silversmith

Where contributors are the audience, yes. For things like libraries, I care about those things only if I run into a bug, and have enough resources to attempt a fix.

It would. And some projects will manage to stay within the bounds of what AI tools can do, and require precisely no programmers.

Who knows, maybe couple years down the line the bounds expand, and "some" transforms into "many", maybe even "most" way, way later.

I had an epiphany about this couple days ago.

You know how the average dev will roll their eyes at taking over a maintenance of a "legacy" project. Where "legacy" means anything not written by themselves. Well, there will be a lot more of these maintenance takeovers soon. But instead of taking over the product of another dev agency that got fired / bankrupt / ..., you will take over projects from your marketing department. Apps implemented by the designers. Projects "kickstarted" by the project manager. Codebases at the point antropic / google / openai / ... tool became untenable. Most likely labelled as "just needs a little bit more work".

These LLM tools are amazing for prototypes. Amazing. I could not be anywhere near as productive for churning out prototypes as claude code is, even if I really tried. And these prototypes are great tools for arriving at the true (or at least slightly better) requirements.

Prototypes should get burned when "real" development starts. But they usually are not. And we're going to do much, much more prototyping in very near future.

Lymphatic system is actuated by your movement. Sure, it will work with just the little movements that your body does to keep in one piece, but for full performance so to speak you need to move around.

I'm passively interested in small, local LLM OCR, due to couple ideas kicking around between my ears. Tried some a while ago, but most of my recent knowledge is second-hand. Waiting for someone to exclaim "hey this works now!" before committing more time :)

With the big commercial offerings like chatgpt I'd fully expect them to work fine, due to the absolutely massive horsepower in use.

I'm curious, how does it do with non-english texts? It's my understanding that LLM-based OCR solutions fall way behind traditional ones once you introduce other languages.

Isn't that what "direct feedback" means?

I firmly believe you should be able to hit your fingers with a hammer, and in the process learn whether that's a good idea or not :)

Aranet runs on e-ink, with silly low energy refresh rate. The two (or was it one? ages since I last checked) AA batteries last me well over two years.

As for vendor lock-in, the basic readings get broadcast over bluetooth advertisments, and you can establish connection to get all the data. I have couple of them working nicely with HomeAssistant.

The cost, yeah, I'd love it to be cheaper.

I use Aranet devices myself - https://www.aranet.com/en/home/products/aranet4-home

What you could take from them is how prominent the current measurement is on the screen. I can glance over from a distance and instantly see the number. The colours get inverted if it goes into the red zone, so I can glance at it from across the room without my glasses and still see whether it's bad or not.

From what the simulator shows, with your device I'd need to lean in pretty close to understand what's going on. And blinking light indicators are tricky - you can easily catch it between blinks and look away content that everything's alright.

I have the good fortune of working in an office, with easy access to never-ending physical labour options courtesy of relatives living in the countryside.

Every now and then the issues of IT projects make me say "screw it all, I'm going to be a lumberjack". And then I go work the chainsaw for a weekend, and come back thankful for the office chair in a climate controlled room.

Working with your hands is great meditation in small doses, but brutal when you need to do it enough to make a living.

I'll share the one I contribute to - https://stopify.org.ua/

I like the subscription concept here - monthly donations, set to stop the moment Ukraine wins. Because they need our help continuously, not just after a particularly bloody episode makes the news.

It's ran by ziedot.lv - the organisation that handles most of charitable donations in Latvia.

While the monetary overhead of an office is a fact, that couch also built their show. The in-person dynamics of both the podcast and their other shows were a class above the remote-only version that was forced by the east/west split, and later COVID. I miss that couch.

But is "I asked chatgpt" assigning any authority to it? I use precisely that sentence as a shorthand for "I didn't know, looked it up in the most convenient way, and it sounded plausible enough to pass on".

I often do this - ask a LLM for an answer when I already have it from an expert. I do it to evaluate the ability of the LLM. Usually not in the presence of said expert tho.

I owe my developer career to my mother giving me her old laptop sometime in late 90s. With the condition that if I break it, I fix it. Helped me through the process of installing Windows 3.11 for the first time, and then I was largely on my own.

I was in second or third grade, I think. Highlights include figuring out that if you prevented most of the drivers from loading, it was just possible to run Doom with 4MB of RAM. And installing Windows 95 from a shopping bag full of floppy discs (literally, a bag), and deciding that while it was cool to have running, the resulting 4 or 5 MB of free disk space was not conducive to proper computing.

If there is a procedure in place, you follow the procedure. You can argue how the procedure is ass backwards, but you don't just ignore the procedure because it's giving you bad vibes.

Especially with PII. Every junior I've mentored, every team member I've been responsible for, every one has gotten (thankfully, mainly preemptive) stern talking to regarding handling PII. Much better to be laughably paranoid for hundred times, than leaking some of the truly radioactive data once.

"Their own" in the same way as people of India were English.

This reminds me of the twitter conversation I saw - someone cheering on the dismantling of US meteorological service, because they have weather apps on their phone.

Based on what's being commented here - some absolutely will. And sitting on the eastern border of EU, that truly scares me.

According to the Economist series linked above, the industry has switched from scamming the chinese, to bigger targets in west. Taken a proven business model to new markets, so to speak. It was implied that CCP had a firm guiding hand helping this pivot.

> so subtle as to make it feel like something is wrong

Nailed it. At first, I thought my eyes were going bad. Or the monitor?

If used in California.

Mix in wetter conditions, and salted roads in winter, and you have a recipe for disaster - the components experience all of the weather, but none of the "cleaning" force of actual braking. Anecdotal evidence, every single electric car owner I personally know has complained about brake rust here in Latvia. Even those with small 50km range plug-in hybrids, when used mainly for daily commuting within electrical range.

I update my "smart home" stuff when I have the time to spare. Otherwise, things live their lives isolated form internet, with auto-updates disabled.

Yes, there are exceptions, like non-local-control devices. But fingers crossed, those have not given me much grief yet.

Not sure about color change, but dimming works fine - I have Shelly Dimmer2 modules behind switches, paired with "dumb" dimmable bulbs. Remotely controlled by HA / Adaptive Lighting, while also working with physical switch.

Not necessarily. Most of Rails+React apps I have worked on have had the frontend code live in the same repository, and get deployed during the same step.

Yes, you have to keep API compatibility in mind when doing changes, because long-lived sessions might still exist. But has not been that much of a big deal in my experience.

Have not travelled for a while now, but the relatively tiny travel agency I used to use had a 24/7 support phone line. Did not personally have a need to use it, but a friend did, and the agency indeed handled the situation to his satisfaction.

Moreover, booking international flights through that agency somehow always ended up cheaper than what I could find myself, even when accounting for their fees.

I own a Samsung S24 Ultra, by choice. Would not consider myself a charity case.

I got my first smartphone years and years ago, and it was an android. Then they came out with the iPhone 3GS, and I briefly had that. Didn't like it, traded for an Android. Was ready to experiment back then, even briefly ran Windows Phone flashed on a HTC device. But inertia had its way with me, and I've been sticking with Android ever since. I have all the apps I need. I have my ages-old "weird" workflows set up, like keepass synced through OneDrive. I run an andblocker on firefox. Moving to an iPhone would be just so much pain for no real gain.

If you don't provide an Android app, well, provide me with a burner iPhone if you want me to use your service.

I'm curious, what did you select, and how is the UX? With OneDrive, it looks like any other folder in your windows/mac computer, and the built in gallery of the Samsung phones my family uses will transparently sync to OneDrive. Other apps on Android can also "directly" access OneDrive files, but that sadly needs support from the app. And it all is available for access online via browser.

My main goal is to prevent data loss if a device is ever stolen / fails beyond repair. And being able to tell your non-technical family members to "put important documents within this folder" / "log in here if you need access outside your normal devices" is low enough of a barrier so that they actually do it.

My use case: for 100$/year, I can provide my family and my parents plenty of reliable cloud storage for their documents and pictures. With office suite thrown in as added bonus. I know of no other alternative that would provide equivalent of 6x1TB for such a low price.

So, in other words, get more sunlight?