harikb

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by harikb 7d ago
While I agree on screen size, Apple does give a good amount of thought into application side of things - screen-layout fall into either the iPad like layout or single-column one of a regular phone. This is a bit easier for App developers. A
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by harikb 22d ago
Thanks! I didn't even know this existed!! :o
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by harikb 22d ago
Is there an option to "use the remote computer just as it was local" even between two Macs? Sure, terminal/ssh is enough for most use-cases, but this is something I expected from Apple as builtin. I can tailscale into my home
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by harikb 1mo ago
Aren't LLM's mostly overconfident? If they are independent entities/agents, they may be tempted to try to sabotage the less performing teams to take over their projects - just like in human world.
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by harikb 1mo ago
Aren't you both agreeing.. that it is way beyond $40? :) You need a six figure wallet to want to spend $20k on a tester :)
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by harikb 2mo ago
> If the pen’s ink reservoir is partly empty, so that it contains an air bubble, and if it’s positioned nib down, then, when you go up in an airplane, the bubble will expand as the ambient pressure drops, forcing ink out the nib. Once I
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by harikb 3mo ago
Got this toast/notification message from your desktop app. > Added ok to your PATH — managed block in ~/.zshrc, ~/.config/fish/conf.d/open-knowledge.fish. Took a while to see that 'ok' is the name
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by harikb 3mo ago
It is only a problem if you claim it to be an independently developed OS with no attribution to base
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by harikb 4mo ago
Why isn't there a middle man service to do IRL verification. Like - account is locked, you must use 2FA backup codes. Else go to western union / 7-eleven / super-market, show ID proof, pay $10 for recovery service. Wait 2 day
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by harikb 4mo ago
Laptop without internet access, sure. Pencil and paper? that is brutal :)
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by harikb 4mo ago
Well, you don't know how many more would have died if doctors and hospital didn't care about their insurance going higher???
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by harikb 4mo ago
> It's interesting that it's the universities being ransomed, while the technical failure was Instructure's. My guess would be they get likelihood of getting paid when blackmailing 9,000 schools (at least a few would pay u
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by harikb 5mo ago
The guy who bought friendster.com lurks here
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by harikb 5mo ago
Is the last photo on that page, describing the cabling, a screenshot of another photo displayed using flipdiscs? that is a whole lot of discs!!
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by harikb 5mo ago
On the credentials point. Here is what I find. Day 1: Carefully handles the creds, gives me a lecture (without asking) about why .env should be in .gitignore and why I should edit .env and not hand over the creds to it. Day 2: I ask for a r
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by harikb 5mo ago
> with secrets possibly baked into source please don't suggest this. The right way is to have the creds fetched from a vault, which is programmed to release the creds auth-free to your VM (with machine level identify managed by the
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by harikb 5mo ago
The providers themselves can't keep this straight even within their own ecosystem. Plus everyone is running at a million miles/hour. For example `Claude code` used to set 2 specific beta headers with some version numbers for their
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by harikb 5mo ago
A comment from the PR > Not a serious problem, but the weekdays are wrong. For example, 18-Apr-2127 is a Friday, not Sunday. There is now many magical dates to remember - 2126 ( I think PR was updated after that comment) and 2177. There
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by harikb 5mo ago
The only people panicking are probably those state level actors who were using these for their own benefit.
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by harikb 5mo ago
Somewhat unrelated to the language itself: > The compiler bootstraps through 3+ generations of self-compilation. I guess it applies to any language compiler, but f you are self-hosting, you will naturally release binary packages. Please
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by harikb 6mo ago
Thank you for PartitionMagic!! I remember using it to undo whatever disk partitioning mistake I did when originally setting up a machine :)
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by harikb 6mo ago
I struggled with disappearing icons (like our company VPN client - which wasn't tailscale by the way) thinking the app was somehow "stuck". I would go kill the app, restart machine etc - during restart it would get fixed &quo
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by harikb 6mo ago
Somewhat counter quote... "Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you’ll have to ram them down people’s throats." -- Howard Aiken ...to mean that, usually, the good ideas are the crazy sounding o
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by harikb 6mo ago
Not everything done by claude-code is decided by LLM. They need the wrapper to be deterministic (or one-time generated) code?
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by harikb 6mo ago
He was told, he had a call from Pope
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by harikb 6mo ago
I think the point would be that - some random upcoming revision of claude-code could remove or simply change the config name just as silently as it was introduced. People might genuinely want some other software to do the sandboxing. Some
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by harikb 6mo ago
The UI options are also shady af. The setting reads Enabled - " You will have access to this feature" as help text. Disabled - " You will not have access to this feature". WTF does that mean?
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by harikb 6mo ago
Anthropic is not stoping you from using API (pay per token). They are only saying Pro or Max 'all-you-can-eat' plans have to be used via their tools
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by harikb 6mo ago
Unless you have some first hand information that I have, you are more than 10x off. > I refuse to buy Youtube ad free until they drop the price to something $3 or below... There in lies the problem. Your eye balls (assuming well employed
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by harikb 6mo ago
1. If alternate UX exists, the user can easily replace them with another model as soon as it comes out. 2. All 'all-you-can-eat' plans everywhere comes with clause. Whether it is lunch at a restaurant or it is token-proxy-provider

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