abalashov

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by abalashov 5mo ago
I've had worse, and experienced the full range from literal slumlord--I say that advisedly and not frivolously--to excellent landlord. One does have to choose one's landlords somewhat carefully. However, on the higher end of housi
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by abalashov 5mo ago
It is true that the interest deduction is not nearly as valuable as it was in my ownership days (late 2000s/early 2010s). My total annual interest of those days wouldn't even meet the individual standard deduction now, and that wa
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by abalashov 5mo ago
I have both and it's still doable, as long as your spouse is as into it as you are. Mine isn't going to stay put for more than a few years either. We enable each other's moving fetish.
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by abalashov 5mo ago
This is true. But I've had some really great landlords, too. And some terrible ones.
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by abalashov 5mo ago
I had this, but as you say, it's risky. I do like renting condos, though -- not my problem either way.
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by abalashov 5mo ago
I guess on the face of it, it's not related. I didn't read his comment as literally lamenting the lack of a number, or even someone to orchestrate, but rather to imply that there's nobody on the hook for it in all facets. Wit
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by abalashov 5mo ago
This can be good, but can also be quite bad if points #1 and #2 manifest in Karen form...
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by abalashov 5mo ago
True, but you still have to cough up. The benefit of renting is that it's an SEP (Someone Else's Problem).
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by abalashov 5mo ago
Moving is no fun at all (and also costs money! deposits, movers and the rest of it), but the only thing worse is staying in one place. I just can't do it. I mean, of course I tell myself this is the last time we're ever moving, an
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by abalashov 5mo ago
Indeed. This is why I'm a preferential life-long renter, although I think the primary reason is that I can't stand living anywhere for more than 2-5 years. So much friction to move, unwinding this risky position very expensively,
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by abalashov 5mo ago
Well, you do to some extent, and having people define what antisocial is for them is how teens learn to be prosocial (inshallah). Not a Karen -- it's about striking a balance.
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by abalashov 5mo ago
Came here to say what you already said: the built environment accounts for a great deal of this. It's simply not possible in a great many parts of Middle America to walk or bike over to a friend's house, and to the extent any soci
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by abalashov 5mo ago
I expect you'll be told to try Opus 4.7, and in short, JuSt WaiT FoR ThE NexT MoDel, BRo. This has been my experience every time I've suggested that there are any sort of inherent ontological/conceptual or computational limit
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by abalashov 5mo ago
I'm pretty intensely disinterested in "agentic" coding. However, this was very much the inspiration behind the custom Claude-backed Goose agent I deployed into some of our Gitea repositories over Christmas--the less sensitive
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by abalashov 5mo ago
It was more a bit of rhetorical flourish than serious doubt as to which motivation is the true explanation. :-)
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by abalashov 5mo ago
Despite my very limited enthusiasm for agentic coding, I have some experience with it, and my experience matches what you say perfectly. This is one of the seams that runs between pattern recognition and reasoning, and--despite the marketin
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by abalashov 5mo ago
It depends on the programming. However, you're right: another Angular reinsurance accounting application doesn't pose much of a challenge for LLMs.
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by abalashov 5mo ago
> Which is a perfectly fine thing by the way. I can't see anything wrong with it. If the Americans want fewer "brown" people in their country, that is entirely their prerogative. It's their country, after all. Which A
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by abalashov 5mo ago
This is also why a lot of fellow Eastern European immigrants tend to be incorrigibly racist to black or Hispanic people, but especially black. The best explanation I've been able to come up with is that insecure and fluid middle classe
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by abalashov 5mo ago
No two uses are alike, I suppose. For me, whatever difference is a wash. However, I probably tend to shy away from throwing high-complexity/long-horizon tasks at the model.
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by abalashov 5mo ago
Although I have little interest in agentic coding, when I do use it, I have found Kimi K2.6 to give Opus-quality output, and have switched entirely to it for pretty much everything.
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by abalashov 5mo ago
I know you believe that, and I know that's what the State Dept calls them, but they're not really how most legal immigrants come here and aren't available to most of the people who apply for greencards today. As a practical m
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by abalashov 5mo ago
I'm not sure I share your optimism. What is a worker on an H-class visa, if not a "temporary worker"? I read this with the assumption that "nonimmigrant visa" applies to every category of visa listed here under &quo
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by abalashov 5mo ago
This is true. I resisted this conclusion for a long time, imagining it was tendentious, but there is really no other way to understand his rhetoric and his actions.
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by abalashov 5mo ago
That's the only conclusion I can see.
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by abalashov 5mo ago
Yeah, that's one notable exception. Doesn't invalidate the generalisation.
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by abalashov 5mo ago
There isn't really such a thing as an immigrant visa. These non-immigrant visas are the only legal route to come here, by and large, excluding a few obvious exceptions like marriage to an American. Also, it's quite hard to become
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by abalashov 5mo ago
A colleague and I have taken to use of the verb "meatspin", from another era in Internet shock humour, to describe what it is that coding agents actually do 99% of the time.
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by abalashov 5mo ago
> Don't forget that very very detailed spec is actually the code Came here to say this, but you said it for me. If the problem were merely one of insufficient rigour or detail in specs, it would have been solved long before LLMs.
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by abalashov 5mo ago
This is true. But you might be conflating two different issues: having to apply for a greencard from outside the country, and being restricted in traveling outside the US during the (potentially very lengthy) pendency of that application.

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