rootlocus

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Comment · 11 days ago
How do I turn off the music?
Comment · 11 days ago
It's not completely different. Look at other fonts (e.g. comic sans) to see what "completely" means. Norwand is a little wider and the middle line is shorter. 28% seems a fairly accurate measurement. It's almost one third different for just the middle descender.
Comment · 11 days ago
Comment · 17 days ago
This isn't about coding. I've been yapping about architecture and design for a decade and I'm seeing LLMs produce significantly cleaner architecture than most developers I've worked with.

This, I think, is great product design. More than babysitting the code, it's about hammering the experience until it's as useful, ergonomic and delightful as possible for the user.

Comment · 17 days ago
Very much looking forward to it, the app is awesome!
Comment · 19 days ago
And this on top of the economic apocalypse of removing a lot of jobs and not creating any new ones within a society that doesn't seem to function without money flowing.
Comment · 22 days ago
Comment · 23 days ago
Society is not "modern society". Humans have always lived in tribes and there are significant advantage to working together. Even off-grid it's much more comfortable, and more can be achieved by living in a community rather than isolated.
Comment · 1 month ago
Why just one each day then? Why not a shared knowledge base? Do you start with a "bag of tricks" and then hand them out one by one each day to remind people you're the guy with the bag of tricks?

"Oh, yeah, I know a cool trick, but y'all have to wait until tomorrow to find out what it is."

"Look! It's a way to evaluate SQL expressions with a select with a from! Oh, you already knew about it?"

I have nothing against sharing knowledge, especially when seeing someone else do something that can be done better. But just leaving daily breadcrumbs to remind people you're the guy that teaches random trivia feels like attention seeking.

Comment · 1 month ago
Ctrl + R is great, you don't have to type out --dangerously-skip-permissions
Comment · 1 month ago
I am 100% guitly of anthropomorphizing LLMs, sorry.
Comment · 1 month ago
The most WTF comments are the ones that describe how the code looked during a rewrite session with no commits. It writes bad code, I ask it to rewrite it, and it leaves a comment saying why the previous implementation was bad, with no history in git of the previous implementation.

Edit: changed the LLMs pronoun to it.

Comment · 1 month ago
Simple is better than complex Complex is better than complicated

Or something, I don't remember...

Comment · 1 month ago
They're asking about a reaction. "What did I say wrong?" is a valid question IMO, even if wrong is subjective, it's part of the question.

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