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by adriand 5mo ago
I went to Newfoundland and I went to a bar one night and met a guy from a small town along the coast and I literally couldn’t understand a single thing he said. He was apparently speaking English but it may have been Ancient Greek for all I
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by adriand 5mo ago
Kind of a great video! I enjoyed it. His point about testing coverage and generating mutations to ensure the tests fail resonated. I get concerned sometimes that the AI is writing tests not to ensure the logic is correct, but to ensure the
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by adriand 6mo ago
The narrative that they have guards against mentioning openclaw doesn’t make sense to me - I’ve been using Claude code to manage an openclaw instance for a few weeks now, with zero issues.
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by adriand 6mo ago
But wouldn’t that be true for all periods in the dataset? You see ups and downs over the centuries, and in each of those centuries I’m sure humans heavily influenced their evolution. Then you see a pronounced upward trend that just happens
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by adriand 6mo ago
> But would you want the AfD to come to power and wield those ramped up, potentially now nuclear, forces? Totally! That’s what makes the situation doubly maddening. It would be one thing if these actions were bad for the world and good f
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by adriand 6mo ago
> The US on the other hand is still there with much larger force. To provide for European security! That’s the deal in terms of Europe and NATO and also specifically to handle Germany. The idea was that America would provide security to
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by adriand 6mo ago
> The US did not retreat. We fought multiple wars to maintain our power and influence. We toppled multiple regimes to maintain puppet governments. Very much the same as the USSR and China have done. As much as I am critical of the US, un
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by adriand 6mo ago
> Who do you think suffers when elites attack public education? It's always the children. Exactly. And who benefits from a less educated, less aware populace? The answer is pretty clear: look at who is benefiting right now!
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by adriand 6mo ago
> In other words "ohshittification." Brilliant coinage, if it’s yours, congrats! My take: it is not enshittification to raise the price for a product whose demand outstrips its supply. That is basic economics. There are alterna
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by adriand 6mo ago
Iterative experience (experimenting with different ideas, deciding what works best) and speed of execution (once I was happy with it, making it happen required almost no work).
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by adriand 6mo ago
I had a similar experience with running out of usage quite quickly, after setting up one design system properly, and then getting pretty close with a second one. But it's a research preview - I'm sure it will change. I was quite h
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by adriand 6mo ago
Yeah I really want more information than "on a walk". Really? No digging whatsoever involved? Did they walk past an eroding riverbank or something? I'm so curious.
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by adriand 6mo ago
There are still SO MANY insanely ugly, hard-to-use, absolutely horrible apps out there though. Sure, in consumer-focused apps, there's a lot of competition and pretty much everything popular is well-designed. But in enterprise? My god,
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by adriand 6mo ago
You can set it to auto top up if it drops below a certain amount. If you do that, then it would definitely be wise to add a cap. They let you add daily/weekly caps, which is convenient.
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by adriand 6mo ago
> Anthropic doesn't have the compute so everyone can switch to Claude for a couple months, get nerfed, switch back. This seems to be the new narrative around here but it's not jiving with what I'm experiencing. Obviously A
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by adriand 6mo ago
You mean openrouter.ai. And yes, on reading this blog post, I immediately reviewed my API keys in OpenRouter to make sure that they were capped. My prod key was capped at $20/day (phew!) but my dev key had no cap, which I just updated.
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by adriand 6mo ago
> How does that actually show up in practice for you? It shows up as inconsistency. One of the key things I built in this architecture is the ability of users to define standard operating procedures (SOPs). These are the instructions (i.
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by adriand 6mo ago
Is anyone enjoying the process of deploying agentic AI for clients/employers? I have been working on stuff in the space ever since a senior exec at a client became enamoured with OpenClaw and I had the choice of either letting her go f
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by adriand 6mo ago
I always wonder if competitive market dynamics will solve problems like these, at least to some extent and for some people, because the people who retain the ability to communicate in a distinctive, persuasive and original style will be rew
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by adriand 6mo ago
It’s a deliberate process powered by rightwing and capitalist interests designed to create a dumber, less educated and more distracted population. A war as stupid as the one with Iran would not have been possible three decades ago. As ill-a
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by adriand 6mo ago
Is it insane at all? The biggest fees are charged to the biggest providers. With short form video now the dominant form of addictive social media content, it doesn’t seem insane at all that large media companies ought to compensate inventor
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by adriand 7mo ago
I found myself trying to fill out a captcha the other day whose letters were so skewed and crazy I really had no idea what they were. It took me four tries!
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by adriand 7mo ago
> Anyone who has been doing this professionally will tell you that the "last step" is what takes the majority of time and effort. This is true, and I bet there are thousands of people who are in this stage right now - having go
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by adriand 7mo ago
Fortunately, fossil fuels are a stable and geopolitically risk-free source of energy.
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by adriand 7mo ago
Is SOC 2 legit? I have this on my roadmap but now I’m wondering if it’s just security theatre?
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by adriand 7mo ago
It will go down in history as one of the most monumental avoidable disasters of all time.
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by adriand 7mo ago
I think working with the technology gives you powerful intuitions that improve your skill and lead to better outcomes, but you don't really notice that that's what's happening. Personally speaking - and I suspect this is true
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by adriand 7mo ago
Sure - I think it would decrease the amount of money I’d insist on, and/or increase the amount of time I’d tolerate, but only by a factor of 1.5 or so. Conversely, if I had to stay on an American supermax facility, the calculus would s
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by adriand 7mo ago
> I would spend my years 20-29 in jail for $400M This is kind of why I want to make this survey now because there’s no way I’d spend a decade of my life in prison for any amount of money. I would do six months for $3M. I’d maybe do 12 fo
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by adriand 7mo ago
I was about to comment that there was no amount of money I would take in return for spending time in prison but then I realized that of course that’s not true. It would be fun to create a survey that would show a visualization of where peop

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