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jiggunjer··on Old laptops in a colo as low cost servers
I think a raspberry pi setup would be the cheapest? Not as professional perhaps.
jiggunjer··on Git commands I run before reading any code
Really, I got stuck trying to commit all files except those containing the string abc. As for revsets it's not easy to grab a single branch?
jiggunjer··on How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'?
Tldr yes they're the same agentic harness in different UIs. Web browser, android app, ide extension, cli tool. They all change the "how" but not the "what". You buy premium you get more prompts and models.
jiggunjer··on The CMS is dead. Long live the CMS
For my personal cms I'm using sveltia. But their oath page assumes the repo remote is also the IdP, this means my login button has a GitHub logo instead of Google logo. Now I had spare credits so I forked it. Next weekend I'm fixing their weird support for asset management in R2 buckets.
jiggunjer··on Cursor 3
So your company is fine giving access to their entire GitHub to a third party, and being locked into GitHub too? If their SaaS could work with local only repo setups it would be a better UX...
jiggunjer··on Cursor 3
It sounds like diff #2 depends on approval of diff #1? But with cursor it's a set of diffs that'll be retroactively approved or rejected one by one. So you can get coffee during the thinking and still have interactive checks. Swarm changes nothing about this, except affecting the thinking time.
jiggunjer··on Cursor 3
I think cursor doesn't make distinction between single or multiple logical tasks for swarm-like workloads. Subagents is the word they use for the swarm workers.

Fwiw when I select multiple models for a prompt it just feeds the same prompt to them in parallel (isolated worktrees), this isn't the same as the swarm pattern in 2.4+ (default no worktrees).

jiggunjer··on Cursor 3
I'm running it ok arch Wayland (sway), installed last month I think. Maybe related to your electron package.
jiggunjer··on Cursor 3
I ran parallel prompt with composer 2 and gpt5.3 codex. Composer did slightly better, in terms of variable naming and extra tweaks to loosely related files to keep the codeb consistent.
jiggunjer··on AI overly affirms users asking for personal advice
How is that relevant. A decent scientist can critique general design aspects of a paper in any field. They're hardly splitting hairs on some niche topic.
jiggunjer··on Can I run AI locally?
What knowledge cutoff? They all have web agents to Google it.
jiggunjer··on Roblox is minting teen millionaires
Mine rejected a Nintendo switch 2 in favor of more robux...
jiggunjer··on Roblox is minting teen millionaires
You're implying I can buy 1000 rbx for 10 usd. But I have been paying 5 times that in my country... So is the cash out rate also variable by country?
jiggunjer··on 10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips
Didn't they launch a remake of gw1 recently. Maybe I can get my kids hooked on that instead of this Roblox crap.
jiggunjer··on Masked namespace vulnerability in Temporal
Don't use namespaces. Wire up multi-tenant at the RBAC level. Need stronger isolation? Run another cluster.
jiggunjer··on Sometimes your job is to stay the hell out of the way
So it's okay he's a bad writer? Sales above all?
jiggunjer··on Metacode: The new standard for machine-readable comments for Python
Perhaps encoding such things in comments at all is the wrong approach? E.g. If my linter misbehaves, why can't I right click and ignore the red line in the IDE instead of encoding it into my source file.
jiggunjer··on Awesome-Jj: Jujutsu Things
Same. It's how I learned Docker and Kubernetes, study the concepts, then I can ask "what's the specific command to do A,B,C" instead of an open ended "how do I do X".
jiggunjer··on A Few Words About Async
Recently had to familiarize myself with python async because a third party SDK relies on it.

In many cases the lib will rely on threads to handle calls to synchronous functions, got me wondering if there's a valid use case for running multiple async threads on a single core.

jiggunjer··on Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP
All skills are RAG, a subset of skills can add more RAG.
jiggunjer··on Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP
You could also say horse carriages and cars are very different things, yet one replaced the other.

MCP lets agents do stuff. Skills let agents do stuff. There's the overlap.

jiggunjer··on Why did containers happen?
That's two words. How about "deterministic".
jiggunjer··on My approach to building large technical projects (2023)
For me the best demo is a test module lighting up all green.

How do make this into a sexy image for management. Sure, business logic is stubbed, but my carefully crafted strongly typed interfaces all mesh together! Imagine the future dividends!

jiggunjer··on Who owns Express VPN, Nord, Surfshark? VPN relationships explained (2024)
But you can connect any machine to any vpn and have it be a tailscale exit node?
jiggunjer··on Modern messaging: Running your own XMPP server
I've forgotten how much hassle installing applications can be since docker.
jiggunjer··on Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?
I think selection bias is a bit different, keyword being ignore. Maybe negativity bias.
jiggunjer··on FyneDesk: A full desktop environment for Linux written in Go
Sorry but you building wrong if you need separate builds.
jiggunjer··on FyneDesk: A full desktop environment for Linux written in Go
It works fine if you review PRs and only allow STG->PRD promotions. It breaks down when people start making separate builds for each env. Treat env as config as you'll just have to manage a config folder in that repo.
jiggunjer··on Dbos: Durable Workflow Orchestration with Go and PostgreSQL
Oh I see. Seems Nextflow is a strong contender in the serverless orchestrator market (serverless sounds better than embedded).

From what I can tell though, NF just runs a single workflow at a time, no queue or database. It relies on filesystem caching for "durability". That's changing recently with some optional add-ons.

jiggunjer··on Dbos: Durable Workflow Orchestration with Go and PostgreSQL
Does it natively support job priorities? E.g. if there's 10 workflows submitted and I start up a worker, how does it pick the first job.
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