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@trq212 @thdxr I love hearing this because I always hated (and avoided) the, "you are an expert X".

@thdxr yeah lots more creativity in the prompt for your use case, fewer incantations you can steal from others

everyone should internalize this all those tricks to make the tool work better aren't going to do much there's way more magic to be found in novel ways to apply the tool to your work

@dhh What about the antivirus scans and the kernel-level anti-cheat?

Tested Omarchy on an 8GB machine. It's well under 2GB for the cold boot. Then with nvim+tmux, 20 Chrome tabs, Spotify, a writing app, and an image editor it's ~5GB. So still ~3GB free before any swap. 8GB is enough for a terminal + browser + creature comforts machine!

@mitchellh As someone who didn't know what SIMD was, I found the post very helpful and now I'll be keeping an eye out in areas of my code that could use it. No hostility taken. Thanks for sharing.

My SIMD post was on HN and the general hostility towards understanding how computers work and owning your own outcomes is really depressing. A large amount of people seem to simply have the attitude that they hope someone else pays their bills for them. news.ycombinator.com/item?id=490106…

@ThePrimeagen Okay but can you pay him at least once? Hear me out: It's disrespectful to see Trash ripping open pokemon card packs and Casey doesn't even get to open one. We need Casey to open one pack of Pokémon cards on the podcast.

I just did my first community note

@cmuratori @ThePrimeagen @syntoythesis 100% I don't listen to a lot of nature podcasts so I really appreciated the Eagle Sex Spiral lesson. It made me a more well-rounded individual.

It's also a great way to reach a wider audience, and to be exposed to topics outside of my normal purview. I love doing The Standup, and like I said, I don't feel like it's my business to assess the validity of other people's sponsorship decisions. In today's internet, I'm not really sure it'd even be possible to do that! You can't control what YouTube ads are shown on your channel, what X ads show up next to your posts, or what sponsors are chosen by the hosts of the myriad of one-off podcasts you will do if you appear on other people's channels (as most all of us do!)

FWIW, I found this accusation deeply offensive. I realize the internet is not a place where anyone checks to see what the facts are before they accuse you of something, but I do not "profit" off The Standup. I appear on the Standup for free, and always have. I don't have a say in which sponsors are approved or denied - just like I post on X but don't have a say in what advertisements are shown next to posts like this one. In general, I do not make it my business to try to influence the decisions people are making on the (many!) platforms I participate in. I forgo a rather significant amount of compensation every year because I do, in fact, align my income sources with my values. I have never taken any money from an AI company, despite getting offers constantly.

@cmuratori @ThePrimeagen @c00ldata @quantum_binary @burkeholland There goes the podcast. It was fun while it lasted. You guys should still hang out though. And post the conversations online. Preferably available on all of my favorite podcasting services. Just not as a podcast. I'm eagerly awaiting: "The Stand-up: The Album"

@ThePrimeagen @c00ldata @quantum_binary @burkeholland Same. It's been a great experience and I have literally no complaints, except for this one dude claiming I was profiting off AI advertisements. Leave it to one dude to ruin everything :P

In a way, this hurts me to read. My guy was holding out on AI for so long and I guess I felt like maybe he was right and programming would return somehow some way. AI is both the best and worst thing to ever happen to us.

@cmuratori @quantum_binary @burkeholland I do think they should at least pay you to eat out in the days after the next Amazon outage though. That sounds fair.

@quantum_binary @burkeholland I do not make any money from the Standup, and I am not involved in any sponsorships nor do I look at or approve them.

@ThePrimeagen You're supposed to pick a stance at the very beginning, and then never change your mind in spite of new data. Otherwise generic avatars will say mean things. Unless you were wrong then they'll say mean things. Or you got lucky and were right, then they'll say... mean... things...

"But you made fun of it and now you like it? YOU ARE HYPOCRITE" bro... 3.5 was terrible, 4o was terrible, even early 5's were not great. This idea that approach cannot change due to new information seems insane. Sol is great, Grok is my goto generally speaking

I am now a fan of AI dev, took a long time but I find them very capable now. I still read a lot of code, write a lot of code, but I am much more of a fan now. The thing I am liking a lot right now is structure refactoring. I want to change an entire way i am doing something. I can explore so many different styles and come to the conclusion of the one i like the best

Just accidently a whole react project. What the hell is useState13 and why are there 13 of them? Is there an American version? I need 50 states.

@WarrenInTheBuff The Fixie guy would never do something like this.

I saw the HTMX guy at Heebs Grocery in Bozeman this morning. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything. He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?” I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Milky Ways in his hands without paying. The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter. When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.

@thdxr Then tell them they can get it back with Best Buy gift cards.

just realized if we detect a scammer using our inference we could return a tool call that deletes their computer

@rngoodness @htmx_org Backbone is pretty fundamental technology for any vertebrate. I recommend putting in the time and growing a spine.

@htmx_org Do I have to learn underscore now? I learned JS then jQuery, skipped underscore and backbone, learned knockout and angular v1, skipped react, Javascripr the good parts, then learned es6+, more nodejs, then Svelte.

freaks me out that underscore dot jay ess still has more reach than react

@htmx_org efore

@htmx_org Gatekeeping like, "What of only *some* HTML elements could generate Http requests?" That's already been done b

thinking about gatekeeping idk

@tobi Hey, I write excellent code. 6-months-ago-me, however, that guy sucks.

A huge amount of the Anti-AI code sentiment massively overestimates the quality of human code outside of a very small set of open source and high quality company codebases. Human Slop is everywhere and can trivially be improved on by any opus level model.

@ThePrimeagen I don't know what mukbang is and I'm scared to Google it.

Hey I'm in San Francisco for a couple days, would anyone be down to do a peptide mukbang?

@rfleury @brainage19 To quote Dr. Phil: "Don't sell me an outhouse and tell me it's the Taj Mahal". It's not that there's no need for cheap manufactured houses, but we can't pretend that slopping out a hundred of them is the quivalent of building a cathedral.

I'm convinced that a large % of construction workers don’t actually like building stuff. As a side effect, they also perfectly happy to throw away their craft to a power tool as soon as they can. I don’t get it, at ALL. Don't you *LIKE* understanding the magic of the hammer? You do realize hand-building houses (I hate that I even have to specify hand now) is fun…right?

@WarrenInTheBuff Yo, the website is coloring the pictures for me as I scroll. Spoiler mutch? For real though this is a really great idea. Bookmarked.

Introducing Kids Paint Studio, brought to you by Buffering Studios, Inc. 7 (and counting) massive, entirely offline coloring catalogs for kids. No in-app purchases, no ads, no accounts, and absolutely *zero* data ever captured or recorded (not even Sentry/Bugsnag/Posthog analytics). There is no backend API. You buy it once, download the entire catalog and own it forever. --- This started with my kid coming to me every 5 minutes to clear an in-app purchase screen after clicking an ad intentionally designed to look exactly like the coloring app he was using. So I decided to build him something that didn't suck or try to monetize his little creative brain for "one-more-sale" Turned out he liked it. A lot. Like a lot a lot. And I liked it a lot a lot because I could trust it. So we kept going. My wife and I experimented with collections built around his favorite stuff. We figured AI could help us generate images and learnable information for an app we could trust. An app that tried its hardest to keep him inside it, with no deceptive in-app purchases or external links. It was tough. AI is not good at consistent image gen. After plenty of trial and error, we dialed it in for about 90% of the content. For the other 10%, I built per-catalog debug controls so we could review everything between the daily bottles, activities, and meltdowns. Funny side story: most of my wife’s animal-catalog reviews asked AI to change several scenes where the animal's "private parts" were really in focus. Nature is fine... GOOD, even.. and those parts exist. But AI's choice to randomly put them on such display was kind of bizarre. The funniest part? AI refused to make her changes because her requests included words like (change the pose to hide the) "penis". Instead it just noped out and refused to make any edits But I digress… The next big hurdle was the app stores. The apps were ready in early June, but we're still fighting to get them all approved. The App Store and Google Play keep rejecting our catalog builds as "spam" because each app uses the same driver code. Meanwhile, the current garbage kids apps littered with ads and in-app purchases are totally fine. Okay, sure. I understand what they’re saying. The app engine is the same. But the engine isn’t the product! It’s also not where the time, blood, sweat, and tears went. That’s in the catalogs: their pictures, information, organization, and the work required to make everything informative, educational, appropriate and not obscene. Every time I've pushed back, we've received another rejection. The repeated recommendation is to consolidate everything into one app and sell the additional collections through in-app purchases. But we're not going to do that because that's exactly one of the issues we’re trying to solve for. Or maybe they do realize it and that model isn't nearly as profitable. Maybe that's the actual beast we’re fighting when trying to build child-friendly apps that aren't dopamine-sucking slot machines. Something something show me the incentive and I'll show you the behavior. I don't know, draw your own conclusions So, while we originally planned to release every catalog at once, it looks like we’re starting with two: Bible and Heavy Equipment Bible will forever be free. It's a trust piece that lets parents try the experience. It shows you exactly what you'll get from every app we build. And if you don’t believe me, just ask Google Play or the App Store. They’ve made it very clear the engine is the same Since this whole ordeal started, we've had some really cool early-education ideas if we can get traction. Not the normal "replace me and teach my kid because I’m busy" tools, we want to build "we're actively teaching our kids and could maybe use software to help us" tools Hoping we can get approved and release the other catalogs soon! LIKES, RETWEETS AND TELLING YOUR PARENT FRIENDS IS GREATLY APPRECIATED! Godspeed, fellow parent soldiers

@ThePrimeagen Can you add a "Glazed Stats" filters my stats through Gippity 4o?

let a little slop creep in around stats the hand was heavy and crushed most of it out Also now we are recording more stats for the game I am making so you can find out just how bad you are at tower defense!

@ThePrimeagen "it's not about the pretty dress and lipstick you put on it" But what about the programming socks? It's at least partly about the programming socks.

This actually makes me sad. Programming is such a fun thing to do in of itself. The completion of the thing task is the ultimate goal, but the road to get there is enjoyable! Even as i investigate loops and think deeply about how to deploy AI in a real manner that produces real and good code I still make time for 45 minutes to 3 hours a day trad programming. But regardless of AI being perfect or not, being able to produce quality work or not is not even part of the argument. I just like programming and I think that loving the craft of building the thing itself will ultimately make the thing you are building better. Because you care deeper about it. Its not about a pretty dress & lipstick you put on it, but the deep thought care you put in to the things no one sees or perhaps its so good they just don't notice. I think that is where the best software is made.