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I came here to write something similar but not as forceful. Your comment is far better than might ever have the guts or wherewithal to express. I build things with the tools I have. I also repair the ancient wood windows at my house with an assortment of POWER tools, like a router and table saw.

AI is my coding power tool. I'm building stuff for humans, just faster now. It's amazing.

Comment · 1 month ago
Open question, how does this instruction in agent-rules.md look?

"Cap large/unknown command output: `COMMAND 2>&1 | head -c 4000`. Never stream full logs, tests, or large files."

I use that instead of RTK. Empirically, I found RTK makes my agents run longer to complete similar tasks.

Ponytail and Caveman seem to help somewhat.

Comment · 1 month ago
How much do interchange fees increase prices in the US?
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Comment · 7 months ago
You're fortunate! Deadbolts are no match for our 22 month old... He already figured out how to disarm three types of safety latches, and he's halfway to opening the safety gates.

I don't want to show him too much television, but it's the only thing that keeps him in one place

Comment · 7 months ago
Comment · 7 months ago
I need a lock like this to prevent my hyper active toddler from leaving the house through the front door.

It'll be strange to replace my front door with a guillotine slider, but I'm willing to try about anything since I found him half a block away playing in a puddle last week.

I literally just tried to send one text message. Poof he was gone.

Comment · 9 months ago
Doheny was approved shortly after the Huntington Beach desal plant was killed. Update from last month: https://www.ocregister.com/2025/11/26/landfill-trash-could-h...

Poseidon currently runs a desal plant in Carlsbad. My understanding is that the water the plant releases into the ocean requires exemptions for how concentrated it is. Additionally, the plant draws plankton filled water. Not really what we want in California.

There are better desal solutions out there like OceanWell. They have a deep water desalination solution that solves many of the problems of conventional desal. They just signed a project in Nice, France in the past few days. Also, they are working with the city of Las Virgines over the past few years.

If I remember correctly, the new desal plant in Doheny has a slightly different approach to draw water in from beneath the sand, using the sand as a prefilter. But I'm not sure how that works better than drawing water in from near the surface. I can't imagine how the plankton can possibly escape the suction forces drawing them into the sand.

Comment · 11 months ago
Anyone use SmartTube? Or is it something I should remove?
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> No external dependencies may be used
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