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by wxw 5mo ago
`Freedom to Drive` needs to become `Freedom to take fast, frequent, full-coverage public transport`, in basically every city besides NYC.
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by wxw 5mo ago
Highly recommend the Recurse Center ( https://www.recurse.com/ ), also in NYC, as a communal space for programmers. > In the end, spending time with other people is the most important thing. Everything else comes from that
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by wxw 5mo ago
https://archive.ph/uF6WC#selection-773.5-780.0
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by wxw 5mo ago
> As early as 1981, I pointed out that by reducing the number of objects that I had to keep track of explicitly from many tens of thousands to a few dozens, I had reduced the intellectual effort needed to get the program right from a Her
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by wxw 5mo ago
Fun idea! There's frankly a lot to learn from reviewing agent sessions.
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by wxw 5mo ago
Per 1M tokens (input cache hit / input cache miss / output) v4-pro (75% off): $0.003625 / $0.435 / $0.87 v4-pro (regular): $0.0145 / $1.74 / $3.48 v4-flash: $0.0028 / $0.14 / $0.28 th
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by wxw 5mo ago
I enjoyed the Supabase migration article from a while ago ( https://blog.val.town/blog/migrating-from-supabase ) as well. There's a shortage of good, honest writing on long-term engineering decisions, please keep up
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by wxw 5mo ago
> The increase reflects a rebound from an unusually weak April last year, when buyers pulled purchases forward to March to beat incoming vehicle tax increases
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by wxw 5mo ago
> We’re releasing ten ready-to-run agent templates for the most time-consuming work in financial services The templates being: pitch builder, meeting preparer, earnings reviewer, model builder, market researcher, valuation reviewer, gene
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by wxw 6mo ago
That's a neat proxy measurement to track.
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by wxw 6mo ago
A lot of fruits seem to have their varietal information flattened out by the time they get to market (i.e. a yellow peach is just a peach yet there are many kinds of yellow peaches). Apples have not, and I think that's great. Is this b
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by wxw 6mo ago
https://archive.ph/3HkyR
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by wxw 6mo ago
> Will we see issues start popping up in Bun that make it seem like the team doesn't even dogfood their own product? I don't know, but I'm not sure I want to continue using it just in case. I sympathize with the general pr
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by wxw 6mo ago
Voice agents in customer support is an extremely crowded market. Seems like Sierra is taking a considerable lead. I don't know much about their product offerings, but I was doing some speech-to-text work and came across https:/&#
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by wxw 6mo ago
For a second I thought this was related to Julia the language. Then I looked at the landing page and thought "hm, unrelated". Then I scrolled down a bit, and it is related! Cool projects.
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by wxw 6mo ago
I wonder how many customers were unknowingly affected by this (and are unknowingly affected by similar issues). Proper retribution would be to track down all affected users and mitigate all extraneous charges. Unlikely, of course.
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by wxw 6mo ago
Congrats! I just started playing with Zed last week. Changelog notes, for the curious: https://zed.dev/releases/stable/1.0.0 .
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by wxw 6mo ago
How are folks recommended to get involved? Contact your local Congress member? I feel this thread has a lot of passion but is missing concrete, actionable steps.
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by wxw 6mo ago
> We switched to the "triager" pattern: a Haiku agent with a very specific and narrow job. Is this issue already tracked or not? If it is, stop right there. If not, escalate to Opus. > 4 out of 5 failures never reach Opus. A
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by wxw 6mo ago
> wastes user money and bricks managed agents This issue is representative of a larger problem. Agent token consumption (not necessarily the metric, but the why ) is opaque, and people generally don't (or simply can't) scrutin
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by wxw 6mo ago
This is kind of a head scratcher. I'm guessing IBM has good enough distribution and existing relationships to make this an interesting procurement option.
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by wxw 6mo ago
> Open-sourcing is fundamentally coming from our desire to build a successful business. We are competing with other highly funded, closed-source competitors, and we think opening and providing the resources for the community to improve W
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by wxw 6mo ago
Thank you, I'll take a look.
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by wxw 6mo ago
> Power in the future can either be held by a small handful of companies using and controlling superintelligence, or it can be held in a decentralized way by people. We believe the latter is much better... Superintelligence aside, power
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by wxw 6mo ago
> After a $75 million fundraising round led by U.S. venture firm Benchmark in May 2025, Manus shut its China offices in July, laying off dozens of employees. It then moved its operations to Singapore. > It was not immediately clear on
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by wxw 6mo ago
Ultimately to understand a thing is to do the thing. And to not understand (which is ok!) is to trust others to, proxy measures or not. Agreed that the future of work is in a precarious place: doing less and trusting more only works up to a
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by wxw 6mo ago
I asked it to make lofi cafe music and it just made a static web-page. When I asked why there wasn't any music, it said: > My bad—I forgot to hook up the sound system. And then it started playing jazz, which I'm not mad about.
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by wxw 6mo ago
So cool! Love the exploration into new interfaces.
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by wxw 6mo ago
Regulating our digital experiences through the built environment is underrated. I like the idea of a dedicated internet corner at home: somehow both nostalgic and futuristic. Also related and enjoyable: cafes with no/limited WiFi hours
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by wxw 6mo ago
Are you working on the same overall project or many separate projects? I find that makes a difference (entirely separate projects being more difficult for context switching of course). Overall though, I wouldn’t buy too much into the hype o

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