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Long-time pseudonymous HN commenter, now posting under my real name.
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Comment · 9 days ago
If it'd be any consolation, I for one find it interesting, even if you don't. I like to keep my AI writing detector honed, and others' opinions help. Even if I clicked figuring I wouldn't necessarily find the article all that interesting, I might end up reading it anyway just to see what I think of the writing style.
Comment · 11 days ago
If installing 11 Pro by hand, you can also tell it you're going to do a domain login later, and it'll let you create a local only account.
Comment · 14 days ago
If facing the wrong way, regular lights can shine at least a bit into oncoming traffic, as they're set up to illuminate the pavement or verge when driving on the normal side.
Comment · 16 days ago
This works well with an ordinary allocator too. At a previous place i worked, we had an allocate high option for the ordinary memory manager, that would find the highest possible address rather than the lowest. Pretty good for situations where you needed to allocate some transient data while creating some persistent data, without introducing unnecessary fragmentation.
Comment · 18 days ago
The UK doesn't really rely on industrial growth for the economic growth it has.
Comment · 18 days ago
At the bottom:
> This article was originally published in German. It was translated with technical assistance and editorially reviewed before publication.
Presumably "technical assistance" covers just about everything.
Comment · 20 days ago
They probably fell foul of some browser text box auto-correct.
Comment · 20 days ago
Sure, and perhaps one might end up producing output more useful to you than the other, but that doesn't make either one cruel or mean, because it's only the word machine. The rules you might use when talking to, say, your dog, don't apply!
Comment · 20 days ago
Meanness and cruelty are irrelevant concepts when you're addressing the chatbot. It is just a machine that generates sequences of words.
Comment · 21 days ago
Yeah, my thoughts too. Though, I will admit: I have never read a number of these. So, perhaps, the author is more perspicacious than we think.
Comment · 22 days ago
Apple's UK layout is annoyingly slightly different from the usual PC one: https://www.thecandidstartup.org/2022/10/07/mac-british-keyb...
Comment · 23 days ago
He's always come across to me as at least a little bit like this! His AI stuff doesn't feel enormously out of character to me. (If you hadn't encountered him before Gas Town - he's been posting online for like 20+ years, got a Wikipedia page and everything, so you can find his back catalogue and judge for yourself.)
Comment · 24 days ago
The RPG long predates Gas Town.
Regarding Gas Town, see also https://yegge.ai/essays/the-shape-of-things-to-come/ :
> Gas Town was intended to be reusable, but I only ever wound up using it to build itself. Gas Town fell apart at the seams with Opus 4.7. Up through 4.6 it was working brilliantly. With 4.7 we saw the introduction of the "just two more things" tic, which prevented Opus from ever converging on being ready to do real work—it always wanted to fiddle with Gas Town itself. The Opus tic never went away, so Gas Town effectively burned down. It had other problems, too, but 4.7 was the final straw
I hadn't seen the $122K figure mentioned previously. $87K for API-style pricing was mentioned in the above post, and ~$2,800/mo for multiple Claude Max accounts:
> My solution has been to create a token tap on $200 Max accounts, which for me work out to ~30x the list-price equivalent. So in reality I'm only spending about $2800/month out of pocket for my $87k "worth" of tokens. Though that number keeps growing alarmingly.
(He never seemed to provide numbers for Gas Town initially, whether what he paid, or what the API-style pricing would have charged, so it was interesting to get some actual figures. Sounds like a lot to me, but if he's genuinely getting multiple people's-worth of work out of it, then...)
(Also in the article: a little morsel of Emacs content, which was nice to see.)