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New comment by 8n4vidtmkvmk in "Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin"

8n4vidtmkvmk — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 06:38:25 +0000

Are you defending doing boring work?

I personally never minded doing migrations. I guess I don't really have to anymore though. Weird.

New comment by 8n4vidtmkvmk in "Saving 100 terabytes of memory by optimizing 1.1.1.1's DNS cache"

8n4vidtmkvmk — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 01:18:02 +0000

Not from what I've seen. The desirable neighborhoods are 500-600k. Suburbs outside major city

New comment by 8n4vidtmkvmk in "Claude: System Prompts"

8n4vidtmkvmk — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 17:35:28 +0000

For complex projects with lots of internal tools and strict requirements, I'm finding a fairly lengthy system prompt is quite worth it.

Start short or empty and watch where it makes mistakes then just keep tuning it so they're less frequent. That works for me.

New comment by 8n4vidtmkvmk in "The other Sean Byrne doesn't exist"

8n4vidtmkvmk — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 18:03:35 +0000

In the US, permanent residents technically have to keep their green card on them at all times.

New comment by 8n4vidtmkvmk in "Gemini 3.7 Flash"

8n4vidtmkvmk — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 03:53:49 +0000

I signed up for AWS (SES) recently for the first time and find their whole thing confusing as heck too. Signed into the wrong region and they pretend they don't even know who I am.

New comment by 8n4vidtmkvmk in "Delta"

8n4vidtmkvmk — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 01:12:51 +0000

Can you elaborate? Why wouldn't you just check in your code when you're done your bit instead of working on the same commit together?

New comment by 8n4vidtmkvmk in "Delta"

8n4vidtmkvmk — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 01:11:04 +0000

I happened to "pair program" for the first time in years today! My coworker asked me to come over and help him with a problem.

'course we only did it for like 5 min to get him over the hump.

I think that's the only use case. It sucks having someone hover over you otherwise.

New comment by 8n4vidtmkvmk in "Tl;dv: Over 180k meetings left wide open"

8n4vidtmkvmk — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 17:06:12 +0000

Amusingly i specialized in both AI and philosophy in college. Guess I'll be ok.

New comment by 8n4vidtmkvmk in "Kinney Drugs pulls back AI phone assistant after hundreds of customer complaints"

8n4vidtmkvmk — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 17:02:28 +0000

Just curious, why are drug names such a disaster? Do LLMs not understand pronunciation keys?

New comment by 8n4vidtmkvmk in "Mario Meets Pareto"

8n4vidtmkvmk — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 16:30:34 +0000

Better get the trophy ready

New comment by 8n4vidtmkvmk in "Devtools must be open source"

8n4vidtmkvmk — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 17:21:39 +0000

I too built a terminal emulator and I like it, but I wouldn't say it's easy to maintain even with LLMs. The # of edge cases is insane.

New comment by 8n4vidtmkvmk in "Karpathy’s Pelican"

8n4vidtmkvmk — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 17:36:14 +0000

Yes. It's fantastic for one-off tasks.

New comment by 8n4vidtmkvmk in "Karpathy’s Pelican"

8n4vidtmkvmk — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 17:32:21 +0000

We're all just impressed that it's even possible. No one is saying these are fun.

I guess the next question is if they can be made fun without too much additional work with a human guiding the AI.

New comment by 8n4vidtmkvmk in "How to Exist"

8n4vidtmkvmk — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 07:44:36 +0000

I think the difference is they're completable jobs. You work until it's done. At least for the day.

New comment by 8n4vidtmkvmk in "How to Exist"

8n4vidtmkvmk — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 07:36:46 +0000

That word isn't any better. I am regardless of what I'm doing or how I'm feeling.

New comment by 8n4vidtmkvmk in "Programming language file extensions that match ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country codes"

8n4vidtmkvmk — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 07:23:09 +0000

You want them to use .c++? Or .cpp?

New comment by 8n4vidtmkvmk in "Programming language file extensions that match ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country codes"

8n4vidtmkvmk — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 07:16:19 +0000

Maybe they just want to use their country tld for things specific to their country instead of letting some shmucks scoop all the domains for useless junk?

New comment by 8n4vidtmkvmk in "I built Kubernetes for Rust. One command deploys your binary to every server"

8n4vidtmkvmk — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 07:10:04 +0000

Sounds ok but you know what else is Kubernetes for Rust? Kubernetes. Why use this, lighter weight? What if i also need to deploy non-Rust services across my cluster?

New comment by 8n4vidtmkvmk in "Terrence Tao's ChatGPT Conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture Counterexample"

8n4vidtmkvmk — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 19:53:43 +0000

There's a reason they're not more popular...

New comment by 8n4vidtmkvmk in "What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph"

8n4vidtmkvmk — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 04:48:59 +0000

90% of my over 250k rep is from asking questions.

Surely there's some value to asking a well worded question that many other people also have.

And yes, I've had my share of questions closed for some BS, including many in recent times closing 10 year old questions as dupes. Brilliant.