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I have tried both, and aider is far less able when it comes to navigating your codebase, and self driving investigation. You are very involved in context management with aider, whereas claude code can use cli commands to do a lot of things itself.

Shit, never expected to see an announcement that a friend had died through HN. Learned a lot from you Mikeal, you will be missed.

Are there any reliable numbers on the holistic impact of ruminants? All of the carbon they emit came from the atmosphere via their plant diets, and a huge volume of that carbon is sequestered in the soil via their excrement. Ruminants help the soil, as opposed to modern agriculture which is largely reliant on fossil fuel derived fertilizer.

I have yet to see a paper that models this. Most of the estimates are purely based on output, which seems disingenuous at best.

I'd love to be able to get rid of it completely, but I don't know of a good solution for syncing files to an iOS device from a linux machine.

Recommendations very welcome!

I don't think that's true. There are precious few UI guidelines that persist, and GUI design has been on the forefront of many fads. Looking at the touch-first UI of today, I have very little confidence that a GUI will look anything like it does now in 10 years.

Meanwhile, I can use vim over ssh from an iPad if I need to - my tools have come with me.

Yes definitely. Vim will be around for the rest of your career, long after VSCode or other IDE's have come and gone. Investing in tools and workflows that are properly open source, and have serious longevity has a big payoff.

Definitely, it’s such a satisfying knot to tie too. And after that perhaps the figure 8 on 2 bights (bunny ears).

But then we are into the weeds…

These are decent for climbing, but for the rest of life you also want the bowline, which is easy to untie after being loaded.

Ring bend should only really be used for webbing.

If they can't manage to get people to be well equipped before tackling the peak, what are the chances they are going to be able to enforce a permitting system?

Honestly, as someone that has climbed Mont Blanc twice, what is necessary is not more red tape, but to actually enforce the current equipment rules at the Gouter. And based on the importance that mountaineering brings to the area, it wouldn't hurt to go and knock down the loose rock in the Gouter couloir.

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I'm looking for a full time role as either a full-stack developer, or a software team lead / manager.

I have 15 years of SWE experience, primarily with front-end development, but also backend, management and product management. I like to solve problems, so I'm more motivated by the goal than the tools at hand.

What do you use to mount this on a mac? My bottleneck with my NAS is the atrocious speeds I get over samba or NFS, and even after spending a ton of time messing with the configs, I can’t get more than sluggish speeds.

Finished Candy House recently and found it fairly mediocre. She seems to prefer writing about people than thinking through the consequences of the technology she introduced, and as a result, the Sci-Fi aspects feel awkwardly bolted on to the story, rather than having any real consequences to the people in it.

This seems to violate many of the OpenAI release guidelines (I am currently working on guiding a project through them, so am painfully aware of their stringency).

Notably it:

- Anthropomorphises the AI agent

- Claims 'actual' intelligence

Bleh, Imperial measurements (and how confusing is it to refer to ‘mils’) and the conclusions are hidden away in a PDF.

Not a great read.