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rapfaria··on Claude Opus 5.5
My workplace doesn't even offer Fable. And on the sub, I've had a hard time understanding Opus 5, but Fable can deal with it with subagents.

If 5.5 is any better, I might try to do agentic-assisted development instead of just telling fable to delegate

rapfaria··on Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence
You've been to too many meetings with PMs and directors saying "An agent could very easily do this"
rapfaria··on Claude Fable 5 Promotional Access
Bold of you to think individuals are a big part of their marketshare and explosive growth. My company introduced enterprise last month and the bill was US$110k for a few dozen folks using it Claude Code and Design.

Do the Pro and Max plans help with word of mouth and whatnot? Sure, but the individual with a Max plan (or 4...) are all subsidized by the big spenders

rapfaria··on Incident Report: May 19, 2026 – GCP Account Suspension
Not defending them. but wouldn't it be a legal nightmare if they did?
rapfaria··on Vercel April 2026 security incident
it did add an entry - windows 11, chrome
rapfaria··on Tell HN: Fiverr left customer files public and searchable
How big of a client is Fiverr? Surely Cloudinary would have alerts for an enterprise client leaking stuff?

Just insane

rapfaria··on Don't become an engineering manager
> You are the sole responsible for what tools use.

Sure, but now competitors are shipping like crazy (at their EM's sanity expense?). What to do?

> AI is voluntary

Until the company mandate. And also there 10 other EMs that I am competing with on my org tree alone, and their teams are all AI-heavy. Is that really a matter of choice?

rapfaria··on MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max
Not sure either since M5 base has been available for months now
rapfaria··on Tell HN: YC companies scrape GitHub activity, send spam emails to users
"Work for you"? They ain't hiring my friend, they are spamming their product to your inbox, not sending a career opportunity
rapfaria··on Pg-dev-container is a ready-to-run VS Code development container for PostgreSQL
You can set it up with docker compose and put the container on the same network of your dev env, and you are good to go.

What I'd really like is an image that mirrors extensions available on AWS Aurora. Supabase's is the only that has some parity as far as I know

rapfaria··on Television is 100 years old today
Not through your TV, but they see you driving to the last Blockbuster tho
rapfaria··on 2002: Last.fm and Audioscrobbler Herald the Social Web
There was. Oink spawned both wcd and waffles. wcd spawned a few including RED.

Next thursday, RED will have been around longer than WCD...

rapfaria··on Linux Kernel Explorer
> Will drop a message to ask if it'd be possible to have a similar tool for Python.

Why not create your own? This is as wild as open-source expectations of a speedy implementation, addressing issues quickly, etc. Folks always want more and more.

rapfaria··on PgFirstAid: PostgreSQL function for improving stability and performance
Damn, those are some 10k loc sql files, 3k+ pull requests. Talk about battle-tested.

Hopefully this grows to be postgres equivalent

rapfaria··on Being poor vs. being broke
I worked at a media company that used to track time the users spent watching TV, so they could charge advertisers accordingly. "Hundred million watched the Super Bowl", things like that.

The way they measured that was by having devices installed on peoples homes, that tracked TV usage, and all of it was planned around demographics as well. People would get a few bucks for having the device installed. But hey, if you wanted to measure the top 1% of income, what would you do? A few bucks meanth nothing, so it was always in terms of 'favors' and 'gifts'. A nice champagne here and there.

What about the bottom 5, 10%? Well, you can't give them any money, because that could effectively move them from one social class to another (not the US, but locally this would be moving them from Class E to Class D). So you took them to lunch.

I thought it was wild once I learned that.

rapfaria··on Affinity Studio now free
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rapfaria··on Novo Nordisk's Canadian Mistake
It’s not so straightforward, though. In the U.S., wages are usually discussed in terms of hourly pay or annual salary, whereas in Brazil, they’re typically expressed as monthly earnings.
rapfaria··on Hyperflask – Full stack Flask and Htmx framework
Is FastAPI still (micro)managed by one person?
rapfaria··on Claude Sonnet 4.5
His "pelican riding a bicycle" tests are now a classic and AI shops are benchmaxxing for it
rapfaria··on A shift in developer culture is impacting innovation and creativity
Exactly. It's a 1000+ people consulting firm, with a few dozens allocated with us
rapfaria··on A shift in developer culture is impacting innovation and creativity
Just recently we got an e-mail from a consulting company we work with, their devs are 100% allocated to the client. The letter was something along the lines: "We hear you guys are using Github Copilot, and we would appreciate if from now on you could provide the number of lines from each developer that was created with AI, that was helped by AI (they are distinct metrics), and how many the developer created on their own. Per month". We, the paying client, that work with several consulting companies, got that e-mail.

I understand the author, and if these days the developers are on it for the money and deliver, but don't bring up stupid shit like this, I don't care much. Not everybody is on it for any kind of creativity relief. Spending hours on their Lottie animations or shaving off miliseconds out of request is not really for everybody either. We are lucky to cross paths with people that care.

rapfaria··on Configuration files are user interfaces
Your existing JSON < 5 will work with json5, not the other way around
rapfaria··on Shai-Hulud malware attack: Tinycolor and over 40 NPM packages compromised
People living on the latest packages with their dependabots never made any sense to me, ADR. They trusted their system too much
rapfaria··on ReMarkable Paper Pro Move
Move like mobile phones

Now the "Pro"...

rapfaria··on Qwen-Image: Crafting with native text rendering
Not sure what you mean or new to llms, but two RTX 3090 will work for this, and even lower-end cards will (RTX3060) once it's GGUF'd
rapfaria··on Attention is your scarcest resource (2020)
The age of reading about something you love, and not effectively doing it.
rapfaria··on Study mode
"Toby is today's designated signer for Eletromagnetics 302."
rapfaria··on Checklists are hard, but still a good thing
Which is why programming, reality, and even recipes are so hard.

Ever go try to cook something new and you read "Pre-heat the pan on low-medium...", and your programmer brain just can't take it? What kind of pan, what's low-medium on this burner, how much pre-heating are you talking about? These can't be all the instructions.

And perhaps like programming, it takes a few recipes and a few burnt steaks for you "not to worry" about that, you know what's good enough eventually. These lists (and algorithms) are never completely thorough.

rapfaria··on Make Your Own Backup System – Part 1: Strategy Before Scripts
I'd go even a step further: For the big corp, having a point of failure that lives outside its structure can be a feature, and not a bug.

"Oh there goes Super Entrepise DB Partner again" turns into a product next fiscal year, that shutdowns the following year because the scope was too big, but at least they tried to make things better.

rapfaria··on Chatterbox TTS
An AI-powered browser extension that shows on hover the most likely acronym meaning, based on context you say?
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