shepardrtc

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by shepardrtc 7d ago
Thread about this from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49755533
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by shepardrtc 8d ago
People creating free software for everyone to use, only to pull it away when suddenly there's a technology that can instantly let everyone use it at the drop of a hat, is not something I quite understand. If you're doing it so yo
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by shepardrtc 13d ago
When you move the app to the trash, it leaves the server you have to install. It's still running and set to restart automatically.
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by shepardrtc 15d ago
"Bots? In my ecosystem?"
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by shepardrtc 29d ago
> Did they understand what they were cutting. No, they were using llm prompts to make decisions.
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by shepardrtc 1mo ago
Fun read about Azure and having 173 agents running a node: https://isolveproblems.substack.com/p/how-microsoft-vaporize... Probably just a coincidence that Github started to have issues after beginning their move to Az
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by shepardrtc 1mo ago
> We wanted it, and Meta gave everyone the ability to have it. Slight modification: We wanted to feel good about things, and Meta, knowing exactly what they were doing, took advantage of that to enrich themselves while gaslighting everyo
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by shepardrtc 1mo ago
Meta has warped society to think that life is meaningless without affirmation. No amount of money can fix that or punish them. I think that sharing things can be wonderful, but monetizing that or adding Like counts to gamify it is very dama
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by shepardrtc 1mo ago
You can't turn around though. Everything goes toward the black hole. If you turned around, atoms would be moving away from, or at the least changing their direction in respect to the black hole. And that's not possible. You wo
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by shepardrtc 1mo ago
I lived in Seattle for a couple of years, where its completely legal, and I almost never smelled it. I smell it far more often in cities where its illegal.
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by shepardrtc 1mo ago
I lived in Seattle for a couple of years, out in one of the suburbs (West Seattle). I would say that housing cost is the primary issue in Seattle, but its nowhere near San Francisco. Outside of that, public transit is pretty good. I have
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by shepardrtc 1mo ago
Why was it a mistake?
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by shepardrtc 1mo ago
At exorbitant costs or lackluster execution, with plenty of campaign donations along the way
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by shepardrtc 2mo ago
That is easily fixable with the "Instructions for Claude" in your settings. Just put: "be critical, but correct. I don't want affirmation, i want to actually accomplish things." I don't get any sycophancy fro
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by shepardrtc 3mo ago
It has an MIT License
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by shepardrtc 3mo ago
It happened to my father, who was suffering a severe mental decline because of hydrocephalus. After weeks of trying to figure out what happened, one day he was sitting in the hospital perfectly fine, talking normally. I remember being so
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by shepardrtc 4mo ago
There's meaning in the term "car wash" that it understands. But I don't suspect anyone has taught it that for 99.9% of people, going to car wash ONLY means that you're going to wash your car and that it should make
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by shepardrtc 5mo ago
> uncover blockers that people haven’t surfaced on their own I constantly reiterate to people, whether they're reporting to me or not, that they need to speak up when there's a blocker. I feel its a very telling skill of engin
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by shepardrtc 5mo ago
Plenty of evidence has been found. For one, the US government has leaked/released a video showing instant acceleration of a flying object. Nothing on earth can do that.
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by shepardrtc 5mo ago
Why not?
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by shepardrtc 5mo ago
Last year, there was a period of a week or two where I would see Gemini responses diffusing in. I don't know if they were experimenting with it, or if it was just an effect. It didn't last long, but it was interesting to see.
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by shepardrtc 6mo ago
I built an algorithmic trader years ago just using Python, but for the hot paths I gave each algorithm its own function in its own file, and then I would compile the files with Cython. The speedup was pretty significant. I barely wrote any
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by shepardrtc 8mo ago
> Inaccurate rescues - jobs that are long-running might get rescued even if the producer is still alive. Pro version uses smarter heartbeats to track producer liveness. So the non-paid version really can't be used for production unl
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by shepardrtc 9mo ago
You may find this study useful: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09335-x I've begun taking very small amounts of lithium orotate (5mg), among many other preventative measures.
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by shepardrtc 9mo ago
From multiple personal experiences, including both of my parents, dementia is a slow, horrible death where you are robbed of your dignity and end up dragging all of your relatives through a very long, very torturous hell. You will be drool
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by shepardrtc 10mo ago
Yeah they looked at 120 people age 71 and above for that study. By that point its a little late.
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by shepardrtc 10mo ago
Taking valacyclovir should help prevent or delay as well.
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by shepardrtc 10mo ago
That makes sense. And its even worse of a reason. At least for people living in the US.
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by shepardrtc 10mo ago
Ok so a few thoughts as a former Seattleite: 1. You were a therapy session for her. Her negativity was about the layoffs. 2. FAANG companies dramatically overhired for years and are using AI as an excuse for layoffs. 3. AI scene in Seattle
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by shepardrtc 10mo ago
For input, - GPT-5.1 is $1.25 / 1M tokens - You are $0.50 / 1,000 tokens Output: - GPT-5.1 is $10.00 / 1M tokens - You are $1.50 / 1,000 tokens Am I reading that wrong? Is that a typo?

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