sitkack

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Slow thinker, like molasses.

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Comment · 14 days ago

why u just programming directly into a hn text box?

sounds like ur on a roll. i'd like for a command list along with a persistent data structure so i could retweak and reddit someone's project, parametrically

Comment · 14 days ago

every time you do an update large enough they do the welcome to mac and try and turn all that shit back on.

Comment · 15 days ago

It is supernatural to write code by hand, so yeah?

Comment · 15 days ago

Yeah, a pressure relief clause and it should fire visibly.

Comment · 22 days ago

Over what time horizon? Before, during or after Trumps 3rd term?

Comment · 22 days ago

    --norms-taboos-off

Comment · 29 days ago

These small operators are increasing their usage of the Technical Abomination Solutions, the simple QR code ticket is on the way out

Comment · 29 days ago

Seeing as the pentagon has no issue with volunteering for extra judicial murder, it is not off the table. at all.

Comment · 29 days ago

A big enough bomb and it can be fixed in place.

Comment · 1 month ago

Contrapositive in this usage is a fancy word for, "my logic is flawed"

No, if you are already making bad decisions, you are going to make more. I never argued that good engineering means the idea was good.

Comment · 1 month ago

The ads show they are out of ideas and with everything enshitifying, and a duopoly, they don't need to serve customers. just be slightly less shitty than google.

This puts them at existential risk of disruption, because it will build huge unseen pressure for customers to flee.

We saw this with Opus 4.7 - 5, losing folks to Sol when it came out. But Anthropic delivered with 5.5

Comment · 1 month ago

> Cocaine and pot are horrible

citation needed

Comment · 1 month ago

You are doing it right now by naming the event after the victim, not the perpetrator. Call it the OpenAI attack on HF.

Comment · 1 month ago

I don't even notice the LLM speed or latency. I think we are as far apart in technique as it gets.

What is your workflow?

Comment · 1 month ago

Funny that so many people in this thread are arguing that a bad idea should also be engineered well. It was already a bad idea, so no it won't be. They are a package deal.