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Re:Letta Code on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @09:52PM (#46297700)
I'm very interested in trying this out! I run Claude Code in sandbox with `--dangerously-skip-permissions`. Is that possible with Letta?
Re:Ghostty compiled to WASM with xterm.js API compatibility on Monday December 01, 2025 @05:25PM (#46114180)
Do we have Windows support yet?
I also recommend listening to the drum history podcast which has episodes with Zildjian and Sabian family members.
Re:Git Bash Is My Preferred Windows Shell on Wednesday September 11, 2024 @08:01AM (#41510509)
Clink + windows terminal + Git tools is the perfect setup IMO.
Re:Masterclass with Steve Albini on Thursday May 09, 2024 @08:13PM (#40314263)
First 10 minutes are quite interesting. Analog vs digital, longevity of music, “open” formats.
Re:Hetzner switches to new billing model on Thursday February 29, 2024 @07:51AM (#39548661)
Any recommendation for a provider with dedicated servers in the US?

I’m with a provider now who is phasing them out.

Re:Scrum Sucks on Monday January 15, 2024 @01:47PM (#39004484)
Yeah, it won't work without a stable team. And that may be okay in a true agile environment but I've always had a manager who wants some type of estimate/high level schedule.

We do T-shirt sizes mapped to numbers, because recording effort in numbers lets you get an avg etc...

Re:Scrum Sucks on Monday January 15, 2024 @01:43PM (#39004424)
Yeah, you are doing it wrong if scrum is deadlines. I've worked with people who had to pull all nighters to get all sprint content done before the sprint closes. I'm using it more as a window to do some cheap analysis on our progress.
Re:Scrum Sucks on Monday January 15, 2024 @12:03PM (#39003089)
The things I've taken from scrum and use at every team:

- plan in 2 week chunks

- estimate in points (relative size to something you've already done), emphasis on consistent estimates for each dev.

- make sure you define what 'done' means, and make sure it relates to what exactly you are trying to measure (Eg just coding effort, work till feature can ship?, etc). This is probably the most tricky bit.

- capture total velocity every 2 weeks and eventually use the avg for future planning

- review the entire process and modify things that take a lot of time for devs.

Re:Show HN: exaequOS - a new OS running in a web browser on Saturday September 16, 2023 @09:50AM (#37534753)
Pretty cool! How do you persist storage?
Re:Death by a Thousand Microservices on Tuesday September 12, 2023 @07:41AM (#37479550)
> And did you know that you can deploy a monolith to Lambda and still get all the benefits of Lambda without building services

I did not know. Does anyone have pointers or examples on this?

Re:Microsoft's backwards compatibility is insane on Saturday August 19, 2023 @08:11AM (#37187948)
Bingo.
Re:Microsoft's backwards compatibility is insane on Friday August 18, 2023 @08:56PM (#37184262)
Yup, that’s the example I cited above.
Re:Microsoft's backwards compatibility is insane on Friday August 18, 2023 @11:50AM (#37177366)
Even more “insanity”:

z/OS (aka OS360 aka MVS) supports programs going back to the 60s and I just talked with a DE at IBM who is still using a program compiled circa Apollo 11 mission.

Re:On Fyodor Dostoevsky’s the Brothers Karamazov on Sunday July 30, 2023 @05:52PM (#36936386)
Crime and punishment was riveting. “Brothers” was a slog. Maybe I didn’t make it far enough through. This comes from someone who lived in Russia and enjoys Russian culture.
Re:Digg's v4 launch: an optimism born of necessity (2018) on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @07:20AM (#36211016)
> We had so little capacity that we had decided to reimage all our existing servers and then reprovision them in the new software stack.

That's terrifying!

I’ve used backblaze for a decade on Mac and windows. I’ve done selective restores and also used their mail you a hard drive option.
Yes but read about restore time first - https://github.com/Tarsnap/tarsnap/issues/333
Re:Learn Vim (2021) on Friday February 24, 2023 @08:05PM (#34932588)
I used to have crazy IDE-like setups but have realized that Vim is great for straight text manipulation (writing bash scripts, log parsing, etc) and VS code or eclipse is great for heavy duty programming. Now my vimrc is less than 50 lines and no plugins.
Re:Learn Vim (2021) on Friday February 24, 2023 @08:02PM (#34932567)
I was lucky enough to really learn *nix via Solaris where Vi was the only option.
Why are people downvoting jmeister who is just quoting Musk. Don’t shoot the messenger.

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