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New comment by faustin in "Harness engineering: Leveraging Codex in an agent-first world"

faustin — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 02:28:39 +0000

They directly address routine code cleanup and regularly paying down technical debt near the end of the article.

New comment by faustin in "The Python Package Index Should Get Rid of Its Training Wheels"

faustin — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 04:31:50 +0000

conda-forge handles the first part of this (reproducible builds) for most common platforms. The idea of rebuilding deleted artifacts on demand sounds nice in theory, but it has the complication that rebuilding something that depends on several other somethings will likely trigger a build cascade where a bunch of stuff has to get built in order. Hopefully none of those ancient build scripts require external resources hosted at dead links!

New comment by faustin in "He spent his life building a $1M stereo"

faustin — Sun, 14 Jan 2024 16:07:22 +0000

Out of all the ridiculous things, this one is actually not completely ridiculous. For low temperature physics applications, Oxygen-Free High Conductivity (OFHC) Copper is the only material that is sufficiently thermally conductive at low temperatures. I’m not an audio person, but I have a hard time imagining it would make much of a difference at room temperature; maybe similar performance with a slightly thinner cable?