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onoesworkacct··on Vidact – a compiler that turns React into direct DOM operations
You don't need to improve your writing. You can write extremely simply and people will vastly prefer it over slop. For example, translating your landing page into normal human language:

I built a compiler that compiles React code into vanilla JS.

Here are some examples

Vidact Start adds a bunch of server-side features - file routes, server loaders, SSR, hydration, and client navigation.

You can't use class components, createRef, most of the Children helpers, or React DevTools. Or any third-party package that ships precompiled against React's runtime.

onoesworkacct··on I accidentally turned LLM memory into program analysis
yooo.. this is exactly what I wanted to do... I'm so happy because (a) I hadn't figured out how to do it (b) it seemed kind of difficult in general and (c) now I don't have to, lol.
onoesworkacct··on Review: Chuwi's $449 Unibook laptop is a funhouse-mirror MacBook Neo
Using a laptop outside is fantastic. I love to sit on my balcony and work there instead of inside. My work laptop is an HP with zero ability to do this.
onoesworkacct··on Microduck
IMO with that definition of "toy" you're overselling the value of performing useful work and underselling the value of farting about.
onoesworkacct··on Vomit: Clean up Claude 5's token output with a separate LLM
That project looks needlessly complex, you can just spawn a Haiku subagent in the session and it does the job.
onoesworkacct··on Vomit: Clean up Claude 5's token output with a separate LLM
This doesn't work for me. The output gets messed up when the model is overloaded, no matter what. The cognitive load is too much if it has to optimise for readability at the same time.. or it's not trained to be able to do that.

I usually get output at the end of a long task. At that point I'm going to use a subagent with no context to reword it. Haiku does a great job with writing style so I've been using that, the main agent will fix any inaccuracies.

onoesworkacct··on Georgia police officers fired after Flock camera misuse
Who's more effective at protesting, USA or France?

And, which country routinely sets a bunch of shit on fire when they need to?

That's right.

onoesworkacct··on The Hacker's Renaissance (2025)
It was written by ChatGPT which would avoid examples that are explicitly illegal, and would stop short of advocating things that contravene ToS agreements.

Sad.

Who is in charge of this shit now?

onoesworkacct··on DeepSeek V4 Flash on a Single AMD MI300X
Demand is money.

No bubble, where money?

onoesworkacct··on The Warp Agent CLI
just... ssh into them and then run the agent?
onoesworkacct··on "An AI Job Apocalypse?" – Goldman Sachs Report [pdf]
By "the alternative" are you describing our present reality? Because it sounds about right
onoesworkacct··on GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our benchmarks
could mimo have scraped the mythos findings already? it's very recent
onoesworkacct··on 5k menus from the New York Public Library’s Buttolph Collection (1880-1920)
They're a mainstay at my local Japanese and Korean BBQ restaurants.
onoesworkacct··on GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our benchmarks
The rumour is that it's trained on Opus, but who knows
onoesworkacct··on Has AI already killed self-help nonfiction books?
I haven't read it yet, but reading it is not going to change your personality. Personality defines how you receive it.

If you change your entire personality based on a self-help book.. that probably says a lot about your personality.

And anyway twin studies make the hardware seem more impactful than the software in many ways..

onoesworkacct··on If Claude Fable stops helping you, you'll never know
most people don't wanna do that. there are plenty of people who would infect people with crypto botnets
onoesworkacct··on Show HN: Semble – Code search for agents that uses 98% fewer tokens than grep
fantastic token savings and performance... but unlike grep it's probabilistic search on search terms.

is that an issue? the tiny model might not surface something important

onoesworkacct··on Trusted access for the next era of cyber defense
It was. The internet really has been filled with abject shit and social media is bots talking to bots.
onoesworkacct··on Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th
give it a skill that runs a timer in the background and every 4.5 minutes says "ping? pong!"
onoesworkacct··on Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates
This kind of thing is harder for regular end-users to understand following the change removing reasoning details.
onoesworkacct··on Iran strikes leave Amazon availability zones "hard down" in Bahrain and Dubai
you're going to save money by having your own physical servers?
onoesworkacct··on I Reverse-Engineered the TiinyAI Pocket Lab from Marketing Photos
Agree. Also because of the way AI writes, it takes SO LONG to read through it (they're trained on blogspam where the page tells you the author's life story as well as the bloody history of bread before telling you how to bake it)
onoesworkacct··on The future of version control
I mean, I personally just saw some stuff inside dollar signs and went "huh, weird choice of delimiter"
onoesworkacct··on Waymo Safety Impact
I enjoy driving (basically) wherever I want to though.

I don't want to have the freedom to go places determined by some faceless multinational, according to my subscription. Or via some "safety" regime.

onoesworkacct··on Waymo Safety Impact
that's a lot of energy consumption.

For a more ecologically conscious alternative, I recommend carrying a handful of sparkplugs.

onoesworkacct··on EsoLang-Bench: Evaluating Genuine Reasoning in LLMs via Esoteric Languages
LLMs already use mixture of experts models, if you ensure the neurons are all glued together then (i think) you train language and reason simultaneously
onoesworkacct··on EsoLang-Bench: Evaluating Genuine Reasoning in LLMs via Esoteric Languages
Unlike AI, you aren't able to regurgitate entire programs and patterns you've seen before.

AI's capacity for memorisation is unrivaled, I find it mind blowing that you can download a tiny ~4gb model and it will have vastly more general knowledge than an average human (considering that the human is more likely to be wrong if you ask it trivia about e.g. the spanish civil war).

But the average human still has actual reasoning capabilities, which is still (I think?) a debated point with AI.

onoesworkacct··on A case for Go as the best language for AI agents
Think of the typical quality of Java that LLMs encounter vs the typical quality of Go.

You've almost certainly got more experts-exchange.com than github.com

onoesworkacct··on The Hallucination Defense
IMO everyone is missing the point of this thing. It's not an auth system or security boundary, it doesn't provide any security guarantees whatsoever, it doesn't do anything. The entire point is to cover a company's derriere should their agentic security apparatus (or lack thereof) fail to prevent malicious prompt injection etc.

This way, they can avoid being legally blamed for stuff-ups and instead scapegoat some hapless employee :-) using cryptographic evidence the employee "authorized" whatever action was taken

onoesworkacct··on Software engineers can no longer neglect their soft skills
In most cases, the hard part is getting a bunch of people to work together on a problem and not have it turn out complete shit.

It's never easy for a bunch of people, each with differing and partially-overlapping conceptualisations of some domain, to coordinate correctly.

The human problems don't really go away. It requires an insane amount of "context" that would overwhelm any current AI.

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