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Comment on Avengers: Doomsday | Official trailer in ~movies
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Comment on Felicia Day will crowdfund a movie spinoff of The Guild this summer in ~movies
shrike Link ParentPerfect storm of people who were young-ish when the original came out and now are well off + want some nostalgia =)Perfect storm of people who were young-ish when the original came out and now are well off + want some nostalgia =)
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Comment on Who cleans up after the vibe-coding party? in ~tech
shrike Link ParentWe've noticed the exact same cost thing in my company too. Specifically the "we pay 10k/month and use like three features" bit. Creating a bespoke tool for those exact three features ourselves...We've noticed the exact same cost thing in my company too. Specifically the "we pay 10k/month and use like three features" bit.
Creating a bespoke tool for those exact three features ourselves costs less than the monthly fee AND we own the code so we can integrate it deeper into our processes and tools.
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Comment on Who cleans up after the vibe-coding party? in ~tech
shrike Link ParentI've given presentations about this at work, just to inform people how stupid it is to make a 3rd party rented agent the engine of any product, tool or application. Some people get it, some don't....I've given presentations about this at work, just to inform people how stupid it is to make a 3rd party rented agent the engine of any product, tool or application.
Some people get it, some don't. But that's what API budgets are for, just tighten the cost screw until some AI-centric process starts failing and fix them one by one. (Or rather have the creator fix it)
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Comment on Who cleans up after the vibe-coding party? in ~tech
shrike Link ParentWe have a dedicated AI team specifically to curb this. The main thing the AI team does is provide a baseline of agent skills, subagents, etc that keep the AI itself on a sane path, forcing it to...We have a dedicated AI team specifically to curb this.
The main thing the AI team does is provide a baseline of agent skills, subagents, etc that keep the AI itself on a sane path, forcing it to run deterministic code quality checks on everything as much as possible.
Not a perfect solution, but it did cut down on the complete bullshit slopfests quite a bit. Cleanup isn't easy but it's easier now that the vibed stuff is at least of average quality from the start.
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Comment on Agentic test processes, LLM benchmarks, and other notes on agentic coding in ~comp
shrike Link ParentMy current stack is Claude (Opus + Fable for a few more hours) for the hard stuff. pi.dev + Codex for clear tasks and Opencode + GLM-5.2 via z.ai, which seems to be somewhere between Sonnet 4.6...My current stack is Claude (Opus + Fable for a few more hours) for the hard stuff. pi.dev + Codex for clear tasks and Opencode + GLM-5.2 via z.ai, which seems to be somewhere between Sonnet 4.6 and Opus in "intelligence"
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Comment on Any fellow software engineers using paid GitHub copilot? in ~comp
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Comment on What's a game you're dying to play that doesn't exist? in ~games
shrike Link ParentFreelancer let me host my own server, something that very few games allow today.Freelancer let me host my own server, something that very few games allow today.
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Comment on <deleted topic> in ~tech
shrike LinkKagi and Youtube Premium Family are in the list of "subscriptions I'll stop last if money is tight", both are so essential to my personal quality of life that I'd rather unsub from many many other...Kagi and Youtube Premium Family are in the list of "subscriptions I'll stop last if money is tight", both are so essential to my personal quality of life that I'd rather unsub from many many other things before those.
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Comment on <deleted topic> in ~tech
shrike Link ParentI use like 12 browsers over 4 different devices regularly. I used to "just" set up stuff like that too, but bangs are just ... there. All I need to do is set Kagi (or DDG, which supports about the...I use like 12 browsers over 4 different devices regularly.
I used to "just" set up stuff like that too, but bangs are just ... there. All I need to do is set Kagi (or DDG, which supports about the same bangs) as default and they'll Just Work.
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Comment on Ars Asks: Share your shell and show us your tricked-out terminals in ~comp
shrike Link ParentFish + Starship is pretty a pretty doable baseline as-is.Fish + Starship is pretty a pretty doable baseline as-is.
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Comment on Any one use mesh networks like mesh core? in ~tech
shrike LinkI've got a pair of T-1000e:s and two Heltec V3s running Meshtastic I can get surprisingly long ranges with just two T-1000 units in an urban setting. Most likely even more when I get around to it...I've got a pair of T-1000e:s and two Heltec V3s running Meshtastic
I can get surprisingly long ranges with just two T-1000 units in an urban setting. Most likely even more when I get around to it and try to get one CLIENT_MUTE setup outside with a Proper Antenna.
But the most interesting things you can do with them is home automation and sensors. Like I have one in my car, pinging some useless measurements on an encrypted Radio-only channel. The unit in my home will pick it up when it's close enough. Or plug it in to home assistant and have a fully independent way of remotely controlling the devices linked to HA.
And again, when I get around to the physical bit, I'll add a bigger external antenna to the car one and have it act as a repeater only. So I'm inside a building, can't reach any nodes -> but I can reach my car node, which will re-send it.
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Comment on The zero-days are numbered — Firefox team uses AI to find and fix vulnerabilities in ~tech
shrike Link ParentNot everything has to be a "product" that makes profit and nothing there is super-unique and something that couldn't be done better in their repos. Very few things in the world are. llamafile has...Not everything has to be a "product" that makes profit and nothing there is super-unique and something that couldn't be done better in their repos. Very few things in the world are.
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Comment on The zero-days are numbered — Firefox team uses AI to find and fix vulnerabilities in ~tech
shrike Link ParentMozilla is also going all-in on LOCAL AI: https://blog.mozilla.ai/ They have multiple pretty cool projects that have first-lefvel support for local LLMs: https://github.com/mozilla-aiMozilla is also going all-in on LOCAL AI: https://blog.mozilla.ai/
They have multiple pretty cool projects that have first-lefvel support for local LLMs: https://github.com/mozilla-ai
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Comment on Framework reveals 13 Pro laptop with 20-hour battery in ~tech
shrike Link ParentThere's NOTHING to gain from a "statement". People will forget and largely already have.never released any statement owning up to that colossal fuck up
There's NOTHING to gain from a "statement". People will forget and largely already have.
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Comment on Framework reveals 13 Pro laptop with 20-hour battery in ~tech
shrike Link ParentJust to nitpick. How many stocks would Linus have to buy in your favourite grocery store for you to start boycotting them?Just to nitpick. How many stocks would Linus have to buy in your favourite grocery store for you to start boycotting them?
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Comment on What is your go-to project for learning a new language? in ~comp
shrike LinkIRC Bot. It's surprising how many languages make it nearly impossible :) You need to have at the very least: A constant open TCP connection, modern servers require TLS/SSL too. A way to listen to...IRC Bot. It's surprising how many languages make it nearly impossible :)
You need to have at the very least:
- A constant open TCP connection, modern servers require TLS/SSL too.
- A way to listen to PING messages from that connection and reply PONG or the server will kick you out for being idle (some kind of threading or event-based system)
- Sane way to parse strings
Then you can start adding stuff like logging (writing to files or sqlite), module support (calling plugins, hot-reloading them in some way), configuration (read config from a file or something else), support for multiple networks (need to have 2+ constant TCP connections and an ability tell which is which)...
And from that you can either go more on the bot side or start turning it into a client. Or go fancy and make the same core work for Discord and Telegram.
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Comment on Vibe coding is just the return of Excel/Access, with more danger in ~comp
shrike Link ParentYea, my job currently is pretty much finding all of these, cataloguing them and bringing them up to proper quality :D All without stomping on people's enthusiasm for creating small utilities for...Yea, my job currently is pretty much finding all of these, cataloguing them and bringing them up to proper quality :D
All without stomping on people's enthusiasm for creating small utilities for themselves and their team.
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Comment on Static analysis, dynamic analysis, and stochastic analysis in ~comp
shrike LinkThis is pretty much what /simplify does in Claude Code btw. It launches three subagents to check for basic errors and usually finds some even in Claude's own code :DThis is pretty much what
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Comment on Medium term cold storage options? in ~comp
shrike Link ParentMy laptop travels around with me, and I want it to be able to sync wherever it is. =) Also I don't want to use the public routing infrastructure from Syncthing, each machine is connected directly...My laptop travels around with me, and I want it to be able to sync wherever it is. =)
Also I don't want to use the public routing infrastructure from Syncthing, each machine is connected directly via the Tailscale IP and all external access through any other interface is blocked.
I'm writing this down here before the movie comes out, just in case I'm right:
Ergo: The true bad guy of the Doomsday movie is Onslaught, which actually might work.