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tengbretson··on Googlebook
> Designed for Gemini Intelligence

They should design one for users.

tengbretson··on If AI writes your code, why use Python?
Admittedly, I have very little experience with LLM-assisted Python. However, based on the severe degradation in output quality I have seen from an LLM working with plain JavaScript as opposed to TypeScript, I can't imagine choosing to start a project in Python at the moment.
tengbretson··on Killed by Apple
RIP lala.com
tengbretson··on Plex's price hikes prove I was right to switch to Jellyfin
I'll happily take 10 "oops I messed up your order"s over 1 "I put sawdust in the bread"
tengbretson··on California farmers to destroy 420k peach trees following Del Monte bankruptcy
The land is the thing that is actually valuable here, so filling that land with a perfect grid of 6 foot craters in exchange for a few dollars is probably a bad call.
tengbretson··on Honker – Durable queues, streams, pub/sub, and cron scheduler in a SQLite file
I'm a big fan of SQLite and all that, but if SQLite constrains you to a single writer process, why not do this in your application layer anyway?
tengbretson··on Refuse to let your doctor record you
Were those surveys performed before or after the patient received the bill?

Getting billed for a "dietary consult" because your doctor may have asked you what you had for lunch due to the coding intensity of these scribes is asinine.

tengbretson··on I cancelled Claude: Token issues, declining quality, and poor support
> or even unnecessary code wrangling data (mapping objects into new objects of narrower types when won't be needed)

Dude! The amount of ad-hoc, interface-specific DTOs that LLM coding agents define drives me up the wall. Just use the damn domain models!

tengbretson··on US Department of Justice has officially reclassified cannabis as less dangerous
A whole brick of asbestos? Buddy, we've got you for intention to sell. Why don't you step out of the vehicle.
tengbretson··on US Department of Justice has officially reclassified cannabis as less dangerous
The asbestos lobby is really getting creative here.
tengbretson··on Parallel agents in Zed
I really want to like Zed, but for some reason the way it interfaces with the TypeScript language server is dog slow compared to VS Code and its derivatives.
tengbretson··on macOS 27 won’t be supporting Intel anymore
I just want Linux on my T2 mbp.
tengbretson··on WiiFin – Jellyfin Client for Nintendo Wii
Plex could reverse this trend in a week if they decided to prioritize work on any feature that their core market actually wanted.
tengbretson··on AI Will Be Met with Violence, and Nothing Good Will Come of It
Software developers are expressing their concerns on this the exact moment they aren't directly building the thing that's "eating the world."
tengbretson··on I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii
Works on Orion.
tengbretson··on Docker Offload
Man this would have crushed in 2017.
tengbretson··on Trump fires Pam Bondi as attorney general
The electoral college gets a bad rap, but I almost wonder if going back to not having state popular votes determine presidential electors might be the move.
tengbretson··on ZomboCom stolen by a hacker, sold, now replaced with AI-generated makeover
I knew anything was possible at ZomboCom, but damn. I never expected this. Guess that's ZomboCom for ya.
tengbretson··on Apple Business
I imagine the company that currently ships 250m iPhones a year can figure that part out.
tengbretson··on Oil and gas prices jump after Iran and Israel attack gasfields
Uniting to fight gasfields might be just the common enemy that Iran and Israel need to finally mend this relationship.
tengbretson··on Ryugu asteroid samples contain all DNA and RNA building blocks
I just walked into a room and everywhere I look, everything I see is made up of the same basic building blocks.

The only thing left to figure out is how did these legos learn to assemble themselves.

tengbretson··on Iowa Payphone Defends Itself (Associated Press, 1984)
Alternate title: "Local man not a snitch"
tengbretson··on New farm bill would condemn pigs to a lifetime in gestation crates
Ehhh no they wouldn't.
tengbretson··on Iran names Khamenei's hardline son Mojtaba as new supreme leader
On what charges?
tengbretson··on 19 States approved permanent daylight saving time
If a personal or family routine is not robust enough to handle an hour of variation I wouldn't expect the dst changeovers to register in the top 25 most disruptive yearly events.
tengbretson··on 19 States approved permanent daylight saving time
Most devices don't even require manually setting the clock anymore. What exactly is so difficult about the time changing by an hour?
tengbretson··on This time is different
LLMs have not radically transformed the world yet because the number of people capable of solving problems by typing into a blinking cursor on a blank screen is actually quite small. Take that subset of the population and reduce it to those that can effectively write communicative prose, and its even smaller still.

It's just an interface problem. The VT100 didn't change the world overnight either.

tengbretson··on How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week
React server components are dope. Server actions are dangerous but powerful. No one has a more mature implementation of either of these than Next.
tengbretson··on YouTube Blocks Background Listening Workaround for Free Users
If in the current arrangement the free users represent a majority of the costs, hassle and noise and a shrinking or stagnant share of revenue, then you get more money by turning the screws and seeing how many convert.
tengbretson··on YouTube Blocks Background Listening Workaround for Free Users
Who cares about what free users want?
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