Kerrick

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by Kerrick 11d ago
Other translations keep Zinsser's preferred lack of fuzz but avoid using "is ... to" for possession. For example, the Lexham English Bible: > I looked again and saw under the sun that the race does not belong to the swift,
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by Kerrick 2mo ago
For some things, good enough is good enough. For many things, it is not (and neither are random posts on the internet). Before Web 2.0, it was similar to whether I'd trust some random person on the street with it versus going and loo
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by Kerrick 2mo ago
No, the sense had nothing to do with the content and everything to do with the context. Perfect grammar and writing style were never enough to get me to trust an anonymous forum post or unknown bloggers post for certain topics like health a
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by Kerrick 2mo ago
I have a distinct line between when I'm willing to believe an LLM's output and when I'm not: whether I would believe the same thing from an anonymous Internet forum post or a blogger I don't know. Those posts are not unl
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by Kerrick 2mo ago
You can handwrite more than just your first draft. It was common before the proliferation of computers to handwrite early drafts in pencil, and then handwrite the final manuscript with ink.
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by Kerrick 3mo ago
Most blu-rays are 1080p, not 4K. The latter gets marketed as "UHD" and sold in a black case, to contrast the blue case of traditional FHD blu-rays.
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by Kerrick 3mo ago
I suspect that vibe coders who hit a wall need the same thing that programmers from 2003 who hit a wall needed. Talk to the business people, get an understanding of their domain and the problem at hand, and model that as a series of anthrop
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by Kerrick 3mo ago
That wall was detailed in 2003 in Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software by Eric Evans, Chapter Four, "Smart UI Anti-Pattern." The context is the same, the problem is the same, the solution is the sam
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by Kerrick 4mo ago
Analog Mono and Two Slice are really neat. If you like those, you'll probably also like another of my favorite modern pixel fonts: Departure Mono. https://departuremono.com
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by Kerrick 5mo ago
https://awnist.com/slop-cop (via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47806845 ) points out Staccato Burst, Dramatic Fragment, Colon Elaboration, and Short-Hook Paragraph. To me, those define the tone of thi
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by Kerrick 5mo ago
https://asahilinux.org/docs/platform/feature-support/m4/
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by Kerrick 5mo ago
> What I’ve built here is a structured edition — the parsing, reconstruction, linking, indexing, etc. I haven’t published a formal license for that yet. If you live in the U.S. I recommend you read No Sweat of the Brow Copyright : http
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by Kerrick 5mo ago
Z.ai's Coding Plan with GLM 5.1 (Max) did more than double in price. It was $80 two weeks ago, and now it's $160.
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by Kerrick 5mo ago
> By default, minimize button not present in titlebars This is explained by the ElementaryOS H.I.G.: > Apps should save their current state when closed so they can be reopened right to where the user left off. Typically, closing and r
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by Kerrick 5mo ago
I didn't want to put a spiked nose ring on the first calf born on my small farm because of the visual shock. Its mother didn't kick the calf off as it grew up. The calf wouldn't stop nursing, kept the cow in milk for far too
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by Kerrick 5mo ago
I think there's a linguistically-driven temporal misunderstanding happening here. A cow couldn't have a calf if it hadn't become pregnant. But there's so much to the linguistics of animal husbandry and dairy that many
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Anyone can code with AI. But it might come with a hidden cost(nbcnews.com)
1 points by Kerrick 5mo ago|0 comments
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by Kerrick 6mo ago
Why would anybody who rejects them on moral grounds pick them up later? It isn't a discussion of lateness, it's a discussion of opting out.
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by Kerrick 6mo ago
Software Developers median pay according to BLS: $131,450 per year (Source: https://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/... ) Computer Programmers median pay according to BLS: $98,670 per year (Sour
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by Kerrick 6mo ago
Ruby has types with RBS and Steep now. It's a lot like using .d.ts sidecar files alongside JavaScript, via jsconfig.json configuring tsc. I like it a lot!
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by Kerrick 6mo ago
> It gets 50% more pull requests, 50% more documentation, 50% more design proposals Perhaps this will finally force the pendulum to swing back towards continuous integration (the practice now aliased trunk-based development to disambigua
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by Kerrick 6mo ago
This is the exact analogy that Gene Kim and Steve Yegge used throughout their book Vibe Coding: Building Production-Grade Software With GenAI, Chat, Agents, and Beyond .
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by Kerrick 7mo ago
Unambiguously, though, it is. There's so much trash imperative code in its training data that LLMs tend to vomit out garbage. But if you anchor it with OOP, the quality tends to be higher.
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Ruby Can Create Images Again(rubystacknews.com)
2 points by Kerrick 7mo ago|0 comments
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I Sold Out for $20 a Month and All I Got Was This Perfectly Generated Terraform(matduggan.com)
5 points by Kerrick 7mo ago|0 comments
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by Kerrick 7mo ago
But now many suburban homeowners also have a little lawn tractor, and lots of people on small acreage have a utility tractor. None of them are farmers, but they get value out of the technology as well. Plus, we're feeding a lot more
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Upright: An Open Source Synthetic Monitoring System(dev.37signals.com)
3 points by Kerrick 7mo ago|0 comments
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by Kerrick 7mo ago
Results testing with 4 levels of Gemini (Fast, Thinking, Pro, Pro + Deep Think): https://ruby.social/@kerrick/116079054391970012 My favorite was Thinking, as it tried to be helpful with a response a bit like the X&#x2F
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by Kerrick 7mo ago
Those are all stateless MVC over HTTP, which is a very different architecture from stateful MVC for long-lived UI. The latter was invented for Smalltalk by Trygve Reenskaug, and is far more relevant to front-end web. Stateful MVC uses Publi
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by Kerrick 7mo ago
> However, it is important to ask if you want to stop investing in your own skills because of a speculative prediction made by an AI researcher or tech CEO. I don't think these are exclusive. Almost a year ago, I wrote a blog post a

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