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    Comment #49211431

    I'd say it's a lot higher than this. This is just the reported numbers. I live in London and I'm fairly careless. Yesterday when I hopped onto a bus a driver told me I was crazy fo…

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    Comment #49207741

    There's a bit of a difference to me between a calculator and writing.. Creativity. Words aren't just a vessel for ideas. If there were different calculation structures etc and spac…

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    Comment #49181952

    I agree. The natural next step is to have an MCP for a global directory of MCPs that an agent can search to complete jobs.

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    Comment #49181868

    Can you elaborate on the auditing and telemetry. I'm wondering what you mean by that and how it comes for free any differently from an cli

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    Comment #49168093

    Fuck it, I love em

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    Comment #49120407

    This was my university degree honours project 12 years ago, but using oculus rifts!

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    Comment #48947925

    I've had some real success with Suno. There's one song I made as a joke which is a house track with lyrics about me and my friends which I've genuinely downloaded and listen to reg…

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    Comment #48596412

    Yeah the most unbelievable part of this is people randomly chatting in London. I live in London, and I remember flying to Ireland at some point, and I was seated next to an Irish l…

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    Comment #48443794

    > you shouldn't be bothered that someone else does your hobby better I don't know, I'd feel this way a little. if it's something that's not obvious how much effort goes into the un…

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    Comment #45173520

    Agreed! Especially getting them to generate sequence / flow charts I find is a hack to figure out how everything fits together well. Claude code is fantastic at quickly tracing thr…

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    Comment #45173491

    It's far easier to read diagrams then it is to read code. To get a good mental model, I'll often get an LLM to generate a few mermaid diagrams to help create a mental model of how …

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    Comment #44966161

    it does though, the same way that an llm can trace imports / dependencies through any coding language. ``` If adding tests, read @./TESTING_INSTRUCTIONS.md ```

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    Comment #44966136

    It's really supposed to supplement README.md, but targeting an agentic coding loop. E.g. "Before each commit, do X and Y to validate the changes."

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    Comment #44966048

    With AGENTS.md you have more flexibility to do something like ``` // AGENTS.md If implementing a new service, first read @./SERVICE_SETUP.md If writing tests, first read @./TESTING…

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    Comment #44296581

    My fave I remember seeing years ago was one where a man - over some long period of time - managed to park in every single parking space of a supermarket. I feel like this energy pe…

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    Comment #42778218

    Not really relevant, but this triggered a memory of being around 14 years old and getting scammed on Runescape which drove an evil character arch from me to somehow find out how to…

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    Comment #42723590

    what types of videos have made that have gone viral?

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    Comment #42062245

    See this is what surprises me. I would have thought voting for a more regular market with higher taxes to the elite would be favourable to the majority non-tech workers, rather tha…

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    Comment #41995140

    I just bought a 32 inch monitor and can't stand it. 27 inch is the sweet spot for me. The further through my career the more i've effective with smaller screen space and I am. I ac…

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    Comment #41871055

    Mine has as well, but it's pretty useful. It's really just a search engine though, but it's indexed confluence and all other internal sites and i've found it pretty useful for ever…

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    Comment #41769110

    I've seen an AI yearbook photos styled app print money that was serverless. There's lots of novelty apps atm that, as the other commented stated, just want to get to market as soon…

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    Comment #41289433

    Until you work on a front end code base that's meaningfully large

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    Comment #41289423

    Has anyone made the transition from VS Code to NeoVim or Zed and succeeded / recommend it? Years ago I saw a colleague operate as an absolute beast using VS Code with vim bindings …

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    Comment #41137228

    1. that's a lie, and "lots" of people don't use HTMX (unless I've been living under a rock and there is a non-unsubstantial number of people using it :D ) 2. HTMX IS javascript, an…

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    Comment #41066529

    I mean the obvious answer is language familiarity, If your projects frontend code is in javascript/typescript ( which it is ), then using node is an easy choice. Shared libraries, …