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by throwpoaster 6mo ago
> The transition Apple and Tim Cook announced today is entirely different. No one’s hand was forced. There is nothing unpleasant. Tim Cook is a master of supply chain logistics and was the perfect choice to scale Apple into global produc
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by throwpoaster 6mo ago
We’re looking at you, Vancouver.
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by throwpoaster 6mo ago
No, if you ran Openclaw using Anthropic API as a provider, or had it use the ‘claude -p’ cli interface, you got an email from Anthropic threatening a ban unless you upgraded billing. This was widely reported, and happened to me. You probabl
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by throwpoaster 6mo ago
> CAN rail to port to transPac/Asia is cheaper than rail/truck to US post tariff (most commodities now). Also it's ~75% of CAN exports goes to US, and it was only structurally cheaper under pre-Trump trade arrangements, no
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by throwpoaster 6mo ago
1) The argument in the article is that he will join the fight against AI when he wins the fight against LLCs. 2) You start an LLC and use it to build and sell a product customers want. Then you, your family, and your community, can economic
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by throwpoaster 6mo ago
I’ll join Doctorow’s fight against LLCs when I understand how to create economic freedom for my family and community without them.
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by throwpoaster 6mo ago
My standard question about Swiss engineering, “how many jewels?”, is failing me.
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by throwpoaster 6mo ago
Yeah, we only recently began honouring our agreements[0], and even then we did it my recategorizing non-military spending as military[1]. [0]: https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/history-canada-nato-mil... [1]: &
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by throwpoaster 6mo ago
Canada and America are neighbours. It is far cheaper for Canada to ship things south into a giant market than to ship east and west into our own, smaller markets. Trading with anyone else in the world entails much larger shipping expenses.
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by throwpoaster 6mo ago
Gumption and a firm handshake!
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Reflections on Trusting Trust [pdf](cs.cmu.edu)
4 points by throwpoaster 6mo ago|1 comments
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by throwpoaster 6mo ago
Regarding the recent thread[0] on writing a python interpreter in python, this is Ken Thompson’s famous paper on writing a C compiler in the C, and the class of exploits thus enabled. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i
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by throwpoaster 6mo ago
How does it define ‘\n’? ;) cf: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_Ref...
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by throwpoaster 6mo ago
"Agentic Coding/Terminal/Search/Analysis/Etc"... False: Anthropic products cannot be used with agents.
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by throwpoaster 6mo ago
Anthropic gonna acquire Cloudflare for stock. Solves their infrastructure problems in one shot.
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by throwpoaster 6mo ago
The noise we make is hurting _us_. Decibel levels in cities are unconscionable.
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by throwpoaster 6mo ago
We have more than enough calories globally, although Africa has more starvation now than it did a decade ago. What we need is nutrient density. 0% of those feed calories have, eg, creatine. 100% of the beef calories do.
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by throwpoaster 6mo ago
Generally, across AI providers, I have come to interpret sudden degradation in existing capabilities as a signal that a new, more expensive, product tier is about to launch.
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by throwpoaster 6mo ago
Have you tried asking Mythos for a fix?
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by throwpoaster 6mo ago
Wait what? If I get told to come back in three hours because I'm using the product too much, I get penalized when I resume? What's the right way to work on a huge project then? I've just been saying "Please continue&quot
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by throwpoaster 6mo ago
If you struggle with procrastination please get assessed for ADHD. A positive diagnosis is life changing.
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by throwpoaster 6mo ago
Shuttle was awesome and the people who love to hate it can personally fight me.
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by throwpoaster 6mo ago
How long have you had an agent performing the same task, or trying to improve performance towards the same outcome? I’m not really talking about coding. I’m talking about autonomy.
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by throwpoaster 6mo ago
A comment that takes a second to realize it’s a troll.
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by throwpoaster 6mo ago
Repeatability (see my response to op).
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by throwpoaster 6mo ago
Skills and MCP are useful for when you need to repeat specific processes, perpetually. Without them the task description and reasoning falls out of the context window, or is compressed, and the process fails. An agent will eventually forget
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by throwpoaster 6mo ago
They’re different things. You can have skills using MCP.
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by throwpoaster 6mo ago
“A sculptor drove a truck to fund his art.”
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by throwpoaster 6mo ago
"Why does the country with the fifth highest GDP per capita have better infrastructure than the country with the ninth highest?"
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by throwpoaster 6mo ago
Yes. All new technology has issues. Figure it out. Especially if you're spending $3k per month on inference, have the model fix the agent. I suppose the idea is to wait for someone else to productize it. Lazy.

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