cstrahan

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by cstrahan 6d ago
What is it about a tool, running as your own non-root user, installed in your home directory, that makes it scary?
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by cstrahan 13d ago
Suppose there are two options: remaster the game with AI assistance, or don’t remaster the game at all (because that would entail porting 72,758 lines of assembly by hand, and the time-to-reward ratio would be deemed to low for most peopl
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by cstrahan 15d ago
> I don't require the circuit boards in my electronics to be hand-drilled either. This is the exact example I used the other day. Same with pick-and-place, CNC for subtractive manufacturing, 3D printing for additive, plastic injecti
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by cstrahan 1mo ago
It makes me wonder if these same people take issue with task delegation in software development: is it also problematic when a staff engineer delegates tasks across teams, or a senior engineer mentors a junior developer? It's such a st
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by cstrahan 1mo ago
I am almost certain that, on a daily basis, you use dozens (or hundreds) of things that: 1. Were produced via plastic injection molding. 2. Were machined by CNC. 3. Have PCBs that were fabricated by machine, milled by machine, and populated
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by cstrahan 1mo ago
I'm not sure I follow. Are you suggesting that full text search systems are ultimately a convoluted way of performing O(N) regex searches? If not, I don't see how you arrive at the conclusion that this is "the same as grep in
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by cstrahan 1mo ago
The memories are stored as OKF (Open Knowledge Format), which is markdown + frontmatter (+ constraints/schema imposed thereon). Having an inverted index (as with FTS5) is useful in that, for a basic single-term lookup, you reduce a seq
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by cstrahan 2mo ago
Probably not, given that "terrific" was almost certainly used sarcastically here.
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by cstrahan 3mo ago
“that code” refers to the body of the loop. Unless the loop is unrolled, yes, there is a branch to exit the loop. But then that doesn’t matter because the whole goal at the beginning was to avoid branch misprediction (which is not the same
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by cstrahan 4mo ago
IIUC 1) It isn’t a matter of literally “pasting into a terminal” (with the terminal emulator shoveling bytes into the TUI’s stdin), rather it’s “a TUI key-binding tells TUI app to read system clipboard”. No different than any other app. 2)
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by cstrahan 4mo ago
I've had an upper endoscopy and a colonoscopy, both the same day, and both without anesthesia. If they didn't take a biopsy, it likely shouldn't have been too traumatic, consciously or subconsciously - maybe that's a bit
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by cstrahan 4mo ago
I agree on the commit messages not being ideal, though a bit of by-hand rewording goes a long way. Recently let Claude Code handle some commit history clean up: split a couple commits, reordered some, and identified some that could/sho
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by cstrahan 4mo ago
> Do you believe what teachers told you in school? Yes? Nope. At least, not without proof. That would, IMO, be kinda crazy. We could argue semantics - maybe “stupid” would be a better word? Lacking in critical thinking skills? Whatever “
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by cstrahan 4mo ago
That seems like an odd way to interpret what they wrote. Imagine old school machinists saying to a CNC machinist “Ha! See, maybe you don’t jog the axes manually, but you still have to be involved in placing the stock material, and you have
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by cstrahan 4mo ago
People vary in their ability to differentiate colors and sounds. I’d be curious how you’d do on a hue test: https://www.xrite.com/hue-test For me, each colored square is plainly, obviously different, and it is immediately o
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by cstrahan 5mo ago
Slack requires shift+enter to create a new-line, while in JIRA shift+enter creates a new-line instead of new paragraph, creates all sorts of confusing layout issues, and because the difference is invisible, it's hard to to figure out w
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by cstrahan 6mo ago
Nah, I think it’s pretty clear. It would look like a terminal emulator. Just like how Electron looks like a bunch of browser widgets - because it’s literally a single-web-app browser.
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by cstrahan 6mo ago
I had a colonoscopy and esophagogastroduodenoscopy (thankfully not in that order) without sedation. Had it done in D.C. My doc looked at me like I was crazy when I asked if it could be done without sedation, and reminded me that it would be
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by cstrahan 7mo ago
Not at all. Some things are fundamentally unsafe. mmap is inherently unsafe, but that doesn’t mean a library for it shouldn’t exist. If you’re thinking of higher level libraries, involving http, html, more typical file operations, etc, what
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by cstrahan 7mo ago
I think they are likely referring to doubly linked lists in Rust, specifically. See, for example: https://rust-unofficial.github.io/too-many-lists/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22390662
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by cstrahan 7mo ago
https://bablr.org/ > The next-gen LR parser framework for creating elegant and efficient language tools > BABLR is a new kind of thing that does not quite fit into any category of things that has existed before it. In
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by cstrahan 7mo ago
> Any self respecting engineer should recognize that these tools and models only serve to lower the value of your labor. Depends on what the aim of your labor is. Is it typing on a keyboard, memorizing (or looking up) whether that functi
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by cstrahan 8mo ago
Vertical CNC mills and CNC lathes are, obviously, different machines with different use cases. But if you compare within the categories, the designs are almost all conceptually the same. So, what about outside of some set of categories? W
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by cstrahan 8mo ago
Or you already know all of the details, and you don’t want typing to be the bottleneck to getting things done.
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by cstrahan 8mo ago
https://vimhelp.org/motion.txt.html#%7B { [count] paragraphs backward. exclusive motion. } [count] paragraphs forward. exclusive motion.
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by cstrahan 9mo ago
Do you take issue with companies stating that they (the company) built something, instead of stating that their employees built something? Should the architects and senior developers disclaim any credit, because the majority of tickets were
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by cstrahan 10mo ago
Let me rephrase GP into (I hope) a more useful analogy. — actually, here’s the whole analogous exchange: “A rectangle is an equal-sided rectangle (i.e. “square”) though. That’s what the R stands for.” “No? Why would you think a rectangle i
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by cstrahan 10mo ago
You read it that way because that’s the sensible way to read it. Everyone suggesting you missed the plot is in turn making a rather large logical leap.
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by cstrahan 10mo ago
> These issues would still exist. I just explained why these issues don't apply to the LLM writing and invoking code: again, this is because code can apply successive transformations to the input without having to feed the int
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by cstrahan 10mo ago
> Okay....now what function calls or libraries should the API use to write that code? Whatever the most popular library is which provides a client to whatever "thing" (locally running process, or service, or whatever) you are t

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