aidos

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by aidos 12d ago
Also recommend his other books! Big Bang - history of the understanding of space and the universe Code book - history of the maths of ciphers Haven’t read them for years but I’ve been meaning to again
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by aidos 13d ago
Is it just me or does the dragging feel backwards?
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by aidos 14d ago
That’s… bonkers. I’m not even sure what it’s trying to say
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by aidos 1mo ago
I wasn’t trying to make a “got em” comment. The fact that this is possible and works at all is mind blowing - even more mind blowing is that my 8 yo is growing up in a world where they can talk to a machine to produce a custom application i
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by aidos 1mo ago
Yesterday my 8yo prompted (using voice recognition) Claude to make a game where it would play her a song (say Twinkle) and she had to play it back and get scored. The UI was a nice piano with visual feedback. The laptop key served as the ke
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by aidos 1mo ago
Are you suggesting something like this? def createUesr(db): if db is type1: behaviour1 if db is type2: behaviour2
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by aidos 2mo ago
I think you can use a passkey now.
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by aidos 4mo ago
Don’t get me wrong, I very much agree with the danger. As I highlighted - I saw it this morning when someone used Claude to draw the wrong conclusions. I’m saying there is a way in which they can be used where there isn’t scope for numeri
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by aidos 4mo ago
Depends on how it’s done. I use it a lot now for knocking up grafana charts etc. It’s not so much that the LLM is feeding the numbers through. You can still use real tools to analyse and summarise the numbers, it’s just much quicker at driv
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by aidos 4mo ago
Alleycat in CGA just hit me hard. For the people that didn’t live through this time, lining these images up makes it obvious why those that did speak of how visually impressive the Amiga was.
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by aidos 4mo ago
Fair. It did have George Clinton at the helm. I loved all the early stuff. Freaky Styley, Mothers Milk, The Uplift Mofo party plan. With Rick Rubin at the controls I just think Blood Sugar Sex Magik took their sound to another level.
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by aidos 4mo ago
That does seem like less than I would expect! It always makes me a bit sad that everyone knows RHCP but less so their early stuff. Blood sugar sex magik is a funk masterpiece. Didn’t help that for years Spotify used the singles versions of
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by aidos 5mo ago
Can you explain how conflicts are not conflicts? If I change a line of code several times and rebase on to a branch that changed the same lines of code, how are you sure what the right one is?
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by aidos 6mo ago
Multi threading, but yeah. Original HN post here if you’re interested. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7279358
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by aidos 6mo ago
> To what degree did I expand scope because I knew I could do more using the AI? Someone at work recently termed this “Claude Creep”. It’s so easy to generate things push you towards going further but the reality is that’s you’re setting
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by aidos 6mo ago
Yup same. Going a little insane trying to set up a new device that's having network issues. Claude was helping me diagnose. Seems like I've infected the whole internet.
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by aidos 6mo ago
One annoying thing about that flow is that when you change the world outside the model it breaks its assumptions and it loses its way faster (in my experience).
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by aidos 7mo ago
Ha! I had someone doing a task the other day and the llm they used wrote a regex in Perl. I joked that in 25 years all the seems to have changed is the number of layers between me and Perl.
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by aidos 7mo ago
For me, all the code in the PR at that point is in question. The code was changed as part of a bigger part of work and reverting it without understanding why might cause issues back the other way. The other thing to say - that is missing fr
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by aidos 7mo ago
Maybe a slight misinterpretation of what I meant. The commit that goes with a PR is definitely useful context, but I’ve found more granular than that is seldom useful. Even big ones like “move from angular to react” - the details of someone
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by aidos 7mo ago
Sudden flashbacks to when I was trying to figure out why there was so much traffic to a blog post (15+ years ago). I guess the internet was looking for something different to my “kick-[ass open]-source software”.
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by aidos 7mo ago
It’s pretty hard to keep the commits in a working branch in a good legible state - certainly it takes work to do it. In 25 years of professional development I’ve never really had a situation where the commits on a branch would have helped m
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by aidos 7mo ago
The bicycles are getting pretty cyclable now. I’m enjoying this pelican that’s already sliced and ready to bbq.
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by aidos 7mo ago
Ha! If I even look at my lath and plaster walls the wrong way a little bit crumbles away.
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by aidos 8mo ago
You can create an oauth client that can generate keys as you need them. https://tailscale.com/kb/1215/oauth-clients#generating-long-...
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by aidos 8mo ago
Vim recognises that the typing text is a small part of coding by defaulting to a mode in which you can’t even type :) For me, vim is a nice way to navigate code. It’s really fast to jump from place to place so I can explore quickly and buil
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by aidos 8mo ago
> allows functions to read the context they’re called in Can you show an example? Seems interesting considering that code knowing about external context is not generally a good pattern when it comes to maintainability (security, readabil
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by aidos 8mo ago
Let's hope Claude doesn't decide to run anything else through that git-server, since it's exec-ing whatever is posted over http. But hey, so long as it starts with 'git ' you're safe, riiiiight? Oh, 'git s
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by aidos 8mo ago
Not sure if it has a name but often there’s a trend of “one thing leads to another” related articles on the HN front page. Yesterday there was something similar that might have planted a seed in your mind like it did for other people. http
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by aidos 8mo ago
As you said. Fill-in-the-middle.

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