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dimitrios1

2,169 karmajoined vor 6 Jahren
Indie Maker. Internet Historian.

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dimitrios1
·gestern·discuss
I have both as well. I trust the output of Claude to a higher degree than what I get with Codex. I always have claude review codex output. That being said, I find gpt 5.5 more generically useful at a wider breadth of tasks. Straight coding though, it's no contest.

Obligatory YMMV, maybe your prompting style fits gpt better. We forget that this matters a lot
dimitrios1
·vorgestern·discuss
I was excited for a second, because this is one piece of the puzzle (chords), then numerals solve melodies (you can just type something like 0-1 for open string first string, etc), then just need something for ornamentation. Seems like it only matches against a known set of chords, though.
dimitrios1
·vor 4 Tagen·discuss
I am glad! But you are indeed selling your own product here, correct?
dimitrios1
·vor 4 Tagen·discuss
This reads like a paid testimonial.
dimitrios1
·vor 9 Tagen·discuss
Don't be so negative nancy here!

I have been doing "modern web" things since essentially day zero (you kids with your fancy JIT compiled javascript interpreters!)

SvelteKit, and by extension, Vite, has been the single most productive webstack I have ever used. If this offers anything on top of that, I welcome it with open arms.

Far from being a meme!
dimitrios1
·vor 9 Tagen·discuss
My focus area in college was Computer Graphics. There is not enough focus about the math in this article, it just kind of passively mentions it. "Well you can get by with just a little bit of this and that" -- Linear Algebra is huge! So is an Engineering style Calculus course -- not your business calc. Those two require a year of their own to gain mastery. IMO, pick up:

Linear Alegbra Done Right Calculus Better Explained Concrete Mathmetics.

Then you can move on to the low level APIs.
dimitrios1
·vor 10 Tagen·discuss
I am another skilled senior, have been coding since I was 7, although you have a few more years of experience on me, and am commenting here just for the goldilocks moment, as I have read and reflected on both of your comments and find my reality is somewhere in the middle.

On personal projects, where I am in charge of all the hats (product development, UI, UX, backend, security, server admin, etc) -- absolutely crazy force multiplier. You get a nice suite of backend and e2e tests running, with full business scenario layered on top of that, and constantly running agents to do the coding, another agent on a higher level of reasoning to review that work, and sometimes occasionally poping into another competitors model to review their work just for added comfort -- it feels like wizardry. I am not vibing it, but I wouldn't say I am carefully scrolling through every line. I review whats fundamentally important, especially when it comes to data, overall structure, and large, cross cutting concerns, but I would be lying if I say some code doesn't land that I don't read. But I have the security of the test suites and validations , so I pour more effort into that.

It's a nice self reinforceing loop.

All of this might sound like I agree with you, and to some extent I do, but I am realizing as the apps I have built out like a cannon shot out of hell with tremendous speed and polish right out of the gate are starting to slow down. Feature adds are getting more complex. My memory is not what it used to be. Each run and pass through the code consumes more of my tokens and limits. I am starting to do less in the same amount of time. Codex did a vertical slice of a feature for me (well defined and well planned). It contained functionality that has historically plagued us developers -- the dreaded time. I used xHigh GPT 5.5. It had obvious bugs, but I wanted the robots to catch it. I popped it in claude (on the new sonnet 5! heyo!) -- Claude caught the bugs. Even said they "immediately stood out" I wondered how this happened. Frontier model from company A was evaluated by workhorse model from company B. All of this again took massive amounts of usage. And time.

And this is -- best case scenario, perfect world, everything is in perfect alignment.

Now for the work reality.

Multiple product and experience owners. Multiple dev teams. Different enterprise teams support services you rely on. You don't have full unfettered access to frontier models. You have to use copilot, or some other enterprise harness, and you run out of credits for the month, you are SOL. It's not as good as your claude, you think to yourself, but hey, its familiar enough, and you have 5k credits left for the month for Opus 4.8, better make the best of it. But now you burned half of them working on that Transactional Bug that was mixing synchronous and asynchronous semantics that the other guy's model should have picked up on. What happened? Maybe he didn't use Opus, maybe he used Haiku, maybe his prompt was bad. Who knows. Gotta fix it. Oh, you gotta reach across the isle and put in a request to get the Enterprise team to look at this caching inconsistency on user data that you need and is really the source of your race conditions. Tick tick tick. Model limits approaching. You start wondering if you just did all this by hand like "in the old days" would you have got it done correctly faster? Or at least, cheaper. You'll never know.
dimitrios1
·vor 11 Tagen·discuss
Yes.

I quoted something from deep in the article.

Did you read my entire comment, and assume the least bit of positive intent?

I acknowledged the main points the article brought up. I highlighted a glaring discrepancy, from my point of view.

When police act unjustly, hastily, or rash, in my country, it gets at least equal weight (typically more). We don't just focus entirely on the person or party who triggered the reaction.

Anyways, the reason I commented anything at all was, as someone who values true unbiased and objective journalism, something we need now more than ever, this is clearly falling short of their stated goals -- from their editorial policy:

"Doing journalism means taking responsibility for the public. We are aware of our biases and strive not for artificial objectivity but fairness."

Seems like a complete lack of awareness of the strong Anti-american bias, and a lack of taking responsibility for the Belgian public.
dimitrios1
·vor 11 Tagen·discuss
"Belgian police willingly comply with U.S. ambassador's request, and Belgian police stopped your reporting"

FTFY

> a foreign ambassador had Belgian police remove us

Belgian police removed us.

FTFY again.

The article is making a good point, especially the hilarious irony of all the private companies, and US being complicit in limiting press freedom. But it also fails to recognize the agency and complicitness of the Belgian authorities as well, and makes them out to be some sort of innocent bystandards -- "Oh look those poor Belgians being bullied by the big bad US!" If they didn't want to remove you, they simply could have not.
dimitrios1
·vor 11 Tagen·discuss
I tried to run it on a M4 Air for shits and giggles.

After about 1 minute the entire machine basically bricked and I had to hard reset :D
dimitrios1
·vor 14 Tagen·discuss
I imagine your work machine, just like mine and everyone I've ever had, has application level limits to how much resources it can consume, spotify picks up on the limits, and adjusts accordingly?

As to what its doing with all those extra resources on your linux box... shrug maybe using your laptop to train its models or mine crypto?
dimitrios1
·vor 15 Tagen·discuss
"Hey Opus, migrate this site from jekyll to astro" doesn't work?
dimitrios1
·vor 17 Tagen·discuss
More than 50% of sets are now UB, and UB has been standard legal since ~mid 2025.

There's quite a few new cEDH staples from UB sets as well.
dimitrios1
·vor 17 Tagen·discuss
my favorite cEDH commander of recent memory is Aang at the Crossroads. Cast your commander, and roll the dice to see if you find the win.
dimitrios1
·vor 17 Tagen·discuss
and I would imagine close to 100% of the US 3d printing nerds that live there have the means to easily move to another state and continue their 3d printing nerdom.

There is a reason why California is leading the nation in migration out of the state.
dimitrios1
·vor 19 Tagen·discuss
The question I find myself asking very often these days: Is this better than asking claude to do the same things the plugin/repo does?
dimitrios1
·vor 24 Tagen·discuss
Not to be a contrarian, because I agree for a lot of the industry, but there are some genuine gems out there. Few examples:

Extreme Ownership really helped me be a better leader and take more accountability for my own actions

Atomic Habits really helped me think about goal setting and what the underlying driver was

Coaching Habit improved my 1:1s drastically (I basically stopped talking or advice giving and just listened -- profound, I know, but the book helped smack me in the face with it)

Many more examples, but there is definitely a ton of self-help hack slop out there as well.
dimitrios1
·letzten Monat·discuss
I am against it for one reason only, but it's very solvable, IMO, and it's the amount of space they take up.

I live next to 200+ acres of solar farms. A part of me cries a little when I see so much beautiful land and trees cut down and these lifeless panels taking up so much space. We have so many buildings, and structures already (think parking decks, tops of apartments, homes, offices, even parking lots) that we could put these, but instead we cut down acres of trees or use up perfectly usable farmland.
dimitrios1
·vor 2 Monaten·discuss
I always viewed unions as a temporary solution to a long term problem. Fundamentally, its simply a unit or type of organization. But for some reason here in the west they have become this entrenched institution in of itself, presumably because it tasted a modicum of power, that power had real influence over people, and wherever there is an institution that exerts power over people, it becomes prime targets for demonic and corrupting influence.

You had guilds in the middle ages, and that worked well to serve the primarily agrarian feudal society. Unions worked well in a rapidly industrializing country with little to no enshrined worker protections or rights. We saw measured, direct, positive change. But the last 30 years or so, I can't really say the same has happened. In fact, some of the most unionized sectors have seen the most degradation. Blame who you will (I've heard it all in this point), but the main take away is its not working. Maybe its time for a new structure for this modern, post industrial society.
dimitrios1
·vor 2 Monaten·discuss
No other country relies on road travel to the extent of America, so I am not sure there is a good comparison to make.