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Just quickly back and forth? For how long in total? Would love to try this

Most likely just incompetence

Yesterday I asked both claude and gemini to downgrade a package on manjaro and both failed miserably

I use these tools a lot and I would say they fail 50% of the time for my use cases and I baby them every step

”Is it just me” is such a flawed mindset. The reality is staring you in the face

This is my experience too, I can burn $20 on a big refactoring in a few hours no problem

A lot of the time (when it works) I think its easily worth the money, but I would quickly break their $100 a month budget

The inspector will be AI btw :) (and the year 203x..)

Its pretty clear at this point that people want this kind of control implemented, its in the ”zeitgeist”. I have not figured out why, but it does seem that people are more scared then ever.

Its a bit weird on HN where people generally understand this problem regarding privacy, but in other topics like this one they act like the general populace ”put the speeders in jail!”

Yeah me neither, I think the CSS being cool and hard to use was the real reason. People like being ”elite”, and tables were just dead simple.

I am surprised people here still hold on to that era of CSS. There are even people in the comments being proud of clearfix

But I should probably be thankful for CSS for getting me out of webdev early :)

This would put anthropic in the business of minimizing the context to increase profits, same as Cursor and others who cheap out on context and try to RAG etc. Which would quickly make it worse, so I hope they stay on api pricing

Some base usage included in the plan might be a good balance

Yeah the amount of disrespect of developer time they show here is crazy. You could have made the billing api backwards compatible for 10 years, its a super small api, but instead they force breaking changes every couple of years

Maybe it is a strategy for cleaning up old apps or something, but I doubt it

Seems like a good way to have a bunch of new products to also support

I also have my own vscode extension for luau debugging, still have not moved to the type system due to lack of any decent class typing

But the debugger is so good, I dont know any other debugger with such low overhead in any language

From Software (souls games)

Rockstar with the GTA series

Valve, Blizzard?

Without the work of the author this bug would still not be fixed. So credit for that work (which seemed quite involved) would be fair and natural, no?

I am surprised and a bit sad at so many comments questioning the author

You still cant really teach it your code base, context window is too small, fine tuning doesnt really fit the use case, and this RAG stuff (retrieve limited context from embeddings) is a bit of a hack imho.

Fingers crossed we are there soon though

Seems this is about people skills. Some people are weird and annoying and you have to find ways to thrive even with their presence, or move to another project as others are suggesting

Many different ways of dealing with it,

- from not responding at all (I do this often when people just ”ping” without stating their business),

- to asking what the matter is and if its urgent otherwise lets discuss it (a good while) later when I have time (I do this often too, my job is programming and requires focus time)

- to just saying that you are busy right now

Just a few ideas, find the guts to experiment and learn

I actually rarely bring up these kind of issues with managers, I find its mostly about signaling and breaking the loop that annoying people thrive on. Learn to subtly draw a line, repeatedly if you must, without being confrontational

I also have a custom domain on fastmail that seems to end up in the spam folder of people using outlook in an enterprise setting. Kind of unsettling. I have never had it happen in any other case that I know of. But I’m pretty sure I have gotten spam flagged even when they have sent an email to me first. And I also think I have been OK’d at some point by them flagging me as not spam.. I talked to fastmail support but all they could do was verify that my domain settings were indeed correct

Yes I'm relieved to see what I consider a level headed response. I hope that I am right and we will of course see. I remember reading a quote from our "public health authority guy" something like "it's obvious that other countries decisions are based on politics, not science". That's a pretty brave thing to say, the easy decision would have been to follow along and close everything.

I am of the very unpopular opinion that all people actually die, that quality of life is the only thing that trumps life, and that we have to bring these things into the equation at some level. Now some people read this and immediately think that I suggest that we do nothing and let everyone die, but no I just want us to consider all sides of the equation thoroughly.

I noticed yesterday for the first time that there is starting to be some discussion about the damage caused by the lockdowns. Before that I was amazed that no one was interested in even discussing it. So there seems to be a trend of people waking up to it. Thanks for your brave comment. Bros are slow ;)

Thank you! I cannot count the number of times I have had a CMake problem and had the usual inclination to try to understand the framework behind it, only to be stonewalled by the seemlingly complete lack of context in the documentation. I have given up on it time and time again. Somehow my project manages to barely get over every CMake hurdle but I still dream about the day when I would actually understand it, and have the same feeling of control that I usually strive for.

I dont have much to add I’m afraid (feel free to downvote me) but I’m quite intrigued of the HN reaction to this thing. The smartest people in the world (kind of) are also just scared I guess. The usual coolheaded rationalism seems for the first time skewed towards ”its bad I just know it”. I look at the numbers and still cant quite understand what they’re seeing that I dont. I guess its the fear doing it, because we really dont know, and thats just plain scary. And maybe a tinge of satisfaction to be part of this huge drama plays a part too :)

I'm a DO customer. I tried to figure out what running a windows server would cost on Azure once (since DO doesn't provide windows). I didn't manage to figure it out after like 20 minutes, and the complexity was just mind blowing. I literally got a bit of a shock, and felt pretty stupid that I couldn't figure out such a simple thing. The thought going through my head was something like "does people actually use this?". So that's a radically different perspective for you :)

After failing with Heroku we migrated to using Dokku on DO. And yes it is more work to do it ourselves, I didn't want to do that but here we are :) It was not a lot of work, dokku is really nice, but it was/is some work. I was hoping for almost no sysadmin work but that didn't happen.

I'm a customer on DO as a small business (mobile game). I wanted some linux servers that I have control over, and I wanted a managed database where someone does backups for me. I also wanted simplicity and a nice UI. I didn't even compare prices, I just thought it was a good deal and didn't look back. At first I tried Heroku but it was too much adapting our application to their way of doing things. DO is just hyper-simple for me. So, thanks DO :)

I feel your pain, and I have a hard time processing the other comments here, I just really want to empty my terminal buffer, its really useful.

In the game I’m building I have a quake style ”dropdown” console and clear() was very easy to implement :)

I have rarely if ever ”confirmed” something in a config file.

confirmFontSize = 12

?

Naming things is hard :)

It was very clean and impressive work, but the longer I watched the more I realized how disconnected I feel from all these weird "apps".

- Music player without connection to the real world (spotify/youtube)

- Notes app without connection to the real world (the file system/other platforms)

- Messages app without connection to the real world (sms / messenger / whatsapp / etc etc)

- Photos app without connection to the real world (some kind of cloud synced file system)

- Notifications ... I really still have not found a use for them, except for IM on my phone

Stop bundling these things :( It looks nice, but the real world use is so limited. Focus on really enabling other stuff instead

Surveys like that don't work very well. The same people would probably also have been "fine" with their own office. Many people just want to get along, and enduring this and that is something that we learn all the way from childhood.

Imagine removing the camera layer and drive yourself using those lines and boxes, without perceiving the "actual" world at all. Which is what the AI is doing. It seems completely terrifying to me :)

I don't think we will sit at our computers writing code in the same way a hundred years from now. It just feels very inefficient to me, it's a good abstraction for now but better will come, new paradigms that probably look radically different. I personally would find the opposite claim rather strange :)

I have worked professionally with Java, C#, C++, Javascript, Python, PHP and Lua. Guess which is my favorite language? :) I think I might prefer something like Kotlin or a good lisp to Lua but I have not used them as extensively. Lua is just so consistent and so powerful. Coming back to it after a year off is like coming home. Compared to javascript and python it's behavior has not suprised me once. Closures, variable scope, everything just makes sense, always. I have not googled syntax in years. Once in a while I look at the tiny reference doc. That said I would not write certain things in lua because the ecosystem is very lacking.