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One of the biggest gifts in life is to find a true passion. And for every passion there are two sides to the coin - the joy and the suffering. The agony and the ecstasy. It’s a gif…

Yes. For someone who’s already financially comfortable, it’s nice to be able to stay in the game, keep working with great people, and make some money without having to deal with bu…

Claude code does utilize both the full Sonnet model and the lighter Haiku model in an automatic way. When you exit a Claude code session, it gives you the stats (tokens, cost, etc)…

I will miss being able to see people’s eyes.

Interestingly (to me) the SwiftUI Text element supports Markdown natively via AttributedString.

Is it enough to play Human Resource Machine!? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Resource_Machine Assembly as a game, I loved playing it.

In the US, “Junior” pilots typically work as flight instructors until they have built up enough time to no longer be junior. 1500 flight hours is the essential requirement to be an…

I feel the same way about code generation vs code review. Everyone knows there are deep problems with LLM generated code (primarily, lack of repo understanding, and proper use of l…

In my experience working on JB extensions, Rider is the most different of the IDEs. Most people think of just IntelliJ and that’s the same code base as eg PyCharm. But Rider seems …

Today, hacker news solves air traffic control with either: a) More money b) Video game technology To truly get this problem, you really need to be in it. Either as a pilot or as a …

I’m curious if the OpenRewrite project has any value to you in keeping your Java stuff up to date? (I’m not affiliated with it; just curious about strategies for upgrading and main…

This is what’s needed to get the most out of these tools. You understand deeply how the tool works and so you’re able to optimize its inputs in order to get good results. This puts…

I just want to note that Copilot is multi model now and can also run Sonnet.

I wrote a SWE bench solver. The SWE bench issues are on mature projects like Django. The objective of my solver was to get good solutions using only RAG (no embeddings) and with mi…

Sports is entertainment. It inspires people and brings joy. It brings people together. It sets positive examples of the rewards that can come from consistent effort and teamwork. A…

In my kids’ generation (college aged) they all use Facebook Marketplace.

FYI supermaven has joined Cursor https://www.cursor.com/blog/supermaven

People are saying it’s apples and oranges, but with Computer Use taken into account, this seems like a fair question. https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/build-with-claude/compute..…

I like how you put the context and prompts into the foreground. In so many tools, it’s invisible. We all know that context and prompts are there - the operation of LLMs is well kno…

It’s strategically important to have essential industries at home.

I think people / the market have gotten a little too excited about something AI is actually pretty bad at - making changes to existing code (which is, after all, most of the code).…

The idea of a hybrid light truck (Tacoma) interested me. When I looked into it, the hybrid mileage was only 23mpg, compared to 20 for the regular model. What’s the point of that?

Is there a text format for this? I’d be interested in seeing if we can generate these from trace data the way that we do for sequence diagrams and flow charts. https://appmap.io/do…

I have already been using iPhone Passwords for all my passwords. Anyone else doing this? It autofills passwords on the phone and I can copy a password from the phone Passwords and …