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That's close to my workflow as well... keeping planned areas in TODO.md, done changes in DONE.md, and a non-committed WORKING.md for the current work being done, as well as coordination with sub-agents, so I can view/monitor... have to direct the latter each time to have it done that way.

I spent part of last week, and the weekend, in Claude (Fable) on a documentation project... maybe a waste to use Fable, but been a little obsessed with trying to get the technical details right. I know, from personal history, more than some of the available info easily found on the subject. I let a lot of it just go, and swing for the fences, but in the end, did hand review all the output at each stem.

In my specific case, implementing modern documentation for Remote Imaging Protocol (and old graphics protocol for terminal/bbs usage), and in particular trying to gather what exists of the later version released. The company itself folded, and there wasn't a lot of broad use of the later versions, and only partial information was ever released as a documentation. Claude was able to interrogate the apps, and some available open source, in progress work, and establish a lot of things.

I've still got to direct some edits... I guided a re-flow of the order the documentation was written in, particularly to be consistent between the versions... but it obsessively added verbose summaries to every page/file. All markdown, meant to build a website from, and eventually some compatibility tests, guidelines and a green/open implementation.

https://github.com/bbs-land/remote-imaging-protocol

Beyond the early MacOS UI/UX, I would look at pre-smartphone devices as well. Palm pilot, phones, etc. These will give you ideas on what you can accomplish with lower resolution UI screens.

For that matter, look at good TUI applications... (not the render path, but the result as a whole) ... blocking/spacing and clear controls, etc... though you'll be more touch, less tab/enter, etc. A TUI App renders by characters, but you can still learn from the overall layouts. Simplified menu lists with fewer items in a hierarchy, etc.

If you can and have physical buttons, think long and hard about their functions, especially if you have a limited number... these should do your most important things.

Yeah, I can't even run AI on work hardware... I have been able to use it for writing small utils/libraries that I then pull into the work... but the divide is clear and I review all the code myself.

For a couple examples, working through an animated loader for html/js/css with an svg for the org. Another was working through a library implementation to work against an interface that was designed for Mongo, but the org is using SQL Server. Latest was a quick util to extract a zip file of pdfs into a 1bit(b/w), zopfli compressed png file per page.

Generally stuff I could do, but would take me a few days for research and experimentation vs an hour or two with AI.

Hard for me to even imagine being in that kind of work environment. I know that I don't always like the output for AI, and even will argue with it at times (often into submission), then ask it to restate.

For code gen and review, it's been pretty good since recent Opus versions, and I really like Fable's outputs (though a bit costly in terms of use). Fable is much closer to my own style for the couple things I've done with it.

I have yet to even consider replying to emails/messages with AI. I sometimes write a wall of text on my own, but it's entirely me.

IIRC, it was a decision based around not porting to 64bit in the newer versions of Windows. I agree it's a shame it didn't move forward... same for a lot of things that were in earlier versions that didn't make the cut.

FWIW, in a lot of cases you aren't expecting even thousands of simultaneous users, so SQLite is a perfectly valid option. Not to mention services like Cloudflare D2 and Turso which build on SQLite as a core with different features for scale/concurrency.

A lot of people manage to run several containerized applications on a single VPS behind a reverse proxy for personal or small groups. Managing a full rdbms takes work supporting multiple applications, or spinning up multiple instances per app in said containerized flows takes up excess resources, where SQLite would do the job just fine.

Not everything is going to be running 5+ nines of operation with distributed workloads. Plenty of real things run on a decent server with a good enough backup system in place.

IIRC, depends on the SSD size.. larger sizes had 2x the bandwidth, so it depends. That's combined/offset with the M5 improvements even further.

This is actually very similar to some ideas I've been having for a while... that having a smaller entry model that knows enough about "expert" models that themselves are smaller to hand work over to could be better/faster/lighter in terms of working through real problems vs the megalith ones we currently use. Highly distilled experts and coordination with a fallback mode to a larger model option.

Of course... Afaik that's the general process in the US anyway... You aren't recognized until after a vote... Often under NLB supervision.

Yeah, I've used bin/ and scripts/ in the past as well as _scripts/ ... but I just like the ergonomics of run/foo... run/api, run/ui, run/api-test, ... etc.

I'm usually working in a subproject, so it's usually ../../run/foo in practice, but still.

The only possible legit argument for blocking Chinese models is to force US orgs to use US based providers/models. And despite the fact that I and a lot of others cannot or should not use Chinese based models, they should be generally available as much as anyone in any other nation has access.

It's a lot like the guards against dealing with security issues.. I'd rather they be found and fixed then to try to stop people from being able to discover in the first place. I mean, where does that stop, do we let AI security scanners not tell you you have a SQL injection for fear someone might exploit it? They already can and they might use something else that tells them as much.

I tend to use this quite a bit to squash working branch commits before a rebase... though I'll also tend to use commit --amend locally as well. I try not to have long-lived branches, but when I do, I squash and rebase against the upstream main/master pretty often to reduce drift.

FWIW, there is some decent tooling options for C# with Razor + HTMX that are worth looking at. From JetBrains and others.

How are human behaviors like greed, desire for power and laziness injected or accounted for in the simulation? Greed and power climbing don't go away under communism, and the use of forced labor is often the means of overcoming inherent laziness with a lack of reward under communism, generally speaking and even that has diminishing returns in practice from historical evidence.

Would also be interesting to include Fascist-style socialism as an economic model in addition to the "mixed" and "communist" targets. Which, as implemented in China has been relatively successful, despite the societal flaws encountered.

The headline here doesn't match the link in question, and it is at best a misstatement of the current standing. It looks like there has yet to be any election for the employees to actually unionize, so there is no place for said union to be recognized... I'm unclear what recognition the poster actually expects here.

In terms of working to unionize and hold an election, that's a different story and one that isn't really covered in TFA either for or against or holding to specific values or process in place.

Note: I'm not against unionization per-se, but this headline and the implications are definitely misleading here.

On your second point... that's the problem... IMO, humans need to read/understand and approve code changes generated by AI. If either through a lack of understanding or skill, they approve changes anyways, that's largely on them an they largely deserve what they get.

Like TFA, I'm a proponent of human gatekeepers in the loop. IMO, the result isn't much better at a team level when you compare dev + ai to a typical team and that level of output... but you get a lot more testing and documentation along the way just through the process refinement and iterations.

I think the harder issue is finding and growing Senior level developers that actually have a material understanding of what is happening and how things are working at a high and low level. The more junior, imo, the more likely someone is to just accept the AI result(s) that introduce more bugs in the process.

You might also find Yew, Leptos an Dioxus interresting... they're web UI frameworks for browser applications written in rust... with some options for native(-like) application targets.

Of course... this would transitionally make the ipv6 internal addresses easier to understand in the context of typical migration... you have the public prefix and the public ipv6 addresses of your internal network map cleanly to the internal/nat'd ipv4 ... you could still use any ipv6 internally once most of the internet transitioned.. but it'd be easier to reason with at least... I still don't know WTF/HTF ipv6 addresses are issued, where or how I can centrally control static assignment to a given MAC.

That's where the public prefix would be the differentiator... you could only access from external directly over IPv6, but it still represents the same device as the NAT ipv4 address.

Difference is it's all public after, it would ease the transition dramatically, and then you can just use whatever you want internally making /32 the minimal assigned block or whatever the prefix size is.

Cool... now, what do I need to do to configure say OpnSense to give out my internal IPv4/6 addresses that way... and then what pain do I need to go through to secure my internal devices from externally oriented connection attempts?

The former is somewhat serious a question... I want some devices statically assigned and others dynamically, and I'd love to have them match, so where desired I can directly route to/from external over IPv6.

Beyond that are the payment systems and tracking that they have... Point of Sale hardware/software has always been tracking, especially if you regularly use credit/debit cards... your name and Zip+4 is pretty damned accurate for correlated data (aside from jr/sr scenarios, worse).

They share, collaborate and collude and it all strips away your rights. Similar for so many large merchants and the alternative is to pay 10-20% more (or more) for smaller shops. That said, Amazon has gotten so bad with opportunistic pricing that they're sometimes more expensive than the alternatives anyway.

I have an LG monitor... and while running Linux, will definitely not be buying another... this is ridiculous. I've been weary of "smart" TVs for a long while, WTF do you need a microphone on a TV?!?

If I buy a TV and it doesn't work without connecting to the internet, I'm simply going to return it. Changing this after the fact should mean a class action lawsuit. It's ridiculous, and MS should absolutely restrict this kind of crap... They (Microsoft) auto-load the software for Logitec mice and cameras as well, but at least they (Logitech) aren't injecting ad/spyware.

I've been doing similar for many scripts within project workflows... I've started calling the directory in question ./run/ by convention, so I type run/scriptname to run stuff... I've got bash (extnsionless) and powershell (ps1) scripts in place on my work project).

I'll also lean into docker+compose usage for any background services, and even development in order to reduce the running footprint switching projects.

Yeah... I mean, you don't have to implement everything to be useful as a message platform though... most of the extension usage are kludges anyway. Also, can probably simply use UTF8 and UTC/GMT by convention where the client displays local date/time, etc. Can also revamp a lot of aspects by convention in-network as part of the server/client structures.

That said, I'd still say it's useful, you just need to at least have user/system authentication as plain text over nntp(s|es) to significantly reduce spam.

yeah, because downloading and copy/pasting file contents are so very hard to do.

I call out specifically in my agent/claude file that I want and prefer simpler solutions over complex enterprise pattern usage and overuse of abstractions. It tends to help a bit, but often I have to give feedback in my review step.

My typical workflow when AI assisted is what I call human gatekeeping... I'll plan out next steps with the agent, updating a TODO.md file with what needs to be done, then a fresh context to implement the next step(s), and review the code before committing to git. I may iterate/stash or even reset a few times before it's "good enough"... it is rarely close to what I would do myself, but often as good as what I've gotten from other developers IRL on projects.

This includes updating the documentation area(s) of a project as well as testing. I also tend to lean on ./run/* for scripts that will run/test various portions of the project... getting the agent to use these is sometimes harder than it should be, as I want it to specifically exercise a lot of things through the process... there are also times where it will try to change a valid test that's failing instead of fixing the code. That's the most irritating part. Some models are annoying, some feel like pure magic at times.

Ask your LLM in session to create a summary.md file... you can carry that into other sessions with different/new contexts.

I usually just ask the agent to create a summary document in markdown format... I'll sometimes play out what I want to do on my phone in conversational modes, then take that output and start with it against a coding tool to continue/start actual work on things.

I tend to spend a lot more time planning than what it takes to execute/build what I'm after.. then more time reviewing again than the produce step(s) and iterate.

For that matter, I'll track what I'm wanting and what has been done via TODO.md file in project(s).

I'm not sure I would ever use/trust a service like this myself. I barely trust the AI providers as it is.

Could be useful to pre-populate and bootstrap a fresh personal use server/service...

I would love to see a return to more Usenet usage, as well as more semi-private BBS style networks transported over NNTP instead of FTN/Binkley protocols... These days most BBS systems are mostly local sysops and maybe a couple other sysops as users. I do think there's room for some modernization, but even then, I'd love to see a comeback.

Especially as the powers that be are progressing towards forcing ID verification on common social media sites... not that I have anything to hide, and I at least have #1A rights still, but so many around the world simply don't.