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by sshine 2mo ago
That and a proven ability to apply it in a given domain. I am really not good with electronics. I’m sure it’s just a mental block, but I see people debug electronics as relentlessly as I debug code.
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by sshine 2mo ago
I have the same experience giving my brother an OpenClaw as his personal assistant. His words were: It feels as if I need to know how to program it. I was expecting he could say something like "Oh, it seems like you don't remember
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by sshine 2mo ago
This whole discussion is a result of Claude using "Co-authored-by" as advertisement because it massively propagates the Claude logo to GitHub. As an advertisement strategy, this is extremely impressive. Unfortunately, it conflates
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by sshine 2mo ago
Very cool. I also like making websites with Hugo, and I have thought a lot about different theme vendoring methods, and how to retain ease of updating and testing your theme. https://simonshine.dk/articles/vendoring-hug
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by sshine 2mo ago
That’s great, but how do I fix my motorcycle?
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by sshine 2mo ago
Doesn't it depend on how widely and how many things an operator subscribes to? I'm pretty invested in vault-secrets-operator and vault-config-operator. Simply because of the amount of custom scripting I don't have to do. But
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by sshine 2mo ago
> Given the roughly 30% overhead of overflow checks, I think restricting them to debug builds is a reasonable tradeoff. I can also see an argument for using wrap on overflow even in debug builds for consistency and simplicity. I don’t
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by sshine 2mo ago
> You stop trying to enforce this rule as it is a "fight" you can't win and dealing with this takes more effort than dealing with the issues the low quality vibe-coded projects caused in the first place > You stop tr
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by sshine 2mo ago
I've clarified; it's per month.
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by sshine 2mo ago
I also run Kubernetes on Hetzner and created my nodes prior to two price hikes. Here's how expenses look and would look if I recreated it today: Control Plane 3xCX23 @ €3.99 = €11.97 @ €6.49 = €19.47 Worker nodes 3xCX3
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by sshine 2mo ago
Not only did your cost spike, it changed currency and went from postfix to prefix! I understand people complaining about large bills, but this is over the top!
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by sshine 2mo ago
That's 87 trillion, 967 billion, 679 million, and so on.
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by sshine 2mo ago
Even though it's just a bug, being charged $595B on a platform that is known to cost spike, reminds us that we're not in control of the platform, or our company's expenses.
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by sshine 2mo ago
> Are you doing this for client-facing production code? What's "this"? We're talking about multiple things here. But presumably yes: I'm working through agents, and all I do is read and prompt. I don't man
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by sshine 2mo ago
With guidance, it kind of is happening. While, simultaneously, an abundance of slop is being made.
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by sshine 2mo ago
> Anthropic's entire goal is to extinguish software development as a profession They’re killing “programmer”, not “code”. > I don't see how they wouldn't take out open source with it as a consequence An analogy: the
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by sshine 2mo ago
> extinguish the ecosystem since open source libraries are essentially a competitor. (If there were no libraries you'd have to ask the AI to do everything!) That is neither the incentive of AI companies nor the truth. Availability
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by sshine 2mo ago
I recently set up a Forgejo instance for a personal infrastructure project, and because of security, it’s read-only. So I just disable all the “issues”, “pull requests”, “wiki”. It’s a little sad, but also gratifying to know that I’m making
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by sshine 2mo ago
> All these comments about AI Slop are underestimating how good these builders have gotten and AI lets you iterate really fast. Both of these are true: we’re witnessing an unprecedented amount of slop, while also the tools get better a
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by sshine 3mo ago
> not mostly the test, but the real world production scars Most extensive test suites are exactly production scars: every time you have a bug or a regression, you write a test that confirms correct behaviour. SQLite is a good example t
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by sshine 3mo ago
> a downside of this approach is that you sacrifice late binding, as the module language and "core" language are stratified into different layers https://people.mpi-sws.org/~rossberg/1ml/1ml-extended
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by sshine 3mo ago
> might think it's a good idea to just run with a wildly out-of-scope idea with too much hubris I'll say that using git as a database instead of simply SQL leads to a lot of corner cases. For example, you are inside a trans
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by sshine 3mo ago
Triple backticks also let you specify the syntax very conveniently.
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by sshine 3mo ago
I think "yolo" gets overloaded here to mean "not thinking". I've described it as static HTML. The admin dashboard isn't static HTML, but it also isn't public-facing. The admin dashboard lives behind an oau
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by sshine 3mo ago
I get what’s you’re saying, and if I couldn’t justify making the best alternative I can imagine in my free time, because I’ve wanted it for a long time, I’d install “a CMS” (not WordPress). > If there's a question about why money w
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by sshine 3mo ago
Thank you.
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by sshine 3mo ago
How do you hack a static HTML page? The point is that most WordPress pages don’t warrant the dynamic code execution on every page load. When you use a static site generator and make content creation convenient behind the scenes, you move th
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by sshine 3mo ago
I’ll say “proper docs” has shifted for me for two reasons I used to insist on commenting code richly, so I could better read it. But comments lie, while code is truth. Read the code, that’s what it does. With AI, the cognitive overhead of g
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by sshine 3mo ago
I’ll try to tell the story in a more responsible way: My boss asked me to install a WordPress, to which I advised against it; while it’s easy to set up, it doesn’t align with our tech stack (his main team won’t be able to support it easily,
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by sshine 3mo ago
My boss asked me to set up a WordPress for a product landing page. I naturally won't do this; it's no more than a couple of weeks ago that some SQL injection landed in the search query function of this monstrosity. WordPress alway

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