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jdorfmanon Reddit is full of bots: thread reposted comment by comment, 10 months later

Hi, head of community at Sourcegraph here. We don't use bots. u/Prolacticus is a Pro user, we do not pay him/her, and they are not sponsored. In fact, I offered them swag a month ago, and they refused.

We do give free/sponsored accounts to our Discord mods, open source maintainers, and folks who write guest blog posts for us. u/Prolacticus is not one of those accounts.

jdorfmanon Ask HN: Cheapest way to use LLM coding assistance?

Advertise pro. Sourcegraph doesn't sell or retain data with any LLM providers for both free and pro versions https://sourcegraph.com/terms/cody-notice

jdorfmanon Twitter's pivot to x.com is a gift to phishers

Your secret is safe with me.

jdorfmanon Looking into an apparently scammy looking zsh plugin manager called “zi”

I will get ahead of this since my name is in this Mastodon thread.

- I volunteered to help make the Bash and ZSH logos

- I have nothing to do with "zi", I never heard of that project or the people involved.

Thank you.

jdorfmanon How GitHub replaced SourceForge as the dominant code hosting platform

I remember signing up for GitHub and having to provide my public SSH key before creating an account which I did. I can’t imagine how many abandoned signups there were. I think Chris tweeted about it.

jdorfmanon Pure CSS Website

Her work is mind blowing. The dusting zone is my new favorite game

https://thedusting.zone/

jdorfmanon Kagi and Wolfram

Forgive my ignorance. I'm curious as to how that works.

jdorfmanon The Apple Vision Pro is spectacular and sad

The demo was ~20 min. I put my name on a list and waited about 30 min. I was surprised that most people at the store were not there for the Vision Pro.

jdorfmanon The Apple Vision Pro is spectacular and sad

I got back from the Apple Store a few hours ago and that headline is exactly how I felt when I finished the 20 minute demo. It was amazing, it’s the future of entertainment especially sports and that’s the sad part, you will be enjoying it alone.

jdorfmanon Dracula Theme for Hacker News

Damn, I love Dracula, but the links are black [1], making it hard to read. Going to revert for now. Hey Zeno if you're reading this!

[1] https://p21.p4.n0.cdn.getcloudapp.com/items/nOuJkP65/01a9da6...

jdorfmanon Stable Code 3B: Coding on the Edge

> I've been experimenting with code-llama extensively on my laptop

You can use/try code-llama with Cody https://sourcegraph.com/blog/cody-vscode-1.1.0-release#:~:te...

jdorfmanon How Pinterest scaled

Circa 2013 I worked at a bootstrapped startup (MaxCDN). We got a trial request from Pinterest who put a small fraction of their traffic on dedicated edge servers and we couldn’t sustain it. They ended up going with EdgeCast that had the capacity and resources.

jdorfmanon Cisco to acquire Isovalent

True. Maybe ROI wasn't the right phrase.

jdorfmanon Cisco to acquire Isovalent

Oh, I'm aware. Cisco will most likely fuck this up somehow. But this story will inspire other small companies to invest in contributing to the open source supply chain which is good for all of us.

jdorfmanon Cisco to acquire Isovalent

As an open source contributor and community member.

jdorfmanon Cisco to acquire Isovalent

I love to see stories like this. Inspiring other companies that contributing to open source can have a ROI.

jdorfmanon Continue will generate, refactor, and explain entire sections of code

Cody Pro is free till February. You can try it and be your own judge.

jdorfmanon Sourcegraph Cody is Generally Available (Free and $9/month)

No. Check: https://sourcegraph.com/terms/cody-notice

jdorfmanon Three Decades of HTML

Geocities, a blast from the past. My first web host.

jdorfmanon Three Decades of HTML

1999 for me. My friend Brian showed me view source in IE and there went my social life. It’s amazing how things have progressed (with the web platform in general). Thank you Tim.

jdorfmanon Leaving F-Droid

What is ComCo?

jdorfmanon $20k bounty was claimed

Thank you for posting this. Sourcegraph is now a sponsor on Open Collective.

jdorfmanon ChatGPT has 190 citations on Google Scholar

I love “World Renowned Scholar”.

jdorfmanon Nicotine (2016)

As I said I’m weak.

Edit: the only benefit I get now is not thinking about nicotine until my cravings kick in again. While loop from hell.

jdorfmanon Nicotine (2016)

You are absolutely correct. Most of my friends were able to quit while some are in the same situation as me. All I’m saying is don’t take the risk.

jdorfmanon Nicotine (2016)

I was always fascinated by cigarettes and stole one when I was 10 and that was where my journey of addition to nicotine began. I now vape everyday and chew 2mg of gum if I’m on a plane or some other situation.

I’ve tried to quit multiple times but I’m weak. I can go a few months but always get pulled back.

IMO there are no benefits. If you never had nicotine and this link made you curious don’t. You will most likely become a life long user to one of the most addictive chemicals known to man.

jdorfmanon What's wrong with CVEs? Daniel Stenberg of cURL wants you to know

Yeah hopefully this discussion can help shine a light on this issue. Maintainers have enough to deal with.