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I don’t get it. Did they use the MTA budget or something? If the train is better then just build the train. Certainly these guys aren’t stopping you.

These massive green text attempts started becoming common recently and honestly they’re excruciatingly boring. Misses the entire value of the medium. Very “hello, fellow kids”.

Indeed, it would seem that both positions are equally well-substantiated.

This is a lot of content-free stuff but the reality is that if you’re hoping that customers will just write software to integrate with your SaaS you have to ask yourself why they wouldn’t also just write your SaaS. So either you go to them, they come to you, or you’re past some particular implementation hurdle. I think it’s better you go to them. Just reduces the barrier to entry and people will happily pay you for additional technology capacity to get a sufficiently complex thing onboarded.

So sending your implementation team out is “not just smart — it’s required” (to use everyone’s current favourite phrasing).

So we know Claude’s mitigation. What is Ramp’s? Same warning dialog?

It’s funny that this technology only admits in-band signaling. Given that, any foreign content is risky. It’s actually quite interesting that the current technological ecosystem is built around a high trust situation: npm, pip, cargo all run foreign code in the developer context and communities have norms of downloading random people’s modules.

And so I suppose it’s no surprise that we use LLMs - another tech that is high-trust: since it has no out of band signaling ability.

But it seems like we’re very close to the end of the era where someone will use (in a sensitive system) arbitrary web content carrying the equivalent of merged code/data.

I only use GitHub for unified login git access to a bunch of repos. These other “forges” (didn’t know that was the term - cool) are all almost certain to put Anubis in front and make a logged out user be unable to access the code. I get why, but it seems inevitable. I think Codeberg already does and for some reason it takes ages to complete the challenge on my phone.

Undoubtedly these various hosts will come under pressure from spammers and the like and they will react by placing extraordinary barriers around accessing the code.

That’s fine but it reminds me of the later stages of online forums, where it was impossible to browse most threads because you had to create an account and then build up community points until the screenshot of the kernel panic on the ZTE phone would be visible so you could see if it’s the same problem as yours.

GitHub was big and powerful enough to not need all of this but now we’re going back to the era of decentralization and I suppose with that come the pros and cons.

You’re an adult??

Recent performance of Claude Opus 4.7 and Claude Code has been poor because of context bloat. Model no longer obeys instructions well. Codex on medium reasoning and fast mode is often better. I have simple local manual eval through harness and automated eval for other programs and Opus still best on latter but garbage experience on former.

Spent last evening so frustrated I also got ChatGPT subscription. Makes me wonder if I should be using Gemini on pay per use with custom harness.

With my own harness performance is way better but cost goes up because no subscription.

Interesting, no bidding flow entirely first party and contextual.

Realistically, I think anyone can tell when they’re being asked “Really? Lions will bite your head off if you put it in their mouths? Prove it”

Straighter about it??

Seems like the CNPV used is a Trump admin project though no idea how much RFK is involved. If they Warp Speed All The Things that’s a pretty good idea.

I mean, obviously all the behaviors in the article are undesirable. The joke is in proposing other ones. Surely people are being amusingly self deprecating not precisely honest.

There are many good examples online if you care to actually do it rather than perform ironic questioning as an art form.

Oh totally. In general I don’t think you can conclude anything about anyone, really. Yesterday they were someone. Today someone else.

I interviewed a Meta Senior SWE in 2023. Guy couldn't write the most basic Python loop. Attempts were made. I didn't expect a list comprehension. This was just a warmup exercise fizz-buzz level so everyone can feel confident and talk. Everyone just smashes it. I could have done it as a teenager. Had to call it off after 15 min of trying. It was too much. But he took it on the chin. "Yep, thanks, sorry I didn't get too far. Bad day, maybe" or something like that. Most confident guy I've ever talked to. I was impressed by that - to totally bomb and be cool about it. Good for him.

I just think they should acknowledge the native people whose land it is. It’s not performative unless you’re a MAGA fascist. It’s just considerate.

Hard to do. The same people with the collection and tracking infrastructure required are infinitely sue-able so you need legal protection if anything goes wrong.

Probably terminal emulator is like iTerm2 and double click to select and copy to clipboard is feature.

Not all ageism is illegal.

I like to pay the author for the marginal cost and then once it's hit a sum that can be transferred I do that. e.g. I estimate about $1E-12 per time I hit Cmd-C and Cmd-V on each book. So far, no author has hit the threshold for me to send them their cent, but I dearly believe "render unto Caesar what is Caesar". It's important we pay authors.

The 'textbook cartel' plays the same role for authors as Ticketmaster plays for artists: they're the bad guy so that artists can charge more.

This banana has reached mythical banana status because of rarity. The flavor of various tropical bananas is way better. Both Taiwan and India have many varieties substantially better tasting than Gros Michel.

Nah he’s bullshitting. It’s 1% of calls, not callers. If you’re in the 1% you’re not making another call. If you’re in the 99% you get to call again tomorrow.

Listen, if you want to check your wellness be my guest. I won’t be.

You can't Categorical Imperative me. I'm a hacker.

Yeah, that's the social engineering part. It's a hacker trick. "Cmaan, I'm a little guy I'm a little birthday boy" https://x.com/eshear/status/1941696051884458278?s=20

UK stats are bogus because one in five new cars there are paid for by the government under the Motability scheme. What it actually costs is hard to say because we don't know where they're measuring the price at. Motability could have an agreement, or they might be not counting the motability money spent and so on.

I use a similar trick with most software. Instead of buying the online one, I get it on The Pirate Bay. These days even open source software you can simply just apply Claude and get a different version.

People online will kick up a fuss about GPL and shit but in real life no one bothers. Shoplift. Close an OSS project. Who cares.

Sometimes I even ride without a ticket. In Europe/Asia especially if you act like clueless American they’ll let you off every time. Done it so many times haha. Some of these places even they will put fruits outside. You can just take extra and hide it. They can’t tell.

One time on drive to Bury St. Edmunds small town in the UK I saw a little farm shop with some sign saying to leave payment there. Zero enforcement. I just took the fruits. No flipper zero needed.

Good life hack. Social hacks like these are not so common but if you’re clever you can get a lot.

The Europeans want us out of Europe. So maybe we should go. I think that seems mutually agreeable. Let them slaughter each other again and we can come stop it and pick up the pieces. Again.

Always have to be the adult in the room.

The EU bans US chicken and has a quota for US beef. We let you sell at a premium rather than ban you. Don’t act as if that’s somehow worse, but I think you could convince Trump that bans are better than tariffs if you like.

Russia/Ukraine is a Europe-internal matter. Soon we will be out of it and the Europeans can solve their own wars. Uncivilized people. You leave them alone for a few years and massive warfare. No doubt you’re prepping the concentration camps again and we’ll have to stop genocide again. But I guess you gotta let them do it first. It’s not our business.