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phist_mcgee··on Nanobrew: The fastest macOS package manager compatible with brew
>Install zerobrew via brew as per the official instructions.

>Immediately get an error saying the install path is too long and needs to be fixed as /opt/zerobrew/prefix is too many bytes.

Yeah gonna need some work.

phist_mcgee··on Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains
Sure mate. And the guy who can do binary sums in his head would think of assembly as mere childsplay.

Jog on.

phist_mcgee··on OpenClaw is a security nightmare dressed up as a daydream
>The real wins come down the line when you're tackling some business / personal life problem and go: "wait a second, an OpenClaw agent would be perfect for this!"

Such as?

phist_mcgee··on Anthropic takes legal action against OpenCode
>I seriously get the feeling that Anthropic doesn't just not care about their users

AI companies would have to be one of the worst for actually caring about their user's health and wellbeing.

phist_mcgee··on OpenAI Has New Focus (on the IPO)
Don't worry, claude will follow soon enough. It's not like anthropic faces different financial pressures than openai.
phist_mcgee··on OpenAI Has New Focus (on the IPO)
How much do you think that's costing?
phist_mcgee··on Bus travel from Lima to Rio de Janeiro
I was under the impression that it's different in south america, it can be savoury sometimes?
phist_mcgee··on 1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6
Anthropic is famous for changing things under your feet. Claude code is basically alpha software with a global footprint.
phist_mcgee··on I built a demo of what AI chat will look like when it's “free” and ad-supported
WHOOOOOSH
phist_mcgee··on OpenAI raises $110B on $730B pre-money valuation
Jensen Huang? He put GPUs on the internet!
phist_mcgee··on OpenAI raises $110B on $730B pre-money valuation
Does anyone see the demand for coding agents that aren't subsided 90% by the AI company?
phist_mcgee··on Why is Claude an Electron app?
What kind of project lead is going to answer for their CEO?
phist_mcgee··on An Update on Heroku
Damage control to limit the rush for the exits?
phist_mcgee··on I miss thinking hard
That's not very nice. Be nice.
phist_mcgee··on Claude Code daily benchmarks for degradation tracking
Then you'd get people claiming that the benchmarks were 'paid for' by anthropic
phist_mcgee··on Claude Chill: Fix Claude Code's flickering in terminal
Oh my god who cares?
phist_mcgee··on Gas Town Decoded
I think this says a lot about yourself and where your prejudices and preferences lie.
phist_mcgee··on I was a top 0.01% Cursor user, then switched to Claude Code 2.0
Great rule of business: sell a solution that causes more problems, requiring the purchase of more solutions.
phist_mcgee··on OpenAI to test ads in ChatGPT as it burns through billions
Brawno, it's got what plants crave.
phist_mcgee··on Ask HN: Claude Opus performance affected by time of day?
I'd say they're about as good as the average billion dollar American tech company when it comes to ethics.
phist_mcgee··on AWS CEO says replacing junior devs with AI is 'one of the dumbest ideas'
>Just curious, are you mostly FE

Gatekeeping?

Why couldn't a backend team have all tasks be junior compatible, if uncoupled from deadlines and time constraints?

phist_mcgee··on Anthony Bourdain's Lost Li.st's
I've never ordered it, it always looks so incredibly bland, am I missing something here?
phist_mcgee··on What Did Medieval Peasants Know? (2022)
Although a westerner transplated back 1000 years would be utterly shocked by the level of disease, childhood death, and complete lack of modern medical care or basic germ theory.
phist_mcgee··on Mesh: I tried Htmx, then ditched it
> Zillions of quirks

A bit hyperbolic, if you use a modern linter like biome or eslint it can warn you of the few that may cause issues.

phist_mcgee··on React is winning by default and slowing innovation
I wish hacker news had better support for collapsing threads, it's pretty barebones. Something like what old reddit does would be great.
phist_mcgee··on React is winning by default and slowing innovation
100% agree.

Our react/react-native monorepo has been a pleasure to work with and has massively reduced the overhead for development with a limited number of staff.

phist_mcgee··on Repetitive negative thinking associated with cognitive decline in older adults
Take a look at stoicism. Not the pop modern version but the ancient roman and greek traditions of Seneca, Epictitus, and Marcus Aurelius.

Essentially letting go of controlling our lives in ways that cause suffering. Accepting that bad things can and do happen. Realising that life is temporary and we should focus ourselves on things in our power that make us a person of better character. Everything else is out of our control and should be accepted without judgement.

It's brought a lot of comfort to me over the years.

phist_mcgee··on Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed
I wish it natively supported vimrc, I dislike having to rewrite all my bindings in zed format.
phist_mcgee··on Universal Tool Calling Protocol (UTCP)
Wow, must be amazing to be the first omniscient human being!
phist_mcgee··on Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context
What a supremely arrogant comment.
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