klabetron

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by klabetron 8d ago
Wanna share this?
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by klabetron 8d ago
> [no] historical remarks that only warn about past states 100%. I’m working on a greenfield project that’s not yet released. It loves to put comments in code describing what it no longer does or why it misinterpreted something. And then
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by klabetron 25d ago
I’ve been asking Claude to create PPTX (and DOCX) as a mechanism for collecting precise feedback from colleagues[^1]. Inline comments and edit suggestions using tools they’re familiar with (we use Google Suite which provides a serviceable i
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by klabetron 6mo ago
Thoughts on publishing an example output perhaps in another repo? Perhaps just the first two phases? Would be interesting to see what the output looks like practically speaking (before committing to using it for a project).
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by klabetron 6mo ago
Minor feedback: struggled to read this with the too-clever but distracting horizontal line scrolling down the page. Also the headers look squashed.
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by klabetron 9mo ago
I don’t think we should conclude that a tech columnist who regularly shits on EU tech policy really intends to attack the EU writ large. If he sounds like he’s generalising to the “whole thing,” I’m pretty sure he understands most readers k
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by klabetron 10mo ago
I introduced this to my old company years ago and called it Big Block of Cheese Day after the West Wing episode [1]. We mostly focused on very minor bugs that affected a tiny bit of our user base in edgey edge cases but littered our error l
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by klabetron 11mo ago
Ugh. Reminds me that some time ago Siri stopped responding to “turn off my TV.” Now I have to remember to say “turn off my Apple TV.” (Which with the magic of HDMI CEC turns off my entire system.) Given how groggy I am when I want to turn o
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by klabetron 11mo ago
Meta note: don’t see many blog posts as detailed as OP with seemingly mundane details. It assumes almost nothing of the user. So many posts would just say “install this QGIS plugin” with no mention of the pip calls, etc. Not sure if this co
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by klabetron 11mo ago
This. Went to Japan for the first time in August (…don’t recommend…the heat is intense…) and instead of spending days in Kyoto and Osaka, we spent a few days in Otsu on Lake Biwa. Highlights: - The freshwater beach was delightful (Biwako Om
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by klabetron 11mo ago
Gawker.
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by klabetron 11mo ago
Probably didn’t have the level of adoption needed for the nefarious types to justify spending time finding Silverlight exploits.
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by klabetron 1y ago
Love MkDocs* even for non-Python. But, wasn’t aware it could auto-generate from code comments like pdoc? I’d assume one would use pdoc for the API section of a hot mkdocs layout. *not just because my initials are MK
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by klabetron 1y ago
> Next time I'll see such a response, I probably will quit on the spot; this is unbelievably cruel. Let me guess: you’d quit but your résumé’s out of date because you, like me, procrastinate updating it? (Sounds like a manager tryin
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by klabetron 1y ago
omg remember when we all had to install Java separately at the system level?
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by klabetron 1y ago
For the op, awesome article. Quick question: what’s the definition of your `swap(array, i, pivotIndex)` function? Am I missing something? Or just assumes it’s the standard set temp to a, set a to b, and set b to temp?
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by klabetron 1y ago
My CV is still in LaTeX which gives me the opportunity to procrastinate updating it (rather than actually applying for jobs) because of all of the tweaking I do. If nothing else, typist is going go give me more opportunities to procrastinat
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by klabetron 1y ago
Agreed; if I’m writing help text or instructions, regardless of the use of “my” or “your”, I put pages or features in quotes or bold or italics or whatever format helps it stand out. ‘Click on your “My Cases” tab’ ‘Click on “Account”’ etc R
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by klabetron 1y ago
I’m in denial about needing to curb some pretty bad habits so won’t comment on that. But! I have a fairly “smart” home for controlling my lights, etc. I control it with Siri and the Home app. When friends/family with iPhones stay with
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by klabetron 1y ago
Author calls this out in the document. It’s intentional.
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by klabetron 1y ago
I think you’re missing the power plant/damn: https://maps.app.goo.gl/dy3wfsnHPQDys1Fo6?g_st=com.google.ma... I visited Snoqualmie Lower Falls with a friend a few years ago and had this weird feeling I’d seen the place
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by klabetron 1y ago
Odd choice that the example text on the homepage is almost all obvious typos that a standard spell check would pick up.
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by klabetron 1y ago
lol yep
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by klabetron 1y ago
Holy smokes. That’s a name I haven’t heard in a while. I submitted many calculus homework assignments in LaTeX because Jim introduced it to me back at our high school. (Go Mankato West Scarlets!)
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by klabetron 1y ago
Out of curiosity (as someone disappointingly new to prompt engineering), what’s an example prompt you used with some success?
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by klabetron 1y ago
Thoughts on providing pre-compiled releases? I’m at a TS/node shop and while I can compile go, getting the team to adopt this is a lot harder if step one is to install go, step two is clone a repo they’ll only need for building, etc.
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by klabetron 2y ago
Might want to add major version checks particularly with ffmpeg as IIRC filter syntax can vary between major versions (speaking as someone who is pretty sure he’s got an older version of ffmpeg installed because I don’t want to rewrite my s
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by klabetron 2y ago
> - There are random grammar mistakes and capitalization issues throughout the site, nothing major but worth a pass by a native English speaker. … Can I get a discount if I copy edit your site and docs for you? :) But, yea, agree that th
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Close Reading Archive(closereadingarchive.org)
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by klabetron 2y ago
I love a good database of very specific turns of phrase. Hat-tip to my English professor (from 2 decades ago!), Scott Newstok, for launching this. IIRC, his undergraduate degree was in Mathematics—I’m sure he’d have made as fine a CS prof a

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