fcarraldo (u/fcarraldo)

fcarraldo commented on Omarchy, a Linux Distribution by DHH omarchy.org/... · Posted by u/weakfish

abhinavk · 22 days ago

Silverblue is a Fedora project. The Universal Blue and its flavors (Bluefin, Bazzite, Aurora) are based on its image. They are basically community maintained versions of silverblue because Fedora is very cautious (and stubborn) in including QoL things.

[1]: https://fedoraproject.org/atomic-desktops/silverblue/

fcarraldo · 22 days ago

That’s a more accurate way of putting it, thanks!

fcarraldo commented on Omarchy, a Linux Distribution by DHH omarchy.org/... · Posted by u/weakfish

andrewmutz · 22 days ago

If you're looking for a fantastic dev-focused linux distro, I can't say enough good things about Bluefin Linux

https://projectbluefin.io/

fcarraldo · 22 days ago

I've also been very happy with Silverblue (an alternate flavor of Universal Blue, the same guts as Bluefin). It took a bit of an adjustment period to get used to using an immutable distro, but given that I run this as the sole OS on my daily driver, reliability is paramount. It gives the same feeling of running a highly stable OS like MacOS, but with the power, ergonomics and customizability of Linux - and anything I need that isn't easy to fit into the immutable model is just a simple Distrobox invocation away.

It's "Container-driven development" done right - containerized applications and shells _feel_ native via Distrobox (which gives them access to the host FS, network, hardware, etc by default) but without the risks of native development causing dependency conflicts. And if I screw something up, I can just spin up a new container.

fcarraldo commented on Developing with Kiro: Amazon's New Agentic IDE yehudacohen.substack.com/... · Posted by u/cebert

gooosle · a month ago

You planned and wrote a feature yesterday that would have taken yourself 2 whole days? And you already got it reviewed and deployed it and know that 'it works flawlessly'?

....

That reminds me of when my manager (a very smart, very AI-bullish ex-IC) told us about how he used AI to implement a feature over the weekend and all it took him was 20 mins. It sounds absolutely magical to me and I make a note to use AI more. I then go to review the PR, and of course there are multiple bugs and unintended side-effects in the code. Oh and there are like 8 commits spread over a 60 hour window... I manually spin up a PR which accomplishes the same thing properly... takes me 30mins.

fcarraldo · a month ago

This sounds like a positive outcome? A manager built a proof-of-concept of a feature that clearly laid out and fulfilled the basic requirements, and an engineer took 30 mins to rewrite it once it's been specified.

How long does it typically take to spec something out? I'd say more than 20 mins, and typical artifacts to define requirements are much lossier than actual code - even if that code is buggy and sloppy.

fcarraldo commented on I don't think AGI is right around the corner dwarkesh.com/p/timelines-... · Posted by u/mooreds

umbra07 · 2 months ago

can you point to someone as successful as zuckerberg, who was later conclusively shown to be a fraud or a total moron?

fcarraldo · 2 months ago

Elon Musk.

fcarraldo commented on Comparing Claude System Prompts Reveal Anthropic's Priorities dbreunig.com/2025/06/03/c... · Posted by u/dbreunig

lispisok · 3 months ago

>Claude 3.7 was instructed to not help you build bioweapons or nuclear bombs. Claude 4.0 adds malicious code to this list of no’s:

Has anybody been working on better ways to prevent the model from telling people how to make a dirty bomb from readily available materials besides putting "dont do that" in the prompt?

fcarraldo · 3 months ago

I suspect the “don’t do that” prompting is more to prevent the model from hallucinating or encouraging the user, than to prevent someone from unearthing hidden knowledge on how to build dangerous weapons. There must have been some filter applied when creating the training dataset, as well as subsequent training and fine tuning before the model reaches production.

Claude’s “Golden Gate” experiment shows that precise behavioral changes can be made around specific topics, as well. I assume this capability is used internally (or a better one has been found), since it has been demonstrated publicly.

What’s more difficult to prevent are emergent cases such as “a model which can write good non-malicious code appears to also be good at writing malicious code”. The line between malicious and not is very blurry depending on how and where the code will execute.

fcarraldo commented on Postman for MCP usetexture.com/##... · Posted by u/andes314

andes314 · 3 months ago

If it enters hug of death, please try Claude client to test it! Anthropic allows me only 30req/s at the moment

fcarraldo · 3 months ago

How much are you spending on tokens right now?

fcarraldo commented on The Anti-Capitalist Case for Standards thereader.mitpress.mit.ed... · Posted by u/kelseyfrog

readthenotes1 · 4 months ago

"And so we return to where we started: the difficulty of imagining an end to capitalism. We do not claim to have a solution to that particular problem"

It's pretty funny to see such a blatantly biased article coming out of academia. Oh wait.

Meanwhile, I'll save my paychecks to buy the texts of some of those anti-capitalist produced standards.

In other actual anti-capitalist news, the NIH says we shouldn't have to pay twice for government sponsored research.

https://deepnewz.com/us-domestic-policy/nih-to-end-paywalls-...

fcarraldo · 4 months ago

Is deepnewz.com a reputable source?

fcarraldo commented on Show HN: I built a modern Goodreads alternative kaguya.io/... · Posted by u/vasanthk1125

BeetleB · 6 months ago

> Does one really get anything meaningful out of saying this was a 6-star book vs a 7-star book?

I rate for myself, and not others. And for over 20 years I've used a 10 point system.

10 = Easily amongst my favorite

9 = Awesome, but not in all time favorites

8 = Really liked it, and would recommend

7 = Liked it, was worth my time, but not so much that I would happily recommend to others

6 = Liked it, but wasn't worth my time

5 = Neutral

And below 5 I don't distinguish. I randomly pick to indicate I didn't like it.

fcarraldo · 6 months ago

It kind of seems like you use a five-point system, then?

fcarraldo commented on Vinyl carver sparking a craze for cutting records at home theguardian.com/music/202... · Posted by u/n1b0m

wsintra2022 · 6 months ago

Press on Vinyl are able to make there own masters. Can you clarify what you mean?

fcarraldo · 6 months ago

There's some detail in the Apollo Masters wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Masters_Corporation_fir...

fcarraldo commented on I'm glad I took the off-ramp from software engineering newsletter.goodtechthings... · Posted by u/scarface_74

devwastaken · 7 months ago

the # people that find comfy fulfilling jobs is less than 5% and are all nepotism right time right place in a market that doesnt need to be efficient.

we need to create proper regulation that requires software engineers to actually be engineers. no more collapsing bridges and finger pointing. thats the historically proven and optimal way to put engineering back on top.

fcarraldo · 7 months ago

> the # people that find comfy fulfilling jobs is less than 5% and are all nepotism

Can you cite any source that might back this up?