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Comment · 7 months ago
Thank you for writing this up (and getting it put into a video). I sent this blog post to my parents and my mum has decided to forward it on to all of her friends after watching.

Seems easily digestible and approachable for a specific target audience.

Comment · 7 months ago
No, they're lactose intollerant - or do you mean kittens?
Comment · 9 months ago
Pretty much anything computer graphics related seems to follow the sage advice that "a close approximation is better than an accurate simulation", if that's the kind of thing you're looking for?
Comment · 9 months ago
https://ardent.pet/

My Family recently (in the last couple of years) started to breed Ragdoll cats in the U.K.

In an attempt to support what's involved in this I built Ardent for them. It covers a bunch of the day-to-day concerns (weighing and health tracking), Lineage and Inbreeding prevention, and Owner Pack generation for handovers to new Owners.

Comment · 10 months ago
LazyVim is about as easy as it gets in the Vim space for a fully-fledged (but customizable) editor.

https://www.lazyvim.org/installation

Then run `LazyExtras` and you get a prompt that shows things like:

  Recommended Languages: (2)
    ○ lang.docker    mason.nvim  nvim-lspconfig  nvim-treesitter  none-ls.nvim  nvim-lint
    ○ lang.toml    nvim-lspconfig
Hit x against a couple and you're off to the races.

[lang.docker and lang.toml are examples of things you're selecting, the list after is what is being installed and configured for that thing]

For things like integrating a debugger, or to run your tests directly inline from the editor might require more customisation though.

Comment · 10 months ago
Do you just mean external vs internal processing/thinking?
Comment · 10 months ago
https://ardent.pet/

I doubt it'll be of interest to folks here - but my Family recently (in the last couple of years) started to breed ragdoll cats in the U.K.

This has been my personal project to understand where I personally find LLMs useful as coding assistants, and where I don't. One easy to spot example is, front-end + copy. Another area I've enjoyed it is talking through how I'd design and build functionality and features ahead of time.

It's been very interesting, and is helpful to folks I care about, even if no-one else ends up using it!

Comment · 11 months ago
Why do companies lie about their uptime?

I'm not trying to call out Sentry.io specifically here, I'm just using them as the example because it happened today. In fact, in general I'm a happy customer of theirs.

I'm trying to understand the motivations behind companies that aren't open about their uptime (or other issues, such as data breaches etc).

Why is it not encouraged/rewarded (or perceived as such) to be up front and open about these things? It seems that amongst the HN crowd it has been valued, and folks are appreciative and supportive of these things (vocally and with their wallets) - so why is it not more common practice?

Comment · 11 months ago
I clicked the image thinking I was seeing the message you were getting (geoblocked in the UK), then realised I'd clicked an imgur link :facepalm:

(Note: Zero negative sentiment towards imgur here)

Comment · 1 year ago
I think even if the AI response at the top of the search result is good, I question what it means for the "open web".

If all your content is consumed and presented via a third party - how does that change the nature of "content publishing".

It's the summarisation of Wikipedia and the like on steroids.

Comment · 1 year ago
Which are those 7 companies?
Comment · 1 year ago
Setting it to 1, 7, 100 looks like a ticker tape of constellations (like Stargate Chevrons) :D
Comment · 1 year ago
I think for myself, regardless of what the downsides are - the likely alternative was death, which is still an option.
Comment · 1 year ago
Apologies if I was unclear.

The more I've used it, the more I've disliked how poor the results it's produced, and the more I've realised I would have been better served by doing it myself and following a methodical path for things that I didn't have experience with.

It's easier to step through a problem as I'm learning and making small changes than an LLM going "It's done, and production ready!" where it just straight up doesn't work for 101 different tiny reasons.

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