physicles

6 ms·

31.
by physicles 5mo ago
Vantage looks great! I’ll try it out this weekend. To do the job that swarf does, I found that the bwrap sandbox I’d been using is the perfect place to mount a folder to catch markdown junk and keep it out of the project’s actual git repo.
32.
by physicles 5mo ago
He does go on to say “this is basically impossible if you want to live in society”, but yeah the order in which the information is communicated isn’t optimal for skimming.
33.
by physicles 5mo ago
Interesting, I didn’t know Dostoevsky also made this popular (unless you’re just tongue-in-cheek ignoring the earlier source, which is the Bible)
34.
by physicles 5mo ago
Installed Carbonite on my parents’ computer something like 15 years ago, and it still works (every now and then my dad tells me he used it to recover from a bug or a mistake). But I have no idea where the company currently sits on the spect
35.
by physicles 5mo ago
In Slack it can get even worse. If you turn on Markdown formatting, shift+enter adds a new line, unless you’re in a multi-line code block started with three backticks, and then enter adds a new line and shift+enter sends the message. I ca
36.
by physicles 5mo ago
Well there went a half hour of my day. What a fantastic read.
37.
by physicles 5mo ago
This is all valid. Your original comment came across as a troll because it implied that nobody could ever feel good about stuff they built with AI. Asserting that you know more about the emotional state of strangers on the internet than the
38.
by physicles 5mo ago
Thank you for sharing this! I love how writing prompts like this forces us to clarify our own values and sense of engineering taste. I’m really curious to see what an agent would find in our code base with this.
39.
by physicles 5mo ago
Mind sharing that prompt? This is one of my favorite uses for AI too, but I’m just using it to fix the stuff that’s already top of mind for me.
40.
by physicles 5mo ago
You’re missing the group of high performers who love coding, who just want to bring more stuff in the world than their limited human brains have the energy or time to build. I love coding. I taught myself from a book (no internet yet) when
41.
by physicles 5mo ago
100% agree. Velocity at level 8 or even 7 is a whole order of magnitude faster than even level 5. Like you said, identifying the core and letting everything else move fast is most of the game. The other part is finding ways to up the level
42.
by physicles 5mo ago
I’ve had a couple wins with AI in the design phase, where it helped me reach a conclusion that would’ve taken days of exploration, if I ever got there. Both were very long conversations explicitly about design with lots of back and forth, l
43.
by physicles 6mo ago
I’ve wondered for years if this could be quantified. Three orders of magnitude totally justifies the cost, if you care about science.
44.
by physicles 6mo ago
Astronauts are made of different stuff. Truly the best of the best.
45.
by physicles 6mo ago
I was just trying to find a blog post that I read years ago where someone wrote about storing their furniture at IKEA. Couldn't find the post, but the idea helped me downsize during a recent move.
46.
by physicles 6mo ago
Love it. This is so clearly the way to solve the jq writeability problem. I’m going to replace jq with this immediately.
47.
by physicles 6mo ago
I’d love for it to be true that Trump isn’t just a narcissistic buffoon. Where are you frequently finding evidence of this?
48.
by physicles 6mo ago
I’m curious, do you agree with the statement, “it would be better for this personal wiki not to exist, than for it to have been built with AI”? Because without AI it probably wouldn’t exist.
49.
by physicles 6mo ago
Heh. Trump asks the oracle at Delphi what will happen if he launches the war. “The war will surely achieve regime change,” replies the oracle. “Great, let’s go,” says Trump, who never read Herodotus.
50.
by physicles 6mo ago
You’re not missing much. I used Cursor for the second half of last year. If you’re hand-editing code, its autocomplete is super nice, basically like reading your mind. But it turns out the people who say we’re moving to a world where progra
51.
by physicles 6mo ago
When your hardware is in the physical custody of the attacker, the threat model changes significantly. Designing a console that takes years for attackers to crack is an impressive feat of engineering.
52.
by physicles 6mo ago
If I leave, the Q&A doc probably never gets updated again. We're in the process of trying to get as much stuff as possible into source control (we use google docs a lot, so we'll set up one way replication for our ADRs and stu
53.
by physicles 6mo ago
First, recognize that, for the first time ever, having good docs actually pays dividends. LLMs love reading docs and they're fantastic at keeping them up to date. Just don't go overboard, and don't duplicate anything that can
54.
by physicles 6mo ago
I’ve been following that post too since I started using Claude (about two weeks now) and it’s great. Sometimes for small changes I shorten research+plan into one step but I always tell it to stop and wait before it writes the code. One thin
55.
by physicles 7mo ago
Sure It’ll make it to all the distros, but how many sysadmins won’t patch in time?
56.
by physicles 7mo ago
Here's the IANA time zone mailing list thread where this is being discussed: https://lists.iana.org/hyperkitty/list/tz@iana.org/thread/66... Bad timing on BC's part. They just tagged release 20
57.
by physicles 7mo ago
Not sure why you're getting downvoted. When I read the headline, my first thought was "how are they going to update the tz database on all Linuxes in the world in time?" I expect some confusion on November 1. Here's the
58.
by physicles 7mo ago
I’ve had a concept like this in the back of my mind for years. Happy to see someone executing it so well. For me, it started when I spent a year and a half reading and digesting books for and against young earth creationism, then eventually
59.
by physicles 8mo ago
If it was successful beyond all expectations, why aren't we seeing more?
60.
by physicles 8mo ago
It’s also in their best interest to set the price so as to maximize their own profits. If switching costs or monopoly power allow them to set a higher price, they will do so. Have we learned nothing from a decade of subscription services?

More ›