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by rglover 1y ago
I came to comments first. Thank you for sharing this quote. Gave me a solid chuckle. I think people are going nuts because we've drifted from the dock of a stable civilization. Institutions are a mess. Economy is a mess. Combine all of
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by rglover 1y ago
How does Claude Code compare to just using a Sonnet/Opus model with Cline? Imagine the results have to be fairly similar?
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by rglover 1y ago
It's not about being toxic, it's about being honest. There is absolutely nothing wrong with OpenAI saying "we're focused on solid, incremental improvements between models with each one being better (slightly or more) tha
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by rglover 1y ago
> What I observe right now is that we are not, at this moment, in a depression despite federal debt being such a high percentage of GDP. Because the "experts" keep redefining what it means to be in a recession, depression, etc.
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by rglover 1y ago
Federal debt before the great depression hovered around ~16%-17% of GDP and even in the throws of it got up to ~40% of GDP. Now it's at 120%. If my claim of this all leading to a greater depression is extraordinary (to the point of b
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by rglover 1y ago
In an honest way? Absolutely. Most people suffer from severe self-delusion to avoid the mental pain of coming face to face with their shortcomings.
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by rglover 1y ago
I've been fat/not-fat my whole life too. I'm fat right now (working too much and not watching diet). > That does not mean it is easy. If you are already fat, which can happen almost without you noticing by eating 200-300 c
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by rglover 1y ago
> There could be a crash that exceeds the dot com bust, at a time when the political situation through which such a crash would be navigated would be nightmarish. If the general theme of this article is right (that it's a bubble soo
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by rglover 1y ago
> That said, we are at a point where people are overweight enough that getting exercise has its own risks, and taking a medication that allows you to be more active is likely to cancel out some of those downsides. And yet we rarely ask o
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by rglover 1y ago
Well, considering that the drug was originally developed not for weight loss but for type 2 diabetes management, it's not terribly radical to be skeptical or outright dismissive of it as some miracle weight loss drug (even if that is
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by rglover 1y ago
I regret it only from the perspective that it opens you up to noise from smarmy, entitled, often wildly under-qualified developers trying to "get you" for not knowing something or not having some feature they claim is table stakes
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by rglover 1y ago
Kudos to the OP for writing this. That PC post always irked me. Not because it showed positive examples of going fast but because it felt slightly demeaning to teams/projects that move slowly on purpose, with intent.
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The Terminator Delusion(ryanglover.net)
4 points by rglover 1y ago|0 comments
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by rglover 1y ago
> Otoh, if you wanted to create an entirely new programming language in 2025, you might be shit outta luck. This just made me really sad. That effectively means that we'll plateau indefinitely as a civilization (not just on programm
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by rglover 1y ago
This is just going to lead to things not being done as nobody knows whether or not the TODO is resolved or not. Personally, I tag my comments in one of two ways: 1. // TODO: <task> (if multiple things, I do a multiline comme
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by rglover 1y ago
You don't need to "keep up," you just need to loosely pay attention to identify things/features that will make you more productive, test them out, and keep what actually works (not what some influencer claims to work on
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by rglover 1y ago
All ages for both of us (I'm OP). All spans of economic status (poor, middle, rich—doesn't matter).
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by rglover 1y ago
Thank you for sharing and reporting this.
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by rglover 1y ago
My wife and I have been talking about noticing the general cognitive decline in people we interact with. We both started to notice that people have been getting a little bit...goofy (spacing out, not really reciprocating communication, hype
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by rglover 1y ago
No. It's obnoxious signaling/tribal adherence. Relevant [1]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4ifVvgZU58&t=623s
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by rglover 1y ago
So this is basically a modern approach to Danny Meyer's (Union Square Hospitality Group [1]) "collecting the dots" he described in his book Setting the Table [2]. His suggestion was to have staff listen to conversations (and
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by rglover 1y ago
Seems to be the only real option.
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Ask HN: Has anybody gotten a Node.js MCP server to work with HTTP?
4 points by rglover 1y ago|5 comments
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by rglover 1y ago
I saw one on LinkedIn that was so egregious of a lie I just stopped and paused. A guy claiming he vibe coded "30 startups" in a weekend (yes, 30—with some becoming instantly profitable/revenue generating) and then went on to
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by rglover 1y ago
For me, the "dystopia" factor is that the structure of society is such where something that is arguably essential for the majority of people is ironically inaccessible without a cheap shortcut like an LLM. IMO, it's less ab
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by rglover 1y ago
As long as the LLM isn't steering the "patient" toward self-harm or helping to rationalize other self-destructive behavior, I don't see the issue. The people who need therapy the most often can't afford it if their
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by rglover 1y ago
You can—except for the researchers and pioneers at the low-level—write most of the fervor off as mimetic behavior. We live in a world now where people scare one another into making significant choices with limited information. Person A clai
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by rglover 1y ago
What is a wheel without its grease?
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by rglover 1y ago
Also Sketch [1]. Everyone abandoned it when Figma became the pOpUlAr tool, but I still use it every day, nearly 15 years later and it's continued to improve. [1] https://sketch.com
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by rglover 1y ago
If you're going to evaluate a piece of technology at least take the time to play with it. This isn't just unhelpful to me, it's doing a disservice to yourself (assuming that I've created something that will help you and

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