scubbo

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by scubbo 9mo ago
Yes, that's exactly my point. "X belongs to Y" and "Y owns X" and "X is Y's <noun>" are not perfectly synonymous - despite considerable overlap, they have different shades of meaning.
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by scubbo 9mo ago
This is linguistic nonsense on a par with disliking the phrase "my spouse" because it implies ownership. You can easily talk of "my country" or "my university" without claiming ownership, just as one can talk o
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by scubbo 9mo ago
tbf, individuals do work that is not their employment (I was actually _more_ excited about this for my personal TODO lists than for my Real Adult Job, for which things like Linear already exist) - but I take your point.
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by scubbo 9mo ago
You are misinterpreting the phrase. "Worse", here, means "having less functionality"[0]. Whatever your belief about the usability, speed, consistency, etc. of Microsoft Word (and we probably agree there!), Markdown is ce
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by scubbo 9mo ago
Many people - simonw is the most visible of them, but there are countless others - have given up trying to convinced folks who are determined to not be convinced, and are simply enjoying their increased productivity. This is not a competiti
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by scubbo 9mo ago
This was me. I have done a full 180 over the last 12 months or so, from "they're an interesting idea, and technically impressive, but not practically useful" to "holy shit I can have entire days/weeks where I don&#x
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by scubbo 9mo ago
> the exception, not the rule. Absolutely - for me, that's already true. I just wouldn't want to give up the ability to _ever_ look at the code before I submit it!
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by scubbo 9mo ago
Yes, that had already been suggested here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46492948
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by scubbo 9mo ago
Right, exactly. Cafés _used_ to be meeting places; now, they are "coffee, solitude, and WiFi acquisition places"
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by scubbo 9mo ago
Right, yes, that was precisely my point - it was weird to me that people were comfortable operating on a codebase that they don't have locally, that they can't directly interact with.
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by scubbo 9mo ago
Much obliged, thank you!
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by scubbo 9mo ago
Oh fascinating - so you're reviewing "your own" code in-PR, rather than reviewing it before PR submission? I can see that working! Feels weird, but I can see it being a reasonable adaptation to these tools - thanks! What abou
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by scubbo 9mo ago
I'm surprised to see people getting value from "web sandbox"-type setups, where you don't actually have access to the source code. Are folks really _that_ confident in LLMs as to entirely give up the ability to inspect t
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by scubbo 9mo ago
Worktrees took way too much setup and hand-holding for me, but https://conductor.build made it easy!
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by scubbo 10mo ago
No, your robot vaccuum cleaner itself made _your_ life better. The _company_ made _the_ world worse, by over-charging, exploiting, and polluting. The fact that they happened to create a product that you personally enjoy does not negate the
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by scubbo 10mo ago
A fascinating and eye-opening read. One of my intentions for this coming year is to critically examine and (if appropriate) alter or dispel some preconceptions I have. To that end, I'm curious about this part: > You don’t have to co
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by scubbo 10mo ago
Companies do not make the world better.
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by scubbo 10mo ago
You can just say "sociopath", it's faster.
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by scubbo 10mo ago
Right, and I suspect that was the author's intent - to evoke a sympathetic frustration that newer programmers might feel, and then to point out how the frustration is ill-aimed.
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by scubbo 10mo ago
Have you actually completed it? There are plenty where the category is obvious, sure - but also many ambiguous entries. It's not trivial to fully complete if you're aiming to keep errors low! E.g. in ROT13: Cuvynqrycuvn pbhyq unir
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by scubbo 10mo ago
Exactly. Monorepo-enjoyers like to pretend that workspaces don't a) exist, and b) provide >90% of the benefits of a monorepo, with none of the drawbacks.
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by scubbo 10mo ago
This is magnificent <3
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by scubbo 10mo ago
I've been tinkering with building something similar for myself - though for a generic chatbot, rather than for Claude (not every task is coding, and I'd like to keep !). From other comments (e.g. https://news.ycombinato
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by scubbo 10mo ago
> some FBI faboon I'm not familiar with the term, and Urban Dictionary only has "fake babboon" which I suspect is not the intent here - what does it mean?
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by scubbo 10mo ago
> If you have a team of 1x f/time developer and 1x f/time tester, Y'all have dedicated testers!? In 14 years of development, across FAANG and startup, this has never been true for me. The closest I've come is a brief
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by scubbo 10mo ago
> how can you read in 20 minutes > good enough if i am reading fiction or something Looks like you got there in the end.
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by scubbo 10mo ago
Wow
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by scubbo 10mo ago
> SSH integration What does this mean? Googling "ssh integration ghostty" just got me "shell integration" which I'm guessing is not the same thing.
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by scubbo 10mo ago
Exactly this. You can put information in a place that motivated consumers can find it. Heck, you could _even_ pay for it to be there, or to be prioritized there, if you want (I don't love that, but I don't have a coherent way to p
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by scubbo 10mo ago
> why isn't congestion pricing a tariff? Because tariffs are imposed on trade between countries. That was easy!

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