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Not OP, but I use it for personal tasks that are just not worth the claude tokens -- rooting through historical medical records to unify prescription history, super-OCR'ing thousan…

Query cancels are out of band from the query connection so PGBouncer has to land it on the right server and the right connection. So PGBouncer serves a bogus-but-tracked cancel PID…

Wow, that is a deep level of commitment and learning/exploring; I love it. While I'm sure this is informed by deep preexisting knowledge (to a point -- it's still badass in its own…

yeah exactly haha; the threat model implies a level of "you're hosed" that something private I'd say to a friend isn't moving the needle on.

Adding on to this question, do you anticipate the same people capable of tapping phones to think less of you for a dirty joke? The people whose opinion of me would lower for someth…

Absolutely. I love building things, but sometimes I want something built . LLM assistance is great for when I want a personal tool, code quality be damned, for a specific purpose, …

I develop an open-source self-hosted client (very mobile friendly) for base-station radios that you want to use from anywhere, and also support MQTT/community observers/bots/webhoo…

For sure. This is a straight copy-paste of my prompt which references my architecture, codebase, references folder (God, that's so golden -- .gitignored, but saving the tokens of g…

I really identify with this. As an engineer, I really do enjoy building things. However, a lot of times, what I want is a thing that is built . A lot of time, that means I build it…

Absolutely. I've got a nice multi-paragraph prompt on hunting for subtle bugs, user expectation breaks, crufty/repeated code, useless tests (six tests that actually should be one l…

Absolutely. Effective LLM-driven development means you need to adopt the persona of an intern manager with a big corpus of dev experience. Your job is to enforce effective work-pla…

It really is incredible. I've been playing through my childhood games on retro handhelds, and recently jumped from <$100 handhelds to a Retroid Pocket Flip, and it's incredible. Be…

I think they're saying that OpenSSL is NOT elegant, but that it is successful regardless; hence, code elegance is irrelevant to whether a product is successful or not (and thus tha…

Big fan of MeshCore; been using it recently and it Just Works. Especially where I am in the USA Pacific Northwest, the mesh is always hopping with conversation. I have run into del…

That's wild; thanks for the clarification. Crazily, I only stumbled upon this because I ordered some discount blood labs and the requisition had Health Gorilla on the letterhead, w…

It took me a bit to get my head around this one; https://healthapiguy.substack.com/p/epic-v-health-gorilla-a-... has a great alternative breakdown. This is my understanding of the …

You mentioned working on it — do you have a particular strategy, venue, or opening line/guiding ethos that you find works well? I love making friends with strangers, but usually re…

I think it's intended as a comparison of cost when building a gaming-capable computer vs. a console of somewhat equivalent power. It used to be a general rule of thumb that you cou…

Privacy is vital, but this isn't covered under HIPAA. As they are not a covered entity nor handling medical records, they're beholden to the same privacy laws as any other company.…

Correlated data: sites.google.com has been blocked via machine policy at multiple workplaces I've come into contact with.

I find it especially helpful during refactors — understanding the significance/meaning of the variable and what its values can be (and are constrained to) and not just the type is …

This was one of my favorites -- with the voice filter the narration feels like it's part of the song which I found especially fun. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWXCCBsOMSg

> All I know is a [knot used to join a length of rope into a circle/loop, performed three times) is nearly impossible to untie [when tied with large-diameter polyethylene plastic r…