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Exactly this. The non-composability and non-standardization of GUI tooling is my main issue with them ; having the same toolkit available to solve every problem takes some doing bu…

Floating point value stored multiplied by 10^8. That gives you a huge integer, but it's extremely accurate, especially for US denominated currencies. Easily transformed into floati…

One of the reasons why a source-based system like Gentoo is particularly nice is that you can compile your binaries with debug flags, so if you hit bad behavior you can inspect, wr…

I think the "net" does a lot of heavy lifting for a box like this - e.g. you do all the important work on a remote server, and only do basic maintenance work on the laptop itself.

4.8 also seems like a regression and using it from the chat GUI results in 4.6 no longer showing up. If someone from anthropic is here, is it possible to readd 4.6 in the "other mo…

I think it's just nice to have things in a central place ; no one's really gotten decentralized tech right and things like discoverability, interaction, job running, etc. is really…

Opus definitely pushes me to ignore problems. I've had to tell it multiple times to be thorough, and we tend to go back and forth a few times every time that happens. :)

I don't understand how the unix philosophy is rigid ? Can you explain a bit more ?

There's something interesting I've found about my interactions with the AI - I use it as a thought-partner. I don't ask it to solve a problem for me (well, first at least!) I think…

Tangential - what do people do faster in vscode than on the terminal ?

I agree with this. I've been able to tackle projects I've been wanting to for ages with LLMs because they let me focus on abstractions first and get over the friction of starting t…

I appreciate this way of programming - also, if I may, in the age of auto-complete I think it's okay to have verbose variable naming. Imho, it's perfectly fine to have quad, quadVe…

Currently working on a code formatter and parser for Supercollider's sclang. Supercollider is an amazing language, but the development tooling is severely lacking - we need good to…

This isn't made by developers, that's clear, and I don't think it's going to be very functional. However, I do love the aesthetic and I do love that someone is trying something new…

10,000% this. Attaching JIRA tickets, etc. to the commit helps for searching as well. I've worked with a number of people who do not believe in this and it drives me insane ; I try…

My preferred way of doing PRs/Code Review echoes some of the statements below, but also requires the engineer to do the following: 1) Each PR (even if it's part of a larger whole) …

I agree with this up to a point - having consistent code style with some sort of formatter (gofmt, black, clang-format) goes a long way to reducing complexity of understanding beca…

TEX Shinobi - I have many of these and they are excellent: https://tex.com.tw/products/shinobi?srsltid=AfmBOoqVuwqI9Ot2...

I get this a bit at my job, and I think there's a difference between making changes (which I do a lot of) and being confident in the changes that you're making. The environment I'm…

Agreed. So long as the code hits performance and business goals, there doesn't need to be an emphasis put on "newness" or any other sort of vanity metric - make the code obvious, s…

despite the questionable politics of the author, I use mutt-wizard, and using its configs, a simple "v" instead of "o" will open the mail in the open web-browser. I've found this m…

I haven't yet seen any compelling reason to move off of X11. It's been years since I've checked - what's the current state of the art ?

Or, even, "I see X Y Z is happening, that doesn't seem in line with the question, can we discuss it further ? "

I go a step further on "dumb code". Write code that is easy to reason about, understand, and grok the implications of. I spent a ton of time doing support and engineering on a trad…

> The truth is that most companies won't pay for the extra productivity that you create for yourself, but they will happily take it for free. Fantastic way of putting it. Know this…