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cadr··on Vibe code is legacy code
When you say "almost" - could you say something about the codebases you saw where this doesn't apply? I'd love to hear about the best codebase you were SWE for and what we could learn from it.
cadr··on “Reading Rainbow” was created to combat summer reading slumps
I miss our east bay library. Not saying other places aren’t good, but that’s where we were when our kids were little and the staff was just so amazing.
cadr··on Commodore 64 Ultimate
They at least have some cool technical advisors. And a "Chief Tramiel Officer".
cadr··on ELIZA Reanimated: Restoring the Mother of All Chatbots
I fondly remember M-x psychoanalyze-pinhead as well. (Though the actual Zippy the Pinhead quotes have long sense been removed.)
cadr··on Why agents are bad pair programmers
Ok, that makes sense. But when you continue the session building the GUI, do you run into it making mistakes because it doesn't have the earlier stuff (ie, your original directions) still in its context?
cadr··on Launch HN: Vassar Robotics (YC X25) – $219 robot arm that learns new skills
Thanks! Thought I guess I'll have to wait for future batches :)
cadr··on Why agents are bad pair programmers
Thanks!

Sorry to belabor the question, when you say "before every session", how many "things" do you do in a session? You say you give them a single task, but do you end up chatting back and forth with the agent in that session? I guess I'm unsure how far back the "context" goes in a conversation and if would drift from your directives if the conversation went back and forth too much.

cadr··on Launch HN: Vassar Robotics (YC X25) – $219 robot arm that learns new skills
Just to check - do you ship from the USA? (international is confusing these days...)
cadr··on Why agents are bad pair programmers
I guess it is tool-dependent, but do you pass in that enormous prompt on each request?
cadr··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
Oh, neat! I didn't realize there were such ready-out-of-the-box items for Meshtastic.

Thanks!

cadr··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
Thanks!
cadr··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
Neat! Question - how have you used Meshtastic so far? It sounds cool, but the use cases people always bring up seem a bit forced.
cadr··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
Neat! What makes a "cinematography" drone different than a generic drone?
cadr··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
I'm building an amateur radio SSB transceiver for the 20 meter band.
cadr··on Show HN: I Built a Telegraph Simulator
How are you doing the timing for space? It feels off when I'm sending quickly, but also I never use a straight key, so my sending is probably terrible :)
cadr··on The Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ with Up to 26 Tops
I was really hoping there were 26 raspi hats stacked on top of each other.
cadr··on Type 2 diabetes: New treatment eliminates insulin for 86% of patients
I don't think it is fair to say 100% manageable - I'm not aware any study has ever shown that. There are many sub-types. And there are extenuating circumstances for some people.

Just want to call this out, as it is very demoralizing to hear this sort of message when it does not apply to you.

cadr··on Type 2 diabetes: New treatment eliminates insulin for 86% of patients
Same. So much.
cadr··on Type 2 diabetes: New treatment eliminates insulin for 86% of patients
Same. Except then I subsequently found that I actually had adult-onset Type 1 diabetes. But I was still in the "honeymoon" phase, so my pancreas was producing enough insulin to get by still.

I stayed on this for seven years until I finally had to go on insulin.

cadr··on How ham radio endures
There is more to amateur radio than disaster communications.
cadr··on How ham radio endures
That is a cool story!
cadr··on Show HN: iFixit created a new USB-C, repairable soldering system
Reading the description of the Thermaltronics TMT-2000S on their web page. Do you not have to set a temperature, and it just senses and figures out the right temperature?
cadr··on Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?
That is awesome!
cadr··on Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?
I built a midi controller. Rather, I repurposed a Teensy-based virtual analogue synth I made ages back that never worked quite right. I had taken the amp/speaker out to use somewhere else, and it was just sitting in a box. I realized I could just use the Control Surface library (https://github.com/tttapa/Control-Surface) and change it to a midi controller in no time flat, so I did. Now just need to get some time to use it to play with VCV Rack.
cadr··on Ask HN: what are examples of successful "open-source alternatives"?
True, but it's been open source now a lot longer than it was closed source.
cadr··on POV-Ray – The Persistence of Vision Raytracer (2021)
I remember including something I rendered in POV-Ray on one of my college applications in the mid-90s.
cadr··on Unconventional Uses of FPGAs
Wow, just looked that up. That's a chunk of change for a headphone amplifier.
cadr··on NASA engineers make progress toward understanding Voyager 1 issue
No, but I did find myself in the mid 90s as an intern trying to figure out code from the early 80s. It was really tricky code to get ECG processing working on some very small memory footprint or something. The name of the woman that wrote it was at the top of the file, and I looked her up in the HP company directory and she still worked there. As a hail-mary, I emailed her and asked a question about it. And she immediately got back to me with the answer. So, there are some engineers out there that do remember this sort of thing.
cadr··on FDA clears first over-the-counter continuous glucose monitor
Yup. Those numbers are, like, right next to each other on the keyboard :)
cadr··on FDA clears first over-the-counter continuous glucose monitor
The omnipod isn't setup with the g6 yet. Can't wait.
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