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OddMerlin

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OddMerlin··on 25 years of mass surveillance is enough
I’d venture it was enough the first day.
OddMerlin··on AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon
Congrats to the Taalas gang.
OddMerlin··on India and EU announce landmark trade deal
"Should know" and expecting a logical outcome is wishful.
OddMerlin··on Claude Code On-the-Go
Why not use Claude App in GitHub (if your code is in GitHub)?

I kick off a prompt as a GitHub issue, Claude fires away on this issue, provides updates as comments and a PR is created for me at the end for review.

It also notifies me throughout, and I can look at the pipelines to see the thinking behind the action.

OddMerlin··on What the heck is going on at Apple?
I recently purchased an iPad Air and am blown away at how bad the UX is. Notes is incredibly buggy, the iOS is not optimized for the pencil pro (seems like it delivers very little value outside of visual arts programs), the Siri +gpt experience is laughable, and I can go on…

I’m a long time Apple user and I’m concerned with the state of things.

Im considering returning this piece of junk.

OddMerlin··on Claude Code 2.0
How is this any different from just using claude-cli? The example on the npm page is something you could easily do from within claude-cli...? Sorry, I must be missing the point on this??
OddMerlin··on Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot
I'm with you. I think it's great that Mozilla is trying/tried to extend their value beyond just the browser.

I found pocket immensely useful. Having the ability to have my kobo e-reader sync pocket articles to read off-line was such a useful feature.

I don't understand the Mozilla hate on this board. I think it's wildly overblown.

OddMerlin··on Anything threatening to be a subculture is commodified before it can walk (2014)
Also check out The Rebel sell by Joseph Health and Andrew Potter. Another great read in the same vein https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_Sell.
OddMerlin··on Doom-htop: The classic DOOM game over htop
I’m genuinely curious how people have time to do this. I feel less and less sure of my abilities the more I see wonderful stuff like.

I can’t imagine the effort involved in this. Someone did mention this takes advantage of prior work just rerendering in ascii and mapping to procs but that’s not a negligible amount of work. How long did this take? I feel like I know nothing and I’ve been in this industry for more than I’d like to say.

This is awesome but I feel incredibly stupid.

OddMerlin··on My deployment platform is a shell script
I’m with you on the usecase. Simple server deployment on a VM, bash script is fine, in fact I recommend it. It’s when you start dealing with 5+ VMs that I would start looking into using a tool like Ansible.
OddMerlin··on My deployment platform is a shell script
Why not use Ansible for something like this?

Don’t get me wrong, I love bash scripts like any other old hat, but Ansible scratches this exact itch.

You’ve got playbooks that can execute shell, provide logging, better management, history of execution, fleet management, and it’s light weight. And there’s a robust community of shared modules, etc.

OddMerlin··on New models and developer products
Is langchain still relevant with the release of AssistantAI? It seems managing the context window, state, etc is now all taken care of by Assistant AI.

I guess langchain is still relevant for non-OpenAI options?

OddMerlin··on Show HN: Gitgpt – Natural Language Git
OP here. I love this feedback. I agree this is definitely something I should work towards.

Keeping the commands as succinct as possible as well as "natural language" as possible. Even the word commit might be too git-y?

Thanks for the feedback.

OddMerlin··on IBM acquires Red Hat
This is terrible news. I hope its not true.
OddMerlin··on The web at maximum FPS: How WebRender gets rid of jank
Great write up.
OddMerlin··on Show HN: Gorillaz – Andromeda Music Video in WebGL
My 2011 MacBook Air 4Gb ram, i5 could not run it :(
OddMerlin··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2017)
Government of Ontario | Senior Ops and Architect | Toronto, ON | Full-time, onsite

Stack: MEAN/LNMP/Drupal/AWS

Senior Ops: https://www.ontario.ca/page/senior-devops

Application Architect: https://www.ontario.ca/page/application-architect

More info: https://www.ontario.ca/page/do-you-want-make-government-bett...

OddMerlin··on Why I hate frameworks (2005)
The whole killing girlfriend thing is not so cool. I would remove those pieces, they don't add much to the story.
OddMerlin··on William Gibson has written a comic
Why is this on here?
OddMerlin··on Questions to Ask a Potential Tech Employer
This is everything thats wrong with (web)developers today.

Why is this available in more than one format? Why on earth is there a filter.sh and render.py?!? This is just awful. If you can't read through a simple text list and select the appropriate questions then you're already doomed.