Cyphus · HackerTrans

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I think the tech industry in general is taking advantage of the fact that software productivity is hard to quantify to say whatever they want about their AI productivity gains. Apparently we are past the point of having to justify anything and can just equivocate increased AI spend with success.

Cyphus

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> what started as an experiment in productivity became a runaway success

Successfully burning through cash and tokens, alright, but what have they gotten out of it?

Cyphus

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That feature is entirely optional and disabled by default. Atuin stores your shell history locally in a sqlite db regardless of whether you choose to sync it. I thought fzf was fast, but atuin makes it look slow by comparison.

Cyphus

há 5 mesesdiscuss

I wholly agree, the response screams “copied from ChatGPT” to me. “Contributions” like these comments and drive by PRs are a curse on open source and software development in general.

As someone who takes pride in being thorough and detail oriented, I cannot stand when people provide the bare minimum of effort in response. Earlier this week I created a bug report for an internal software project on another team. It was a bizarre behavior, so out of curiosity and a desire to be truly helpful, I spent a couple hours whittling the issue down to a small, reproducible test case. I even had someone on my team run through the reproduction steps to confirm it was reproducible on at least one other environment.

The next day, the PM of the other team responded with a _screenshot of an AI conversation_ saying the issue was on my end for misusing a standard CLI tool. I was offended on so many levels. For one, I wasn’t using the CLI tool in the way it describes, and even if I was it wouldn’t affect the bug. But the bigger problem is that this person thinks a screenshot of an AI conversation is an acceptable response. Is this what talking to semi technical roles is going to be like from now on? I get to argue with an LLM by proxy of another human? Fuck that.

Cyphus

há 8 mesesdiscuss

I 100% agree. It’s not so much the yaml as it is the templating. I originally wanted to say “since the invention of yaml/jinja” in the parent comment because that’s what I’ve gotten most of my gray hairs from (saltstack templating). Go templates are not jinja but fundamentally the same thing - they have no syntax awareness and effectively are just string formatters.

I took out the part about templating because I thought it made my comment too wordy, but ended up oversimplifying.

Cyphus

há 8 mesesdiscuss

Seriously. I’ve lost at least 100 hours of my life debugging whitespace in templated yaml. I shudder to think about the total engineering time wasted since yaml’s invention.

Cyphus

há 8 mesesdiscuss

The original iteration of Docker Swarm, now known as Classic, is deprecated. Maybe you were thinking of that?

Cyphus

há 8 mesesdiscuss

Docker the company bet big on Swarm being the de facto container orchestration platform for businesses. It just got completely overshadowed by k8s. Swarm continues to exist and be actively developed, but it’s doomed to fade into obscurity.

Cyphus

há 8 mesesdiscuss

You can scale the UI according to your preferences, but the real problem is that if your monitor’s ppi is not close to the macOS sweet spot of 220ppi (or an integer multiple thereof) you’re going to have aliasing issues with text and other high contrast elements.

https://griffindavidson.com/blog/mac-displays.html has a good rundown.

Cyphus

há 9 mesesdiscuss

I’m in the same boat with a lot of these tools, but bat is different in that it’s compatible enough to be safe to alias to the command it's replacing[1]. You can continue to use cat as usual, with the benefit of getting syntax-highlighted output.

[1]: Assuming you use the `--paging=never` flag in your alias as the README suggests.

Cyphus

há 9 mesesdiscuss

In regards to the tenting not staying in place, put some threadlocker on the bolts. It does wonders. I got some threadlocker to stop my adjustable bar stool feet from slowly unscrewing themselves and getting wobbly every week and it's easily the best purchase I've made all year. Anytime I see a loose door knob, chair leg, tripod mount, or adjustment screw, I throw some threadlocker on there and never have to tighten it again.

Cyphus

há 10 mesesdiscuss

Outside of holidays and special events, they do indeed choose randomly from a dialogue bank. There’s actually multiple dialogue banks, one for each villager personality type.

Cyphus

há 10 mesesdiscuss

The author's example serves as a counterargument to their point.

Relying on a feature that requires enabling an experimental flag in the latest version of Chrome to work is "leveraging the web" in the worst way.