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aqme28

9,121 karma · joined January 20, 2012

Computational plasma physics and numerical analysis. Formerly in startups/webdev.

Brazilian Jiujitsu brown belt too

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aqme28··on Claude Session URL appended to commit messages and PR descriptions by default
Interesting. Can you elaborate on why you feel strongly about this? It's easily removable--I don't think your characterization that it "forces" attribution is correct, it just defaults it.
aqme28··on Lawmakers added $1 to car insurance policies. That money paid for Flock cameras
> being in the middle of a public roadway in a registered vehicle shouldn't confer the expectation of privacy

And this is where US caselaw and my personal beliefs about privacy start to differ. Why can't we expect some level of privacy in a public place? There are some countries that confer that, to certain levels.

aqme28··on Grand jury declines to indict Ohio man charged with destroying Flock camera
Though sometimes a prosecutors office will use a grand jury to fail to indict intentionally, like when the accused is a police officer they work with. It's a good way to launder away a prosecution that the DA doesn't want to pursue for political reasons.
aqme28··on OpenRouter is joining Stripe
OpenCode is also a pretty good harness.
aqme28··on Meta's blockbuster trial draws parallels to big tobacco
How would Poker fit into that definition?
aqme28··on Where Human Sleep Went Wrong
> It's still very odd that no species has ended up evolving a continuous maintenance system that can run while conscious, the benefits when hunting other animals that need sleep would be enormous, so there has to be significant evolutionary push for it.

I disagree. Endurance hunters walk an animal down throughout a single day. Sleep isn't the bottleneck. Efficient bipedalism and sweat are enough.

aqme28··on Exercise intensity modulates interorgan communication and is associated with
> you still would not structure your training as they did in that paper, because it makes zero sense.

That isn't relevant. The paper is not setting out to find the optimal way for people to train.

aqme28··on Qwen3.8 27B scores 52 on Artificial Analysis
Do you have any evidence that this model is bench-maxxed? I know that's particularly difficult to quantify. If there is an indicator of bench-maxxing, that just becomes the new benchmark to benchmax.
aqme28··on Dear people who work at the airport
Yes, this is a thing too. It's confusing for people who don't fly often for the obvious reasons, but experienced travelers have it just as bad because the rules vary wildly by airport and country.

I can't remember which airports/countries/systems require which procedures, so I just have to go in blind every time.

aqme28··on Dear people who work at the airport
Also, two neighboring gates saying "Now boarding for Vienna" will confuse people too. You're a bit screwed either way.
aqme28··on Dear people who work at the airport
I flew out of JFK a few days ago. Delta has about 50 check-in kiosk, and a few gate agents. With so many terminals, I was wondering why the area was so packed, with ten-minute lines to use an check-in kiosk.

I went to see a gate agent because I had a question. Right after yelling at someone else for the same reason, they told me "No, you have to use the kiosks."

By the time I got to the check-in kiosks I figured it out. Maybe they worked for some people but it had to be like 20% at best. Everyone else had to have help, myself included. It wouldn't scan my passport for the first 5 attempts, and then it wouldnt print my bag tag so I had to see the agent anyways.

What is the purpose of an automated system that drives everyone to the manual system? It just added an extra step.

Sorry for venting.

aqme28··on GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities
Having just "asked" my opencode instance-- Yes, but it's behind an experimental flag and not necessarily feature-complete.
aqme28··on GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities
ArtificialAnalysis puts out benchmarks for harnesses now as well, and OpenCode seems to be winning it. https://artificialanalysis.ai/agents/coding-agents#coding-ag...

I only found this yesterday, and it inspired me to start testing out OpenCode.

aqme28··on Grok 4.6
If it's purely about $$, what about the newer open models. DeepSeek and Kimi are roughly equivalent performance for a hell of a lot cheaper.
aqme28··on DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
Wait, what are you disappointed by? Seems like a significant jump in performance, and it competes handily with other models.
aqme28··on uBlock Origin is giving up the fight to keep ads off Facebook
If you're an engineer and your job is to defeat ublock origin, your work is not ethical. You're a facebook engineer-- you'll do just fine working elsewhere.
aqme28··on Beef and dairy drive 41% of biodiversity damage linked to global farmland
Yeah, exactly. I didn’t say anything to dispute that so I’m not sure what your point is. The time it spends as methane before turning back into CO2 is really bad
aqme28··on Beef and dairy drive 41% of biodiversity damage linked to global farmland
Not following your logic. A decade is a long time for such a powerful greenhouse gas.
aqme28··on New Bedford police officer accused of using Flock cameras to track ex-partner
In some places, like Germany, that reasonable expectation of privacy standard extends into public. You’re not allowed to just film strangers that have nothing to do with you. In some ways, I feel like this is a better system for our future.
aqme28··on 'Pervert glasses': Backlash against Meta's smart glasses grows
Life in prison is a bit harsh but I otherwise agree.
aqme28··on 'Pervert glasses': Backlash against Meta's smart glasses grows
I think the "American" version is the one that's outdated, if anything. The German one is a bit too restrictive, sure, but I'd rather lean a little towards too much privacy than too little.
aqme28··on 'Pervert glasses': Backlash against Meta's smart glasses grows
I think it’s rational to say “I don’t want this bad thing that exists to be more ubiquitous.”
aqme28··on 'Pervert glasses': Backlash against Meta's smart glasses grows
To be clear, I don’t think this reaction is irrational at all. I’m curious though why you do.
aqme28··on 'Pervert glasses': Backlash against Meta's smart glasses grows
I was trying to brainstorm ways to make these palatable to general society. Because I think this kind of thing is going to happen, but a lot of people (myself included) have a legitimate problem with surreptitious recordings.

It needs a "recording" light when it is recording. But creeps will just disable the recording light with e.g. a sticker.

Idea: What if the recording light embeds a little IR signal, and if the camera recording doesn't pick up that signal, it stops working

Edit: I see they tried that already.

aqme28··on Muse Glimmer: 30B-parameter model optimized for always-on local agent workflows
LLMs are becoming commoditized, which means the margins are trending to zero. It's a lot less exciting to spend another trillion on a new model if you can barely make any profit. Meta getting out of the game might be the smarter move.
aqme28··on Message your other Claude Code sessions
Not sure what other way you’d even want. It’s super easy.
aqme28··on Message your other Claude Code sessions
Just make a new slash command with those instructions as the prompt.
aqme28··on Software development with AI is starting to feel like cooking steak
Yes, I meant given a similar cut ofc
aqme28··on Software development with AI is starting to feel like cooking steak
If you cook enough you can tell by feel
aqme28··on U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war
I don’t know if I am convinced. Russia also uses a lot of Iranian drones, which presumably are going to have supply troubles because of this war.
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