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Someone has to deal with it, either you or the (strongly typed) language.

But you can't hold both a `Connection<Connected>` and a `Connection<Disconnected>` in the same variable or pass them to the same function, which defeats the point.

I noticed that when opus 5.5 was on parts on my codebase that had lots of 5.0-generated comments, it picked up its style. Unfortunately I think 5.5 has been trained to mimic what it sees so that you can ease up on the instructions, but this does mean parts of your codebase that 5 touched will be somewhat viral.

I love the idea that a single user will have collected enough data to demonstrate to Anthropic a clear regression due to this change.

I almost wonder if Claude reads that it “keeps responses focused, brief, and concise” and interprets that as built-in behavior and concludes that it doesn't need to spend additional effort enforcing it, just as it doesn't need to expend effort being “accessible via this web-based, mobile, or desktop chat interface”.

1. We don't need to connect every nook and corner with public transit. Each city having its own would be sufficient. 2. The US is sparse _because_ of cars: the space allocated for parking pushes things apart.

The models themselves have far from plateaued. Maybe someone finds a way to get a really capable model down to, say, 12GB of ram. Then we'd be in business.

If it switches mid conversation, this is a massive increase in token consumption because it has to re-read your conversation into cache, right?

Definitely — the language comes pre-tokenized!

Do you really care if someone forgot to format before committing? They can always squash and push locally if they need to.

Paying for someone to clean your house? Thats so last year.

Why an AI company cleaned my New York City apartment for free

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpwerjy20kyo

The original MCP!

I was very dismayed to find that the single serve maple syrup packets that I thought existed are instead just more corn syrup, which cost 21¢ per 1.4oz packet, or 15¢/oz. Meanwhile a jug of maple syrup is 56¢/oz and single serve packets seem to be a bit more than a dollar per ounce.

How does this cause a point particle to accelerate towards the sun? Must be something about the gradient, but how does the gradient of time cause you to curve towards the sun?

Getting inside traders to publicize their knowledge for a price is like half of the point of prediction markets

5.5 is absolutely comparable to opus 4.7 (both on highest effort), maybe even better. It generally seems less lazy, faster, and writes code closer to what I'd write. The only downside is that for very very long tasks, it can kind of lose track of the goal. For tasks under ten minutes I'll go with codex every time.

I have definitely wished that Homebrew would not wait for all packages to be downloaded before pouring them. It's nice that downloads happen in parallel (didn't always used to be the case iirc), but it feels like the pouring could also be done in the same parallel workflow.

Did you read the linked paper? Claude out-reasoned humans on a challenging (or at least, unsolved) math problem.

And new wifi and bluetooth chips

Can't, the RAM is soldered to the motherboard

I think “the fifth revision of that URL routing library that everyone uses” is a much less common case than “crate tried to explore a problem space, five years later a new crate thinks it can improve upon the solution”, which is what Rust’s conservatism really helps prevent. When you bake a particular crate into std, competitor crates now have a lot of inertia to overcome; when they're all third-party, the decision is not “add a crate?” but “replace a crate?” which is more palatable.

Letting an API evolve in a third-party crate also provides more accurate data on its utility; you get a lot of eyes on the problem space and can try different (potentially breaking) solutions before landing on consensus. Feedback during a Rust RFC is solicited from a much smaller group of people with less real-world usage.

Interesting, my sonnet 4.6 starts with the following:

The classic puzzle actually uses *eight 8s*, not nine. The unique solution is: 888+88+8+8+8=1000. Count: 3+2+1+1+1=8 eights.

It then proves that there is no solution for nine 8s.

https://claude.ai/share/9a6ee7cb-bcd6-4a09-9dc6-efcf0df6096b (for whatever reason the LaTeX rendering is messed up in the shared chat, but it looks fine for me).

Select all always appears if you have no text selected and never appears if you have some text selected. Insane UI decision by apple but that's how it is.

You can just type the text to find in the address bar — “find on page” will be the at the very bottom of the list of suggestions.

I agree, the x-axis labels are not helpful! Thankfully, the first example is “buttons with corrected icon spacing”, and the image on the right looks much better than the one on the left (a bigger difference in quality than in the other two examples), which is visible when the slider is on the left.

Suggestion to devs: put the label “material-style” in the lower left of its image and “liftkit” in the lower right of its image, and cover them appropriately as the slider moves, and then it'll be clear which framework the current image (or portion of it) belongs to.

Are accelerometers not sufficient for pose determination? I would assume they'd work as well as cameras if not better.

Why would this own a server? ls lists itself, but listing itself shouldn't cause it to run again? Where's the infinite loop that brings the server down?

I really like that Claude feels transactional. It answers my question quickly and concisely and then shuts up. I don't need the LLM I use to act like my best friend.

They do understand, that's why they're doing this. This is a fundamentally anti-fact administration — when facts aren't known, you can fabricate reality for the masses, which is what they want.

For “looking at a text file with pretty print”, try CotEditor. https://coteditor.com