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by vijucat 1mo ago
Caching makes a huge difference to cost. On Fireworks AI, for example, if it hits the cache, you pay only 20%. And uncached is just $0.14/M tokens for DSV4-0731! I get entire re-architecture projects (with new tests and documentation
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by vijucat 2mo ago
Thank you, very interesting!
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by vijucat 2mo ago
Question: if I don't use TUIs or millions of lines of scrolling text, what am I missing by not using these newer terminal implementations? I use mintty on Windows and am pretty happy with it.
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by vijucat 3mo ago
I love such stories. Right now, a lot of folks I know are struggling to find jobs, so I read the part about how he got a job the first day he was out of jail with some astonishment and nostalgia for the simpler days, when showing interest w
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by vijucat 6mo ago
Well, I'm on Windows (+ Cygwin) and wrote a Dockerfile. It wasn't that hard. git branch + worktree + a docker container per project and I can work with copilot in --yolo mode (or claude --dangerously-skip-permissions, whichever).
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by vijucat 6mo ago
I've always been struck by how long sentences are in writing from a century or more ago. To my mind whose attention-span has been poisoned by YouTube Shorts (even if they are mostly about trigonometry) and Tweets (even if I tell myself
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by vijucat 10mo ago
I disagree with "the golden age of software quality". For example, right now, on the front page of HN, is this article, "After Windows Update, Password icon invisible, click where it used to be", https://news.
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by vijucat 10mo ago
I have this one https://www.sordum.org/9470/windows-update-blocker-v1-8/ I will check out the Chris Titus link someone else posted below, too, but that seems more risky.
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by vijucat 10mo ago
It's become a universal truth that you should probably not upgrade to the latest and non-greatest version of ANYTHING these days. Not Android, not Windows, not iOS, not macOS. It's just embarrassing how companies with market caps
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by vijucat 11mo ago
I took care of IT for a startup hedge fund once. I was the quant's right-hand man, data engineer, visualization dashboard guy, everything. The quant needed to run a monolithic C++ program daily to chew through stock data and we decided
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by vijucat 11mo ago
They're great at creating test cases out of code and/or log file excerpts. They're good at run-of-the-mill tasks whose answer one can reasonably expect to find on StackOverflow. I'm using GPT-4.1 and Clause Sonnet Thinki
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by vijucat 1y ago
Wish I was taught things these in school. Psychology, CBT techniques, etc; I have always had a low EQ and learned a lot from basically messing things up, and from having a wife with super high EQ. Perception is reality for all practical pur
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by vijucat 1y ago
Somewhat related: sentence completions / fill-in-the-blank templates are shockingly effective at eliciting your inner thoughts which even you didn't know you were feeling. The idea is from Nathaniel Branden's work. "What
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by vijucat 1y ago
Yes! Once I've figured out that this problem is best solved using parser combinators, and that I have a good idea of how to model the transformation, I'm so glad I can delegate work to the LLM code gen and focus on the specificati
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by vijucat 1y ago
Programming is in a niche in comparison to other hobbies / professions in that it is a creative process where you can repeat the experiment endlessly and without physical costs or destruction (assuming your code is not operating a robo
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by vijucat 1y ago
Is changing the design even though users are perfectly happy "good design"? No, that is the "full time job" part kicking in.
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by vijucat 1y ago
> One reason for flat design is because it was the lowest common denominator and easy for devs to implement. The 3D buttons in Windows 98 (Start button, for example) must have be harder to develop due to the animation involved. Yet, that
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by vijucat 1y ago
I got a minor amount of hate for it, but to repeat what I wrote here [1]: "Slowly, I'm coming to the conclusion that designers should never be employed, only consulted on a per-project basis. If they sit around 8 hours a day, they
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by vijucat 1y ago
> which is really hard to defend Can you please tell me your thoughts on how it is "hard to defend"? My thoughts: How can designers criticize the use of Comic Sans? If users use it where it's connotations (childlike, casua
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by vijucat 1y ago
Designers are so out of touch. That whole criticism of Comic Sans is one example. Slowly, I'm coming to the conclusion that designers should never be employed, only consulted on a per-project basis. If they sit around 8 hours a day, th
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by vijucat 1y ago
Poetic
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by vijucat 1y ago
Unpopular opinion: developers obsess about the format being Markdown. This is completely backwards. This is a hammer-sees-nail thing. You should care more about the UX. And that somewhere, someone wrote a parser for the file format. That&#x
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by vijucat 1y ago
Not directly related, but an anecdote: well before AI, I was talking to a Portfolio Solutions Manager or something from JP Morgan. He was an MD at the firm and very full of himself. He told me, "You guys, your job is....you just Google
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by vijucat 1y ago
Individual employees. Although, I wouldn't be surprised if companies steal ideas, either.
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by vijucat 1y ago
Thank God I got over my tendency for gravitating to such bike-shedding [1] projects! While I appreciate that such pet peeves may result in a net benefit to the world, right now, I am in a place where I would cringe at even taking the risk o
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by vijucat 1y ago
If you have any intellectual property worth protecting or need to comply with HIPAA, a completely local installation of Cline or Aider or Codeium with LM Studio with Qwen or DeepSeek Coder works well. If you'd rather not bother, I don&
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by vijucat 1y ago
I blocked Windows Update on my Windows 10 when I heard that they are removing the feature where you click on the time and it shows a clock with seconds. This has to be the most patently malicious jab at users to make them switch to Windows
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by vijucat 2y ago
This is why I love Windows. There is a TON of small, open source software that serves a niche. Used to browse sourceforge.net and freshmeat (is that what it was called?) to find them!
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by vijucat 2y ago
Maybe demons were those who learned to cogitate better and ended up being the Ted Kacynzkis of their ilk :)
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by vijucat 2y ago
I literally feel sad when I turn off the blue light (using f.lux) or turn on eye saver mode on my monitor. No idea how to fix this.

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