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by mceachen 5d ago
I should have clarified: I use a 1" piece of maybe 5mm wide good quality 3M tape that wraps over itself. This follows (at least my local) electrical code--it's quite robust. I have 40 year old electrical conduit that has tape appl
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by mceachen 6d ago
I bought a cheap pack of 5 colors of 3m electrical tape. Each cable gets one or two pieces of tape: Data: White if usb2 Blue if it supports USB 3 data (because 5Gbps USB 3 ports are mostly blue) Green if TB/USB4/40Gbps Power: None
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by mceachen 9d ago
Have your agent make a plugin marketplace -- mine is here (feel free to crib): https://github.com/photostructure/coding-skills Be sure to increment unofficial plugin versions when you make edits: codex's auto-upda
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by mceachen 9d ago
The neurologists and neurotherapists for a family member who is a stroke survivor have been pretty consistent in saying that cardiovascular exercise and regular social engagement seem to be the most promising activities to stem cognitive de
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by mceachen 11d ago
"Use subagents as applicable. Use sonnet/luna for finding relevant code references" This should have been the entirety of TFA.
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by mceachen 12d ago
Aldus Freehand 1.0 was released in 1988. Adobe Illustrator was first released in 1987.
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by mceachen 12d ago
Sol doesn't support larger contexts, and the prior fable context was ~300k, way under where you see substantive regression
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by mceachen 15d ago
I had two sessions this morning that prior fable and sol sessions were stuck on, where iterations just resulted in _different_ bugs. (One kind of tricky fe layout problem, the other was a backend refactoring that was complicated by trying t
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by mceachen 20d ago
age of xitter won't make you feel better.
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by mceachen 23d ago
The general workload performance (browsing, text editing) is comparable for neo and m* MacBooks afaict. Ghastly was macOS on an Intel MacBook Air.
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by mceachen 26d ago
"... that matters" is the new emdash
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by mceachen 29d ago
Model competence is an interaction of weights, system prompt, and harness.
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by mceachen 1mo ago
I suspect most CFOs/CTOs fear the risk of undertaking a rewrite of your payment processor or merchant of record layers (which can be tricky to fully test even with sandbox/test environments) more than the percentage discount and o
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by mceachen 1mo ago
If you're referencing Fetch for mac (pre macos) or Transit by Panic (later renamed to Transmit), I was a fan (and I've been a terminal fanboy since the early 80s). Both of them started as FTP wrappers, and both provided convenienc
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by mceachen 1mo ago
Claude is quite good at searching both its own and codex session transcripts, and if asked, can spawn tmux/konsole/whatever to resume those sessions to be interactive if needed. My system prompt adds TPPs and TLDRs for task/f
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by mceachen 2mo ago
"Wdyt" is a prompt I've used for ages (originally to get around Claude "ultrathink"-related parsing bugs), and it's helpful alongside replan https://photostructure.com/coding/claude-code-re
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by mceachen 2mo ago
Please don't conflate a volunteer effort with no expected economic gain with a very well funded company (or fleet of companies). With the CCP's highly successful track record with subsuming other markets, Occam's razor applie
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by mceachen 2mo ago
All of those phrases I've heard actively used even a decade (or two) ago. (I actually had to read your comment twice because I thought you were saying always, not never!) "Critical path" and "long pole in tent" didn
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by mceachen 2mo ago
I don't know if it's universal, but your non-dominant hand may form reflected letters delightfully easily if you air-write simultaneously with your dominant hand.
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by mceachen 3mo ago
If you're really wanting to do perceptual hash based deduplication, use multiple, heterogeneous hash algorithms (phash, dct hash, mean hash, ...) as it is likely that a given hash algo will happily lossily match with very very differen
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by mceachen 3mo ago
More than 3 channel displays have been attempted by several companies, but I suspect they fail due to: 1) trying to convince content makers to use new custom high-gamut hardware to capture the new spot colors 2) you'd need a full video
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by mceachen 3mo ago
Here's how to do it with more recent versions of Hugo: https://photostructure.com/coding/hugo-markdown-output/ (It includes the grandparent's head link suggestion, but it's not just "change .ht
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by mceachen 4mo ago
It's worse: Google added and then dropped even experimental support of jxl in 2021-2022. Several years later they adopted the rust jxl library, but have kept it behind experimental flags.
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by mceachen 4mo ago
"No nukes" was Sun Microsystems lawyers' liability reduction, not a political statement. See https://www.lawinsider.com/clause/note-on-java-support/_2 for the specific verbiage and diffs over time.
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by mceachen 4mo ago
If your engineer tells you that, you're going to have a bad time. I think you're thinking this: > If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late. -Reid Hoffman
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by mceachen 4mo ago
Nope, current flagship models are very happy to make huge missteps across the whole development stack of design, planning, implementation, and testing -- but playing different models against each other can help catch more egregious issues.
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by mceachen 4mo ago
This is a very recent model behavior change: for me, Opus 4.6, Gemini 3.1 Pro, and ChatGPT 5.4(ish) -- prior models and harnesses suffered much more from sycophancy. (I still prompt some questions and reviews with "our intern suggeste
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by mceachen 4mo ago
I've found this surprisingly effective. Higher "thinking levels" may result in more than one approach being considered, but you can also tell your LLM to do brainstorming explicitly: https://photostructure.com&#x2F
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by mceachen 5mo ago
I applied it to PhotoStructure more than a year ago—I think it was when I first saw this on HN? My point is that there *is* such a thing as software that tries to respect their users. I'm not the only one.
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by mceachen 5mo ago
Random crowd anecdata is still anecdata.

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