jsilence's comments

On: Chipotle stock craters: young people without jobs cannot afford their food

[jsilence]

Maybe teach zhem how to cook? Much cheaper.

On: A qualitative analysis of pig-butchering scams

[jsilence]

Wondering if it were feasible to vibe-code a Bot that would engage and invest the little sums that yield those bait gains, and harvest those. Eject at the right time.

[DonHopkins → jsilence]

Great original idea, you should make a Beowulf Cluster of them! With a Java Applet!

[K0balt → DonHopkins]

This made me taste cringe. It’s orange flavoured and weirdly acidic like something the dentist used on me when I was 7.

On: Claude now has access to a server-side container environment

[jsilence]

Wondering why they are not using uv instead of pip in the container, give that uv is much faster than pip.

[simonw → jsilence]

You can tell it to install uv. I just ran this:

  Run "pip install uv" then run
  "uv tool install sqlite-utils"
  then "sqlite-utils --version"

And it worked: https://claude.ai/share/df36f3a8-44f0-4c7d-bb64-e5ed57602d79

I imagine they still default to pip because there's more training data about it, and it works fine.

On: Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5B to settle lawsuit with book authors

[jsilence]

That is part of the ‚first mover advantage‘. Sometimes operating and experimenting in grey zones before they become regulated.

The European and especially German approach of regulating pre-emptive might be more fair, but apparently it also stifles innovation, as we can observe. Almost no significant players from Europe and Germany.

On: Kazeta: An operating system that brings the console gaming experience of 90s

[jsilence]

A wonderful gift idea for nerd friends.

On: Positron – A next-generation data science IDE

[jsilence]

Maybe consider evaluating Marimo?

On: The chemical secrets that help keep honey fresh for so long

[jsilence]

Amazing what well trained small neural networks can achieve.

[pyman → jsilence]

Associative learning

On: uv: An extremely fast Python package and project manager, written in Rust

[jsilence]

Using this trick with Marimo.io notebooks in app-mode.

Instant reactive reproducible app that can be sent to others with minimal prerequisites (only uv needs to be installed).

Such a hot combo.

On: Quarkdown: A modern Markdown-based typesetting system

[jsilence]

Also let's not forget that Quarto is the spiritual successor of the widely successful R Markdown ecosystem. By the same developers: https://quarto.org/docs/faq/#who-are-the-developers-of-quart...

[riskassessment → jsilence]

Not just the spiritual successor but also backwards compatible in that Quarto can render R Markdown files (in addition to the newer quarto .qmd spec).

On: Edamagit: Magit for VSCode

[jsilence]

Have been using Spacemacs and Doom Emacs some time ago, but turned off evil mode, bc I was not used to vim style editing. Lately I understood that vim key bindings is actually an editing language and finally found joy in vim [0]. Surely going to return to Doom-Emacs with evil mode on. Maybe switching to evil god mode later.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlR5gYd6um0