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by fishtoaster 5d ago
Well, a coworker recently rigged up eleven's api to a coffee machine sensor. It now sings, loudly, an original composition to the effect of "make a new pot you asshole" whenever it gets low. We've gotten country, symph
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by fishtoaster 6d ago
Can't say I've tried the CLI. I've mostly focused on the cloud agents, which I was explicitly looking for. I compared against cursor's cloud agents, ampcode, and hoplite, and came out surprisingly enjoying devin. I wil
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by fishtoaster 6d ago
A friend recently pushed me to try out their coding platform, Devin, after I decided to move away from Cursor. I had the same reaction: "What, the con artists from like 2024?" But after some cajoling, I gave it a shot and was pl
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by fishtoaster 7d ago
The weight is interesting: 8.96 ounces (254 grams). Not much more than the 18 pro max - 8.78 ounces (249 grams). The Duo sure looks chonky, but that's not the end of the world.
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by fishtoaster 7d ago
I quite like the idea of a tablet I can keep in my pocket. If there was some sort of first-party attachable keyboard (a la the iPad magic keyboard), I'd be strongly considering getting this. In the age of AI and increasingly-mature c
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by fishtoaster 12d ago
I think the answer is no - this would affect any Rails app with default settings that uses ActiveStorage. The "Preconditions" recap at the bottom here has all the appropriate caveats: https://ethiack.com/info-hu
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by fishtoaster 13d ago
As a cyclist, I couldn't agree more. Cars are crazy murder machines, pedestrians will jump out at you just for fun, and the worst of the bunch is other cyclists! But a bus- with a bus you know where you stand. They're slow, th
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by fishtoaster 14d ago
So the chain here is: - 1password contributes the Omarchy foundation - Omarchy is a project by DHH - DHH has some evil opinions I agree with all of that - DHH has a long history of being awful - but I think it's a little stretched to b
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by fishtoaster 17d ago
Same thing as: - "Cloud Agents" on cursor - "Cloud Coding Agents" on Hoplite.sh - "Sessions" in Devin cloud (they don't make a big deal of them being remote) Amp is just trying to pitch an increasingly-com
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by fishtoaster 21d ago
It's a fair question! My attempt at an answer: no, databases are not solved. Specifically, different databases are better or worse for different use-cases. For example, Postgres is a great "all around database" - you can use
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by fishtoaster 1mo ago
Since we're deep enough in this thread where we're talking about steak rather than AI, I'd like to lean into that. I used to sous-vide a lot . It was certainly great to get perfectly-done steak. but I still didn't lov
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by fishtoaster 1mo ago
Took me a minute to see the value - my first thought was "this is just cursor's cloud agents..." But the key thing here for me is "Every sandbox boots your app on a live URL." Cursor doesn't easily have that,
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by fishtoaster 2mo ago
As I mentioned explicitly in the comment you're replying to: yes, I did read that section. Did you not bother to read my whole comment before telling me to read more?
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by fishtoaster 2mo ago
There's some good ideas and points in here, but this bit threw me: > # We tried this > In July 2025 we went full lights-off Isn't it pretty well-accepted at this point that the models underwent a step-change in usefulness ar
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by fishtoaster 4mo ago
Unfortunately I never got around to trying it! I remember it being a contender around the time of Backbone, but then Ember and Angular were the main options thereafter.
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by fishtoaster 4mo ago
Sounds like your argument is with SPAs, not React in particular?
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by fishtoaster 4mo ago
"React is actually a library, not a framework" is definitely a thing people have said here and there since its inception. It's a distinction that doesn't seem to buy anything in terms of explanatory power or clarity, so
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by fishtoaster 4mo ago
As someone who lived through all major waves of JS for the last ~16 years, I do love react, in a sense: React is the worst JS framework except for all the others we've tried. I'd take React over the Angular 1 days any time. I&#
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by fishtoaster 4mo ago
https://archive.is/WfCta
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by fishtoaster 4mo ago
Interesting! Given the obvious AI-written nature of this, I'd probably want to double-check the math, but it's a neat concept. As a homebrewer, the standard approach is to look up / measure your tap water's profile, buy
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by fishtoaster 5mo ago
I landed on something similar for my own game, though it's been pretty tricky. I'm building a physics-based 2d game involving slingshotting around planets. The realtime nature of it has meant that it's nearly impossible for t
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by fishtoaster 5mo ago
This is not to say that things haven't gotten worse over time, but... I don't think that chart shows what it seems like it shows. There were plenty of pre-2018 outages that don't show up there: https://hn.algolia.
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by fishtoaster 5mo ago
Yeah, I think all style comments should be handled by either a linter/formatter or be written in a style guide. Everything else is up to personal preference. Then, when a style comment comes up in a PR, the answer is "Oh, do you
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by fishtoaster 5mo ago
Winning 2000 games in a row sounds statistically unlikely unless the Windows version of solitaire does something behind the scenes to make the game more winnable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klondike_(solitaire)#Proba
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by fishtoaster 5mo ago
> This is the part that doesn’t demo well. ETL pipelines feeding into BigQuery from every operational system: Salesforce, Zendesk, and a dozen other internal tools. dbt transformations that normalize and document the data. Column-level d
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by fishtoaster 6mo ago
Is the pre-2018 data actually accurate? There seem to have been a number of outages before then: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateEnd=1545696000&dateRange=custom&... Maybe that's just the date when they started tra
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by fishtoaster 6mo ago
Why do you assume I assume it's doable? :P For real, I'm not certain we will ever be able to merge AI code without human review. But: 1. Every time I've confidently though "AI will never be able to do X" in the
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by fishtoaster 6mo ago
Figuring out how to trust AI-written code faster is the project of software engineering for the next few years, IMO. We'll need to figure out the techniques and strategies that let us merge AI code sight unseen. Some ideas that have
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by fishtoaster 7mo ago
This is a great use of data to make a compelling case that sizing sucks for women's clothing! I do wish it attempted to answer the question at the end, though: "Sizes are all made up anyway — why can’t we make them better?" L
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by fishtoaster 7mo ago
It feels like someone asked an AI to read a year of output from a ruby link roundup newsletter and then had it write a report: many facts, minimal synthesis, and little-to-no useful opinion/summary.

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