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by thwarted 7mo ago
If you have ssh access to the remote machine to set up a git remote, you can login to the remote machine and commit the changes that you forgot to commit.
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by thwarted 7mo ago
Charging for self-hosted runners is like a corkage fee but you still need to open the bottle yourself.
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by thwarted 7mo ago
> it happens when they give Claude too much autonomy. It works better when you tell it what to do, rather than letting it decide. That can be at a pretty high level, though. Basically reduce the problem to a set of well-established subp
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by thwarted 7mo ago
This feels like a rediscovering/rewording of Kernighan's Law: "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart eno
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by thwarted 7mo ago
> I tried to teach her to code a few months back and it was hilarious. We started with "First download VS Code". We never made it to another step. This has been a serious regression in the industry for a while: popular operat
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by thwarted 7mo ago
I read comments such as: >> I don't get it. LLMs are supposed to have 100% bridged this gap from "normie" to "DIY website." What's missing? as less sincere and more facetious, calling out that every s
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by thwarted 7mo ago
I'm no longer sure what you're saying. You asked why they didn't go with dedicated syntax, I listed two advantageous aspects of the chosen syntax. We know it's an overloaded comment: that's literally one of the ad
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by thwarted 7mo ago
//go:xyz is dedicated syntax that is compatible with both the language spec and other toolchains that don't know about it.
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by thwarted 7mo ago
Popularity and reputation are not the exact same thing. Reputation is about trust and predictability, while popularity is about awareness of the person and/or their reputation. But your points largely stands. However, reputation is one
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by thwarted 7mo ago
This is such a common position in just about every professional industry, codified legally or as personal belief, that it barely qualifies to be called out as unique to Dijkstra.
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by thwarted 7mo ago
Luck here isn't referring to some invisible dice roll whose randomness can not be explained or is just a correlation (like no rain on your wedding day would be), it's refers to variables that the person can not influence. Being bo
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by thwarted 7mo ago
A forgery isn't a subjective assessment. A forgery is intentionally made inaccurate claim of the origin of something. If the by-line is claiming it was made by someone who didn't make it, it's a forgery no matter how good of
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by thwarted 8mo ago
> It turns out that if you're writing an essay or a youtube script you don't have to tell me that you're going to explain something to me before you explain it to me. I do if I'm looking to pad the essay or video to
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by thwarted 8mo ago
Once people are impacted, maybe they'll start paying attention to what they're investing in.
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by thwarted 8mo ago
This position that no wrongdoing or illegal action can be discouraged because someone has to eat, or because it's "regular people" who have accountability because of who they decided to have manage their investments is gettin
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by thwarted 8mo ago
> We have the laws. What they’re doing is illegal. … It’s an enforcement problem. Because some people think laws only ever exist to restrain as a show of power over others and something is only illegal if you get caught. And some peopl
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by thwarted 8mo ago
> But there is a level of magnitude difference between coordinating AI agents and humans And yet, from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47048599 > One of the tips, especially when using Claude Code, is explictl
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by thwarted 8mo ago
> We pay huge communication/synchronization costs to eek out mild speed ups on projects by adding teams of people. Something Brooks wrote about 50 years ago, and the industry has never fully acknowledged. Throw more bodies at it,
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by thwarted 8mo ago
> I assumed the author had to be comparing inflation-adjusted dollars As did I. 90s weddings remind me of the Friends episode where Monica was scoping out her wedding. Chandler revealed how much money he had by writing it on a price of
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by thwarted 8mo ago
> But when everyone spends more, the effect is merely to raise the bar that defines special. The average American wedding now costs $30,000, roughly twice as much as in 1990. No one believes that couples who marry today are happier beca
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by thwarted 8mo ago
> One of the tips, especially when using Claude Code, is explictly ask to create a "tasks", and also use subagents. For example I want to validate and re-structure all my documentation - I would ask it to create a task to rese
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by thwarted 8mo ago
So the solution is to allow the AI scraping and hide the content, with significantly reduced fidelity and accuracy and not in the original representation, in some language model?
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by thwarted 8mo ago
The people who maintain open source software are considered "the vendor" by these compliance types. When it comes to open source, the user is really the vendor and the user has responsibility to themselves for compliance (this is
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by thwarted 8mo ago
“The electric monk was a labour-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder. Dishwashers washed tedious dishes for you, thus saving you the bother of washing them yourself, video recorders watched tedious television for you, thus s
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by thwarted 8mo ago
> "You’re better than this" "you made it about you." "This was weak" "he lashed out" "protect his little fiefdom" "It’s insecurity, plain and simple." Looks like we've s
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by thwarted 8mo ago
What if the space is url encoded %20 ?
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by thwarted 8mo ago
The whole point of markdown is that it is easily readable and editable and the structure is evident without being rendered . That it doesn't strictly need to be rendered in all or any context is its utility.
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by thwarted 8mo ago
> China's technocratic rule…seems a lot better at creating a coherent strategy for economic growth and international soft power. This requires that those in/with the power actually have altruistic, or at least not solely self
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by thwarted 8mo ago
The "I gotta eat" comment contingent is worse than the "rewrite it in rust" comment contingent. Not every conversation about GenAI and slop is about your eating habits. These are astroturfed bot comments, aren't the
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by thwarted 8mo ago
There's DeWALT, Craftsman, Stanley, etc carpentry/mechanic power tool brands who make a wide variety of all manner of tools and tooling; the equivalents in computers (at least UNIXy) are coreutils (fileutils, shellutils, and textu

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