botanical76 (u/botanical76)

botanical76 commented on Why users cannot create Issues directly github.com/ghostty-org/gh... · Posted by u/xpe

arccy · a month ago

behold the best way to search github issues. Using Google or whatever decent search engine:

    site:https://github.com/org/repo key words

botanical76 · a month ago

Does this actually work? I would think it will be out of date by at least weeks, and I'd be surprised if their crawlers actually iterate through every issue page.

botanical76 commented on CRISPR fungus: Protein-packed, sustainable, and tastes like meat isaaa.org/kc/cropbiotechu... · Posted by u/rguiscard

globular-toast · 2 months ago

> Why do vegs have to neg on other vegs for what they eat?

It's not a "neg", it's my opinion. I don't think you need to crave meat, you are just lacking the proper cuisine that would satisfy you completely. Try Gobi 65 and you'll never crave "spicy chicken wings" again. I feel like people go veggie by just removing meat from a cuisine that is centred around it. Imagine British food without meat: nothing and mash, nothing and chips, roast nothing... mmm... delicious. You need to completely change. There's nothing "missing" from a vegetarian Indian meal.

botanical76 · 2 months ago

I don't agree with your conclusion, but just wanted to say the segment on "roast nothing" was hilarious and absolutely true. Quite right that many cuisines depend on meat to be worth eating. I'm just happy that the food I eat no longer consumes animal lives; the mechanism to do that is a triviality compared.

botanical76 commented on Running Claude Code in a loop to mirror human development practices anandchowdhary.com/blog/2... · Posted by u/Kerrick

greenavocado · 2 months ago

If left to its own devices, Claude will resort to writing passable looking BS as tests pretty quickly when the going gets tough e.g. if it has to interface with stateful real world systems and its tests struggle to pass

botanical76 · 2 months ago

This is my experience as well. If you want it to write good tests, you have to take a much more involved approach of first making it establish what needs testing in each module, writing each test one at a time, and making it prove that it can break the test by modifying the source code to introduce a bug, modify the test to be appropriate, rinse and repeat. I haven't done this much because it's very expensive in terms of time and premium tokens...right now, I just write most tests myself so at least I have faith in the verification suite.

botanical76 commented on Android developer verification: Early access starts android-developers.google... · Posted by u/erohead

nandomrumber · 3 months ago

You have to trust somebody.

Who is F-Droid? Why should I trust them?

How do I know they aren’t infiltrated by TLAs? (Three Letter Agencies), or outright bad-actors.

Didn’t F-Droid have 20 or so apps that contained known vulnerabilities back in 2022?

Who are all these people? Why should I trust them, and why do most of them have no link to a bio or repository, or otherwise no way to verify they are who they say they are and are doing what they claim to be doing in my best interests?

https://f-droid.org/en/about/

botanical76 · 3 months ago

I understand your concern, though your suspicion is a little shortsighted. It can be personally dangerous to volunteer for projects that directly circumvent the control of the establishment.

botanical76 commented on Why effort scales superlinearly with the perceived quality of creative work markusstrasser.org/creati... · Posted by u/eatitraw

qlm · 3 months ago

Perhaps a controversial view on this particular forum but I find the tendency of a certain type of person* to write about everything in this overly-technical way regardless of whether it is appropriate to the subject matter to be very tiresome ("executing cached heuristics", "constrained the search space").

*I associate it with the asinine contemporary "rationalist" movement (LessWrong et al.) but I'm not making any claims the author is associated with this.

botanical76 · 3 months ago

I mean, I talk like this as well. It's not really intentional. My interests influence the language that I use.

Why is the rationalist movement asinine? I don't know much about it but it seems interesting.

botanical76 commented on Life After Work mechanize.work/blog/life-... · Posted by u/colesantiago

kyoob · 4 months ago

Who will take the coal from the mine? Who will take the salt from the earth? Who'll take a leaf and grow it to a tree? Don't look now, it ain't you or me

botanical76 · 4 months ago

Can you explain the subtext here?

botanical76 commented on Keep Android Open keepandroidopen.org/... · Posted by u/LorenDB

vbezhenar · 4 months ago

AFAIK GPLv3 requires to allow user to run modified software (so essentially device must be unlockable). Android is not GPLv3, unfortunately.

botanical76 · 4 months ago

Many Android devices are unlockable, you can run your own software, and yet we still have a problem. This problem exists irrespective of what you can technically do with the hardware due to the vote by corporations to favour device "security" over user freedom. A phone is useless to most people without the apps they depend on.

botanical76 commented on Gemini 3.0 spotted in the wild through A/B testing ricklamers.io/posts/gemin... · Posted by u/ricklamers

nextworddev · 4 months ago

My friends at Google hate AI coding with passion. I have some theories as to why. But anyone here venture a guess?

botanical76 · 4 months ago

AI coding is in many ways antithetical to great software engineering.

It is the current spear-edge of the investor pressure to ship products faster, and monetize users more aggressively, all at the cost of quality, reliability, ethics, security.

If you, as a software engineer, once held an ideal about programming as an art or craft, AI coding flies in the face of all that.

It turns out that maximising for short-term profit leaves many other objectives behind in its wake.

botanical76 commented on M5 MacBook Pro apple.com/macbook-pro/... · Posted by u/tambourine_man

JadeNB · 4 months ago

Can't you literally install Linux on Apple hardware?

botanical76 · 4 months ago

Yes, with major tradeoffs. Asahi Linux is an amazing project, but they have not yet figured out how to get anywhere close to a Mac's power efficiency when it is running MacOS. For example, you will lose a lot of battery life[0][1] with the lid closed, whereas on MacOS you lose pretty much nothing.

Also, note that thunderbolt not yet supported[2].

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20241219125418/https://social.tr... [1] https://github.com/AsahiLinux/linux/issues/262 [2] https://asahilinux.org/docs/platform/feature-support/overvie...

botanical76 commented on LineageOS 23 lineageos.org/Changelog-3... · Posted by u/cdesai

botanical76 · 4 months ago

Note, GrapheneOS seems to have been able to secure partner access to Android early security releases, but this comes with the cost that the source used to make these special "01" builds is private until general availability. This might not be a tradeoff that LineageOS is willing to take; GrapheneOS has provided the option on a recommended opt-in basis.

https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/27068-grapheneos-security-p...

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