kevinsync

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by kevinsync 6mo ago
I’m on the $100 Claude and $20 GPT plans. I almost never run out of weekly usage on Claude and occasionally blow my Codex allowance, but OpenAI lets you buy credits ad-hoc (either $40 per 1000, or just turn on and monitor the “top-off” and
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by kevinsync 6mo ago
I do use worktrees occasionally (especially during times where I'll have a very sticky problem that I make the LLM run in a loop on until it satisfies acceptance criteria, and want to isolate the potential fallout of Claudes Gone Wild)
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by kevinsync 7mo ago
Using somebody's stuff is different than hot-linking directly to a hosted version of it, even just from the perspective that dude could delete it at any time and break the whole app.
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by kevinsync 7mo ago
Assuming everything physical gets tokenized (as occasionally gets predicted), people could soon literally lose their house on a bet! Maybe even a bet placed by their swarm of agents. The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades!
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by kevinsync 7mo ago
You're asking the wrong person lol. I can give you a list of "objectively bad" movies that I think are incredible for a variety of defensible reasons. Just off the top of my head as I briefly scan shit sitting on the shelves
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by kevinsync 7mo ago
I don’t even know what to say here -- you’re entitled to your opinion obviously, and I disagree with it deeply, and the spirit of HN is to avoid personal attacks and reply with curiosity, but you kinda laid it out very plainly above. Where’
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by kevinsync 7mo ago
Yeah it turned out to be very fair, I just initially wasn't expecting to get as involved as I have hahaha
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by kevinsync 7mo ago
Devil's advocate (because honestly I do agree with you, but..) -- help/encouragement often ends up turning into far more time and effort than it sounds like up front. ~18 months ago a friend of mine had a very viable, good idea fo
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by kevinsync 7mo ago
It's always said that a lot of success and opportunities are attributed to being in the right place at the right time (aka "luck"), but in a lot of cases, those folks had the tenacity to be in the right place ALL the time; wh
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by kevinsync 7mo ago
I might be the odd-man-out here, but I almost exclusively sit at a desk with a full-size mechanical keyboard and mouse, 2 monitors, and a tower in the closet nearby LOL -- I can't get any real work done hunched over a laptop! Not that
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by kevinsync 7mo ago
OpenClaw guy (he's Austrian, it's relevant) much prefers Codex over Claude and articulated it as being due to Claude's output feeling very "American" and Codex's output feeling very "German", and I pe
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by kevinsync 7mo ago
Childcare and education requires a specific tolerance, mindset and passion to be effective though. I'd be curious how many previously-PMs or HR drones or email jockeys would be adequate (let alone thrive) in an environment where there
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by kevinsync 7mo ago
I'm surprised that you don't appear to be using it on obscrd.dev lol
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by kevinsync 7mo ago
I was just about to reply about their financial woes over the years too [0][1][2] Being a collector of stuff ever since I was a kid (toys, comics, cards, physical media, printed collateral, etc), and being in my 40's (target market &#x
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by kevinsync 7mo ago
Super awesome, love the tilt-shift camera effect! I was also wishing I could zoom in to human size and run around HAHAHA
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by kevinsync 7mo ago
Last time I worked corporate, we were acquired and I was asked what my job was by somebody on the other side. I said “My job is to make you feel good about whatever it is that I may or may not be doing around this place.” Despite it being a
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by kevinsync 7mo ago
Scarface! [0] We all think Tony Montana, but back in 1932 it was Tony Camonte. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarface_(1932_film)
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by kevinsync 7mo ago
Correct, but I was replying to the assertion that more slop == decreasing ability to create something good and successful. That's a common trope that people deploy with regards to everything: music, movies, books, social media accounts
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by kevinsync 7mo ago
> The pessimist in me thinks that the window of opportunity to create something successful is shrinking. Dunno man. Ideas alone aren't worth anything [0] and execution is everything [1], but good ideas and great execution will n
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by kevinsync 8mo ago
I had a similar thought before realizing that I'm pretty sure what they were demonstrating wasn't art style, but adherence to correct physical dimensions and construction of the buildings referenced, that was then expressed in an
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by kevinsync 8mo ago
Everybody keeps parroting stuff along these lines but never take into consideration: 1. the stark, obvious reality is that most people don't know how to actually use computers ! They know what 10 steps they need to take on a computer,
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by kevinsync 8mo ago
Unsure if I think this is science fiction, financial fiction, speculation, premonition, realistic portent, or simply a message delivered by Kyle Reese through the long, dark tunnel of time LOL No matter which, it paints a very intriguing pi
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by kevinsync 8mo ago
The very first time I ever flew was very shortly after 9/11. TSA hadn't been created yet, but the airports were still nervous energy and chaos from what had happened. I remember my carry-on was like a thick plastic grocery bag wit
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by kevinsync 8mo ago
the dot-con era
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by kevinsync 8mo ago
Not to mention that humans seem to have a fixed (yet variable, compared to the entire population) amount of energy they're each able to spend. Sometimes very interesting people gatekeep their authenticity to protect and preserve what t
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by kevinsync 8mo ago
I consider UI/UX unsolved thus far by LLM. It's also, and this is personal taste, the part I'm mostly keeping for myself because of the way I work. I tend to start in Photoshop to mess around with ideas and synthesize a layou
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by kevinsync 8mo ago
Sure, but that presumes that you have that test suite written without having a single line of application code written (which, to me, is counterintuitive, unrealistic, and completely insane) SQLite apparently has 2 million tests! If you sta
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by kevinsync 8mo ago
Honest questions, I'm not trying to troll -- does this stuff even matter in a practical sense? Like, what's the minimum threshold (of revenue?) to where litigation even becomes a possibility? It's becoming more and more trivi
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by kevinsync 8mo ago
It might be Screen Studio [0] -- I was gonna write "99% sure" but now I'm not sure at all!! [0] https://screen.studio
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by kevinsync 8mo ago
You being an outside observer of my country, what do you think the mid-term (next ~decade) looks like if the US is somehow able to flush the toilet and do a complete 180 from a policy and administration perspective? I imagine even if people

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