DecoPerson

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Comment · 4 days ago
Everything, except the bleeding edge and situations requiring the context window to be more than 60% filled, are elementary to Opus 5.5 . If you provide the questions completely, you can be very sure that Claude’s solutions will be correct. The world has changed; AI is reliable; we need to adapt.
Comment · 17 days ago
Well other than the new wave of trying to mine useful saleable insights using new AI tools, there has always been a demand for insider trading signal sources. If you can find data that predicts stock market movements consistently, even if those movements are slow, then you can beat the bond rates and obtain consistent returns (barring any stock market crash).
Comment · 1 month ago
To anyone doubting what AI could do humanity, just think about what a well-engineered virus could do.

Currently, if a government ordered a special virus with Ethnicity-based targeting, a 2-year timer, and castration-effects instead deadly-effects — it wouldn’t be possible. Human engineers would push back or sabotage the effort out of moral duty. Even if they cooperated, it’s too advanced for a team of humans to actually design.

I believe that in a few years, an AI could build such a thing. Maybe it’s told to, or maybe it decides itself to do it — it doesn’t matter. The capability will be there, and it can use the existing tooling at research facilities to fabricate such a thing.

That’s one example of something that was never possible before but will be possible at a certain point of AI development (which we will arrive at soon). There are many other examples.

Comment · 2 months ago
Holy moly PLEASE:

- Do not make tapping the text act as selection. I was trying to scroll and accidentally advanced twice.

- Add back and/or reset test buttons.

- Give immediate feedback, rather than asking me to read 10 x 3 long texts.

Very frustrating. I was very interested in the results but this combination of problems made this site worthless.

Comment · 2 months ago
The Butlerian Jihad is coming. It will happen sooner than we think. It will start with Australia, where the popular vote matters the most for political power. “Vote for the Greens! We’ll ban AI! We’ll bring your jobs back! Your savings account will earn interest again! The AI scams will stop!” All false promises, of course. The laws will be pathetic: “Prohibited digital intelligence — any digital system capable of learning, adapting, remembering, recalling, generating, or interpreting information of a textual, visual, audio, interactive or other form.” It will be the Minister’s choice regarding which companies are in the (new) enforcement agency’s crosshairs. Misunderstood situations (like a Tesla running over a child that it didn’t detect) will be used as the war cry. “AI is dangerous! AI cannot be trusted! AI is being used by criminals!”

I hope my prediction is wrong.

Comment · 5 months ago
My 76 old Dad loves checking the TOTP on his phone and asking me to verbally read it out when I need him to accept a 2FA push notification to let me log into his bank or government accounts so I can do something for him.

He says it “feels like 007 stuff.” “AI will never trick me!”

We also have a duress code word, listed in the notes of that KeePass(ium) entry with the TOTP.

Comment · 6 months ago
Been using Pass2U for this for years.

Surely this was considered earlier within Apple. I wonder what changed that they decided to do this now.

Comment · 6 months ago
For us, Claude Design wrote one html file and a bunch of jsx files. What it built was quite functional. We used the “export” button to download the project as a zip file and I placed the contents into a directory in my monorepo. Then I wrote an about 5 paragraph prompt for Claude Code, sent it with bypass permissions (CC is running as a different, non-root user with no LAN network access), and went to bed. The next day, viola, it turned prototype jsx into tsx (+ server-side ts) that mostly conformed with my existing stack.

I’ve been trying to find a good way to let my Dad keep tweaking the new version but haven’t so far. For now he continues to work (using CD) on the jsx prototype. I can do another export later and CC could use git diff to see what changed and realise those same changes in the “real” version. But there has to be a better way.

Comment · 6 months ago
This isn’t going to replace Figma. It’s going to replace the people who use Figma.

My 76yo Dad just used Claude Design to make a simple commercial tenancy/lease management CRUD app. We handed what he built to Claude Code to implement within my existing business tech stack. It perfectly followed my coding & testing playbooks (basically a multi-file CLAUDE.md with prompt & command hooks to evaluate conformance). It works… exactly as my Dad imagined.

Now, mind you, my Dad had some outdated UI expectations (he asked Claude Design to style use a Windows 98 aesthetic!), but my point is: we just built a fully-functional, deeply tested, domain-expert-designed app, in less than a day.

Comment · 7 months ago
(I’m not a Teardown dev!)

I tried this on a local project. It looks very jank and the math falls apart quickly. Unfortunately, using a fixed axis-aligned grid for rotating reference frames is not practical.

One to thing I wanted to try but didn’t, was to use dynamic axes. So once an entity is created (that is, a group of voxels not attached to the world grid), it gets its own grid that can rotate relative to the world grid. The challenge would be collision detection between two unaligned grids of voxels. Converting the group to a mesh, like Teardown does, would probably be the easiest and most effective way, unless you want to invent some new game-physics math!

Comment · 8 months ago
I think the word “solve” is better than “hide” here.

Fusion 360’s heuristics are so good that I rarely run into these problems. When I do, it’s usually because it was a drastic change to a previous feature in the timeline and I’m expecting to encounter issues because it’s a really fundamental change.

Comment · 8 months ago
Make a throwaway GitHub account just for it and give it PR access to your private repos.
Comment · 8 months ago
I wonder, is Microsoft doing “outsider trading”, where they covertly pipe analytical data to the executives’ independently-owned stock trading houses as “tips”? They’ve had access to so many corporate internal emails for so long, with MS365, but Copilot is the perfect way to mask such analysis. Also Copilot would be good at analysing emails and providing useful “tips”.

Just my whacky conspiracy theory of the day!

Comment · 9 months ago
The Steam Link, also from 2015, is also still receiving updates! My partner and I use ours regularly to play co-op games on our TV. I really appreciate the efforts of whomever is keeping it running.
Comment · 10 months ago
Too much speculation. Take the 18th amendment one. Maybe prohibition did have the desired effects, in addition to the undesirable side effects. The two are not mutually exclusive.

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