One minor niggle on freeing resources... I'm hoping it becomes more popular with libraries, but there's using/await using with disppse/disposeAsync which works similarly to C#'s use of using.
I'm working on a db driver that uses it by convention as part of connection/pool usage cleanup.
The sometimes hot garbage I get from the AI results for technical questions in the past year or so has me not even considering them from the start... I've tried github copilot (whatever the default engine is) and OpenAI and just found it annoying. Claude is the first one that I've felt was more productive than annoying and I just started using it.
The past few weeks, Claude has started doing that as well... ie recognizing my preference to use Deno for scripting or React+mui when scaffolding a ui around something.
I've been using the browser/desktop for planning sessions on pieces of a larger project I'm putting together and it's been connecting the dots in unexpected ways from the other conversations.
I think the one disappointment is that I can't seem to resume a conversation from the web/desktop interface to the code interface... I have to have it generate a zip I can extract then work from.
I like Claude a lot for general and technical questions... I like xAI for some of that as well, especially for very current event summaries.
I will say with Claude that I often have to make sure to give it the context of a question for it to give me answers I'm looking for. I find in general it does better when you include the why's behind a decision or question.
I'm there with you, but only been using it a couple months now. I find that as long as I spend a fair amount of time with Claude specifying the work before starting the work, it tends to go really well. I have a general approach on how I want to run/build the software in development and it goes pretty smoothly with Claude. I do have to review what it does and sanity check things... I've tended to find bugs where I expect to see bugs, just from experience.
I keep using the analogy of working with a disconnected overseas dev team over email... since I've had to do this before. The difference is turn around in minutes instead of the next day.
On a current project, I just have it keep expanding on the TODO.md as working through the details... I'd say it's going well so far... Deno driver for MS-SQL using a Rust+FFI library. Still have some sanity checks around pooling, and need to test a couple windows only features (SSPI/Windows Auth and FILESTREAM) in a Windows environment, and I'll be ready to publish... About 3-4 hours of initial planning, 3 hours of initial iteration, then another 1:1:1:1 hours of planning/iteration working through features, etc.
Aside, I have noticed a few times a day, particularly west coast afternoon and early evening, the entire system seems to go 1/3 the speed... I'm guessing it's the biggest load on Anthropic's network as a whole.
At some scales, Obama was right... a lot of companies that do plastic extruded parts also do 3D printing for lower volume fulfillment. You can also do some types of parts that you couldn't make through extrusion.
Presumably this is part of an attempt to stop that and diffuse the blame? So-called "patriot" militias have gone legit with federal badges and everything now.
It's like how they desperately wanted to pin trans trans trans onto Charlie Kirk's murderer, to take focus away from the rightist dynamic of DIY solving your problem with a gun.
I was a little tongue and cheek, but also serious. No left-wing violence is generally labelled as such... If it's a left-wing anti-govt group, still gets labelled as right-wing violence, for example, because anti-govt always labelled as right-wing. All the Floyd riots, none of it ever labelled as left-wing violence.
Blue media downplays leftist violence, red media downplays rightist violence. Not terribly difficult to understand nor is it surprising. It sounds like you're just focusing on one camp of media, using it as a straw man to beat.
> All the Floyd riots, none of it ever labelled as left-wing violence.
Yes it was, by the right (including the current administration.) People on the right (including plenty here on HN) literally called BLM a "violent Marxist terrorist organization" that "burned entire cities to the ground."
ICE protests are called "violent leftist extremism." Anyone ICE shoots dead was a violent leftist terrorist all along. Protesting Israel is violent leftist antisemitism. Making jokes about Charlie Kirk only shows how bloodthirsty and violent the left is. Every single US mass shooting is linked to "stochastic leftist violence" regardless of the shooter's actual politics.
What "unbiased" statistics bodies are you referring to?
It's really annoying when people talk around what they actually want to say. It's clear you're accusing someone or something of bias against the right, and you're using absolute terms for something relative. Just come out with it.
I think some of the ADL reports in particular, I know there's other groups that I've seen in the past... with ADL in particular, there's been several cases that are either not logged, or classified as right wing when it should have been left. specifically anti-govt left/communist groups... anti-govt seems to always get classified as right-wing, as an example.
I didn't expressly want to spend a bunch of time looking things up that I hadn't seen in a few months and wouldn't be fresh in my mind on what/where to search... that's the only reason for the vagueness.
edit: I'm human... I can remember a lot of things, but not always specific context or what/where I read a given article on a subject, or the specific video to even search for if it was so. Often in these scenarios, where facing pushback, I'll actually spend the time to try to lookup things based on recollection and sometimes the searches go better or worse, I just don't have the time or inclination at the moment. I'm not trying to be obtuse or cagey, just real.
No, it's because 50k reads of settings are happening with a SQL Table in memory that's queried via SQL statement instead of a key/value hashtable. (real world experience, I think it was close to 28k reads, but the point stands)
Or at least improving the shared browser ui / chromeless experience for "app" installs. I think that Tauri is pretty reasonable as well, weak link being Linux currently.
On my personal desktop, I have 96gb... I've never gone over 70 or so.. but that was with a lot of services running a fairly complex system with data loaded locally. I generally don't five a f*ck about the ram I'm using day to day. I'll run various updates and reboot between once a month and once a quarter.
I'm working on a db driver that uses it by convention as part of connection/pool usage cleanup.
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