mech422

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by mech422 6mo ago
yeah - I wish the 'Hacker' part of 'HackerNews' got more attention. Last few years it often feels more like "VC-Buzzword-of-the-day-News" - AI is just the most recent cycle.
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by mech422 6mo ago
Hey! I resemble that comment :-P (I still tend to use apt-get out of habit...)
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by mech422 6mo ago
wow - I thought it was called 'ideation' or 'brainstorming'. he didn't give it a 'spec', he started a conversation with it to see if 'something actionable comes up' - which you actually quoted, b
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by mech422 6mo ago
He didn't say they weren't ? He said youtube keeps recommending 'cringe' shorts no-one wants to see. I can sympathize with him - I have the youtube recommends the same 4 videos over and over again in multiple categories
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by mech422 6mo ago
>>I take your point, the way I used “abuse” there probably carries more charge than I’d meant it to. Fair enough. >> But that’s not what the subscription product is for. This was the point I was trying to make - I pay for XX tok
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by mech422 6mo ago
>> but is it a question whose answer matters? I think it does? "scummy person loses job, finds another way to cash in" almost seems to becoming a trope? I think it raises questions about what is left _out_ of the book, not j
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by mech422 6mo ago
>>when your MCP avenue of abuse catches on Thats an interesting way of phrasing it - so is there a way to use the quota that's not 'abuse'? MCP/claude code seems to be want they want you to use it - are loops or ra
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by mech422 6mo ago
>>So even if Anthropic loses money on a power user, they profit overall and keep public sentiment high by not alienating users with restrictions So they profit overall if I use all my tokens either way? Again, I understand usage limit
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by mech422 6mo ago
you can write automated MCP tools that run within claude code, and could theoretically generate as high a load as any other automated/3rd party agent. You can also do loops that burn tokens incredibly fast. This is allowed with no cave
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by mech422 6mo ago
This is what I've been wondering about for a while now. I have the 20x plan as well, which I thought would allow me to try some API coding - but you get zero API usage. As you said, I would imagine where the token usage comes from is i
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by mech422 6mo ago
IIRC the Stratus/Model 88 was Moto 68K chips, not x86? I worked on them for years on wall st. - really nice machines! :-D
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by mech422 6mo ago
"we" paid ISP's ... which in turn, paid for infrastructure. Some of "we" pay cable providers for internet service, which in turn paid for (in my case) fiber-to-the-curb. Advertising basically supported social media
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by mech422 6mo ago
An article about old school bbs'ing and no-one mentioned 'door games' ?? Tradewars 4 evah !!
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by mech422 6mo ago
Heh - QWK was such a god send for those of us paying long distance charges to access boards. I think I used 'Bluemail' ? 'Bluereader' ? and really liked it.
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by mech422 7mo ago
The visual component editor does look pretty nice :-) I guess I always just associated sbc's with a more 'hands on' style... Anyway, seems like a pretty cool project - congrats!
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by mech422 7mo ago
just curious - if it runs from a docker container, what is the advantage of running the browser as opposed to just ssh'ing in ?
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by mech422 7mo ago
Amazon (use to ?) have roles where your expected to be on-site with clients 20-25% of the time. But given how often they were hiring for the roles, I think the turn over was pretty high. Anyway - Good luck!
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by mech422 7mo ago
I came, I saw, .... I geeked :-D Nice project - how did you like working with Servo ?
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by mech422 7mo ago
Having held a similiar position for IBM, personally I just don't like dealing with customers. Some are great, others are just a pain ... I like my machines better :-) You might have more luck looking at people with 'pre-sales engi
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by mech422 7mo ago
Odd - its been working fine here all day. Its when they claim to be up I usually have problems :-P
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by mech422 7mo ago
Wow - has it been over 20 years already? Congrats !!
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by mech422 7mo ago
"SourceForge was abandoned due to UX issues and the adware debacle" I'd say SourceForge was abandoned due to VA Linux going under. I remember the pain/panic as large numbers of OSS projects were suddenly scrambling to fi
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by mech422 7mo ago
I've had a similar experience - I basically have to tell it to do everything twice now. It especially loves ignoring instructions to re-read a file (or re-read in FULL) and just uses its (stale) cache/context version. It also wan
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by mech422 7mo ago
Have you seen Genode (1) ? An operating system framework with a pretty usable OS built on top. Last I heard, it was getting pretty close to being usable as a daily driver. lots of cool tech (micro kernel(IIRC), capabilities, sandboxing as
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by mech422 7mo ago
Ahh - the circle of life... Its now cheaper to hire humans then to buy more nvidia cards to spin up AI workers! :-P
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by mech422 7mo ago
I can believe it - maybe they feel they have enough of a lead in usage with programmers with Opus that they want to locking down the tooling side as well. edit: clarify
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by mech422 7mo ago
The part I never really understood, was I thought the subscriptions were to try and boost Opus usage, not claude code usage ? I'm not sure why they care whether you use API or claude, as they limit the number of tokens you can use anyw
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by mech422 7mo ago
I'm surprised that people think this is some new 'save-the-children' thing ? Didn't Zuck say like 10 years ago, you should not be allowed to be anonymous on the internet ? This just seems on-brand at this point.
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by mech422 7mo ago
That's actually a pretty cool - especially for a portfolio piece. While it's not for common use (yet?), it gives prospective employers an idea of how you would work with safety critical code, as we as the 'normal' CRUD&#
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by mech422 7mo ago
It's going to be interesting when the Millenials retire - IIRC, that generation was almost as large as the boomers. Gen-Z/Gen-Alpha that are going to be supporting them are a LOT smaller.

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