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foosteron Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context

I suggest you upgrade your code review skill. I find it vastly quicker in most cases to review code than write it in the first place.

foosteron Getting good results from Claude Code

Fully agree. Small pieces one step at a time. If you ask it to do something big be prepared for disappointment.

foosteron Getting good results from Claude Code

after 30+years of engineering writing lots of specs is mostly a waste of time. The problem is more or less you don’t know enough. The trick is to write the smallest simplest version of whatever you are trying to achieve and then iterate on that. Be prepared to throw it out. The nice thing with Claude (or Gemini) is that it lets to do this really really quickly.

foosteron Getting good results from Claude Code

I get excellent results and don’t do anything like that. Basically I ask Claude to write code as I do. A small step at a time. I literally prompt it to do the next step I’d do and so on and so forth. I accept all changes immediate and then commit after every change and then review the diff. If Claude did some badness then I ask it to fix that. I typically also give references to existing code that I want it to model or functions to use.

This gives me excellent results with far less typing and time.

foosteron Cursor CLI

I just merge the change and review the diff. If it’s wrong I either revert or ask Claude to fix it.

foosteron OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off, and Windsurf’s CEO is going to Google

I just accept all and review in my editor.

foosteron Gemini CLI

The other difference is that reliability for the gemini api is garbage, whereas for vertex ai it is fantastic.

foosteron MCP Specification – version 2025-06-18 changes

Have you actually used this stuff at scale? The replies are often not valid.

foosteron Rare black iceberg spotted off Labrador coast could be 100k years old

I am a Newfoundlander and I don’t appreciate that term.

foosteron Rare black iceberg spotted off Labrador coast could be 100k years old

It is not. It is insulting and derogatory. Don’t use it thanks.

foosteron Rare black iceberg spotted off Labrador coast could be 100k years old

Newfoundlanders you mean.

foosteron OpenAI reaches agreement to buy Windsurf for $3B

I don’t think there is an option for Gemini with copilot

foosteron OpenAI reaches agreement to buy Windsurf for $3B

I’ve used both extensively. Copilot agent just is not as good as cursor with Gemini 2.5. It is much much slower among other things.

foosteron Sleep is essential – researchers are trying to work out why

They're called a bedroom.

foosteron How each pillar of the First Amendment is under attack

With republicans in control of congress and/or the senate and opposing everything the democrats did it is hardly surprising is it.

foosteron One year after switching from Java to Go

Yes

foosteron How does fentanyl get into the US?

Even if those numbers are true, you do understand that is a very different situation than 25% tariff across the board, and 10% on energy for completely disingenuous reasons.

If it wasn't for oil, natural gas, power Canada would be at a trade surplus with the US. Oil and Natural gas are not things are not easy to find replacement US based sources.

https://economics.td.com/ca-canada-us-trade-balance

foosteron Justin Trudeau promises to resign as PM

RCMP in Ottawa would enforce federal laws not provincial. Seems to me you are talking about OPP responsibilities.

foosteron Building Game Prototypes with LÖVE

Love may not but there is nothing inherently unworkable with Lua and iOS. I released an iOS game which used luajit on ios and it worked great.

foosteron Algol-68 seemed like a good idea

https://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/ALGOL/book/pam...

The operator ENTIER (French for “whole”) takes a REAL operand and likewise yields an INT result, but the yield is the largest integer equal to or less than the operand. Thus ENTIER 2.2 yields 2, ENTIER -2.2 yields -3

foosteron OpenAI completes deal that values company at $157B

They’re already monetized in lots of ways. I doubt ads make much sense or are necessary.

foosteron "We ran out of columns"

Same way as SQLite.

foosteron Glassdoor updated my profile to add my real name and location

>There are people on this very forum who are 100% subscribed to the "if you work hard you will make it"

It doesn't guarantee that you will make it, but certainly increases your chances.

foosteron Canadian federal government will stop investing in new road infrastructure

Get serious. In the majority of the country public transporation is absolutely abysmal.

foosteron Cousins are disappearing. Is this reshaping the experience of childhood?

With many US states restricting access to abortion this seems like a problematic argument.

foosteron Plastic bag bans work

Certainly in Canada where one time use plastic bags are banned the supermarkets do not provide paper bags. They will sell you reusable bags which are larger (and therefore more resource intensive to produce) which are often not reused. I have a huge collection of them at home.

foosteron CEOs Are Using Return to Office Mandates to Mask Poor Management

I understand the snark, but it is really unhelpful. I guarantee that your company would ceases to function without these roles.

foosteron Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source

How does vscode make money?

foosteron Deadcode: Finding unreachable functions in Go

Huh? Its a warning, not an error.

https://go.dev/play/p/8GazBQv5xAb

foosteron Bosses are using RTO mandates as a way to blame employees as a scapegoat

If you work for a shitty organization sure. In a well functioning org, that isn't the case. Leadership/PM should help set direction, but not specifics.