hankbond

IDK how a 2000 dollar phone would cannibalize macbooks more than a 700 dollar entry level macbook.

It's possible that the audience for anyone that would plug in their phone to a KVM setup is just too niche to care. Just seems like with computing being so expensive these days, I really want to get the most out of my devices.

Running android in a DeX mode is fine, but its still android. Now that MacOS is already optimized to run on mobile chips, it seems so limiting that it can't run on iPhones just because of customer segmentation.

seems like an odd thing to trigger a nope given the title?

I get it, it's easy to ask it to just touch up the language and split run ons. At this point in time, I'm of the opinion that "improving the clarity" at the cost of creating "a discernible style" is not a good trade off.

In most formal publications of The Before Times like newspapers and magazines, you did not want much of a writer's specific tone to come thru bc the organization had its own writing style. We used to value "correctness" because too much variance (without intent) made things hard to read—it was like context switching and came with a cost.

Nowadays though, so many people are already reading Claude writing day in and day out. I would venture to say that the opposite cost is being incurred now, where as soon as I start to see the same language patterns, some attention mechanism in my brain just starts to drift off. I literally cannot mentally focus on reading when the prose is 1:1 the same distribution as Claude. Some kind of fatigue happened by reading its output over and over day after day at work.

Anyway, just think about changing it up if you're interested in writing (even if it means your output is "sloppier").

At some point these phones are powerful enough that we need to be able go get a desktop experience that can run macOS. Why is a 600 dollar neo more capable for productivity than a 2000 dollar iphone with a much beefier chip?

Great content! Inspires me to do the same thing since I am constantly dealing with things falling apart like this. I recently did one manually after putting it of for too long. Get Delta (airline) to go from "here is a 200 dollar bag to replace your 400 dollar bag we damaged" -> "Here is a 450 dollar eCredit".

I would try focusing on building a more unique style of writing, this feels like it went through heavy alignment to Claudes distribution. For the general audience maybe they aren't that sensitive to it yet, but for those that have to use LLMs at work, having to read more of it is grating.

What a clear and well-written article. I have only a basic understanding of LLM architecture and was able to follow along and gain intuition the whole time!

I have an M1 14" macbook with a broken screen. Would have cost $600+ to get it replaced so i just bought another refurbished one for $750. If i want to use the keyboard its kind of annoying to have to deal with the useless screen, so I would be open to just taking the dang thing off.

The exploration page is really easy to use. Having more reliable weather predictions is a genuinely useful product.

Good use of free will and well-written. Very nice walkthrough austin!

That is factually correct, but what is the impact of it? Why does it matter concretely?

StackUnderflow.

> This is the first time I have appreciated a piece of visual art. I actually finally get it.

Dang, that's rough.

> I realize that part of the reason I have not been able to appreciate a work of art before is because my mind tends to anxiously attempt to absorb information, without slowing down to absorb visual work in a linear fashion, rather choosing to keep track of as many details as possible from the image it perceives, then move on.

I would actually recommend not trying to ingest linearly (as in a raster scan) but as a Breadth First Search. Try to unfocus a bit (your eyes or your mind) and not analyze anything at first. The key is to maximize perception. Only after you are able to "feel" the piece should you dive into the details.

> profundity

word of the day?

> It was part of efforts to stop the "world's longest misinformation and disinformation" about Africa, she said.

Are they trying to say some negative outcome in Africa is caused by the Mercator projection?

> People believing that they are owed 20x the income of someone else because they are smarter than them is pretty insane on its face but does seem to be compatible to some extent with social stability.

Idk if "owed" is the right word here, and I disagree that the disparity is from being "smarter". There are plenty of people with high analytical intelligence that are not paid very much. Think about how poorly some very smart academics are often compensated.

Maybe I'm being reductive but it seems more simply that the disparity is based on "how much leverage/influence do you have over those with the money".

How are you using this compared to more explicit approaches where you lay out the project documentation in certain formats and conventions?

> A Regrettable Circumstance

This is the one that really got me to giggle. I can tell this is going to stay buried in my brain for a while.

I always find maximalism jarring and this was certainly no exception.

> "LLM Bloom filter"

very good way to put it.

Concretely and Simply, what are you actually building with this?

Great piece, very straightforward examples, although I did have to squint for quite a while to grok the Closure portion.

I am currently building a piece of very modular software and it has been the hardest-to-design project of my entire career. I would never be allotted this amount of time-effort at any job I have held to make something this robust and clearly defined. Many aspects of this project have taken 3-5 rounds trying-and-trashing to get an abstraction that is uncomplicated.

This is precisely why vibe coding is so successful for building tiny isolated scripts, and so disastrous for anything else. It's just really dang hard to build something large and simple.

Related, I just did an experiment to see if I could do away with color for syntax highlighting and I was pleasantly surprised that it was not a total failure! For grayscale-on-the-computer this may help if you enable that for focused work sessions.

https://hank.bond/posts/highlighting-my-code-based-on-how-mu...

I think this is a reasonable take for allowing agents with static capabilities to operate faster and more efficiently. I think that interactive flows may not benefit from this as much as just having a plethora of cli tools and a sandbox.

It makes sense to me that agents with known tool sets should be able to safely create ad-hoc "tool recipes" that are not arbitrary code execution but are kind of arbitrarily composable from allowlisted functions. After reading thru this thats what this appears to be.

I guess the addition of the json call graph makes this easier to wrap in a durable execution primitive for easy restarts.

Very neat project but the website scale is wildly too small.

towards the end of the knuth version

> This presents a problem for the typical way that academic papers are written, which is to do all the work in a coffee-fueled fugue in the last few days before the deadline, then stay up all night writing the paper and finding citations for the pro-forma “related work” section which you did last but you know that the reviewers will insist upon

I have zero exposure to academia but chuckled because thats often what I do for blog posts :P

> To help guard against discussion about career growth getting lost entirely, Spellbook conducts annual and midyear reviews of its employees, Stevenson said. That allows for "really deep conversation" about workers' careers and how to level up and advance, he said.

I have never had a "really deep conversation" about my career at a mid/full year review. Often, that's where I get feedback about something that happened months ago I was unaware my manager thought needed improvement.

The in-the-trenches feedback mentioned in the article would be an improvement over the lack-of-any feedback.

All of my favorite roles were actually not ones with the most interesting technical challenges, they were the ones where I felt like I had real leverage I could wield through my manager. If you want to get anything meaningful done, you need buy-in from leadership, and it's very difficult to get that when your manager is not on-board.

It's very unlikely that your manager has any real organizational incentive to care about your career. It's rare for direct-report-career-growth to be more than one line item near the bottom of the list that they are being evaluated on. Across all of my jobs I've only had one manager that was interested, some even seemed to actively get in the way.

This was a fun experiment but dang the formatting of this post was so hard to read.

What kind of SuperCoolPrdx™ are you using this to build?

Are you trying to advertise this as being high value or low value? I am confused.

I really enjoyed this piece. I thought the idea was creative and believable. It really sucked me in and kept the momentum going. I have a feeling it's going to stick with me for a while.

I am absolutely not a writer so take this with a big grain of salt. Something about narrator felt like they weren't a real character and the whole story was just Aaron's third person. Maybe because the narrator didn't seem to have any intentional effect on Aaron's trajectory? Not sure if that was meant as a way to deepen that aspect of the story, but at times it felt a little awkward.

> I have a hard time sleeping, I constantly feel the need to keep up or fall behind

I felt this way very recently about the one projects I am focusing on. I kept seeing others explore the same space already ahead of me. I thought I'll never make it here because why use my thing when you can already use those things?

There was this extreme sense of urgency, as if I needed to do nothing else in my life but finish this project and get it out there. One day it hit me, and then over the course of a few weeks it settled in, that I was thinking of this from a place of extrinsic motivation. Basically, I was not doing what I wanted, I was doing what I thought others would want from me.

The project now has only two goals.

1. Build the project I want to use for myself, but in a way that will benefit others who happen to want the same thing.

2. The outcome of the project is not the code/app, it's a "changed Me", having learned everything I needed to to build the project.

Eventually I want the project to have a hosted paid platform version. I am not making this platform because I want to make money (I do, but that's besides the point). I am making this platform because I want experience in doing the types of things that can make money.

The whole thing now has become internally oriented in a way that allows me to no longer feel time pressure or be outcome oriented.

I went from feeling burned out spending all my time on this (I shed all other hobbies and activities), to having a great time spending all my time on this. The same amount of time/effort now feels indefinitely sustainable.

Framing is really one of the most powerful methods of emotional regulation. Whatever you are doing, make it relaxed and fun!