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nicwolff commented on Recovering Anthony Bourdain's Li.st's   sandyuraz.com/blogs/bourd... · Posted by u/thecsw
nicwolff · 5 days ago
His favorite bar, Siberia, is also back, now at the south end of the Columbus Circle subway station. Same owner, Tracy, and same no-frills atmosphere.
nicwolff commented on Tides are weirder than you think   signoregalilei.com/2025/1... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
heavenlyblue · 12 days ago
so why is left water further away from ground? this example make 0 sense
nicwolff · 12 days ago
The Earth is being pulled away from that water, just as the water on the right is being pulled away from the Earth.
nicwolff commented on Zohran Mamdani wins the New York mayoral race   nbcnews.com/politics/elec... · Posted by u/jsheard
cogman10 · a month ago
I disagree that it's even socialism as NYC isn't outlawing or using the emoluments clause to take control of private stores. It isn't ceasing the means of production in any sense.

The Mamdani plan is to put in stores where no stores exist. That's just a city ran store. Something that used to be pretty common in the US.

nicwolff · a month ago
I think you mean "eminent domain" – the emoluments clause prohibits government officials from accepting gifts, payments, or titles from foreign states.
nicwolff commented on Why do AI models use so many em-dashes?   seangoedecke.com/em-dashe... · Posted by u/ahamez
don_neufeld · 2 months ago
[Founding CTO of Medium here]

It wasn’t just Ev - I can confirm that many of us were typography nuts ;)

Marcin for example - did some really crazy stuff.

https://medium.design/crafting-link-underlines-on-medium-7c0...

nicwolff · a month ago
He fixed underlines on Medium 11 years ago – and someone un-fixed them since then?
nicwolff commented on America Is Sliding Toward Illiteracy   theatlantic.com/ideas/arc... · Posted by u/JumpCrisscross
jf · 2 months ago
It’s weird, and a little unnerving, to have a line from Anathem by Neil Stephenson immediately come to mind:

“Can you read? And by that I don’t just mean interpreting Logotype…” “No one uses that any more,” said Quin. “You’re talking about the symbols on your underwear that tell you not to use bleach. That sort of thing.”

nicwolff · 2 months ago
Mockingbird, by Walter Tevis (who wrote The Hustler and The Color of Money, and Queen's Gambit, and The Man Who Fell To Earth – quite an oeuvre!) has long been one of my favorite books and it's been eerie to see how right he was about how eager mankind is to hand over all intellectual labor to the robots.

(The last level 9 robot that hasn't killed itself is now the Dean of NYU, and in the 25th century it hires the first man who has learned to read in 400 years – to translate the title cards in silent films. Hilarity ensues. Well, no, but there is kind of a happy ending.)

nicwolff commented on Uv overtakes pip in CI   wagtail.org/blog/uv-overt... · Posted by u/ThibWeb
gatvol · 2 months ago
UV is super fast and great for environment management, however it's not at all well suited to a containerised environment, unless I'm missing something fundamental (unless you like using an env in your container that is).
nicwolff · 2 months ago

    ENV UV_SYSTEM_PYTHON=1

nicwolff commented on Microsoft Amplifier   github.com/microsoft/ampl... · Posted by u/JDEW
vincnetas · 2 months ago
Starting in Claude bypass mode does not give me confidence:

WARNING: Claude Code running in Bypass Permissions mode │ │ │ │ In Bypass Permissions mode, Claude Code will not ask for your approval before running potentially dangerous commands. │ │ This mode should only be used in a sandboxed container/VM that has restricted internet access and can easily be restored if damaged.

nicwolff · 2 months ago
I assumed, especially with the VS Code recommendation, that this would automatically use devcontainers...
nicwolff commented on Geizhals Preisvergleich Donates USD 10k to the Perl and Raku Foundation   perl.com/article/geizhals... · Posted by u/oalders
andrewl-hn · 3 months ago
My go-to use case for modern Perl is to be the default program instead of sed. Sed regex support is abysmal and the same command line flags behave differently between BSD (and macOS) and GNU versions, in particular the `-i` for doing replacements - the number one use case for the program. So, this means that many shell one-liners and small scripts don't really work the same way on macOS and on Linux, and it's pretty annoying.

Perl is straight up better. You need to remember one word: pie - for it's command line options, and now you can do:

    ```
    echo "John Doe" > name.txt
    perl -p -i -e 's/(?<first>\w+)\s+(?<last>\w+)/"$+{last}, $+{first}"/e' name.txt
    # name.txt after the command: `Doe, John`
    ```
First of all, it woks the same way across platforms.

Second, you get all sorts of goodies: named capture groups, lookahead and lookbehind matching, unicode, you can write multiline regexes using extended syntax if you do something complicated.

And finally, if your shell script needs some logic: functions, ifs, or loops, Perl is straight up better than Bash. Some of you will say "I'll do it in Python", and I agree. But if your script is mostly calling other tools like git, find, make, etc, then Perl like Bash can just call them in backticks instead of wrapping things into arrays and strings. It just reads better.

BTW Ruby can do it, too, so it's another good option.

nicwolff · 3 months ago
I remember π and e and type

  perl -pi -e '...' file.txt

nicwolff commented on iPhone Air   apple.com/newsroom/2025/0... · Posted by u/excerionsforte
joshjob42 · 3 months ago
I'm going to preorder one because I want a light phone and a large screen. This will be the lightest iPhone in years while also having a bigger screen than most. I dropped from the Pro Max to the Pro last year because I was tired of how much it hurt when I dropped my phone on my face.

I don't have much call for most of the camera system, and my battery life on my Pro is just fine. I have plenty of chargers typically, and for emergencies or times I know I'm going to be out I could potentially get the battery pack.

I basically never use cases on my iPhone, and at most will maybe use an ultra-thin one or some sort of structure adhered to the plateau just to make it flat across so as to not rock on a table.

nicwolff · 3 months ago
I use an old iPod Touch to read in bed, it doesn't hurt at all! Shame they stopped selling them, and it has stopped getting OS updates.
nicwolff commented on The Claude Code Framework Wars   shmck.substack.com/p/clau... · Posted by u/ShMcK
grim_io · 3 months ago
I've tried some of those "frameworks" for claude code, but it's difficult to measure any objective improvement.

I tend to lean towards them being snake oil. A lot of process and ritual around using them, but for what?

I don't think the models themselves are a good fit for the way these frameworks are being used. It probably goes against their training.

Now we try to poison the context with lots of (for my actual task at hand) useless information so that the model can conform to my superficial song-and-dance process? This seems backwards.

I would argue that we need less context poisoning with useless information. Give the model the most precise information for the actual work to be done and iterate upon that. The song and dance process should happen outside of the context constrained agent.

nicwolff · 3 months ago
This article doesn't mention "subagents" https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code/sub-agents which makes me wonder when it was written. I'm finding that just delegating "scan the memory bank for information relevant to the current task" and "run the unit and functional tests and report back only the failures or coverage" to subagents does a lot to keep the main agent's context from filling up.

u/nicwolff

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