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gingersnap

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    Comment #48842167

    I start to see a lot of these re-writes that depend on tests to state that its working. But the things that make software like Postgres and SQLite reliable are not mostly the test,…

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    Comment #47528018

    I think this is the way. Not control, but just make it simpler for parents to handle their childrens devices. You dont have to make everyone share their age, you just make it so th…

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    Comment #47396023

    I'm thinking that I gonna start making all my webpages <1mb in size, and compensate that with adding windows 95 to each page load.

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    Comment #47231232

    I was hoping for this too, but when I saw that Eric Migicovsky went back to building pebble I lost my hope for it

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    Comment #47214800

    My instinct is to say that I don't want the session as part of the commit. For me that is like a Slack thread discussing the new feature, and that is not something I would commit. …

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    Comment #47163365

    Still faster than most websites

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    Comment #46897532

    But I actually think that one if the bigger arguments for single language models is the ability to have more languages. Im from Sweden, so I would like to have swedish on extremly …

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    Comment #46853551

    Yes, I see the same thing. My working thesis is that if I can keep the codebase modular and clear seperations, so I keep the entire context, while claude code only need to focus on…

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    Comment #46735366

    But he's not wrong. Training + inference on free customers is the black hole here.

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    Comment #46735351

    But they are not losing 100x on inference on high paying customers. Their biggest loss is free user + training/development cost

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    Comment #46607028

    Talking about search on a static docs site, has anyone tried a static pre-generated search like https://lunrjs.com/ ?

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    Comment #46569603

    This must be illegal in so many ways

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    Comment #46540370

    The pyramid references in the link is from 1992, it even says so on the page. I think that going to war against the recommendations from 1992 feels a bit...dishonest?

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    Comment #46524773

    Can you do it with signal?

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    Comment #46516612

    Starting to use Opus 4.5 I'm reduces instrutions in claude.md and just ask claude to look in the codebase to understand the patterns already in use. Going from prompts/docs to inst…

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    Comment #46498303

    A few days ago there was a post on year of the Linux desktop due to Windows getting worse. The sense is that MacOS isn't degrading as fast, but it still also is looking its lead to…

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    Comment #46486382

    I've been using Linux now as my personal desktop OS for 10-15 years. I actually really liked windows, and still think that windows XP and 7 was great OS for me. My Linux mint is st…

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    Comment #46486342

    Lately I've been thinking the opposite of this. I use claude code extensively, and lately it does all the coding for me. I've been asking it to go through claude.md to see if it ne…

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    Comment #46442402

    I think programmets often underestimate the power of Excel for non-programmers, it in practice runs the business world. I think that it also is a comparable to the ai side we see n…

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    Comment #46431749

    "Linux users will be happy to hear that this SDK is a step toward offering a client, something we know is highly anticipated. Today, we’re sharing an early preview of our SDK work.…

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    Comment #46431474

    This is not how I think about it. Me and the coding assistant is better then me or the coding assistant separately. For me its not about me or the coding assistant, its me and the …

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