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thek3nger commented on GPT-5.2-Codex   openai.com/index/introduc... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
tananaev · 11 days ago
I was very skeptical about Codex at the beginning, but now all my coding tasks start with Codex. It's not perfect at everything, but overall it's pretty amazing. Refactoring, building something new, building something I'm not familiar with. It is still not great at debugging things.

One surprising thing that codex helped with is procrastination. I'm sure many people had this feeling when you have some big task and you don't quite know where to start. Just send it to Codex. It might not get it right, but it's almost always good starting point that you can quickly iterate on.

thek3nger · 10 days ago
This works for me in general. If I am procrastinating, I ask a coding agent for a small task. If it works, I have something to improve upon. If it doesn’t work, my OCD forces me to “fix it.” :D
thek3nger commented on It's all about momentum   combo.cc/posts/its-all-ab... · Posted by u/sph
masto · 11 days ago
I enjoy reading about other people’s approaches to motivation and creativity.

But I very much dislike when they phase it as “you need to” or “this is how it works”. Thinking everyone else’s brain operates the way yours does seems to be a frequent bias among bloggers. And managers.

I encourage those who write about their experiences to keep it in the first person.

thek3nger · 11 days ago
Not only that. My brain operate differently at different times. I may find that an approach that works for me now doesn't work in a year. It doesn't mean the approach is "wrong" or that I was wrong choosing it a year ago. Maybe it was the right approach for that time, and now I have different needs.
thek3nger commented on It's insulting to read AI-generated blog posts   blog.pabloecortez.com/its... · Posted by u/speckx
YurgenJurgensen · 2 months ago
Paste passages from Wikipedia featured articles, today’s newspapers or published novels and it’ll still suggest style changes. And if you know enough to know to ignore ChatGPTs suggestions, you didn’t need it in the first place.
thek3nger · 2 months ago
> And if you know enough to know to ignore ChatGPTs suggestions, you didn’t need it in the first place.

This will invalidate even ispell in vim. The entire point of proofreading is to catch things you didn’t notice. Nobody would say “you don’t need the red squiggles underlining strenght because you already know it is spelled strength.”

thek3nger commented on Show HN: Halloy – Modern IRC client   github.com/squidowl/hallo... · Posted by u/culinary-robot
Daunk · 2 months ago
I've tried to use this, but I'm on multiple servers with tons of channels, and it gets a bit unwieldy without tabs. I also can't get it to minimize to tray, and having to "keep it open" at all times is somewhat annoying. I'll stick with Quassel for now.

Really impressive work though, you should be proud!

thek3nger · 2 months ago
I added this configuration to make it works more tab-like.

    [actions.sidebar]
    buffer = "replace-pane"

thek3nger commented on Obsidian Note Codes   ezhik.jp/obsidian/note-co... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
Orange1688 · 3 months ago
Per the blog post

>Those codes let you quickly reference notes in your vault from other places such as hand-written notes.

thek3nger · 3 months ago
This looks fine, but then if I rename the note, the code changes, invalidating all the hand-written notes links. So it feels unpractical. I would still prefer to encode the creation timestamp and put it in the title/filename/property. At least this would be fixed.
thek3nger commented on Vibechart   vibechart.net/... · Posted by u/datadrivenangel
what · 5 months ago
How is 50 instead of 15 a plausible typo? A zero is on the opposite end of the keyboard than a 1.
thek3nger · 5 months ago
Yep. It sounds more like a dictation error as “fifteen” and “fifty” sound similar. No idea why this should matter in the slide production process though.
thek3nger commented on Show HN: Petrichor – a free, open-source, offline music player for macOS   github.com/kushalpandya/P... · Posted by u/kushalpandya
programmarchy · 6 months ago
This sounds like a breath of fresh air as a disenchanted Spotify user. My only hesitation is that I’ve lost touch with collecting music. I used to rip CDs and download music and curate a library etc, but I’ve lost my collection and collecting habits since adopting streaming. How do people collect music nowadays? Is there a legit way (fairly compensating artists) to do it?
thek3nger · 6 months ago
I buy from Bandcamp and Qobuz (especially for classical and artists that are not on Bandcamp).
thek3nger commented on Show HN: Petrichor – a free, open-source, offline music player for macOS   github.com/kushalpandya/P... · Posted by u/kushalpandya
gpm · 6 months ago
The Readme mentions that app under "Motivation"

> Motivation

> I have a large collection of music files that I’ve gathered over the years, and I missed having a good offline music player on macOS. I used Swinsian (great app, by the way!), but it hasn't been updated in years. I also missed features commonly found in streaming apps; so I built Petrichor to scratch that itch and learn Swift and macOS app development along the way!

thek3nger · 6 months ago
For the people interested, Swinsian has a beta version that is actively developed. I got an update a couple of weeks ago. So it is not abandoned.
thek3nger commented on The Curse of Markdown   codehike.org/blog/the-cur... · Posted by u/pomber
thek3nger · a year ago
The fact that this website decided to "fade out" the paragraph at the scrolling level where I usually read is infuriating.
thek3nger commented on Spotify demonetizes all tracks under 1k streams   djmag.com/news/spotify-of... · Posted by u/buro9
nmisko · 2 years ago
Could you explain how artists are paid more? The subscription fee is roughly the same.
thek3nger · 2 years ago
Any service without a free tier pays more than Spotify because only premium users contribute to the number of streaming that will be payed.

In some sense, premium Spotify users pay also for the free users and, therefore, the average is lower (yes, there is ads income but I bet is negligible).

u/thek3nger

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