combyn8tor

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by combyn8tor 16d ago
I remember in the Windows 95/98 days asking my friend for his IP address and then browsing through my windows explorer to his mum's fully shared windows C drive. She had her computer plugged directly into the modem and was using I
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by combyn8tor 26d ago
not that crazy. Opus 5 is like working with an insufferable, arrogant colleague that speaks another language. It's mentally draining dealing with someone like that for 8 hours a day. I'm back on 4.8, and it feels like working with
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by combyn8tor 1mo ago
I haven't had time to complain on here because I spend all my time trying to work out wtf Opus 5 is talking about and googling words I've never seen or heard in 40 years as a native English speaker.
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by combyn8tor 1mo ago
It works fine for me. Only issue I have is that it has me constantly reaching for the dictionary.
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by combyn8tor 2mo ago
The point doesn't stand, and this comment appears to be spam.
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by combyn8tor 2mo ago
You may want to consider the incomes of developers outside the US, students, unemployed. $200/month is a lot to a lot of people.
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by combyn8tor 2mo ago
Well according to the people in this thread it was previously impossible for bad actors to host a website, and CloudFlare has now given them this unique ability.
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by combyn8tor 3mo ago
People don't want to live in a mansion when it's on fire.
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by combyn8tor 3mo ago
> VPNs do not allow you to connect two devices directly, they have to go through the VPN Not true. Depends on the VPN protocol.
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by combyn8tor 3mo ago
Rust kernel development.
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by combyn8tor 4mo ago
I think that holds true for any industry where the consequences of failure are no more than loss of money.
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by combyn8tor 4mo ago
> risk appetite, motivation, grit, and patience. This is the moat. It was before AI and still is.
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by combyn8tor 4mo ago
Maybe I'm missing something, but it appears he is irritated that people aren't giving him their time? Why does he have that expectation?
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by combyn8tor 5mo ago
Go and Rust is not really a type of work though. What tasks are you throwing at them?
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by combyn8tor 5mo ago
Same experience for me. I think people need to start providing context for the type of work they're doing when repeating the local model hype. Maybe they're working with a cookie cutter React app and it does the job fine.
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by combyn8tor 5mo ago
They seem to have stopped developing GPUI (or maybe just the public version)? One of the staff forked it into a community edition https://github.com/gpui-ce/gpui-ce Does anyone have more details about the state of it?
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by combyn8tor 5mo ago
What is a wsl mirrored network?
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by combyn8tor 5mo ago
In my experience Opus and Claude have declined significantly over the past few weeks. It actually feels like dealing with an employee that has become bored and intentionally cuts corners.
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by combyn8tor 6mo ago
I had to check the date on my phone as I was sure it was an April fools joke. After the absolute onslaught of negative feedback and the new term "Microslop", they put out an article saying you can now adjust the position of the ta
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by combyn8tor 6mo ago
"In researching a hiccup with performance, he stumbled across a file where the OpenClaw agent had downloaded all of his WhatsApp messages and stored them in plain, unencrypted text on his computer. Not just the work-related messages it
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by combyn8tor 7mo ago
The process is called "webview2" on windows. From memory my Tauri app process is about 6mb memory and the webview2 is about 100mb.
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by combyn8tor 7mo ago
> I don’t see how the average engineer has the energy or motivation to even understand these tools, never mind meaningfully compare them This is why I use the copilot extension in VS code. They seem to just copy whatever useful thing cli
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by combyn8tor 9mo ago
How do you accept crypto payments? Is there a Stripe style service that provides an API and/or payment portal? Id like to implement something for my SaaS but generally can't be bothered with crypto.
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by combyn8tor 9mo ago
I have three OS installs. Windows install for games. Another Windows for development (I have to for windows dev). And a Ubuntu install for anything not games/work. The windows drives use bitlocker and they can't access each other&
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by combyn8tor 9mo ago
Curious how you manage licensing?
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by combyn8tor 11mo ago
Wow that was an interesting read. I find it amusing that nobody seems to really know who he is or what his motives are, yet his code is run on millions of machines every day.
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by combyn8tor 11mo ago
I just import them with unique names if there is a collision - Wiz_Baz and Foo_Baz
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by combyn8tor 11mo ago
I did this accidentally the other day in Rust: let x = some_function(); ... A bunch of code let x = some_function(); The values of x are the same. It was just an oversight on my part but wondered if I could set my linter to highlight multip
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by combyn8tor 11mo ago
They present as bugs. I suspect they don't have the A team working on mechanisms that help reduce the amount of time kids spend on their devices. Do the bare minimum to show they "care" but no more as it hurts the profits.
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by combyn8tor 11mo ago
"you're essentially stepping into the role of an enterprise MDM IT department, auditing software updates for stability before letting them go out." If my daughter's Spotify app breaks after an update she knows to immedia

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