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kevinherron

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About kevinherron

I am a software developer in the industrial automation world...

kevinherron@gmail.com https://github.com/kevinherron https://github.com/digitalpetri

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    Brother MFC-L3750CDW No issues. I'm not sure the brand/model is super important - what's important is that you cough up for a laser printer and get the hell away from inkjet.

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    Codex is great, both the CLI and Codex.app. I regularly use both Claude Code and Codex; work pays for Claude, my personal sub is for Codex. Opus 4.7 and GPT 5.5 seem equally compet…

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    Comment #47520244

    Complete opposite in my experience. AI does best in a well established code base where it can use existing patterns as context. When you let it loose on a greenfield project and do…

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    Comment #46320589

    We write mostly Java, some Kotlin, targeting the JVM. Most commonly our software runs on premises on server-class hardware (or what passes for server-class depending on the industr…

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    Comment #46320156

    I work on industrial automation software (SCADA/HMI, MES, PLC comms protocols, etc.).

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    Comment #46257818

    Use AGENTS.md for everything, then put a single line in CLAUDE.md: @AGENTS.md

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    Comment #46250718

    The problem is you still think that the perfect prompt or AGENTS.md or whatever is going to get you a one-shotted (or close) feature in return. There isn't (yet) a model or orchest…

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    Comment #46178639

    One model/configuration will never work because developers are awful, picky customers. You’ll lose 90,000 of your 100,000 with one or more little nitpicks. Probably 50% right off t…

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    Comment #45741455

    I flew to NYC and back last week and never experienced anything like this with mine shrug The 3s have been an improvement on the 2s for me, especially in fit and feel in ear.

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    Comment #44670601

    We use it for (non-Spring) backend development. It's lovely and always my first choice over Java. I like to avoid mixing Java/Kotlin within the same module when I can, but it still…

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    Comment #44503557

    Try Spotify’s web player.

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    Comment #44346397

    Ahh, did not see/read the comments on the article.

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    Comment #44346336

    No. In fact, if there was a better, more direct way than publishing on GitHub to feed my open source code directly into future training runs, I would probably do that.

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    Comment #44346302

    > in a move that exchanges Windows and Office 365 for Linux and LibreOffice. > It'll migrate about half of the Ministry of Digital Affairs away from Windows this summer

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    Comment #44238994

    Submit for batch processing using the OpenAI batch API?

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    Comment #44129670

    Interesting, I’ve never even heard it called “hashbang” until you just did. California, 40yo fwiw

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    Comment #43852573

    I’ve been using Wayland since it became the default in Fedora. These days it seems to be working great. I’m especially happy with how well KDE seems to work on Wayland now.

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    Comment #43831357

    I'm primarily a macOS and Linux user, but I do have a 2nd work laptop and a VM I use for Windows, both of which I upgraded to Windows 11 2-3? years ago. There's never been an issue…

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    Comment #43733454

    They should have let an AI check their spelling and grammar, maybe they wouldn’t have used “loose” instead of “lose” multiple times.

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    Comment #43455295

    I think there's a meaningful difference between "based on" and "inspired by", Helios being the latter.

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    Comment #43097790

    > for a SCADA system for Ignition?

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    Comment #41347094

    Sounds like you asked Copilot to write this post for you.