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rmnclmnt

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rmnclmnt
·ayer·discuss
> People do weird things when given sudden access to money or power.

10 years ago my last boss told me one last advice before going onto entrepreneur ventures: « be careful, people do become crazy and stupid with money » (and I guess he knew what he was talking about…)
rmnclmnt
·hace 15 días·discuss
Same been running Debian 13 Gnome on MBP 2015 13’. Works great, in a triple boot setting using OCLP

For instance visio calls are unusable on Sequoia (OCLP) but rather smooth on Debian
rmnclmnt
·el mes pasado·discuss
Is this using the youtube per-channel RSS feeds?

For people already using RSS feed readers, this is another way to achieve the same result (i do that with miniflux)
rmnclmnt
·el mes pasado·discuss
For the past few months, many times i’ve tried this workflow: 1. Ask a coding agent to think and implement a feature that is non trivial 2. This leads to really understand pros and cons for many possible solutions and see it happen end to end 3. Revert all changes and implement it myself when i’m settled on a solution i’m satisfied with 4. At this point the agent is just an iterative reviewer

I’ve felt that any non trivial amount of code not written myself tends to be hard to own. And like the author said, need to keep skills sharp also
rmnclmnt
·hace 2 meses·discuss
Wow thanks TIL about the « add-bounds » config! Especially useful for project where pinning to exact dependencies is crucial and easily missed by less experienced devs (end products, not libs)
rmnclmnt
·hace 2 meses·discuss
Because a coding agent (when instructed well) will try to make a piece of code work in a loop. Static typing and compilation help in the process (no more undefined variables discovered at runtime for instance). But that’s not bullet proof at all as most of us know
rmnclmnt
·hace 3 meses·discuss
Might be the best visual explainer of Shazam original audio fingerprinting algorithm from the 2003 paper (I guess they´ve switched to ML models at some point?)
rmnclmnt
·hace 3 meses·discuss
Agreed. Not saying there are no ways to ease the process but someone has to put some effort
rmnclmnt
·hace 3 meses·discuss
Agreed. But would mean having to educate people on security, privacy and computing in general… Pretty sure most government like having most people uneducated on such things
rmnclmnt
·hace 3 meses·discuss
> … said the company “does not use algorithmic wage-setting tools to make compensation decisions for our employees or to set new-hire salaries.”

When the HR/CRM/ERP/whatever internal software has the plan to compute these metrics and they display it as metadata next to the people’s names, it’s hard not to curious « just to check ». Maybe it’s not in the company policy but you can never be sure of individuals actions (especially big corps as mentioned in the article)
rmnclmnt
·hace 3 meses·discuss
Loved this book when I was a student! This is for DSP enclined audience with a focus on musical applications. Not very in-depth if you want to develop your own plugins or DAW but still very informative
rmnclmnt
·hace 3 meses·discuss
Isn’t this more of a Raycast issue (apparently an agentic ai service) instead of GH Copilot itself?
rmnclmnt
·hace 4 meses·discuss
Is this still a debate? It all depends on personal goal/wishes and constraints from your working contrxt (e.g company size, country of residence).

Take France with medium to large size companies: ICs (whatever the seniority) are usually paid less and have a hard time evolving so they are naturally encouraged to take on management roles by their hierarchy. In some other contexts, ICs may have more leverage thus not wanting to go the management route and that’s okay.

Anyway, in the next 5 to 10 years this all might change for better or worse so…
rmnclmnt
·hace 4 meses·discuss
Thanks for the heads up! I have been out of this loop for quite a while, glad to see it's still there!

Yes Monome was this initial inspiration then followed by many, but it was way more expensive and niche IIRC
rmnclmnt
·hace 4 meses·discuss
Novation Launchpad used to be exactly that: you send MIDI CC messages with proper values and you can light up the grid (with different colors).

Did that a few years back, i guess this might still be possible
rmnclmnt
·hace 4 meses·discuss
Unrelated to the story but TIL AOL is still a thing in 2026!
rmnclmnt
·hace 5 meses·discuss
And maybe writing an article or a keynote slides is one of the few places we can still exerce some human creativity, especially when the core skills (programming) is almost completely in the hands of LLMs already
rmnclmnt
·hace 5 meses·discuss
And that makes total sense. Honestly working since a few days with Opus 4.6, it really feels like a competent coworker, but need some explicit conventions to follow … exactly when onboarding a new IC! So i think there is a bright light to be seen: this will force having proper and explicit contribution rules and conventions, both for humans and robots
rmnclmnt
·hace 5 meses·discuss
Yesterday while i was adding some nitpicks to a CLAUDE.md/AGENTS.md file, I thought « this file could be renamed CONTRIBUTING.md and be done with it ».

Maybe I’m wrong but sure feels like we might soon drop all of this extra cruft for more rationale practices
rmnclmnt
·hace 5 meses·discuss
Yeah I got that but more often than not now the growl vocal technique is associated with extreme metal genre