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dham··on A flat pricing subscription for Claude Code
I'm sorry

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dham··on A flat pricing subscription for Claude Code
Both Anthropic and OpenAI don't have Linux desktop clients (to use MCP), so yea I'll skip.
dham··on Cursor hits $9B valuation
The moat is Cursor Tab, which is even better than SuperMaven.
dham··on I tried Windows gaming on a Mac
Not releasing Mac or Linux builds this day in age, should be an arrestable offense. At least if someone is using Unity, Unreal or Godot. I actually do it in reverse and do most development on mac or linux and just release a build on Windows at the very end.
dham··on Why We're Falling Out of Love with Tesla
How do you feel about Mercedes, Volkswagen and BMW? Those are off limits too right? Henry Ford, might want to look him up too. Look up Rick Wagnoner who's decisions actually cost lives. Katsuhiko Kawaso look up. Audi CEO. If you're not buying a car from a company who's CEO might have said things you don't agree with a few times, you might have to ride a bike.
dham··on Why We're Falling Out of Love with Tesla
I can't really comment on HW3. Ever since 12 it's been really great. 13 is even better. It drives me everywhere. Some people don't have the mental to let a car drive itself, they want it to drive exactly like they do, which isn't going to happen. It's really like sitting in passenger or backseat and if it isn't doing exactly what you want you tend to think it's messing up.

I had a lot of years with Comma AI before. There's no other consumer system on the planet that is close to FSD. lane assist's and adaptive cruise control are getting better with legacy manufacturers but they're still so far off.

dham··on Why We're Falling Out of Love with Tesla
Unfortunately the buying data doesn't support what you're saying. At least in 2023 and 2024.
dham··on Why We're Falling Out of Love with Tesla
Lane keep plus adaptive cruise control is ok until you want more. Trust me I used open pilot for 4 years. Once you have auto lane change like GM Cruise or Tesla FSD you can't go back.

> My Model 3 with FSD constantly has problems going from A to B without interventio

I mean my daily drives say otherwise. Are you on HW3 or 4?

dham··on Why We're Falling Out of Love with Tesla
The Ioniq 5 has much nicer interior but it can't drive you from point A to point B without intervention. So the Model Y could be a made out of Lego, have a seat with nails sticking out, force me to inflict pain on myself before putting it in drive and I would still own a Model Y. Even if Elon is crazy there is nothing else close to it on the market I'm sorry. Maybe Rivian.
dham··on Firing programmers for AI is a mistake
There's such a huge disconnect between people reading headlines and developers who are actually trying to use AI day to day in good faith. We know what it is good at and what it's not.

It's incredibly far away from doing any significant change in a mature codebase. In fact I've become so bearish on the technology trying to use it for this, I'm thinking there's going to have to be some other breakthrough or something other than LLM's. It just doesn't feel right around the corner. Now completing small chunks of mundane code, explaining code, doing very small mundane changes. Very good at.

dham··on Ben Affleck's surprisingly comprehensive take on LLMs for video
True, but it doesn't change the fact that some percentage of the population is.
dham··on Ben Affleck's surprisingly comprehensive take on LLMs for video
Convincing deepfakes is a strong word. There are also people out there who think modern CG looks good, too. There will always be people who are ultra-sensitive to things like this. So convincing might take 2x as long for some vs others.
dham··on RFK's Vow to Take on Big Food Could Alienate His New GOP Allies
Yes, this has blown up on social media. It has to be the most insanely dumb sentence ever written.
dham··on GitHub cuts AI deals with Google, Anthropic
With React, the guesses it makes around what props / types I want where, especially moving from file to file, is worth the price of admission. Everything else it does it icing on the cake. The new import suggestion is much quicker than the Typescript compiler lmao. And it's always the right one, instead of suggesting ones that aren't relevant.

Composer can be hit or miss, but I've found it really good at game programming.

dham··on How I write code using Cursor
Copilot is about as far away from Cursor with Claude as the Wright Brothers' glider is to the Saturn V.
dham··on US probes Tesla's Full Self-Driving software after fatal crash
This entire thread is people complaining about automation and FSD. Then you want an advanced feature, that requires a large amount of AI to do, as a toss-in feature to basic adaptive cruise control. Do you realize how far ahead Tesla is to everyone else?
dham··on US probes Tesla's Full Self-Driving software after fatal crash
Returning to this post in 5 years when FSD has been solved with just vision.
dham··on US probes Tesla's Full Self-Driving software after fatal crash
It's similar to when DHH said they were not bundling code in production and all the Javascript bros said "No you can't do that it won't work". DHH was like "yes but I'm doing it"

That's how it feels in FSD land right now. Everyone's saying FSD doesn't work and it'll never be here, but I'm literally using it every day lol.

dham··on US probes Tesla's Full Self-Driving software after fatal crash
Uhh, have you heard of the FDA? It's approved hundreds of chemicals that are put in all of food. And we're not talking about a few deaths, we're talking hundreds of thousands if not millions.
dham··on US probes Tesla's Full Self-Driving software after fatal crash
If your car is maintaining speed of the car in front then the car in front is going speed that is showing on your speedometer.
dham··on US probes Tesla's Full Self-Driving software after fatal crash
You won't be able to bring logic to people with Elon derangement syndrome.
dham··on US probes Tesla's Full Self-Driving software after fatal crash
A lot of haters mistake safety critical disengagements with "oh the car is doing something I don't like or I wouldn't do"

If you treat the car like it's a student driver or someone else driving, disengagements will go do. If you treat it like you're driving there's also something to complain about.

dham··on US probes Tesla's Full Self-Driving software after fatal crash
Autopilot is just adaptive cruise control with lane keep. Literally every car has this now. I don't see people on Toyota, Honda, or Ford forums complaining that a table-stakes feature of a car doesn't adjust speed or change lanes as a car is merging in. Do you know how insane that sounds. I'm assuming you're in software since you're on Hacker news.
dham··on Type 2 diabetes: New treatment eliminates insulin for 86% of patients
Yeah, travel would be really hard. We didn't go anywhere more than a night when we were on. You would have to pack food to do it successfully, but yea keto is best when you're fixing most of your food.
dham··on Type 2 diabetes: New treatment eliminates insulin for 86% of patients
45 seems like a lot, honestly. I think we did 20 at first. The ketones blood test kit is a must have. You have to know if you're actually in ketosis. People can do it at different carb amounts.

Societal pressures can be challenging but it's really not that bad. We ate out quite a bit because of birthdays and such. If you're at a nice restaurant, get a steak and a low-carb vegetable. At Ruth's Chris we did Tomahawk steak with mushrooms. Drink club soda with lime or lemon. Chipotle is a good meal. Chicken steak, guac, cheese, salsa (check their site)

Wingstop was also goto for us. They have quite a few sauces that have no carbs. Eating out is planning. Check the menu; if it's not a chain, you might have to call. We did that a few times. Ask if they put sugar in certain things. Burger with bacon and cheese no bun is also an option. You have to be careful with chicken dishes because they might put a sauce on it.

Remember, it's low-carb, not no-carb, so if you accidentally eat a few pieces of bacon with sugar in it, it's not the end of the world. It's probably not going to be enough to kick you out.

dham··on Type 2 diabetes: New treatment eliminates insulin for 86% of patients
I did keto for almost a year, and it wasn't that bad. My wife lost 50 lbs and I lost 45lbs. 190 > 145 (I had to put on weight afterward). First of all, you can eat things you enjoy, and you don't have to limit your intake. Basically, eat until you're full. When you're fully in ketosis (~2 weeks) you'll naturally not feel hungry. This is what makes keto great because you're never in a situation where you're hungry (at least after a few weeks).

Eating out isn't as bad as you think when in that position. Get a steak with some low-carb vegetables on the side. You can still have blackberries and raspberries and if you really need to "cheat" you can find some deserts that are no carb. Although best to limit those types of sugars. Use an app / website to track carbs for the first few months.

Just remember you're either in ketosis or not. There's no such thing as a "cheat" day on Keto as going over carb amount can kick you out.

dham··on Meta Movie Gen
It's kind of an interesting phenomenon. I read something on this. Basically being born between ~1980 and ~1990 is a huge advantage in tech.
dham··on Openpilot – Operating system for robotics
Exactly, Toyota, Honda, Hyundai / Kia, etc have systems, they're just nowhere near Open pilot.
dham··on Openpilot – Operating system for robotics
I used Open Pilot for ~4 years. According to connect I have 8,000 miles on Comma 2, 20,000 on Comma 3 and 2,000 on Comma 3x. I recently sold my Rav 4 and went to a Tesla. Open Pilot is actually better in a lot of ways than default Tesla auto pilot, especially because it doesn't do crazy fantom braking on freeway. Open Pilot is also way ahead of pretty much every lane assist / adaptive cruise control systems.

Obviously, FSD is way ahead of e2e open pilot with navigation, but since Open Pilot can apply very little torque to the wheel, it can't do anything gnarly. I actually trust Open pilot more at this point but I guess I just need more time with FSD. Some of that is because longitude was Toyota controlled until I used the e2e longitude model more.

Even on "chill" mode, FSD will make random quick lane changes to turn only lanes to try to get around traffic. This is 12.5.2. Even so FSD can get me from point A to B with no interventions 98% of the time.

dham··on Microsoft TypeSpec
I'm not sure why you're getting downvoted. It might be hitting too close to home for some. But yeah, 95% of developers choose things to do to boost them for the next job.
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