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Comment · 7 months ago
To be fair, I would totally be willing and probably would do this, just to try to prove that I could, even just to myself. At least until the audience got bored and walked away after the 37th “open bracket”…
Comment · 7 months ago
Except every sysadmin and security engineer ever
Comment · 8 months ago
Logs (and in this case, Verbose Mode) aren't for knowing what a thing is currently doing as its doing it, it's for finding out what happened when the thing didn't do what you expected or wanted.
Comment · 8 months ago
Humans don't look at these anymore, Claude itself does. They've even said so.
Comment · 10 months ago
> Is it possible to bore for my own water supply, install solar+inverter/battery backup for electricity, get a medical degree to treat my own wounds? Sure but most would say it’s not reasonable.

I’m feeling attacked. Here I was thinking my lifelong work of self sufficiency for my family was completely reasonable until you came along. Thanks a lot!

Comment · 11 months ago
No IPv6 support? Still? That’s the real problem if so.
Comment · 1 year ago
The talk was obviously extremely time-limited, as demonstrated when they basically skipped the last handful of slides and then it abruptly ended. I think for the time allocated, it was just right, and they did include a couple of examples where it made sense.
Comment · 1 year ago
For desktop, server, web, mobile, etc. This holds true. Not so much for embedded systems, anything with unnatractive memory capacity or processor performance. Rust is starting to make it's way in, but C and even assembly is still king AFAIK.
Comment · 2 years ago
If anyone has any guides or blogs related to migrating away from Chrome for a multi-decade user (thousands of bookmarks, saved pages/read later, etc.) I would sure be interested.

Every time I try to migrate my very large bookmark collection to another browser, it either misbehaves and partially loses some data or fails completely.

Comment · 2 years ago
https://maps.app.goo.gl/LS4xWeuewBqwUNuN9?g_st=com.google.ma...

That waterway is flowing directly into the ocean, and upstream from a fishing village.

Comment · 2 years ago
"Tech CEO declares major breakthrough is within reach, less than a handful of a billion seconds..."
Comment · 2 years ago
> want Docker containers running locally, know that that's what they want, and know how it all works, but then don't want to do the small handful of commands at the prompt needed to get it running

Consider the case of a team of people collaborating on a software stack - the prototypical use case includes Docker Compose at the simplest and a full K8s stack at the extreme. There is quite often a minimum of 3 containers here; frontend, API/Backend and a database server. If you start to add observability tools, async/batch/event execution, caching, automated integration testing, etc, the number of "layers" in the stack grows quickly. In addition, each component may have unique per-environment or even per-user customizations.

Often one ore two people will manage the stack itself and provide instructions on how to get the whole thing working for others using a specific defined selection of easy to use tools that essentially offer minimal prerequisite knowledge to use

"Install X, run Y, get to work."

It saves a lot of time for the intern on the UI team who just wants to add a component to one page and test it locally and not also have to learn how to deploy the entire stack from scratch.

Comment · 2 years ago
> "...you are better off making your own models to do this"

I'm doubtful you meant what you wrote here. Using a readymade UI or API to perform an effectively magical task (for most of us) is an entirely different paradigm to "just train your own model."

In reality, for us non-ML model training mortals, we're actually probably better off hiring a human to do basic data entry.

Comment · 2 years ago
As in "Open your wallet"
Comment · 2 years ago
I never understand why people do this. This is a great way to lose your prospective leads to cat videos.

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