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by rcfox 7d ago
A Bot & Costello
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by rcfox 11d ago
I'm not convinced people acting on muscle memory would remember to unignore the files either. They're going to lose work or have giant "oops, I forgot to commit these files" commits.
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by rcfox 11d ago
This seems like bad advice. I've very rarely committed extra files by accident, but I would 100% forget to unignore files I meant to commit. If you're doing an initial setup step to gitignore everything, why not just do an initial
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by rcfox 13d ago
I've noticed that too. Maybe the normal Write tool has to output the entire file and this is an attempt to reduce token usage?
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by rcfox 1mo ago
Auto mode feels like a solution to a problem they created. Whitelisting commands used to work fairly well until the agents started generating complex bash commands that it gave up trying to classify. "Oh you're piping grep into se
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by rcfox 2mo ago
Huh, it's wild that they didn't send an email about this. I can't imagine people taking this well, especially as they don't seem to be giving notice about the end of it either.
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by rcfox 2mo ago
This is the first I'm hearing about a usage cut. Do you have a link to an announcement for this? Search hasn't shown anything.
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by rcfox 3mo ago
Interesting that this showed up here now. I did it a week ago after hearing about it on The Rest Is Science. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9t-5lQ2mzuw
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by rcfox 3mo ago
Seems kind of similar (at least in purpose) to giscus, a commenting system powered by GitHub Discussions. https://github.com/giscus/giscus
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by rcfox 4mo ago
You actually can do that. https://github.com/settings/pages
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by rcfox 5mo ago
It looks like SARIF is JSON, with a formal schema. I'm guessing the JSON they used to output used their own, non-standard schema.
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by rcfox 5mo ago
Could be to highlight their incompatibility?
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by rcfox 5mo ago
There are communities of people who publicly blog about their eating disorders. I wouldn't be surprised if the laymen's discourse is over-represented in the LLM's training data compared to the scientific papers.
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by rcfox 5mo ago
Maybe you need to make shorter PRs?
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by rcfox 6mo ago
Yeah, my first thought (admittedly an absurd one) went to something along the lines of: "I flipped a coin and the LLM called heads. I should have gone with tails..."
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by rcfox 7mo ago
The title is misleading. Productivity isn't at 10%, it's at 110%.
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by rcfox 11mo ago
> For Linux, just use the emacs that comes with the distro. Are the major distros shipping packages with tree-sitter support yet?
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by rcfox 11mo ago
Your comment heavily implied (to me) scaling databases horizontally. Yes, it's not necessarily "Google scale" either, but it's a ton of extra complexity that I'm happy to avoid. But a Google employee is probably goi
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by rcfox 11mo ago
"Distributed systems" doesn't have to mean some fancy, purpose-built thing. Just correlating between two Postgres databases might be a thing you need to do. Or a database and a flat text file.
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by rcfox 11mo ago
Do most people? Not everyone is Google.
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by rcfox 11mo ago
Just following the chat for a few minutes, people posted links to a couple of other locations: Okaukuejo waterhole in Etosha National Park: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeMUdOPFcXI (at the time of posting, a herd of elep
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by rcfox 1y ago
I worked on creating a card game with a couple of my friends. We kept all of the cards in a Google Sheet, allowing everyone to easily edit or create new cards. Then, I wrote a script to compile the sheet into a card atlas so that it could b
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by rcfox 1y ago
In Python, every variable is either defined or imported in the file in which it's used, so you always know where to find it. (Assuming you don't do `from foo import *`, which is frowned upon.) In C++, a variable might be defined i
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by rcfox 1y ago
Is this just because LLMs don't have state? As far as I understand it, as you have a back-and-forth conversation with an LLM, you have to provide the entire history of the conversation plus your new response each time.
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by rcfox 1y ago
With Typescript, I find it pretty eager to just try `(foo as any).bar` when it gets the initial typing wrong. It also likes to redefine types in every file they're used instead of importing. It will fix those if you catch them, but I h
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by rcfox 1y ago
These days, I'd say always start with the YouTube tabs.
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by rcfox 1y ago
I also went into that book blind. I was in grade 12 and some organization was offering scholarships to people who wrote an essay about the book. I had a twice-daily 45-minute bus ride to fill, so it seemed like an easy win. I didn't en
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by rcfox 1y ago
Ultimately, you need to decide who your target user is. Do you want to cater to the lowest common denominator, or do you want to want to make something power users can customize to fit their workflow? Neither answer is necessarily wrong, yo
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by rcfox 1y ago
I welcome being out of touch. The current trends seem ridiculous to me. There's no practical difference between sending a message via Instagram vs via email. It's all just marketing. You probably can't even get an Instagram a
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by rcfox 1y ago
But why not just email?

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