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tomwphillips

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About tomwphillips

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    Definitely not a bubble.

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    Comment #48473903

    Can you elaborate what you mean by "won't let me fix"? What happens when you try to?

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    Comment #48131962

    I was in a similar boat with my M1 Pro. I have an M4 Pro for work but rarely notice the difference. Unfortunately the display in my M1 has failed and a replacement is £500-700. Ver…

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    Comment #47823643

    *All* my work as a solo consultant/contractor was from former colleagues who needed "trusted pair of hands" to deal with a project, or former colleagues introducing me to new peopl…

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    Comment #47638854

    I have this problem, but I just lock the front door.

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    Comment #47572275

    A colleague sent me this search directly. Dupe of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47570269

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    Comment #47571819

    Yes. https://github.com/search?q=%22%E2%9A%A1+Quickly+spin+up+cop...

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    Comment #47295104

    I'm not sure a staging environment would have caught it. I often find Claude makes changes that _look_ reasonable, but it's only when I really dig in (e.g. when refactoring) that I…

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    At $dayJob we use (user facing) IDs like this. Select a prefix then add a sufficient number of random alphanumeric characters for your use case.

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    Comment #47264380

    In October they were talking about it taking 18 months. https://thenewstack.io/github-will-prioritize-migrating-to-a...

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    Comment #47264295

    There were reports that they're migrating to Azure. Maybe it isn't going so well. I thought AI was supposed for have solved software engineering...

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    That's good - I'll reconsider Dagger. Yes, I agree on your assessment. AI means a higher rate of code changes, so you need more robust and fast CI.

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    A while back I think I heard you on a podcast describing these pain points. Experienced them myself; sounded like a compelling solution. I remember Dagger docs being all about AI a…

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    Comment #47176929

    Also seeing this in the UK right now.

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    Comment #47119401

    I agree it works well. Although as a long-time TDD practitioner it is mildly frustrating that it has taken LLMs to get more people to realise it works!

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    Comment #46987671

    Like we don't feed the trolls, we shouldn't the feed agents. I'm impressed the maintainers responded so cordially. Personally I would have gone straight for the block button.

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