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Comment · 7 months ago
Both Sonnet and Opus 4.6 under GHCP support a 1M context window.
Comment · 7 months ago
`\rg foo` or `command rg foo`
Comment · 9 months ago
I welcome this "scriptability" improvement. I often have to do some bulk updates across a few dozen files and while I can whip up python or sed - I'd rest assured there's a more stable interface. but more importantly it opens doors to integrations with applescript and claude and whatnot
Comment · 9 months ago
Comment · 11 months ago
I spent 10 years in perl and created a lot in it - it taught me a lot about code as a culture,importance of tests, TIMTOWTDI, etc. I think I owe a lot to it.

I found myself defending it more and more online against the folks who were nay sayers - those who complained about its syntax and it's quirks - but that wasn't a problem for unixers who used sed/awk/vim and all the other arcane tools. Perl wawa means to and end and it was the best tool to reach for (the glorious Swiss army knife).

I guess there was an infection period - the brain drain to python and Ruby meant it was harder to find decent quality libs on CPAN anymore as folks would only do things in python. And Yea, while CPAN is still rich, it's not the first hit on Google anymore.

Today, the map-sort-map Schwarzian transform is still the easiest to do in perl than any other language and it helps me whip up the throwaway scripts quick. Wouldn't change the language - I really love it!

Comment · 11 months ago
I'm having a grokking problem with the grammar of this question.

Hey claude, help parse .. Ohh wait.. claude says I've spent up all my weekly credits (twat!).

Gemini.. Hey.. Go to school on this one...

"Do you know how much the world outside a small group of people hates* AI?"

Comment · 1 year ago
Maybe cmd.exe launch into "your terminal" - styled with starship or whatever, your shell aliases but taking the user into your (code?) projects' directories that they can have a nosey around with (mirroring github repos?)
Comment · 1 year ago
Umm, the front-loaded 8k hours might not have much return if you were sedantary in the later decades (arguably the years where exercise helps stave off metabolic disease) as much as sustained levels of exercise all through life.

I mean, we all know of the university budding sports star types who probably invested in many hours training and trying to break into their sport professionally but not quite cutting it - and then "retiring into mediocrity" with the regular 9-5,2 hour commute, 3 kids and the diet to match. They exercise no differently to the regular Joe and suffer all the maladies the same.

Comment · 1 year ago
If you don't do this duration regularly enough - you're likely not fit enough to last the effects out and sure, anyone would feel tired or sleepy.

It takes a certain adaptation to reach this level of fitness - and it should be no guess how you get there.

Comment · 1 year ago
I like the idea but I live in Europe and that and some skill issues couldn't get a route planned.

It would be nice if the route start and end selections could be from points ona map (for the outdoorsy types like me) as the text fields find nothing for me.

The landmark and node Explorer modes didn't show any results.

Comment · 1 year ago
Nice! We'll link to this for our internal consultancy work.

It'd be nice to show the other dimension of the git branching strategies to apply. Github flow/feature-branches vs per-env branches of main vs git flow. How and when to apply changes in different environments - before vs after PRs, etc.

Comment · 3 years ago
Actually the `gh clone` wraps up all the complexity with enterprise authn/authz, Tokens/PATs, multi-org SSO/MFA, etc really well. This alone is the reason I use gh.
Comment · 4 years ago
> Women choose to have sex consensually, no? Consent to sex doesn't imply consent to pregnancy (or even the consent to carry to term after) - it just doesn't follow, even with the risks of pregnancy.
Comment · 4 years ago
Documentation-as-an-artefact of the continuous delivery process - every feature is feature-complete only when counterpart documentation is generated and integrated/built as part of the pull-request procese.

I.E. A code/solution review must also consider the documentation alongside the feature or solution.

This implies that the documentation is (held beside) source code too and can be diffed/compared e.g. Markdown for text, mermaid/graphviz for diagrams and that this can be built, rendered or published easily/readily (Hugo, zola, etc)

Comment · 4 years ago
- MTB biking / Ultra-Endurance Road cycling - Running / Hiking in the mountains (actually climbing for the views) - Being creative (programming, sculpting, carving, painting, drawing)

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