
Having AI create the spreadsheet you want is totally possible, just like generating bash scripts works well. But to get good results, there needs to be some documentation describing all the hidden relationships and nasty workarounds first.
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by sally_glance 1y ago
Agree this is a consideration if your only workload is an existing or greenfield ErlangVM-compatible project. From what I know basically everyone approaching this scale with k8s has different problems to solve, namely multi-tenancy (shared
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by sally_glance 1y ago
Well said! Reading this I feel reminded of the early protests against industrialization and automation in other fields. Checks all the same boxes - insecurity and fear about the future, alienation towards the new tools, ... Not saying AI is
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by sally_glance 1y ago
Bravo. Great start, disappointing conclusion. Why are you not sure?
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by sally_glance 1y ago
I'm not following. What exactly are you trying to say and how does it relate to OP?
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by sally_glance 1y ago
Another LLM-pragmatist here. I don't see why we should treat LLMs differently than any other tool in the box. Except maybe that it's currently the newest and most shiny, albeit still a bit clunky and overpriced.
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by sally_glance 1y ago
Maybe JP did actually smell something during DD but decided to go ahead because of FOMO and confidence that they could just sue later if their concerns turned out to be true...
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by sally_glance 1y ago
Is that really a fair comparison? I think the amount of people who can memorize each and every configuration item is vanishingly small... even when I was bootstrapping k8s clusters before the dawn of LLMs I had to lookup current documentati
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by sally_glance 1y ago
I wish they would actually explain it like that somewhere. Or publish the internal version numbers they must certainly be using to ensure a proper development process.
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by sally_glance 1y ago
Hm, if I understand their product correctly they are building a DB and their filtering actually returns correct results. So, the analogy doesn't really hold true unless you actually have these trillions of alternate products stored in
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by sally_glance 1y ago
Sounds like a non-sequitur to me. Yes, this is how it works - in every aspect of life we try to regulate as a society (through laws and enforcement). Criminal activities are prohibited, restricted and monitored. Criminals move on, but the l

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