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ikidd··on HERMES.md: Anthropic bug causes $200 extra charge, refuses refund
Obligatory Python argument sketch.
ikidd··on UK to permanently ban future generations from buying cigarettes
Cowardly way to legislate.
ikidd··on Anthropic says OpenClaw-style Claude CLI usage is allowed again
That's how I took that; if I installed CC and worked in CC to modify OC, all good. If I ran the openclaw gateway itself with a CC oauth key, my bad.
ikidd··on Tim Cook's Impeccable Timing
Humor seems difficult for people.

Don't worry, I got it.

ikidd··on A Pascal's Wager for AI doomers
>order John Deere to switch off all the tractors in your country:

For a smart guy, sometimes he says the dumbest things in the most confidently incorrect way.

ikidd··on Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7
I had seen reports that it was clamping down on security research and things like web-scraping projects were getting caught up in that and not able to use the model very easily anymore. But I don't see any changes mentioned in the prompt that seem likely to have affected that, which is where I would think such changes would have been implemented.
ikidd··on New unsealed records reveal Amazon's price-fixing tactics, California AG claims
The documents can be subpoenaed for a new proceeding from the source.
ikidd··on The M×N problem of tool calling and open-source models
This sounds like a problem that LLMs were built to solve.
ikidd··on The Physics of GPS
Also, RTK is an interesting way to correct the signal to get sub-centimeter accuracy. Using the timing differences between satellites with a stationary unit and then sending the that to the rover is a cool workaround and can be used without expensive equipment now.
ikidd··on OpenClaw’s memory is unreliable, and you don’t know when it will break
Hermes Agent
ikidd··on Claude mixes up who said what
I'd like to share my project that let's you hit Tab in order to get a list of possible methods/properties for your defined object, then actually choose a method or property to complete the object string in code.

I wrote it in Typescript and React.

Please star on Github.

ikidd··on Anthropic is burning more and more dev goodwill
Go read https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/42796

This isn't a OC yahoo.

ikidd··on Anthropic is burning more and more dev goodwill
Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47660925
ikidd··on Peter Thiel's big bet on solar-powered cow collars
This applies well enough with beef. You still want to maximize pasture rotation and quick moves improve feed quality and speeds recovery between grazing.

Source: have 320 Angus/Simmental pairs. Working on an opensource cow collar (agopencollar.com)

ikidd··on Ask HN: Vibe Coding over Easter?
>AI slop cleanup businesses soon

Oh, that's been a thing for a couple years now. Going in and fixing vibecoded projects, especially shit produced in the early goldrush, seems to be a burgeoning industry. Funny thing is, the fixer is probably vibe coding, just with better models. Which might be perfectly cromulent depending on how good they are at whipping that mule team.

ikidd··on Unverified: What Practitioners Post About OCR, Agents, and Tables
Funny enough I was processing some handwritten tables into excel with Sonnet. It did way better than I thought it would, I'd say like 95%.

I did have it put confidence indexes next to the output per line, and that was pretty useless, they were either really high or really low, and the confidence didn't match the mistakes at all.

ikidd··on Unverified: What Practitioners Post About OCR, Agents, and Tables
This reads less like LLM output than it does someone just transcribing their brief notes as they did their research. Lot of missing subject nouns, which is not something I'd expect to see from AI output.
ikidd··on Someone at BrowserStack is leaking users' email addresses
Now I remember these scumbags. Hijacked HolaVPN I think.
ikidd··on Someone at BrowserStack is leaking users' email addresses
Sounds about right. Yes, I've been doing it for decades now and besides telling you who's selling email lists, it makes filtering much easier. Filtering by To: is pretty low effort compared to Bayesian spam filters etc. They get tossed in a Sieve filter as soon as they become a problem, and I'll send a bitch letter to the leaker with another random email address to see how dedicated they are to screwing me.
ikidd··on Delve removed from Y Combinator
It's encouraging future investment on a false pretext. I'd say that's fraud.
ikidd··on Cursor 3
It's still horrendous.
ikidd··on Claude Code users hitting usage limits 'way faster than expected'
Exactly my experience. I remember thinking to myself that if this is what people get exposed to when they try to use a coding agent, no wonder there's so much bad-mouthing going on about LLMs. You use CC and you get usable output without much hassle, and in the end it costs way less because you aren't fighting with a substandard model.

Frankly, Gemini seems like Codex was two years ago. Lots of back and forth and nothing of value in the end.

ikidd··on What Is Copilot Exactly?
... LTSC
ikidd··on What Is Copilot Exactly?
What's wrong with Cursor? I get as much use out of Cursor using Auto with some Opus for $20 as I do out of CC for $140.
ikidd··on What Is Copilot Exactly?
IDK how anyone makes anything of Copilot 365. My wife knows I use models all the time to build things, so she asked me to help her use this "Copilot" thing. I flailed around on her work laptop for a few hours and I'll be damned if I came up with anything more useful than things I could already do with some hotkeys. I'd ask it to do things like I would a coding model and it would just come back with instructions on how to do it myself or find things in the application menus.

I have no clue what to do with that, I can't see any value in it at all, so I'm guessing I just couldn't wrap my head around the gestalt it uses. There has to be something there, right, or why would all the muckity-mucks be so excited about it?

ikidd··on Marketplace for bots? Who needs that?
Looks sketchy af.

I imagine it'll be a runaway success, and I'm not even kidding.

ikidd··on What major works of literature were written after age of 85? 75? 65?
That doesn't bode well for GRR Martin getting the last book done.
ikidd··on Claude Code users hitting usage limits 'way faster than expected'
Last time I used Gemini I watched it burn tokens at three times the rate of any other models arguing with itself and it rarely produced a result. This was around Christmas or shortly after.

Has that BS stopped?

ikidd··on Earthquake scientists reveal how overplowing weakens soil at experimental farm
There are circumstances and soil types that encourage tillage, usually dealing with water. Organic farming trades spray for diesel fuel. And farmers don't like change, but no-till is so ubiquitous that it's hard to find farms that till unless it's unavoidable, such as fixing problems from harvest time.
ikidd··on I am leaving the AI party after one drink
Good lord, don't hire a plumber to fix the pipes, you'd better do it yourself then. Maybe you like plumbing; then plumb. But most people will just pay for the person that does a good enough job that they can take a shower in the morning. Personally I think I do a better job so I do it myself, but my wife sure as hell wouldn't, and shouldn't.

The sheer selective blindness is mind boggling. I get so sick of seeing this virtue signalling.

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