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primer42··on Claude Code to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan?
So this is why they allowed Claude code to be used for open claw again - cuz code is going to more expensive customers
primer42··on Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?
"Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...

primer42··on Schedule tasks on the web
“A programmer is going to the store and his wife tells him to buy a gallon of milk, and if there are eggs, buy a dozen. So the programmer goes shopping, does as she says, and returns home to show his wife what he bought. But she gets angry and asks, ‘Why’d you buy 13 gallons of milk?’ The programmer replies, ‘There were eggs!’”

You need to write a clearer prompt.

primer42··on Run NanoClaw in Docker Sandboxes
I get the appeal but I disagree

The strength of open source software is collaboration. That many people have tried it, read it, submitted fixes and had those fixes reviewed and accepted.

We've all seen LLMs spit out garbage bugs on the first few tries. I've written garbage bugs on my first try too. We all benefit from the review process.

I would rather have a battle tested base to start customizing from than having to stumble through the pitfalls of a buggy or insecure AI implementation.

primer42··on I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too
Modern MacBooks DO run Linux

Check out https://asahilinux.org/

primer42··on US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-family homes
"Trump says" is not the same as "US will"

Trump says a ton of things that he never ends up doing.

primer42··on How we automated federal retirements
This is exactly how us taxes should work. The IRS already has all the information it needs - it should fill out the form, give you a chance to double check, and then you're done.

Sigh...

primer42··on Italian Competition Authority Fines Apple $115M for Abusing Dominant Position
Apple makes, what, $1 billion (with a B) in profit every day.

So this is nothing to them.

primer42··on $1T in tech stocks sold off as market grows skeptical of AI
> And then there’s Microsoft, which—despite being one of the most powerful and prominent companies in Silicon Valley—seems to be having one of its biggest losing streaks ever. Bloomberg reported Friday that its stock had slumped 8.6 percent over eight days, a decline that evaporated some $350 billion in market valuation.

I find it strange and upsetting when articles talk about the "evaporation" of "market valuation". Market value is already meaningless vapor - it's not like real money was created when the stock price went up, nor has anything of concrete value disappeared.

primer42··on FAA to restrict commercial rocket launches to overnight hours
The article mentions the hours...

> Beginning 6 a.m. EST (1100 GMT) on Nov. 10, commercial launches to space can only take place between the hours of 10 p.m. EST (0300 GMT) and 6 a.m. EST (1100 GMT), according to the FAA order.

primer42··on Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP
I've been able to build the equivalent of skills with a few markdown files. I need to remind my agent every so often to use a skill but usually once per session at most.

I don't get what's so special about Claude doing this?

primer42··on Bob Ross paintings to be auctioned to fund US public broadcasting
Reality has a well known liberal bias.
primer42··on Homeowners insurance is pricing people out in disaster-prone cities
Yeah sounds like it's working as designed to me too
primer42··on Code Is Debt
I do this literally every day when I'm debugging, understanding a new system, or planning my work.
primer42··on Business books are entertainment, not strategic tools
MBAs are an entertainment degree, not a practical training for real organizations.
primer42··on Why can't Ivies cope with losing a few hundred million?
As I understand it, billionaires take out loans with their stock/investments as collateral to get cash without selling said assets.

Why can't universities do the same? Or is my understanding of billionaire money shenanigans incorrect?

primer42··on Remote Work's Long-Term Effects: Why Dell and Amazon Are Bringing Employees Back
> At Automattic, people are free to work from anywhere. What keeps them close is trust, regular meetups, and open conversations.

Using automatic as an example of a trusting, open company is an interesting choice given the public meltdowns we've seen from Matt in the past year.

primer42··on Playstation Mod Turns the PSOne into a Crustacean
¿Por Qué No Los Dos?
primer42··on Your Next Two Zeroes
I find this thought useful in reminding me how absurd it is that billionaires exist. It isn't just a few more zeros, it's an entirely different game.
primer42··on US Senate to Revive Software Patents with PERA Bill Vote on Thursday
I was feeling optimistic about software patents after the cloudflare ruling. That was a mistake
primer42··on 19th Century Map Shows a Fictional Country Created by a Con Man
All countries started as fictions created by con men
primer42··on Study: Dark matter doesn't exist, the universe is 27B years old
This is how theoretical physics has worked for quite some time - someone figures out a hypothesis that works mathematically, and the experimentalists then prove or disprove it.
primer42··on Octopuses seen hunting together with fish
I love imagining how the fish are almost an extension of the way the octopuses think. Octopuses seem to have quite a bit of independent cognition in each of their arms, which are wrangled by the central brain. Now they're wrangling independent fish brains instead of octopus arm brains. Incredible
primer42··on Why wordfreq will not be updated
Hear, hear!
primer42··on Anyone can access deleted and private repository data on GitHub
So the moment something is published on the Internet publicly, there's a chance it will be saved and you will not be able to get it deleted.

That, unfortunately, sounds like the result of publishing something on the Internet. Not GitHubs fault.

primer42··on Scientists discover a cause of lupus, possible way to reverse it
Someone page Dr House!
primer42··on Sam and Greg's response to OpenAI Safety researcher claims
Safe for whom or what? Who are we protecting from AI again? Are they aiming to protect the interests of the many, or the interest of a few?
primer42··on Egypt's pyramids may have been built on a long-lost branch of the Nile
> Egyptologists, geologists and others have rejected the water erosion hypothesis and the idea of an older Sphinx, pointing to archaeological, climatological and geological evidence to the contrary.
primer42··on Uber must pay wheelchair user $35,000, provide accessible rides
> But Uber told the 2022 hearing into Bauer’s complaint that it didn’t violate the human rights code because it’s an app and doesn’t provide a service as defined under the code.

What a slimy, disgusting, in-human argument to make.

primer42··on 'Mathematically perfect' star system being investigated for potential alien tech
What is a "mathematically perfect" orbit?
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