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by bottd 5mo ago
I've been thinking along these lines too! My idea here is to use a receipt printer + scanner. In the morning the system prints a receipt with various widgets like weather, calendar, etc. The scanner takes in the marked up receipt at EO
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by bottd 5mo ago
The Kagi AI stuff
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by bottd 6mo ago
Not for everything. For code you own, yes this is often the case. For the majority of the layers you still rely on documentation. Take the project you mention going straight to source, did you follow this thread all the way down through eac
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by bottd 6mo ago
> If there is a need to comment the code all over the place, to me it means that the code is maybe not as good as it should be :-) If good code was enough on its own we would read the source instead of documentation. I believe part of go
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by bottd 9mo ago
> Therein lies the problem. LLMs are not assistants. Assisting a person and being an assistant are not synonymous. A cane assists a man while he walks. It is a stick. That's it.
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by bottd 10mo ago
This is somewhat self-fulfilling is it not? I fear my valuable employee may leave, so to protect myself in this situation I withhold resources I could have granted them. Said employees later realize they could get better and leave.
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by bottd 11mo ago
Do they do this notably worse than say a Spring boot API or a Vue frontend? I don't think this is a React thing. Those spaghetti projects would be so with or without React.
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by bottd 11mo ago
Hot reloading is pretty common now for React or other JavaScript projects
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by bottd 11mo ago
If you wanna access DOM you can't avoid JavaScript
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by bottd 11mo ago
Do you always feel this is the case? To me the go to single letter variables are very readable. Used so widely my eyes parse them like other symbols: =, &, +, etc.
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by bottd 1y ago
I have yet to experience a role where workers are allowed to deliver while clocking less than 40 hours. 5 hours per week on salary is only if you do not tell management.
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by bottd 1y ago
Not official, but I have been using this nix flake to get Claude desktop on Linux: https://github.com/k3d3/claude-desktop-linux-flake
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by bottd 2y ago
You’re failing to separate work and labor.
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by bottd 2y ago
I recently switched from using a basic git repo to home-manager. You’re correct that the setup you describe gets you a lot of what Nix can provide. The main thing it is missing is Nix will also manage installing your software for you. I fin
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by bottd 2y ago
This is all decided by business needs, not by engineer preference. If devs aren’t pulling the levers it is good to expose them in an accessible interface, not plaintext.