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kossae··on Claude Opus 5
I wonder why FrontierCodev1.1's data lists Opus 5 as better than Fable 5.
kossae··on Coding with LLMs in the summer of 2025 – an update
The point on investment is apt. Even if they achieve twice as much as they’re able to today (some doubts amongst experts here), when the VC funding dries up we’ve seen what happens. It’s time to pay the piper. The prices rise to Enterprise-plan amounts, and companies start making much more real ROI decisions on these tools past the hype bubble. Will be interesting to see how that angle plays out. I’m no denier nor booster, but in the capitalist society these things inevitably balance out.
kossae··on The Grug Brained Developer (2022)
I still don't understand how, with a properly configured debugger, manually typing print statements is better than clicking a breakpoint at the spot you were going to print. Context overload might be an issue, but just add a 'watch' to the things you care about and focus there.
kossae··on Is there a half-life for the success rates of AI agents?
This is my experience as well, and for now comes down to a workflow optimization. As I feel the LLM getting off track, I start a brand new session with useful previous context pasted in from my previous session. This seems to help steer it back to a decent solution, but agreed it would be nice if this was more automated based off of user/automated feedback (broken unit test, "this doesn't work", etc.)
kossae··on Glamorous Toolkit
Yeah I made a decent effort to dig in, as it seemed interesting, but I still have no idea what this is.
kossae··on Extracting DNA from the air – DNA evidence of human occupancy in indoor premises
Why not both?
kossae··on Extracting DNA from the air – DNA evidence of human occupancy in indoor premises
There are 10s if not 100s of articles on it, and even a paper written about it: https://as.nyu.edu/content/dam/nyu-as/politics/documents/The.... One does not have to be in China or observe it personally to know of its existence.
kossae··on Trying to Recreate iOS on the Web
Accelerometer data from the phone in order to determine the position for the parallax effect.
kossae··on Why is it so hard to find a job now? Enter Ghost Jobs
On the hiring side of this, we receive a _ton_ of resumes that have no experience in the technologies we're hiring for. Each day there are 5-10 automated resume submissions to our job portal for a single position, and we're a fairly small company. Perhaps hiring managers are both being (more) selective and becoming overloaded with the amount of AI/recruiter-sanitized resumes coming in as well.
kossae··on When muscles work out, they help neurons to grow, a new study shows
Probably not the best delivery, but perhaps use of anabolic steroids in bodybuilding could have a counteracting detrimental effect to the brain (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000632231...).
kossae··on ScreenPlay Is an Open Source Live-Wallpaper App for Windows and OS X
Sort of a related question: How many of you actually see your desktop on a daily basis? I feel like even with 3 monitors I have either tiled windows, or full-screen windows taking up the entire desktop. I oftentimes even forget what my wallpaper is.
kossae··on Pornhub Blocked in Texas
I assume this would be more complex than that. Logging (storing personal data), ad revenue from viewers in TX, etc could easily make this a much larger task than the revenue is worth. Even if those were done, you’re then serving content to an entire state completely for free, which makes no business sense.
kossae··on Transforming Postgres into a Fast OLAP Database
I’m actually in the same boat right now (primary DB -> Clickhouse). We’re currently trialing Airbyte but it appears they’re removing normalization support for Clickhouse this year. Did you land on a custom solution, or some other ETL/ELT tool?
kossae··on Why Postgres RDS didn't work for us
Lol I get what you’re saying but it’s funny your description is essentially “storage that is networked”.
kossae··on Google podcasts is shutting down
Seconding Fastmail here. Everything just works for a reasonable price.
kossae··on Docker Compose best practices for dev and prod
To mitigate this, I usually always require a .env file for docker-compose containing directories with at minimum a `COMPOSE_PROJECT_NAME` envvar to prevent these naming issues. As long as the env file travels with the directory there are no issues.
kossae··on Spotify Platform Rules
It appears that this is new: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.spotify.com/us/pla...
kossae··on Spotify is killing the open podcast ecosystem (2020)
I use Overcast (https://overcast.fm/) which I believe has a one-time purchase fee to remove ads. It also has pretty nice features such as audio boost and silence trimming.
kossae··on FTC Sues Facebook for Illegal Monopolization
I think the FTC will deal with that as it comes. Including that in this case would be speculating the future of the Oculus business.
kossae··on Flash Animations Live Forever at the Internet Archive
That would be awesome! Thanks for the heads up. My username at gmail if you get a chance to send it. Thanks again!
kossae··on Flash Animations Live Forever at the Internet Archive
I wish there was a way to get 2Advanced SWFs from somewhere.. Those sites were IMO the ultimate displays of what Flash could do visually.
kossae··on One in five Covid-19 patients develop mental illness within 90 days – study
Not sure about the original poster specifically, but when I had a herniated disk the two movements that helped the most (and I still perform along with others to this day) were:

- Prone Press Up (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sws_GwrlYO0): Relieves tension in lower back, pressing discs back towards their natural position.

- Banded Hamstring Stretches (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msxQR56U7sI): You can use a belt for this if you don't have the bands, but properly and consistently stretching my hamstrings was the biggest thing I did to relieve (and 'cure') my back pain after the herniation.

kossae··on No More Google
I can highly recommend FastMail. This is the exact scenario I was in, and it has performed far better than Gmail in almost every aspect.
kossae··on What can a pipe wrench teach us about software engineering?
You'll find the spec here: http://www.everyspec.com/MIL-SPECS/MIL+SPECS+(MIL-C)/downloa...
kossae··on Bandlab: Cloud-Based Social Music Creation Platform
I've been making music for close to 20 years now, and haven't retained a single piece of 'proper music theory', including names of the chords or notes I play. I've been in countless bands across genres, released albums with multiple artists as a producer, and have placed with major record label artists. Every time I try to 'study music' I feel boxed in creatively, and not knowing these concepts has not once hindered my ability to play music collaboratively or create it independently. What exactly can I not accomplish by not knowing a scale, again?
kossae··on Home Studio Setup Costs Compared – 1980s And Now
Haha yeah I'd say going to a eurorack setup really puts all of those possibilities right in front of your face instead of hidden behind menus! I've always been interested in those modules.. they look so fun!
kossae··on Isoflow – Infrastructure Diagrams
Can’t you run draw.io locally, though?
kossae··on Otto: Friendly Machine Learning Assistant
Nope. That Otto (https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Otto_(company)) was in the self-driving space. This Otto appears to be in the NLP/ML space.
kossae··on GraphQL Query Generator
If you have more than one developer working on different features, it’s inevitable they’re going to need different data. Unless you have a tight feedback loop between frontend and backend devs, you’re going to end up with pending unresolved issues requesting they add another field to be returned on a specific, custom “rest-like” endpoint. If you instead put the onus on the frontend to allow arbitrary field requests (of course within limits, typed and auth’d), this is no longer an issue. Of course the api has to have a schema defined, so there could be a request for a new field to be added there. But if all your endpoint returns is what we need NOW, then you will inevitably have to add more data to the endpoints later with new features. This isn’t of course the only benefit of GraphQL, but it’s certainly a nice convenience for those having to make those requests.
kossae··on GraphQL Query Generator
The idea is that you can select the exact data fields you need for your UI. In a traditional REST-like response, say for a User model, you may receive all data (within authorization limits) about the user in the response when all you needed was the first_name field. With GraphQL you would just receive first_name without the rest of the unneeded fields, thus reducing the amount of data sent.
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