fernandotakai

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by fernandotakai 2mo ago
i write code because i love it. it's something that makes me genuinely happy, so why would i give that up?
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by fernandotakai 2mo ago
like normal? but i don't use ai to write code for me -- i use it as a companion thing where i ask questions and then, instead of asking for code, i implement everything myself. it keeps me sharp and helps me understand the lastest ai s
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by fernandotakai 3mo ago
yup, that's exactly what i do. if anything is making me less productive or just plain stopping my job, i raise an IT ticket, tell my manager and go for a walk.
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by fernandotakai 3mo ago
it's pocketable! that's the main for me: i also have a kobo and bringing it around with me is just too damn annoying. being able to pocket this thing and read anywhere one handed is so nice.
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by fernandotakai 4mo ago
depends on the country, i would guess. but firing because "ai makes us more productive" is basically impossible in most eu countries.
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by fernandotakai 4mo ago
>You call someone an author when they use a ghostwriter. i don't know about you, but i absolutely don't. either you write the book yourself or you are not the author. as kendrick lamar wrote: I can dig rappin', but a rappe
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by fernandotakai 5mo ago
>The agent angle in this post reflects what we're actually seeing from developers during our private beta. legit question: did you invite anyone that isn't doing agentic whatever during your beta?
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by fernandotakai 5mo ago
i tried both and i honestly... i didn't see anything different. i want tmux for three things: 1. easy splits 2. easy scrollback 3. being able to restart a session if my terminal dies given all that, tmux works exactly as expected. what
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by fernandotakai 5mo ago
great work! i'm started trying it and it seems like it solves a bunch of issues i have with the native docker. the only problem that i have, right now, is colors: i usually have everything in my computer as black[0], so the white highl
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by fernandotakai 5mo ago
yeah but unfortunately an AI flow can bring promotions, while scripts won't
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by fernandotakai 6mo ago
the main things are: 1. pin dependencies with sha signatures 2. mirror your dependencies 3. only update when truly necessary 4. at first, run everything in a sandbox.
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by fernandotakai 6mo ago
i do the same thing, but not for typewriter, but because back in my leopard/snow leopard days, i setup -- to transform into —. the thing is, i never setup it again but i kept typing --.
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by fernandotakai 7mo ago
i've been using twitter/x since 2007 and it has not gotten way worse -- specially if you try comparing to truly bad era of the #failwhale.
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by fernandotakai 7mo ago
i've always used double dashes -- because i once i setup a osx shortcut to change those into em-dashes, but i never bother to setup this again in other computers. so now, i just use double dashes for everything. (shit, i wonder when ll
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by fernandotakai 8mo ago
same. i still remember how painful it was to setup services without systemd. having to manually deal with daemons was so painful, to the point of being exoteric.
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by fernandotakai 8mo ago
i've been to a bunch of concerts here in the netherlands and they do the most basic checks. last time, they checked my wife's purse without a torch (so she could've hidden anything inside) and didn't check anything on me
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by fernandotakai 8mo ago
for people that don't get the reference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vj8DzA9y8ls
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by fernandotakai 8mo ago
>I wonder who they actually tried to impress with that? investors?
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by fernandotakai 8mo ago
yup, same. slack thread with a lot of comments with people praising it. others were quite skeptical, specially the ones that actually perused the code.
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by fernandotakai 8mo ago
sure. he wasn't beaten to death. but: 1. do you really wanna get into a fight because of this? because dude, i have a family to take care, so i would rather just not say anything. 2. you can easily die from a single punch
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by fernandotakai 8mo ago
i've seen people get beat up because they asked an anti-social c-words to turn the volume down. some people just cannot be reasoned and the amount of people like this is growing HARD.
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by fernandotakai 9mo ago
>Do you know of anyone declining to work on a project For ethical in their view ( non military non killing) ? o/ i was offered a high paying job, with relocation to a 1st world country (at the time, i was living in a 3rd world count
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by fernandotakai 11mo ago
and i honestly would rather parse json inside ipython and then move to a script, than keep invoking `| jq` time and time again.
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by fernandotakai 1y ago
i did this exact thing literally 15 years ago with a simple django app -- there's no way they are using this kind of example in 2025 year of our lord.
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by fernandotakai 1y ago
most people don't even know how to properly hone a knife since there are specific movements. i would recommend anyone sending their knives to a professional for sharpening -- you will feel much more confident cutting, and everything wi
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by fernandotakai 1y ago
some social media grifters are boasting this amount of work -- mostly young ai startup founders. the trouble is, for the amount of work these people claim they are doing, i'm not seeing actual things being shipped.
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by fernandotakai 1y ago
orbstack is absolutely amazing. not only the docker side works much better than docker desktop but their lightweight linux vms are just beyond great. i've been using an archlinux vm for everything development over the past year and a h
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by fernandotakai 1y ago
almost the same reason i started using arch: i wanted to install linux into my macbook, and the only wiki with enough info to make it work was arch's.
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by fernandotakai 1y ago
django is the framework that made me fall in love with software development 18y ago. everything just worked out of the box (compared to using java + spring and their endless xml config files), the orm was (and still is!) lovely compared to
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by fernandotakai 1y ago
kind of of topic, but i had to google to find out which female part rhymed with dolores, because it made no sense to me (as an ESL). (for people wondering, it's clitoris). https://seinfeld.fandom.com/wiki/The_Junio

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