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The last probably doesn't apply to many here. We're all jonesing for the next cool tech thing.

They should vibecode their account management into the 21st century and let users change their email address without deleting their account.

You can mess around or go buy a $10 gbit USB dongle that you know works like a tplink.

No-till feeds the world. The amount of no-till in current full-scale agriculture is by far the biggest proportion in North America and Europe.

This is actual reality. No-till is great until you have to till because of circumstances. Sometimes what happens needs to be dealt with; we've had years of heavy, heavy rain, and despite decades of no-till farming, it still can't absorb limitless water. That's when compaction happens, especially if you need to get crops off wet ground. So you deal with it, and start again building the soil back from tillage. You don't have to always haul out the 3-bottom plow, but even discing has a recovery period. But it's better than trying to seed into concrete.

And tillage can work well by bringing up nutrients. Some crops will do this themselves to an extent, or you can plant forage crops for a time that will bring up nutrients. But subsoiling to break deep compaction or simply bring up phosphorus or potassium from lower levels can breathe new life into a field.

We no-till farm thousands of acres in the middle of millions more acres of no-till grain farming. I don't think you have a clue what you're talking about.

The biggest difference in no-till is water infiltration and retention. The next is ability to work land earlier with equipment that would sink in tilled soil when wet. Another is less equipment passes, for fuel use as well as owning the equipment needed to do those passes.

On the con side, no-till trades diesel for spray costs.

Proxmox is just KVM/qemu with management modules running on Debian. I set up Plasma on a node for a while and used it for a workstation for a couple years, and it worked fine.

Cockpit is rudimentary and hardly worth the time. And as far as I can tell, there's very little interest in expanding it from the broader community, as the lack of plugins would seem to indicate.

It doesn't have a patch on Webmin, sadly.

`On Error Resume Next`

This sounds almost as hard as changing your email address on your Cursor account. I don't wish that experience on anyone. Anthropic is almost as bad, but at least they can be arsed to get back to you eventually.

For the uninitiated, both of them require you to make a new account, because apparently billion dollar corporations think a system that uses your email address as an immutable foreign key constraint is just fine.

Cursor won't let you bill out the outstanding API amount until the end of your subscription period, so you can cancel the account but it sits there able to be logged into and reactivated until your billing completes at the end of the billing interval. Getting a response to any sort of attempts to sort this out is pretty much yelling into the void. Really, your choice is to cancel the card if you get your email hacked.

At least Anthropic gets back to you and shuts it down manually, and I was even refunded my months subscription fees even though I didn't ask for it. But still a stupid, stupid way to change an email address.

CIBC cost me $5 and a bunch of time trying to reverse a mistake that left me stranded in the middle of nowhere when I was pretty young. In the intervening 30 year I've made it my mission whenever their name comes up to make sure nobody uses them for anything, even free kids accounts.

I've cost them tens of thousands of dollars because they couldn't do the decent thing and apologize.

Even for Openclaw, the response API is a better way to interact with it adhoc. I tell Cursor how to contact OC with a bearer key, and they work things out in the background when I'm building something for Openclaw.

Gulf of Mexico.

I've been trying to delete accounts at Anthropic and Cursor because they don't let you change email addresses (don't even get me started on that stupidity). But until my subscriptions that I've cancelled run out and/or the final billing is done, I can't actually delete them. I can't just forfeit the remaining time on my month's subscription, I can't force them to bill me and shut it down, and nothing I do gets me where I can ask a human to just shut it down. I also have no option to remove my billing information in case someone gains access to my account under my old email address, which is trivial to do.

I honestly think I'm going to have to cancel my credit card and get it replaced to accomplish breaking that connection with those two companies.

I just sold a domain I had for 25 years and used for everything including API endpoints, email, authentication, etc. It took a couple weeks to transition myself and my family/friends.

Pretty sure just moving emails would have take a lot less effort. I had the advantage of keeping the domain until I was ready to move, now imagine Google just turned it off one day and what your workload would be. I shudder to think about having to deal with that.

>now my life has been reduced from being perhaps the best engineer in the world to just raising an AI

OK, Kent.

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I'd suspect the next set are charge cycle tests so that will take some time. I was certainly skeptical of the C rate claims and those are quick to do and kick out.

I want to save the planet by getting the most amount of heat out of the tire fire we are currently tossing tires on.

I was late to the party with an Apple IIe. I've never managed to catch up since.

Fucking Finder. What a colossal dumpster fire. It drags that entire OS down.

And was a pretty rabid conservative until the Trump era. He only left the Republicans in 2024, he was around for the first term.

Maybe he's grown a spine.

> The AI gets the credit, I get the blame.

Now that is some stark truth right there.

Someone needs to fix how that popup appears right over your cursor and with no delay.

As a full-on farmer, the idea of Claude making the decisions on our farm of several thousand acres gives me the willies. I program with Claude and I don't trust it to write a test script without vetting it thoroughly and fixing a couple things before running it.

Betting millions of dollars in capital on it's decision making process for something it wasn't even designed for and is way more complicated than even I believed coming from a software background into farming is patently ludicrous.

And 5 acres is a garden. I doubt he'll even find a plot to rent at that size, especially this close to seeding in that area.

If you're dumping the context every prompt, that might be why you're not happy with the results of Cursor. I can run a dozen or two prompts before the context gets polluted enough that it's worth compacting. If you clear it's context every time, it's not going to get a holistic enough view of the problem to deliver a good feature.

That's been my experience. You have to work them up to the big ask.

Copilot is a dumpster fire and I can understand why you're down on agents from that experience.

Splurge on the $20 for Cursor, and install their IDE. Start with a simple project, more because it helps you see how it works than because Cursor can't handle more. Give it specific instruction and not too big a problem at one time so you can tailor the prompt. If it's niche, consider changing the model to Opus4.5 long enough for it to get a handle on the codebase. Use the Plan mode to start, adjust the plan, then let it god. Every time it makes changes it can be reverted to the state at previous prompts. Use git liberally.

I'm just a dumb farmer who quit programming 20 years ago, and I use it to build stuff that works IRL for my operation constantly. A dev should be able to wrap their head around it.

If you're building something new, stick with languages/problems/projects that have plenty of analogues in the opensource world and keep your context windows small, with small changes.

One-shotting an application that is very bespoke and niche is not going to go well, and same goes for working on an existing codebase without a pile of background work on helping the model understand it piece by piece, and then restricting it to small changes in well-defined areas.

It's like teaching an intern.

That's all blown way out of proportion. I have a stack of 10k page manuals for diagnosing and repairing every piece of green iron on the place. Honestly, I've been considering training an LLM so I can make better use of the manuals, they're so incredibly detailed it's hard to find the thing you're looking for.

The only thing Deere "locks down" is that some of the parts have a CANbus address that you need to get a tech over to program the controller to recognize the part, and do the same if you replace a controller.

It's not some nefarious anti-farmer thing, it's because of the way the controller network works. In fact, I've used a CANbus sniffer on the bus and everything on there is in the clear, they don't even encrypt the messages.

The only things I've sent to town to get fixed was because I didn't have time to diagnose it, or it was an insurance claim and I wanted warranty. Blowing $80,000 worth of innards out the back of a combine wasn't a job I wanted to tackle right then (but I probably should have, I wasn't happy with the attention to detail in the repair).

So the upshot is, don't believe every terrible story about Deere you hear. Just the one where they charge too goddamn much for parts.