carderne

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by carderne 2mo ago
What do you gain by having multiple repos?
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by carderne 4mo ago
John McPhee talks about a similar model for the Mississippi River in “The Control of Nature” Well worth a read. Fun stories about Hawaii and Los Angeles too, iirc.
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by carderne 4mo ago
The UK grid does not import 44% of its energy. Gell-Mann suggests I should treat the rest of your post with skepticism. EDIT: maybe you meant the UK total primary energy? I feel like that's extending the boundary a bit far. Should we s
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by carderne 5mo ago
What API/approach does it use to edit sheets? I made a CLI (+skill) so agents could edit files with verbs like `insert A1:A3 '[1,2,3]'`, but did some evals and found it underperformed Anthropic's approach (just write Pyt
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by carderne 5mo ago
I deliberately didn't mention this because I think most of the pain with Github over the last year is probably caused to some degree by their scale, which seems like an unrelated issue. (But maybe not.)
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by carderne 5mo ago
If anyone from Astral sees this: at this level of effort, how do you deal with the enormous dependence on Github itself? You maintain social connections with upstream, and with PyPA... what if Github is compromised/buggy and changes th
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by carderne 6mo ago
I’m surprised it works for you with such a simple config? I’m the one that added the allowRead option to Claude’s underlying sandbox [0] and had quite a job getting my toolchains and skills to work with it [1]. [0] Fun to see the confusing
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by carderne 6mo ago
Interesting, that's not been my experience! Maybe you've got the list of things to allow/block just right. While testing different policies I've frequently seen Opus 4.6 go absolutely nuts trying to get past a block, unl
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by carderne 6mo ago
How do agents tend to deal with getting blocked? Messing around with sandboxes, I've quite even seen them get blocked, assume something is wrong, and go _crazy_ trying to get around the block, never stopping to ask for user input. It m
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by carderne 6mo ago
There is sandbox-runtime [1] from Anthropic that uses bubblewrap to sandbox on Linux (and works the same as OP on macOS). You can look at the code to see how it uses it. Anthropic's tool only support read blacklist, not a whitelist, so
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by carderne 6mo ago
I guess you don't get the luxury of being opinionated enough to say: forget your old data. Anyway great write-up, even though I'm sure it's painful having to run this system on top of your once-elegant Postgres solution.
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by carderne 6mo ago
How does this work with self-hosting? Is the assumption that self-hosters won’t run into this problem? For most use-cases I’d probably prefer to just delete the payloads some time after the job completes (persisting that data is business lo
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by carderne 7mo ago
I got pi to write me a very basic sandbox based on an example from the pi github. Added hooks for read/write/edit/bash, some prompts to temp/perm override. Have a look, copy-paste what you like. https://github
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by carderne 7mo ago
The people pushing oh-my-pi seem to have missed the point of pi... Downloading 200k+ lines of additional code seems completely against the philosophy of building up your harness, letting your agent self-improve, relying on code that you con
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by carderne 7mo ago
I'd say it's the idea/fact/feeling that, in 2026, agency matters more than skill/wisdom/intelligence. Long read on the topic (quite funny, covers Cluely): https://harpers.org/archive/2026&#
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by carderne 7mo ago
It means the marginal cost to sell another subscription is lower than what they sell it for. I don't know if that's true, but it seems plausible.
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by carderne 7mo ago
This is super interesting framing. I’m definitely a completer, not that I like much about Slack. Probably useful to have this kind of discussion before/while making knowledge management decisions in startups.
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by carderne 8mo ago
Out of interest, what control plane do you use for a Hetzner/metal setup? Kubernetes ecosystem? I use Coolify for side projects, haven’t investigated whether I’d want to use it for bigger/importanter stuff.
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by carderne 8mo ago
I wasn't able to find any imagery online, and I don't have anything I can share publicly. These are some of the existing commercial solutions (just found these on Google, can't remember which I was comparing my own work again
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by carderne 8mo ago
Might not be possible to find any, they’re expensive and niche. If you reach out (email in profile) I can show/share how it works (nothing currently public).
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by carderne 8mo ago
I did something similar once for a mining technique called “core logging”. It’s a single photo about 1000 pixels wide and several million “deep”: what the earth looks like for a few km down. Existing solutions are all complicated and clunky
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by carderne 9mo ago
To be fair, your comment didn't add much either. Their main criticisms of Python were: > it is slow, its type system is significantly harder to use than other languages, and it's hard to distribute Your comment would have been
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by carderne 9mo ago
I’m just a casual observer of this thread, but I think you’d find it worthwhile to read up a bit on zero-copy stuff. It’s ~impossible in Python (because you don’t control memory) and hard in C/similar (because of use-after-free). Rust’
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by carderne 9mo ago
peewee is nice, but I can't write un-typed Python anymore, so it's not an option for me.
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by carderne 9mo ago
I was hoping the parentheses themselves would be flipped. Like this: > 1 + )2 * 3( (1 + 2) * 3
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by carderne 9mo ago
Users of a library will generally instruct their type-checker not to check the library. So only the outer API surface of the library matters. That’s mostly explicitly typed functions and classes so the room for different interpretations is
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by carderne 9mo ago
Embar: https://github.com/carderne/embar A Python ORM, inspired by Drizzle and the like. Whenever I come to Python I'm frustrated by the ORM options. They generally lack type-safety on inputs and outputs, or usefu
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by carderne 10mo ago
Is it absolutely necessary to have a base/gateway? This Verge article[0] seems to imply not, but it's not at all clear to me what I lose. If I just want a smart switch that controls a smart light, can I do that without a hub? Can
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by carderne 11mo ago
What “hub” thing do I need to use this? I use an iPhone but really just want to use some physical remote switches. I currently use Home Assistant but want to shift to something more “mass market” as I’m bored of being family tech support.
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by carderne 11mo ago
Here it is for anyone else who struggled: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-management

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