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Re: Google Workspace CLI

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I'm curious why `npm` is used to install a `rust` binary?

NPM as a cross platform package distribution system works really well. The install script checks the OS and Arch, and pulls the right Rust binary. Then, they get upgrade mechanism out of the box too, and an uninstall mechanism. NPM has become the de facto standard for installing any software these days, because it is present on every OS.

I think there has been an influx of people vibe coding in Rust because its "fast" but otherwise they have no idea about Rust.

Re: Google Workspace CLI

#133
post #26

I'm curious why `npm` is used to install a `rust` binary?

NPM as a cross platform package distribution system works really well. The install script checks the OS and Arch, and pulls the right Rust binary. Then, they get upgrade mechanism out of the box too, and an uninstall mechanism. NPM has become the de facto standard for installing any software these days, because it is present on every OS.

"NPM has become the de facto standard for installing any software these days, because it is present on every OS."

What?!? Must not be in any OS I've ever installed.

Now tar, on the other hand, exists even in windows.

Re: Google Workspace CLI

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Is this comment AI generated? I don't like to accuse people of generating comments, but looking at your comment history, almost all of them fit this pattern of a single paragraph with "LLM-isms", this one included (i.e. "the X angle here is real -").

I've been noticing this a lot more often here. And everywhere. I'd like it if I could flag accounts as definitely or likely AI so I don't bother parsing them out over and over.

I guess I could build a browser extension to allow for that easily enough.

Re: Google Workspace CLI

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is this comment AI generated? I don't like to accuse people of generating comments, but looking at your comment history, almost all of them fit this pattern of a single paragraph with "LLM-isms", this one included (i.e. "the X angle here is real -").

I find this form you're commenting on less annoying than people starting posts with "this." What a stupid way to say "I agree."

> I find this form you're commenting on less annoying than people starting posts with "this." What a stupid way to say "I agree."

This.

:-p

Re: Google Workspace CLI

#136
post #93

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yeah just like they’ve slowly won at cloud over AWS and Azure. oh wait

I mean, they are? GCP usage/revenue is growing faster than AWS and Azure. Mostly driven by Gemini pushing folks onto the platform and them deciding "why not move everything else too".

Wait, I am curious how Gemini "pushes" devs to GCP.

Re: Google Workspace CLI

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Is this comment AI generated? I don't like to accuse people of generating comments, but looking at your comment history, almost all of them fit this pattern of a single paragraph with "LLM-isms", this one included (i.e. "the X angle here is real -").

Yes, it most likely is. Click on the "x hours ago" and then flag the comment. That's the best way I've found to deal with these.

Re: Google Workspace CLI

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is this comment AI generated? I don't like to accuse people of generating comments, but looking at your comment history, almost all of them fit this pattern of a single paragraph with "LLM-isms", this one included (i.e. "the X angle here is real -").

I find this form you're commenting on less annoying than people starting posts with "this." What a stupid way to say "I agree."

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Re: Google Workspace CLI

#139

Claude Opus 4.6 couldn't figure out how to use it to write to a Google Sheet (something to do with escaping the !?) and fell back to calling the sheets API directly with gcloud auth.

Can you tell it to write to /tmp/s.py instead of trying to execute it inline?
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