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Just Me, a Keyboard, and a Computer(a.drien.com)
2 points by macNchz 6d ago|0 comments
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by macNchz 7d ago
> Honestly if anything it’s still a bit too big. Stumbled on my old iPhone 5S in the back of a drawer recently and could not believe how good it felt in my hand, even having only used 12 and 13 Mini models since 2021. What an excellent f
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by macNchz 12d ago
There has been a lot more than "some changes in alignment over the years"—the parties of 160+ years ago are essentially unrecognizable today. Given the nature of how the modern Republican party established its base over the course
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by macNchz 13d ago
My impression is that some of these things are coming out of efforts to make the models more persistent in completing their goals. A year ago it was pretty common for coding agents to sort of half-ass their tasks and give up easily if somet
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by macNchz 15d ago
It's like a dialect of corporatese. The kind of droning non-speak you can sit in a 90 minute meeting listening intently to and come away wondering whether anyone actually said anything.
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by macNchz 21d ago
I think a lot of people sort of instinctively avoid thinking about or engaging with the dangers posed by cars, at least in part because it creates a sense of dissonance that there’s a non-zero risk of life changing harm to you or your famil
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by macNchz 28d ago
I broke my 12 Mini, replaced it with a 17, then went so far as to return the 17 and buy a used 13 Mini. It was totally annoying to me to not be able to operate the phone with one hand without feeling like I was about to drop it. I kept the
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by macNchz 28d ago
Having worked on web apps that processed online payments before and after Stripe I totally agree, this was an area of real pain that became suddenly extremely simple because of Stripe. The alternatives were terrible–100 page Word docs of SO
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by macNchz 1mo ago
I don't have data for it, but I have been a Github user since 2012 and have found it to be down often for pretty much that entire time. I always figured it's cultural to a degree–new features always seem pretty buggy/underbak
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by macNchz 1mo ago
This is foundationally similar to a lesson I've found from years of pre-LLM software development: builds that turn around in 500ms instead of 5 minutes fundamentally change the way you can work as a software engineer. I think a lot of
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by macNchz 1mo ago
It does, for whatever reason the marketing page doesn’t advertise it but the docs have Linux instructions: https://docs.docker.com/ai/sandboxes/ I’ve been using this pretty extensively for a few months on Mac and
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by macNchz 2mo ago
I operate an app that orchestrates code running on a bunch of Sprites. A few months ago it was an exceptionally buggy service, frequently just fully broken or losing data (had to get support involved to recover one that got into a fully bro
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by macNchz 2mo ago
Yes this is a blame-your-politicians situation more than anything else.
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by macNchz 2mo ago
I am a longtime and heavy Claude Code user, but Anthropic's product management overall (including for their Desktop/web products) has been really baffling me. I agree that these things often have the air of having been vibe coded
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by macNchz 2mo ago
An outdoor heated pool that’s open all winter in a cold climate would be a destination worth a drive. A rather decadent use of energy otherwise, it’d be a good use for waste heat. There’s prior art in the Blue Lagoon in Iceland, a destinati
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by macNchz 3mo ago
The person posting this claims to have reproduced in a separate context down the thread: > Same thing just happened on a Claude Mobile session in same Enterprise account. Common theme in both is Sonnet 5, first response after more than 5
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by macNchz 3mo ago
Caching is not supposed to work like that, but that doesn’t preclude the cache key computation function from having bugs.
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by macNchz 3mo ago
One of my first real DIY projects during a summer in college nearly 20 years ago was replacing the rotted out basement bulkhead doors on the ~120 year old house I grew up in. I took measurements of the old ones, bought some nice tongue-and-
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by macNchz 3mo ago
Still pretty common at least in places near where oysters are grown, I think. My guess would be also that tastes changed over time as oyster fisheries were overfished and/or polluted by growing cities. There have been numerous waves of
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by macNchz 3mo ago
I’ve had a half-written blog post in this vein for a while now using a fantasy RPG analogy: if you play a character that uses mana in any of these games, you’ll learn fairly quickly that using it all up all the time on trivial battles and r
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by macNchz 3mo ago
That's the thing that jumped out to me here—iPhones themselves and everything you could actually do with one during that period were way different from today. There were effectively no endless feeds of content to consume, the phone s
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by macNchz 3mo ago
Using a largely-stock Ubuntu desktop for work the past 6 years, Zoom has also been one of the most broken mainstream apps I've every used on any system ever. I appreciate they provide a native Linux option, but it has consistently been
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by macNchz 3mo ago
Because that doesn't force tons of passive investment dollars to participate. Being a part of the S&P500 doesn't require heavy promotion, they'd just get a slice of the investment from the millions of people who auto-inve
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by macNchz 3mo ago
I used Macs my whole life until I built a PC in 2020 and put Linux on it. Recently I’ve started using a Mac again for work (and KVM switching between it and my Linux box), and I really do prefer Linux at this point. I have a variety of gri
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by macNchz 3mo ago
You have a huge confluence of societal changes over the course of the 20th century to explore here, that each ultimately contributed to women having actual choices and options in life other than just getting married and being a homemaker.
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by macNchz 3mo ago
My impression was that the term arose out of a desire to communicate it as more of a chosen state of being, where "childless" may imply or at least allow some sense of undesired absence.
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by macNchz 3mo ago
To my understanding Apple's supply contracts have allowed them to keep prices flat compared to other brands, but the price of non-Mac desktops and laptops are absolutely ballooning right now because of the supply of memory chips. Apple
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by macNchz 3mo ago
Most of the packaged pre-sliced bread in the bread aisle (as opposed to the bakery area) of American supermarkets is full of ingredients not traditionally used in bread, or used in food at all until recent decades. Bread made with flour, wa
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by macNchz 4mo ago
Device management is definitely a big hole to punch into each machine, but, once you're above a handful of staff, managing devices manually is not really tenable, and I do think the restrictions provided by device management have tangi
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by macNchz 4mo ago
This is something that genuinely runs the gamut across different companies—plenty don't even know the serial numbers of company-owned machines, never mind which devices individuals have, while others do effectively have live feeds of e

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