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wkirby

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    Comment #49248227

    > It doesn’t matter if you don’t use a note taker AI, if even one person on the call uses one Yeah, but I'm unwilling to be that person.

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    Comment #49247598

    I've got a suite of CSVs that represent both edge case and performance issues, and I script timing opening/common operations using Apple Scripting. It's not perfect, but it gives u…

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    Comment #49247440

    Wow, thanks!

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    Comment #49244526

    Literally starting my monday weekly standup now, I'll run it and see what's up. Thanks!

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    Comment #49244333

    My ideal use case is to pipe audio from both my microphone and capture system audio so things like our weekly team standup or my 1:1s with my devs can all have reliable, decent not…

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    Comment #49243813

    I'm very intrigued by AI note takers, but I'm absolutely unwilling to expose me or my clients to this exact problem. The solution (theoretically) is a purely local note taker, but …

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    Comment #49242678

    The integrated SQL bench runs a full duckdb so it should be super accessible. Let me know what kind of licensing terms you'd need to make this work --- you can drop me a line at wy…

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    Comment #49241996

    Still plugging away on Cassava, a CSV editor that sits somewhere between sublime text and Excel: https://cassava.dev/ . Our most recent releases added first-class xls/xlsx file ope…

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    Comment #48901312

    Replying for the ~5 people who happened to download earlier this afternoon, the rc20 build that was uploaded earlier today was missing the update server URL. Re-downloading rc20 sh…

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    Comment #48898918

    Coming soon. Just need to figure out the build and deploy story.

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    Comment #48896933

    I keep telling my team "it's CSV but with some As thrown in there."

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    Comment #48896923

    Almost certainly not; it really depends on how iCloud handles the sync. Cassava supports (at the moment) CSV (and its variants TSV, etc.) and JSON files. If your sync mechanism wor…

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    Comment #48896891

    Linux support is there and working, half my team uses arch btw. Windows is working, I just don't build for it right now. Excel is cripplingly slow (thought more capable). I don't l…

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    Comment #48896106

    I've spent the last 8 weeks or so building the spreadsheet tool I want to see in the world. CSVs as first-class citizens with the ergonomics and speed of my text editor. It's been …

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    Comment #46892080

    My experience thus far is that the local models are a) pretty slow and b) prone to making broken tool calls. Because of (a) the iteration loop slows down enough to where I wander o…

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    Comment #45891655

    Make. A. Smaller. Phone.

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    Comment #45425362

    I see this as the next great wave of work for me and my team. We sustained our business for a good 5–8 years on rescuing legacy code from offshore teams as small-to-medium sized co…

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    Comment #44832895

    Looking forward to trying this out. An early comment: I would love to be able to override tool descriptions and system prompts from a config. Especially when working with local mod…

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    Comment #44502631

    I'm not trying to start a fight, but fwiw I adore both typescript and rails.

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    Comment #44359176

    I dream of building an apple watch case that adds a T9 bluetooth keyboard. Turn the standalone Apple Watch into the dumbphone I've always wanted.

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    Comment #44036936

    It’s trying to convey that Sam Altman is a dweeb.

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    Comment #43873702

    Like my co-founder said, we're a small company based in the US, and hiring in foreign jurisdictions is both expensive and time consuming. We're currently set up to hire in the US a…