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by mcv 3mo ago
Why would you accept a scheduled call if you want to be left alone? That makes no sense. You're the one projecting bias onto this scenario. You assume people only want to talk to you to waste your time. If you work with professionals,
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by mcv 3mo ago
He scheduled a call specifically to ask this question. What does context switching have to do with anything? Don't accept the call if you can't afford to switch context.
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by mcv 3mo ago
What is low effort about "I asked him where he'd look, personally, for the answer to a hard question I was chasing, one without industry consensus. Not what the textbook says. If five studies conflicted, which would he trust? I wa
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by mcv 3mo ago
In my CLAUDE.md I put: > CRITICAL: Do NOT spawn sub-agents for any reason. Perform all work in the main session. If a task is too large, ask me to break it down manually. > This is a big task, and can easily get too large. However, su
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by mcv 3mo ago
Fable and sub agents are two different things. There are many situations for which Fable is great, but Fable doesn't have to run in a sub agent. You can use it for your main agent and that works fine. Or are you saying my sub agents bu
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by mcv 3mo ago
What really burns tokens is sub agents. I once gave Claude Code a pretty big task, and it immediately launched 7 sub agents which burned through my budget before even one of them was finished. Tried again 5 hours later: same result. If I le
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by mcv 3mo ago
After a long reading hiatus, audiobooks helped me pick up speed. I read faster with audiobook than without. For a few books, I combined regular and audiobook, so the audiobook forces me to keep reading, and hearing what I'm reading giv
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by mcv 3mo ago
I always have a book with me in case I ever need to wait or have some time to spare, but I still manage to read only about 10 books per year, and that's only because I try to read more; before, it was maybe one or two. My wife and olde
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by mcv 3mo ago
I completely agree. Replying with "ask Claude" feels to me like admitting you've lost control over the subject matter and don't know anything about it or at least don't trust your judgement anymore. It feels like sa
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by mcv 3mo ago
Can't you simply argue: I never agreed to this, so I'm not obliged to pay this? Americans love to pretend that healthcare can somehow be a free market (it can't), but a free market requires voluntarily entering into a transac
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by mcv 3mo ago
Would be nice if you could somehow connect GPU-levels of parallel floating point cores to that amount of memory. I guess that's what the big AI datacenters are doing, but how can we do that on a budget?
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by mcv 3mo ago
Then he goes to parliament. Though the question is if he can keep his outfit.
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by mcv 3mo ago
Here the corner shop is a supermarket. I think I've got 5 supermarkets in a 2km radius.
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by mcv 3mo ago
Exactly. Amsterdam has been trying to get as many cars as possible out of the city center, and the city is that much better for it. Use your car to leave the city, but not to get to the center. There's bikes and trams for that.
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by mcv 3mo ago
> inner city bike extremists WTF? In inner cities, bikes are the sensible option for 90% of traffic. Not for emergency services and larger freight of course, but it's possible to aim for a sensible mix.
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by mcv 3mo ago
I think it's entirely baseless. It's pretty clear men can be very emotional about the decisions they make. Look at all the stupid wars throughout the centuries based on pride, anger, greed or vengeance. Look at all the counterprod
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by mcv 3mo ago
Toyota is terrible at this. Various Toyota's we've had required you to either agree to obey traffic rules, warned about data costs when connecting your phone, or a variety of other things. Super annoying and distracting. As soon a
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by mcv 3mo ago
Cycling then? The cycling experience is pretty good around here.
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by mcv 3mo ago
It would be nice if they first proved that it actually improves safety. I'm sure I'm not the only one who has some doubts about that.
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by mcv 3mo ago
> the car warns you with some combination of a light, a sound, or a vibration. That could be more distracting than the distraction it's trying to detect. Our car warns you when it thinks you're about to crash into the car in fr
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by mcv 3mo ago
I had the same. Just before Fable became available, I was working on a document building on a ton of research that I wasn't entirely sure about (I don't think it counts as research itself, except in the Facebook sense). I had Opus
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by mcv 3mo ago
In this regard, LLMs are probably much more than two decades behind. If they're even going in the same direction at all. SQL has been around for a very long time, and parameterised queries almost as long.
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by mcv 3mo ago
It's trivial to protect against SQL injection. It requires only a bit of discipline to avoid concatenating user data into queries. Anyone still vulnerable at this point is simply incompetent.
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by mcv 3mo ago
Exactly. SQL injection was caused by treating user input as part of the instruction instead of as the pure data that it was intended as. Separating those two fixed it. Prompt injection is unavoidable because the user input is intended as in
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by mcv 3mo ago
One thing the EU might do is put some pressure on Israel to stop breaking the cease fire and just generally to stop bombing everybody. It's unlikely to happen, but that's the one thing I can see that the EU could contribute to the
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by mcv 3mo ago
Are you coming here to spread Russian propaganda? Please don't.
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by mcv 3mo ago
It's probably safer for them to be vague about who exactly they mean. Both to stay legal and to give voters the chance to project whichever people they hate most onto that policy.
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by mcv 3mo ago
He's a Christian (he's also written about that), but considering the time volume 4 took (and is still taking), I have my doubts he's going to make it.
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by mcv 3mo ago
> It's like bragging that you took 10,000 steps to reach the store by walking in circles when you could have taken 500 steps if you just walked straight. My wife does exactly that. For the exercise. She makes large detours to go any
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by mcv 3mo ago
My biggest issue with OrganicMaps is that the search isn't very good. It really struggles to find my destination sometimes. That's the one thing I'm afraid Google will always be better at.

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