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hmm - I don't use the web UI... but as you say claude code seems to be working.

oh yeah - I get that too. Also, if I tell him to verify something - he'll do a big song and dance about verifying it as correct. Then you point out something very basic and he'll trigger that 'let me do this properly', verify it again, find out he was wrong - then say he was working from stale data/assumptions

Oh - another 'fun' new behavior this week: He contradicted himself within 1 paragraph and when asked about it, admitted the correct answer was explicitly listed in his MEMORY.md file - he just ignored it...

Thanks! I appreciate the heads up!

The consumer goodwill is working then - it pushed me to upgrade my plan on march 1st... (do they bill on rolling 30 day cycle ? or calendar-month to calendar-month?)

Terms of Service would like to have a word....

Not like limiting uses of products is anything new

I must be missing something ... Why broadcast speech over AM in an 'unmanned' tunnel ?? who's gonna hear/receive it ?? I wish the repo had some sort of use case summary or something...

Edit: I'm also sorta puzzled by the choice of AM in any sort of 'alert' context...Do people still listen to/use AM radios?

Oh huh ... I actually did a lot of AS/400 & Stratus work back in the 80s. So Infor isn't written in RPG is it? the 400 actually had a decent COBOL compiler but everything seemed to end up in RPG :-/

Just wanted to mention it was nice to see such a down to earth posting. Unfortunately, I've never even heard of the ERP you mentioned, but you sound like a good company to work for :-)

lobste.rs ?

Highly curated, restricted posting, pretty much pure tech

Thanks - I actually looked in there..but I thought 'About Finder' was just gonna be around the app and not the OS...

Thanks again!

am I missing something or is there absolutely no description/about/etc ? it would be nice to have some info. about the architecture, etc.

Hmm - don't remember if it was micro-kernel, but AtheOS (1) was a REALLY nice OS developed by a single very talented developer. It included display server, networking, partial POSIX compliance and lots of goodies like GCC, Bash, etc. Haiku moved to using the Linux Kernel if IIRC and AtheOS itself seems to have vanished...

1: https://atheos.metaproject.frl/

from what I've heard - sculpt is pretty close to 'daily driver' territory, and genode is used in the companies commercial offerings so it gets continuous work. Its actually the next OS I want to play with ...

not sure if you've seen this... https://www.microkernel.info/ but it might be helpful :-D

or SeL4 https://sel4.systems/ or Sculpt https://genode.org/download/sculpt

So was it AI or code gen tools (interfaces generators, scaffolding, etc ?)

We won't even be the last generation of COBOL programmers :-P

way back in the before times... Open Source projects went to great lengths to make sure they didn't use anything that could 'taint' the code (eg Samba )

I think the DeCSS stuff wasn't used till it had been publicly leaked and was considered 'common knowlege' or some such to prevent lawsuits

exactly, you didn't provide any evidence or even decent arguements to support your position. I provided 3 distinct areas (of many) that it didn't touch that programmers have to deal with everyday. I also pointed out that the capabilities to do the sorts of transformations it did have existed for decades.

But given your comment history, backing up your arguments doesn't seem to be your strong suit...

great comeback - "Dude - Trust me" :-P got anything more compelling then your opinion ? Have you ever done source to source translation work (I have ...) Or is this just so exciting to you cuz you've never seen it before ?

"Airbnb recently completed our first large-scale, LLM-driven code migration, updating nearly 3.5K React component test files from Enzyme to use React Testing Library (RTL) instead. We’d originally estimated this would take 1.5 years of engineering time to do by hand, but — using a combination of frontier models and robust automation — we finished the entire migration in just 6 weeks."

Color me unimpressed - it converted some test files. It didn't design any architecture, create any databases, handle any security concerns or any of the other things programmers have to do/worry about on a daily basis. It basically did source to source translation, which has been around for 30+ years.

>>Or, take another angle. If the US can no longer import vital goods, what do you think will happen? Will the goods magically stop being vital? Will we sit on our hands for several decades and wait for the problem to resolve?

No - consumers will just eat the cost like they did during COVID.

>> Or does the market respond to a need and rearrange itself to provide as profitably as possible?

  rearranging itself will mean leaving the status quo, and passing the cost to consumers.  Do you think companies are going to jump to spend millions of dollars and 1 year+ to build factories to work around something that might change in 6 months, or even 4 years ?

Hmm - I'm not sure I'd put the current situation up there with the dot com bomb or the 2008 recession...but its definitely not good

>>You're comparing ancient obsolete technology to a streamlined instant messaging client

I'd hardly call discord a 'stream lined' system. Latency (especially in voice which is supposed to be it strong suit) is bad, search is subpar compared to even simple google searches, information is silo'd, its yet another place that can potentially leak PII, and basically the network is a SPOF. SourceForge promised all you mention, and was backed by (at the time) the largest IPO in history..and lasted what 2-3 years before it started decaying? I remember projects scrambling to find hosting after SF - and I remember how fast everyone jumped on GitHub .. I was donating to GH from the beginning just to help prevent another SF scenario...

As for it 'hostile' - its a lot easier to do a google search and find all sorts of information streams about something, rather then having to figure out the discord server for a project, search the discord server, and still miss any info. from outside of discord. That seems more 'hostile' to me then less wall-garden systems.

Edit: last I knew, over 1K oss projects still maintain libera.chat channels

As opposed to IRC? Forums? hell - even an email list... All things that are a lot easier to search then Discord, have much lighter clients, and can be done free.

Do you really think there was 'no way to communicate' for projects before discord ?

>>The meaning of brainrot keeps changing. Originally(?), it refered to a particular extreme/ADHD content understood only by the perpetually online. Remixes of the spinning oiia cat are pretty good examples: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IxX_QHay02M

I'm old and not with it ... to me that just looked like a low budget music video (flashey 'club' lighting, stock photo of a cat with simple CGI effect applied). How is this 'extreme/ADHD content' ?

For what its worth, I was seeing contracts at $150/hr 5ish years ago... Now they mostly seem to be $75-100. On the other hand, being 100% remote was never an issue.

If you contract directly, remember many companies are on net 90 for invoices. Be sure to factor that into financial projections..

Yes - this is the guy that should decide for everyone...the guy that uses a multi hundred dollar device to replace a $30 amazon puck..

One big thing people tend to overlook in consulting - a lot of companies (especially bigger ones) are net 90 on invoices... Make sure to build that into your financial plans if relavent