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Comment · 1 month ago
> Technical debt has no bankruptcy, no clean reset

There definitely is a technical debt bankruptcy option.

You can stop using a particular piece of code or technology, e.g. by replacing it (with new code, or a third-party/vendor solution), or re-architecting a system or business process so that the code's function is no longer needed.

This is exactly what the technical debt metaphor means. Short-lived systems can accumulate a lot of technical debt without as much concern, because you're planning to declare bankruptcy (deprecate and decommission) the code soon anyways; long-lived systems must plan to pay off their technical debt on the usual installment plan.

Comment · 2 months ago
25th percentile never goes above 125k at any age, and 50th percentile doesn't go much about 400k at any age.

Sounds like a lot compared to annual income, but that's trivial if you're trying to retire and live off these assets until you die. Especially since public support, pensions, etc have been eviscerated.

Assuming you can get income of 5%/year from your assets (obviously depends on interest rates, investment mix, etc), 50 percent of people would need to survive on 20k/year or less to retire.

That's not being wealthy. That's choosing between abject piece, and working until you die. Dystopian.

Comment · 2 months ago
Workaround: local symlink from CLAUDE.md to AGENTS.md, inside each repo.

It's not pretty, but it works, and it has become my standard practice, so that I get consistent behavior between claude cursor codex etc.

Comment · 4 months ago
Just move your funds from mutual funds tracking NASDAQ (if you own any) to a different fund tracking S&P. Inconvenient but not the end of the world. You still have about two weeks to do so; I did this last week. Then in 6+ months when lockups expire and insiders have dumped, you can move money back if you'd like.

Also, SpaceX only sold a tiny portion, and Elon is only a trillionaire based on unrealized value of unsold stock. If it crashes before he sells any, he might go back to being a "normal" centi-billionaire.

Comment · 4 months ago
Comment · 4 months ago
Idk what they're using for serving, but it's truncated in the raw HTML, not just the presentation layer. So probably a bug on the backend somewhere? The linked github repo doesn't seem to have the contents of the post.
Comment · 5 months ago
Nice to see some catch-up with Anthropic and others, but this doesn't actually offer cloud coding agents (my favorite Claude and Cursor capability).

I want to code from my mobile device when my laptop is off or unavailable, pushing PRs directly to GitHub. Codex mobile only works with a desktop machine, at which point, I'll just use that machine, what's the point.

Comment · 5 months ago
Comment · 6 months ago
I experimented with setting up a dedicated openclaw instance for coding via chats on mobile, but now that cursor and Claude both offer easy coding from the Web/app, I have had it turned off for weeks.
Comment · 6 months ago
Arda was supposed to be drastically changed after the First Age. This map is from the Second/Third Ages. Do the events from the First Age map currently into what is shown? Do some have to be excluded?
Comment · 1 year ago
I avoided this exact scam. The most important thing is to never trust an incoming phone number. If they can't give you a publicly posted phone number that you can call inbound, they are a scammer.

Google has dozens of properties and it is easy to generate an email from one of them that seems to confirm the attacker's identity. Never trust any of these to identify a legitimate representative.

Comment · 1 year ago
This user just doesn't understand how to use an LLM properly.

The best solution to hallucination and inaccuracy is to give the LLM mechanisms for looking up the information it lacks. Tools, MCP, RAG, etc are crucial for use cases where you are looking for factual responses.

Comment · 1 year ago
Sounds really similar to my experience a few months ago. I commented here about it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/googleworkspace/s/NtJpputXtg

There was something in Google workspace that allowed the scanners to have an email sent to them, AND an additional and of their choice. But when I asked about calling them back, I was told that wasn't possible, which made me suspicious.

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