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by tapvt 1mo ago
Highly unproductive to write off the entirety of Texas like this. Have you visited Brewster or Presidio County, where this is happening, or spoken with the people who live there? Big Bend is treasured by Texans across the political spectrum
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by tapvt 2mo ago
It has certainly made it easier for me to put down my phone in bed and read something else. So, doomscrolling is gone for that part of my day. The biggest win is not caring if I get the reader back on the charger before I drift off, which i
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by tapvt 3mo ago
From personal experience, there's still a considerable chunk of rural America that isn't wired. I'm currently looking at an area to buy a house, and the only option around is Starlink. Zero competition. No fiber. No cable. 5G
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by tapvt 3mo ago
Is Opus 4.8 equally or more capabale for the actual mechanics of the coding work? It seems to me that having a powerful Fable layer for the planning, coordination, orchestration-type work and delegating to a suitable model for the actual ex
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by tapvt 5mo ago
LLMs are stateless. But given an actual database of task-shaped items and some work, I could see the potential. With a canonical source of truth, and set input/output expectations, the potential blast radius is quite small.
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by tapvt 5mo ago
Critical thinking as a skill unto itself was held as incredibly important in my early education. At school, and at home. It continued through undergrad (obviously, I think). In the past, say 5-ish years, I've been shocked to realize th
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by tapvt 6mo ago
For my part, the code quality of the next.js dashboard isn't even something I'd evaluate. I instantly get a quick, functional-appearing view of the offering. I can picture how I might interact with it and what mental gymnastics st
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by tapvt 7mo ago
Is this not a greater loss for the government than for Anthropic?
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by tapvt 7mo ago
This is where my mind went. A curious person or two poking around is one thing. A few hundred, or thousands, of "AI enthusiasts," or however you'd like to imagine OpenClaw users, could likely approach the scale of "a pro
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by tapvt 2y ago
Well, there are still many overly complex spreadsheets in the SMB sector waiting to be turned into products.
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by tapvt 2y ago
There is no shame in having your work - even software development - be a means to an end. You are well within reason to work to survive, tuck a little away, and use the rest (of both time and money) to explore unrelated interests and passio
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by tapvt 3y ago
Is ChatGPT down the new GitHub down?
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by tapvt 3y ago
So, my client (an HVAC company) is in a more secure position than a government agency. That is disturbing, but not surprising.
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by tapvt 3y ago
This is my biggest complaint when i reflexively type `git log` to get some context on a branch.
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by tapvt 3y ago
There’s something to be said for having a “local.” Lots has been written about having a “third-place,” though I can’t remember who coined the phrase. There’s a bar and grill near where I live, I pop in frequently and almost always see someo
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by tapvt 3y ago
> Imagine if you could take a picture of anything, add a little note, have it filed away. I'd use that regularly while working on my truck. It'd be a lot easier than stopping during every disassembly step to snap a picture with
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by tapvt 3y ago
This article is brimming with nostalgia for me. I vividly remember sitting at a workbench my father had fashioned from an old door, recreating circuits from Mini-Notebooks.
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by tapvt 3y ago
Having been fortunate enough to ride in Cruise vehicles multiple times in the Austin area, my impression is that they behave better than the average Austin driver. For trickier situations, though, there’s a lot to be said for having a human
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by tapvt 3y ago
I have Verizon for my personal phone, but opted for T-Mobile for my home (5G) internet and a new iPad. I made this decision after using T-Mobile for my company-paid phone with zero issues. Aside from a janky customer app on iPhone, I'm
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by tapvt 3y ago
IMO, Texas Tribune is about as good as it gets for news in TX. I tend to trust their reporting. I do make a small monthly donation, as they’re non-profit.
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by tapvt 3y ago
I use Copilot via the VSCode plugin. It really does help, but most every code review reveals some slight issues with something that it has generated, be it syntax, nomenclature, what have ya. Still more beneficial than detrimental for me.
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by tapvt 3y ago
I’m a solo dev for a medium-sized (but safety-critical) enterprise. So, I’m always “on call.” My 10th-gen iPad with a keyboard, alongside the Amazon Workspace app is a game-changer. I no longer have to lug my laptop everywhere.
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by tapvt 3y ago
Honestly, I’m probably going to update my own (mostly node) apps to dump such information to `stdout` when they’re first fired up, at the very least. It would have saved me time today when re-visiting and extending a service that I’ve not t
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by tapvt 3y ago
Of course that is good. However, what happens when the so-called “criminal” is actually a non-criminal person that the government/powers-that-be deem a threat. Perhaps that person has made efforts to remain anonymous, then their cousin
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by tapvt 3y ago
Editing perl in BBEdit. What a wonderful tool!
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by tapvt 3y ago
“We’ve got both kinds. Country and Western.”
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by tapvt 3y ago
I live in a nice neighborhood, but am a long-term tenant. One night, late, there was a huge party at a nearby short-term rental. I asked, politely, for them to turn the music down so I could sleep. They responded by throwing anything they c
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by tapvt 3y ago
Love my 12c. RPN for the win.
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by tapvt 3y ago
So asking Congress for a competitive advantage?
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by tapvt 3y ago
I might read this differently. Perhaps an ambitious entrepreneur may be better able to understand what drives business value and translate that into architecture + code? It may not be a years-long engagement, but certainly the experience br

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