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I'm curious why people care about such tracking? I hardly use an editor anymore, and I'm not alone. All that matters is who is signing off on the commit. > Text a human wrote or ed…

Doesn't it being a phone chip make the efficiency claim more impressive, not less? Moreover, from tfa: > This Dell also beats out both M4 and M3 Mac Studios, only failing to the M4…

Slightly off topic, but Claude Code (and likely other models/harnesses) are incredibly effective at Nix. It can trivially self-verify, without side effects, which is a perfect matc…

That doesn't sound expensive to me. Not compared to, say, a $1.7M public toilet[0]. To be clear, I do not support Flock cameras. [0]: https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/san-fran…

> > We’ve reached a point where an update to macOS — or to any app I rely on, really — is a source of dread rather than excitement. I now expect the new version to be worse. You kn…

> and not purchase any more. why would anyone sign such a contract?

Is Claude's paraphrasing of Lord of the Rings equivalent to the original?

Cheap tokens only benefits SaaS that depends on AI. Otherwise, cheap tokens means it is only more cost effective than it already is to cut out the SaaS and build instead of buy.

OpenRouter doesn't fail over to a different model, it fails over a different provider of the same model.

A lot of my PRs are the result of hours of back and forth between an AI and myself. In many cases the sum total of my prompts is much larger than the final output.

> where’s all this new magical software that the productivity improvements should imply? It's running, privately, in my homelab. I think we are entering what I call the "have it yo…

I highly recommend Workers for Platforms for anyone wanting to deploy vibecoded apps: https://developers.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-for-platforms/w...

The issue that I foresee is that the point of error becomes decoupled from the UI and the UI doesn't handle a delayed error. Especially if retrofit into existing products.

I worry that optimistic updates is going to become trendy and applied to more software, but without any plan for the "sad path" - failed to sync, sync conflict, etc. Get ready for …

From experience: I work on a small team maintaining build infrastructure for my entire company. My goal, as much as possible, is to maintain a single build environment that can ser…

Couldn't the need for Zones have been solved with ARP-like probing? I.e. if you don't know on which interface to route a link local address, try pinging the address from each inter…

Has wealth been distributed from exploiter to exploited? Doesn't seem like it. It just seems like the 99% are being exploited a little more evenhandedly.

It is my right to do with my printer whatever I want.

> What printers are similarly priced and have similar specs, for someone relatively new to 3D printing? None, really. Prusa printers are good enough though. If you value freedom an…

I do not want to be in a business relationship with a company for a trivial amount of money, be it $29.99/yr or $69.99/yr or $249.99 lifetime. None of that is real money. You have …

> They would do small PoCs, do comprehensive benchmarks and evaluations of those PoCs, and decide whether to actually go ahead Perfect, $1mil in salaries to spare the company $500k…

Is lakeFS an FS....? Zero mention of FUSE or a kernel module at all in the README.

> The corollary to that is a clever bureaucrat can kill a proposal simply by inviting many decision makers to a meeting. My version of this: For my friends, everything; for my enem…

> Tesla is doing something right Yes, capturing more shareholder value is a virtue.