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duttish

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duttish··on LinkedIn Larpmaxxing
Those people are what "Unfollow <name>" under the 3 dots on the posts are for.

I actually see posts from maybe 5-10% of my connections on LI, one strike for being boring or bland or performative and they're out of my feed.

duttish··on What even is an OS now?
Iirc he was one of the founders :)
duttish··on Dropbox's Jan 1st 2027 terms of service
I've been a happy customer of Tresorit for several years now. Give them a try if you're fed up with Dropbox.

At first I was selective in what folders I synced but after a few months I decided to just sync my entire workspace folder with everything in it.

Incredibly convenient, everything is automatically synced between my desktop and laptop.

If you go this route look into filters, it's not a very advertised feature but works great for excluding build output, venvs and other stuff.

duttish··on Why building a Rust LSP is hard
I've never looked into LSP, how would you design it?
duttish··on Version control second coming
Oh wow, I didn't know it had things like that.

Especially the CPU functionality is really interesting. I'm pondering similar problems and the current solutions just aren't good enough.

duttish··on Do people prefer stories written by AI?
I don't quite know why but something in the realisation that something is made with AI removes all the joy from reading/listening to/viewing/watching it. It was interesting reading your take on it, I'm not sure it's why I don't like it but I also don't have a better explanation.

It's not about skill either, I'm quite sure I'd react the same if AI writing surpassed Hemingway, it's still not art.

duttish··on Show HN: The cheapest GPU cloud – H100s at $2.04/HR, H200s at $3/HR
Do you mean $8-12 per day? Otherwise I'm confused how it's cheaper.
duttish··on Dwarf Fortress is getting the mother of all magic updates
OPs post made me curious about jumping in, how often do they release updates? If I'm going to wait for this and the next one.
duttish··on I Used AWS Cognito for a Startup. I Wouldn't Do It Again
I built a product on Cognito in 2017-18 or when it was, and already back then it felt semi-abandonded. Thankfully that particular product never really took off and we didn't have to spend too much time on wrangling Cognito.
duttish··on My agent.md to improve LLM-assisted code quality
It's been working quite well so far and I don't know of any way of hooking custom linters into cargo so they run after compilation.

But that's a pretty good idea, wonder if there is a way...

duttish··on My agent.md to improve LLM-assisted code quality
The cost of custom linters has like any other code dropped through the floor. I'm sprinkling all kinds of linters over my latest projects. It seems some people are still sleeping on this, expecting great code from the agents.

They're fast and deterministic and I run them in git pre-commit.

duttish··on Giving an LLM your prod database is easy. Taking access away is the hard part
It seems they're conflating two different risks? Read-only connection is a solution to Integrity risk, while they straight away start talking about Confidentiality risk instead.

They're also problematic, but different kinds of problematic and I don't see how this is different from managing employees database access.

Then there's no mention of handling Availability risk management. An employee or agent querying the entire order table joined with... and the entire db cluster is choked for two hours.

duttish··on Show HN: Huzzah – a novel approach to coding with AI
For me thinking and understanding is the primary bottleneck. Sure I could spin up 4-5 more parallel things but it doesn't matter because they're soon bottlenecked by my writing/review of their input or output. I can manage 1-2, maybe 3 if one is a long term running task. And having thinking be the bottleneck makes for a very taxing workload...

I tend to work like this:

1. Write a very vague spec of what I want

2. Iterate on that with claude until there's no major open questions.

3. Depending on the size either turn that into a requirements file (large things), a design (medium things) or an implementation plan (small things). Implementation plans for large / medium tasks are split into phases.

4. Once all the plans are iterated on and approved I send claude off to implement with subagents, but not commit. I usually find some weird stuff when reviewing the code to fix before commit. Any time I've let claude commit I've ended up with weird stuff.

duttish··on Diesel Margins Top $100 a Barrel to Reach Record High as Supply Crunch Grows
Personally I assume there was an implied /s at the end
duttish··on WhatCable: Know what your USB-C cable can do
A quick search found https://github.com/nedrichards/whatcable-linux, haven't tried it myself though
duttish··on Nine PBS sues Iron Mountain over blocked access to archival data
I smell a Jason Statham movie
duttish··on Nine PBS sues Iron Mountain over blocked access to archival data
rsync is good stuff, I've been a happy customer of https://www.rsync.net/products/borg.html for years.
duttish··on US hires over 2k video gamers as air traffic controllers
Hm, on one level I'm confused. War seems to be either very stressful, very boring (hurry up and wait) or shit my pants level of terrifying. Video games are usually designed to be none of those? well except slightly stressful because that can be fun
duttish··on 'My life's screwed': Korean investors stress out after AI bubble bursts
Now I'm on very thin ice and just based on youtube videos so if someone from South Korea reads this feel free to correct me.

As I understand it the order of things for men* in SK is 1) housing 2) marriage 3) children

No housing means no wife means no children to afford a nicer home. So, they're incentivised to take big risks.

But I'm going to step out of this minefield now with the hope of someone who actually knows things providing some information. It just seemed like the original comment didn't give enough weight to context.

*Women in SK are as I understand it fighting a whole other battle.

duttish··on 'My life's screwed': Korean investors stress out after AI bubble bursts
From my very shallow understanding of the Korean market it's common to invest in high risk shares because a big win is the only way to afford a nice home. Financial nihilism, risk appetite etc. So it's far from only rich people.
duttish··on Quality non-fiction books are the antithesis of AI slop
Sorry, I meant which awards not actual drinks :)
duttish··on LearnVector – Andrew Ng's AI company building one‑to‑one learning experiences
It's also quite possible that the method that works best for one person is completely horrible for another person, but that's just me guessing
duttish··on GrapheneOS Defends Data-Wiping Function That Blocked US Border Search
Related anecdote, there is a strip of international land between Egypt and Sudan, neither country wants it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bir_Tawil
duttish··on Quality non-fiction books are the antithesis of AI slop
Which are the good ones in your view?
duttish··on AttoChess, a complete, playable chess program for 16-bit x86 DOS in 278 bytes
Yes I was impressed until I saw ",no castling, en passant, or promotion".

I'm okay with trusting moves but not implementing all of the rules while still calling it complete feels a bit weird.

duttish··on Why developers are ditching GitHub for Codeberg and self-hosting alternatives
Today it appears you have two options 1) Anubis or similar 2) Accept that 90-95% of your traffic is LLM scrapers fetching every file for every commit for every repo etc etc. There's some comments above with specific lists.
duttish··on Show HN: LastShelf – an emergency map of your family's documents bills& contacts
Now I know one thing I'll do this weekend, great idea.
duttish··on Girls just wanna have fast MPMC queues with bounded waiting
On the topic of lock free data structures I found this one on a SPSC very interesting too https://david.alvarezrosa.com/posts/optimizing-a-lock-free-r... taking it from 12M to 305M ops/s
duttish··on Chatto is now open source
Yea you probably want that too, but I don't think that's enough.

For some you need legal holds on employee messages and in other cases you will want to un-delete messages for investigations etc.

For just random online communities, which is the niche discord is in, I agree it does sound nice.

duttish··on Chatto is now open source
I wouldn't know. With the post mentioning teams and slack I just got the feeling it was on the cards, so I thought it was worth posting that in case it hadn't occurred to them.
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