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dgdosenon Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use

Is it me, or will this just speed up the timeline where a 'good enough' open model (Qwen? Deepseek? - I'm sure the Chinese will see a value in undermining OpenAI/Anthropic/Google) combined with good enough/cheap hardware (10x inference improvement in a M7 Macbook Air?) makes running something like opencode code locally a no brainer?

dgdosenon Tracking developer build times to decide if the M3 MacBook is worth upgrading

I picked up an M3Pro/11/14/36GB/1TB to 'test' over the long holiday return period to see if I need an M3 Max. For my workflow (similar to blog post) - I don't! I'm very happy with this machine.

Die shots show the CPU cores take up so little space compared to GPUs on both the Pro and Max... I wonder why.

dgdosenon Postgres Language Server

This should work fine with vim-dadbod and vim-dadbod-ui... Right?

dgdosenon Semiconducting Transport in LK99 reproduction attempt

Can anyone ELI5 - Is the compound/material used for LK-99 that unique? Are there other, similar materials that might also have this 'quantum well' quality?

dgdosenon Buying an iPad Pro for coding was a mistake

I love the mini - and I'd say an iPad makes sense for consumption and pen use (handwriting notes)... but the 'Pro' is a waste of an M1/M2.

I would kill for a rebooted 12" Macbook with that same terrible keyboard if it at least had an M1 in it.

dgdosenon You don't need Scrum, you just need to do Kanban right (2022)

I like the analogy of using a kanban for managing work to playing poker.

It takes 10 minutes to learn, but a lifetime to master.

dgdosenon You don't need Scrum, you just need to do Kanban right (2022)

Why do you estimate when using a kanban? You might look at an item and break it down for simplicity. You also might go in with a goal of 'one card per member per day' or something similar. But nothing should be fixed to an estimate. If something is delayed, it should show up stuck in a lane. Respond as needed.

dgdosenon You don't need Scrum, you just need to do Kanban right (2022)

Scrum is pushing stuff into a sprint. Kanban is pulling the highest priority stuff through - it's done when it's done.

Metrics/Analytics can be calculated when your done based on actual information, as opposed to the beginning when you're guessing, and likely to be held to your estimates.

dgdosenon You don't need Scrum, you just need to do Kanban right (2022)

They're also visualized (on a kanban board) - are you doing that? Make work visible.

dgdosenon You don't need Scrum, you just need to do Kanban right (2022)

They're prioritized tasks. They're pulled through. Simplicity is the structure.

dgdosenon Some personal news

Nate, I'll work with you...

dgdosenon Agents are the next AI killer app after ChatGPT

The first sentence:

"GPTs are General Purpose Technologies"

I wonder what a Generative Pre-trained Transformer would say about that...

dgdosenon Flux Keyboard

Would the mechanics of those switches be any good?

dgdosenon Ask HN: How do you deal with information and internet addiction?

Excellent idea!

I found this on github: https://gist.github.com/jeb5/da22862e469dea21e873acabb562f63...

Was able to get all of my feeds exported to an OPML file, then imported into my RSS Reader of choice.

dgdosenon MacBook Pro featuring M2 Pro and M2 Max

I'm happy the Apple web site shows at least one 'stock' configs for the laptops with 32GB of ram and 1TB. That means Costco, Best Buy and Amazon will be slinging these around at sale prices soon enough.

dgdosenon Twitter's API is down?

So what is Twitter's response to the issue? Surely one of those accounts has addressed it... I can't seem to find it.

dgdosenon Twitter's API is down?

Elon paid $44B for Twitter! He's going to squeeze every short-term dollar out of the platform and count on users sitting back and taking it.

dgdosenon Why Evernote failed to realize its potential (2021)

also (IMO) - - exportable/importable to/from markdown in case that's ever needed - much faster than evernote ever was

It's what Evernote was supposed to be. They've got some richer formatting open issues - but that's coming in V2.

dgdosenon Leaving MySQL

your argument reads like a straw man...

dgdosenon Leaving MySQL

Don't sugar coat it kid, tell us straight.

dgdosenon GitHub Copilot available for JetBrains and Neovim

I just tried installing for neovim - but got an error running vim-plug's `:PlugInstall`

I added an issue. https://github.com/github/feedback/discussions/6847

Anyone else install in neovim?

dgdosenon RSS is wonderful

Good use of "signal to noise ratio"

dgdosenon Former Boeing 737 Max Chief Technical Pilot Indicted for Fraud

I'm sure this guy knew what he was doing - but yes, he was probably coerced or induced by someone with more authority.

There's no way the buck stops there.

dgdosenon Building apps in minutes, not months

So, where's the Github link for Conductor Framework?

dgdosenon 1Password for Mac Moving to Electron

So what's the best alternative?

dgdosenon My take on the study from MIT that predicts “societal collapse”

Would a Kardashev Type 1 civilization have too many powerplants?

If we can get to net zero first, that would affect your model's calculation that we would require endless power plants.

dgdosenon My take on the study from MIT that predicts “societal collapse”

The first thing I wondered about these comments is how often "Peak Oil" would be mentioned. There has been no peak oil related crash. I think the world's economy and markets are now resilient enough to safely say 'peak oil' will never be a cause for the collapse of civilization. Rising energy prices will just usher out the age of fossil fuels faster.

I now wonder what happens when (if?) we get to 'net 0' (which hasn't been mentioned in these comments). If we can reach a point of unlimited, renewable, clean energy that's (almost) too cheap to meter, that just upends any model because it'll zero out factors that are parts of or 'limits' in those models.

- Lack of fresh water: solved by free/clean energy (desalinization)

- Lack of adequate food supply: solved by free/clean energy (fertilizer production)

- Lack of resources: potentially solved by free/clean energy (asteroid farming? recycling?)

It's hard to imagine a problem that unlimited, clean energy won't help solve.

The question is, can we get to net zero?

dgdosenon GitHub Copilot

want

dgdosenon Excel Never Dies

I think MS is making a postitive step in allowing loading js/ts libraries via node as part of it's programming model compared to just using VBA.

This could be very powerful. It would help Excel to be repurposed to potentially something greater....

Of course, Google Sheets and Apple Numbers should tap into that same functionality...

dgdosenon Microsoft Excel Becomes a Programming Language

I read this article when it was first published last weekend... and I'm a believer that Excel Lambda and JS/TS integration are a very beneficial tool for the right reason.

Excel is now just another front end. But it's a powerful front end. One can build typescript/js packages that in turn can be used by server apps/web clients/react native clients/jupyter clients/etc. - and now Excel clients.

I can see building solutions for 'self-service of data to power users/knowledge workers' - that makes those front ends in Excel more powerful. A couple of scenarios pop out to me:

- Using a query tool over data to populate an existing (pre-formatted) Excel template with data. - Using a query tool over data that helps set user define data for lookup/pivot tables.

Not revolutionary but certainly evolutionary - where Excel can be a tool for working on a less commoditized stack.

I'd probably be happier if it was easier to check in a spreadsheet to a repo and be able to see the changes...