sampullman

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by sampullman 6mo ago
I drag a tiny fetch wrapper around with error/json handling, timeouts and basic interceptor support. It doesn't cover everything axios does but it's nice enough and I haven't had to touch it in a couple years. For refere
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by sampullman 6mo ago
I usually get it a few seconds ahead of time at least, in Taipei. I figured it's more related to the proximity than anything else.
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by sampullman 6mo ago
You might be surprised, there are plenty of low effort attacks out there that just install a crypto miner and phone home periodically without doing much to cover it up.
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by sampullman 6mo ago
For that I'm not so sure. I tried both early 2025 and was disappointed in their ability to deal with a TCA based app (iOS) and Jetpack compose stuff on Android, but I assume Opus 4.6 and GPT 5.4 are much better.
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by sampullman 6mo ago
That's interesting, I actively use both and usually find it to be a toss up which one performs better at a given task. I generally find Claude to be better with complex tool calls and Codex to be better at reviewing code, but otherwise
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by sampullman 6mo ago
It's not possible in Taiwan's current political/social climate. I'm not so confident to say 50 years, but 20+ feels conservative.
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by sampullman 7mo ago
Agreed, I've blocked all notifications for years. Maybe it got worse recently, but I thought they were annoying since at least Big Sur.
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by sampullman 7mo ago
That's a good point, I'm not 100% sure it's worth throwing away the potentially beneficial uses. There might not be a solution that's both feasible to implement and avoids banning useful things. In the end I usually come
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by sampullman 7mo ago
I think there's a little more nuance than that, but it seems roughly correct. Wouldn't it be better if apps/websites targeting kids didn't use A/B testing to be more addictive?
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by sampullman 7mo ago
It's 1.5 miles in 14:25, I think most people can handle that. There are plenty of ways to exercise that aren't plain running. Biking, skating, swimming, Tai chi...
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by sampullman 7mo ago
There is lossy PNG compression that works very well for images using a limited color palette (pngquant, lossypng, etc).
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by sampullman 7mo ago
It can be harder, but it's specific to the country/system. Here it Taiwan you can walk into any clinic with stock and get a (NHI covered) vaccine any time. There are other things to complain about of course, but the rules for what
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by sampullman 7mo ago
That's true for code editing, but it's nice to not have to reach for a different solution when editing huge files. Sometimes I like to open up big log files, JSON test data, etc.
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by sampullman 7mo ago
If you buy a game and can't tell it's made with AI, isn't that just as good?
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by sampullman 8mo ago
That's true, and I more or less already use it that way for things like one off scripts, mock APIs, etc.
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by sampullman 8mo ago
The person I'm replying to believes that there will be a point when you no longer need to test (or review) the output of LLMs, similar to how you don't think about the generated asm/bytecode/etc of a compiler. That'
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by sampullman 8mo ago
That's exactly my point, it's a nice tool in the toolbox, but for most tasks it's not fire-and-forget. You still have to do all the same verification you'd need to do with human written code.
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by sampullman 8mo ago
If natural language is used to specify work to the LLM, how can the output ever be trusted? You'll always need to make sure the program does what you want, rather than what you said.
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by sampullman 8mo ago
I did not find this to be the case, except with a few low quality vendors we ended up dropping. It was mostly the same as anywhere else, you go talk to them in person, tour their facilities/processes, and see what else they've bui
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by sampullman 9mo ago
I use a new Ryzen based mini PC instead of Mac mini, but the reasoning is the same. For the amount of compute/memory it pays for itself in less than a year, and the lower latency for ssh/dev servers is nice too.
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by sampullman 9mo ago
I did this for a while, it's pretty good but I occasionally came across dependencies that were difficult to install in containers, and other minor inconveniences. I ended up getting a mini-PC solely dedicated toward running agents in d
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by sampullman 9mo ago
Regular WD40 should not be used as bearing lubricant!
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by sampullman 9mo ago
nit: the last letter of PCB stands for "board"
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by sampullman 9mo ago
Do you do this in a professional setting? I'm curious because I did some embedded/uC work about 10 years ago and considering the state of C/C++ SDKs (and IDE support) at the time, I would have expected it to take decades for
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by sampullman 9mo ago
The mainland and Hong Kong still have significantly different visa policies. I'm not sure if it's changed at all since the handover, except for mainlanders entering HK.
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by sampullman 10mo ago
If I was letting some random person rent one of my servers without oversight, I'd sure want to see some ID first.
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by sampullman 10mo ago
I don't think it's naive, I often do the same in Vue. A pretty useful subset of vue-router can be implemented in less than a tenth of the bundle size.
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by sampullman 11mo ago
I don't think 1, 2, and 4 apply to many high profile open source projects.
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by sampullman 11mo ago
That's what the GP was saying, I think. Once they get the MAC address, they can find you. Not via software on the phone, from exfiltrating and using shady third parties that collect data from access points, etc.
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by sampullman 11mo ago
Do you use AI agents on repos without version control?

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