necrotic_comp

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by necrotic_comp 2mo ago
Exactly this. The non-composability and non-standardization of GUI tooling is my main issue with them ; having the same toolkit available to solve every problem takes some doing but is ultimately more efficient. That being said, it's a
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by necrotic_comp 3mo ago
Floating point value stored multiplied by 10^8. That gives you a huge integer, but it's extremely accurate, especially for US denominated currencies. Easily transformed into floating point numbers for reporting/etc.
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by necrotic_comp 3mo ago
One of the reasons why a source-based system like Gentoo is particularly nice is that you can compile your binaries with debug flags, so if you hit bad behavior you can inspect, write a patch, compile into your running system, and then push
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by necrotic_comp 4mo ago
I think the "net" does a lot of heavy lifting for a box like this - e.g. you do all the important work on a remote server, and only do basic maintenance work on the laptop itself.
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by necrotic_comp 4mo ago
4.8 also seems like a regression and using it from the chat GUI results in 4.6 no longer showing up. If someone from anthropic is here, is it possible to readd 4.6 in the "other models" dropdown ? I feel like I got a bit baited&#x
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by necrotic_comp 5mo ago
I think it's just nice to have things in a central place ; no one's really gotten decentralized tech right and things like discoverability, interaction, job running, etc. is really nice to have in one place. Mastodon and email a
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by necrotic_comp 5mo ago
Opus definitely pushes me to ignore problems. I've had to tell it multiple times to be thorough, and we tend to go back and forth a few times every time that happens. :)
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by necrotic_comp 6mo ago
I don't understand how the unix philosophy is rigid ? Can you explain a bit more ?
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by necrotic_comp 6mo ago
There's something interesting I've found about my interactions with the AI - I use it as a thought-partner. I don't ask it to solve a problem for me (well, first at least!) I think about it as a tool to work with, engage with
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by necrotic_comp 8mo ago
Tangential - what do people do faster in vscode than on the terminal ?
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by necrotic_comp 9mo ago
I agree with this. I've been able to tackle projects I've been wanting to for ages with LLMs because they let me focus on abstractions first and get over the friction of starting the project. Once I get my footing, I can use the
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by necrotic_comp 9mo ago
I appreciate this way of programming - also, if I may, in the age of auto-complete I think it's okay to have verbose variable naming. Imho, it's perfectly fine to have quad, quadVelocity, dragMagnitude, etc. I see this a lot in th
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by necrotic_comp 9mo ago
Currently working on a code formatter and parser for Supercollider's sclang. Supercollider is an amazing language, but the development tooling is severely lacking - we need good tooling, and now with LLMs in play and my coding ability
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by necrotic_comp 10mo ago
This isn't made by developers, that's clear, and I don't think it's going to be very functional. However, I do love the aesthetic and I do love that someone is trying something new.
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by necrotic_comp 10mo ago
10,000% this. Attaching JIRA tickets, etc. to the commit helps for searching as well. I've worked with a number of people who do not believe in this and it drives me insane ; I try to enforce it, but there's a lot of messages like
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by necrotic_comp 1y ago
My preferred way of doing PRs/Code Review echoes some of the statements below, but also requires the engineer to do the following: 1) Each PR (even if it's part of a larger whole) can be committed and released independently. 2) Ea
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by necrotic_comp 2y ago
I agree with this up to a point - having consistent code style with some sort of formatter (gofmt, black, clang-format) goes a long way to reducing complexity of understanding because it unifies visual style. I suggest that a codebase shoul
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by necrotic_comp 2y ago
TEX Shinobi - I have many of these and they are excellent: https://tex.com.tw/products/shinobi?srsltid=AfmBOoqVuwqI9Ot2...
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by necrotic_comp 2y ago
I get this a bit at my job, and I think there's a difference between making changes (which I do a lot of) and being confident in the changes that you're making. The environment I'm in is completely fault-intolerant, and we&
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by necrotic_comp 2y ago
Agreed. So long as the code hits performance and business goals, there doesn't need to be an emphasis put on "newness" or any other sort of vanity metric - make the code obvious, searchable, and understandable so that in a ti
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by necrotic_comp 2y ago
despite the questionable politics of the author, I use mutt-wizard, and using its configs, a simple "v" instead of "o" will open the mail in the open web-browser. I've found this more than acceptable for reading htm
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by necrotic_comp 2y ago
I haven't yet seen any compelling reason to move off of X11. It's been years since I've checked - what's the current state of the art ?
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by necrotic_comp 2y ago
Or, even, "I see X Y Z is happening, that doesn't seem in line with the question, can we discuss it further ? "
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by necrotic_comp 2y ago
I go a step further on "dumb code". Write code that is easy to reason about, understand, and grok the implications of. I spent a ton of time doing support and engineering on a trading desk, where our SLA for an outage was somewh
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by necrotic_comp 2y ago
> The truth is that most companies won't pay for the extra productivity that you create for yourself, but they will happily take it for free. Fantastic way of putting it. Know this is a low-effort comment, but that's a great wa
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by necrotic_comp 2y ago
Agreed with the sibling posts. Ubuntu isn't a great experience - it feels seamless until it breaks, and then it's just a world of pain. Debian/Mint/etc. are all good distros, but if you're willing to step up the lea
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by necrotic_comp 2y ago
There's some of these that I think are overkill, sure, but I like the simplicity of some of them - sidenotes, progress bar, etc. Just little things that give you that much more information about what's going on. Gwern's page,
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by necrotic_comp 2y ago
That's right. You have a prefix that lets you use page up page down in any pane you've got currently selected.
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by necrotic_comp 2y ago
It's about modal editing and the editing commands/paradigm inherent in that.
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by necrotic_comp 2y ago
Agreed with the siblings, you're describing emacs! :)

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