hungryhobbit

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by hungryhobbit 2mo ago
>If we want to explore alternative solutions, I’d rather do that before implementing one of them. >If we want knowledge transfer, pair. Sitting next to someone, physically or virtually, while they reason through a problem teaches you
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by hungryhobbit 2mo ago
>Odysseus, a legendary king known for his wisdom I know our society is ignorant of the classics, but given recent cinema, I'm not sure you need to explain who Odysseus is ;)
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by hungryhobbit 2mo ago
If I had a nickel for every dev who has written a "productivity suite" of skills, and shared it with others as if it was a burst of innovation that everyone can benefit from (when it's really extremely specific to that dev an
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by hungryhobbit 2mo ago
Some of this is Anthropic, and some is the Trump administration ... ... but some is definitely Anthropic, so I'm not trying to let them off the hook; I'm just pointing out that the government is partly responsible.
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by hungryhobbit 2mo ago
They dropped your usage limit by 17% this week .. They claimed to "raise" it, because they did ... while also removing the temporary increase they applied for a few weeks ... but the net effect is you can use 17% less than you cou
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by hungryhobbit 2mo ago
Yes, and they will work ... for like two turns, after which Claude will go back to its usual wall of text. And yes you could add context (memories, rules, CLAUDE.md entries, etc.): they won't help (for long). Same for hooks that remin
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by hungryhobbit 2mo ago
Amen. I would trade some stupidity (say ten points on any benchmark) in exchange for a version of Opus or a similar model that actually gave me direct, concise answers.
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by hungryhobbit 2mo ago
I know this is a joke, but I'd be careful about assuming: I had a trained therapist diagnose me with ADHD ... incorrectly . It turns out, there are other conditions out there that can appear to be be ADHD. If a trained therapist ca
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by hungryhobbit 2mo ago
These things are not safe, and they are deliberately using them on people who can't sue and defend themselves. This will not end well if you have any respect for basic human rights (even for non-US citizens).
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by hungryhobbit 2mo ago
> They already get half a billion dollars a year from Google for very little in exchange. They just need to spend that money on the website browser and not nonsense. QFT. The biggest impediment to Firefox's success is the Mozilla O
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by hungryhobbit 2mo ago
Why is a wiki page about an author posted on a tech news site?
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by hungryhobbit 2mo ago
If I put a link to the Jira ticket the commit fixes, is that an ad for Atlassian?
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9th Circuit sides with states in Kalshi gambling fight(azmirror.com)
170 points by hungryhobbit 2mo ago|168 comments
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by hungryhobbit 2mo ago
The appeals court found sports betting isn’t shielded by the federal law used to block Kris Mayes’ prosecution.
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by hungryhobbit 3mo ago
SCOTUS is not stacked with justices who are just GOPers. There are lots of Republicans who absolutely value the rule of law in this country! The SCOTUS is stacked with reactionaries , people that want to take us back in history. They
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by hungryhobbit 3mo ago
I stopped reading ... not just the article, but the headline ... at "Sam Altman says". That idiot will say anything he thinks will make him richer, and it makes the words coming out of his mouth (the mouth of a billion dollar co
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by hungryhobbit 3mo ago
This sounds like a crazy case ("idiotic company does exactly what its products prevent"), but really it amounts to "con men are going to con". In this case, a con man was selling a fake service, but it wasn't a seri
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by hungryhobbit 3mo ago
>The kung fu routines and dances mask a fundamental problem: These robots are too slow and error-prone for most industrial work. Not just error-prone ... these things are seriously dangerous : one mistaken move and they can take someone
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by hungryhobbit 3mo ago
I just used Claude to write a plug-in which changed the bottom of the CLI to say: ( ) Usage: 34% (resets in 2h 47m) Context: 56% [Opus 4.6] auto mode on (shift+tab to cycle) That way if my usage starts shooting up, it's very
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by hungryhobbit 3mo ago
Yeah it's funny: I'm pretty sure (based on what he writes about) that the author didn't use AI to write it. Still ... he's more verbose than Claude itself .. and Claude is very, very verbose!
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by hungryhobbit 3mo ago
This is only the most recent of many studies into this, eg. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5663018/ > There is an urgent global need for accessible and cost-effective pro-mental health infrastructure.
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by hungryhobbit 3mo ago
They are specifically relevant to trying to enter a fasted state. The presence or absence of ketones in your blood can tell you whether or not (say) that coffee you just drank took you out of the fasted state (that you were in for not eatin
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by hungryhobbit 3mo ago
The core idea was good, but it went on for way, way too long, and the religious theme got old long before. Again, I wish the writing hadn't been so bad (that I gave up halfway through), as I really do suspect the author had something i
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by hungryhobbit 3mo ago
I stopped reading when the author was spending pages defending the stuff he hadn't even written yet from the imaginary criticism in their head. Future tip: make your argument. Make it well, and make it succinctly. Save "arguing
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by hungryhobbit 3mo ago
Translation: we don't actually understand what this newfangled word means, but we <3 tech-sounding buzzwords and have decided that it has arrived.
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by hungryhobbit 3mo ago
It's way late and seriously over budget, hard to call that a success.
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by hungryhobbit 3mo ago
There are a zillion news sources for this: OP what would possess you to pick the (largely dead) right wing Musk-owned Twitter ("X" )?
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by hungryhobbit 3mo ago
Was this on DOS? "ASCII castle adventure game" brings back memories!
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by hungryhobbit 3mo ago
Sierra games didn't use random buttons, you had to type phrases :(
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by hungryhobbit 3mo ago
... until they decided it was a good idea to train all power users to grief new users off the site.

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