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When people say they use copilot, I no longer have any idea which copilot they're talking about. Most of the time, neither do they.

It really does just work. And it works so well I already integrated it into my product. Saves me about 75% of costs for the section its working in, which isn't a small amount. I see a lot of negativity and I don't really get it either. Its so cheap and so fast, why not give it a try?

Thread about this from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49755533

People creating free software for everyone to use, only to pull it away when suddenly there's a technology that can instantly let everyone use it at the drop of a hat, is not something I quite understand. If you're doing it so you show people, hey I made this, then you can still do that. If you're doing it to help the world, then that's very much happening. Of if you're doing it just for fun, that's possible too, though I totally understand how much less fun it is when AI can rip it out in a few minutes.

When you move the app to the trash, it leaves the server you have to install. It's still running and set to restart automatically.

"Bots? In my ecosystem?"

> Did they understand what they were cutting.

No, they were using llm prompts to make decisions.

Fun read about Azure and having 173 agents running a node: https://isolveproblems.substack.com/p/how-microsoft-vaporize...

Probably just a coincidence that Github started to have issues after beginning their move to Azure at the end of last year.

> We wanted it, and Meta gave everyone the ability to have it.

Slight modification: We wanted to feel good about things, and Meta, knowing exactly what they were doing, took advantage of that to enrich themselves while gaslighting everyone that their manipulation and exploitation was totally ok and normal.

Its easy for people without a conscience like Zuckerberg to do that and laugh about it.

Meta has warped society to think that life is meaningless without affirmation.

No amount of money can fix that or punish them.

I think that sharing things can be wonderful, but monetizing that or adding Like counts to gamify it is very damaging to people. This idea that everyone should know better and take a ideological stand against some dumb app is ridiculous. Life can be hard at times, and these apps manipulated that.

You can't turn around though. Everything goes toward the black hole. If you turned around, atoms would be moving away from, or at the least changing their direction in respect to the black hole. And that's not possible. You wouldn't even see anything because all light is going toward the center, and it wouldn't go into your eyes.

Unless you went in butt-first, but the path of the photons would have changed and would now be going toward the black hole, and everything would look probably all smushed together.

I lived in Seattle for a couple of years, where its completely legal, and I almost never smelled it. I smell it far more often in cities where its illegal.

I lived in Seattle for a couple of years, out in one of the suburbs (West Seattle). I would say that housing cost is the primary issue in Seattle, but its nowhere near San Francisco. Outside of that, public transit is pretty good. I have gone back and forth across the city, to Bellevue, even to Olympia, on public transit very cheaply and within a reasonable amount of time. The light rail recently opened up to Bellevue, though Bellevue is not really all that much cheaper lol.

The food didn't feel super expensive, but it definitely wasn't great. San Francisco and NYC are so much better. I have been consistently disappointed with the food in Seattle.

The one issue I see with Seattle is that they have a 30% or so vacancy rate for office buildings in downtown. A lot of companies have left, or will be moving. Many to Bellevue. The city decided to target businesses to fund more progressive policies, but with remote work, the businesses just moved across Lake Washington. Or to other states (like Starbucks). I don't see that changing. So now they have a budget deficit, lots of office vacancies, and the looming threat of more companies leaving. Not sure if that'll change it's standing or anything, but its not great.

Why was it a mistake?

At exorbitant costs or lackluster execution, with plenty of campaign donations along the way

That is easily fixable with the "Instructions for Claude" in your settings. Just put:

"be critical, but correct. I don't want affirmation, i want to actually accomplish things."

I don't get any sycophancy from it. The conversations are actually quite good, and it'll push back if it thinks I'm wrong.

It has an MIT License

It happened to my father, who was suffering a severe mental decline because of hydrocephalus. After weeks of trying to figure out what happened, one day he was sitting in the hospital perfectly fine, talking normally. I remember being so relieved. But then the next day he was back to not knowing anything and being half aware. He died a few weeks later.

There's meaning in the term "car wash" that it understands. But I don't suspect anyone has taught it that for 99.9% of people, going to car wash ONLY means that you're going to wash your car and that it should make that implicit assumption.

What if you're the car wash owner? Or a maintenance technician? Pretty easy to just walk over there if you're just 50ft away.

> uncover blockers that people haven’t surfaced on their own

I constantly reiterate to people, whether they're reporting to me or not, that they need to speak up when there's a blocker. I feel its a very telling skill of engineers whether or not they can communicate issues in an effective manner urgently and figure out the best course of action to unblock.

I've heard tales of 300k/yr engineers that just sit there and wait for a manager to ask if they're blocked, or just sit there until they're told what to do.

Plenty of evidence has been found. For one, the US government has leaked/released a video showing instant acceleration of a flying object. Nothing on earth can do that.

Why not?

Last year, there was a period of a week or two where I would see Gemini responses diffusing in. I don't know if they were experimenting with it, or if it was just an effect. It didn't last long, but it was interesting to see.

I built an algorithmic trader years ago just using Python, but for the hot paths I gave each algorithm its own function in its own file, and then I would compile the files with Cython. The speedup was pretty significant. I barely wrote any "Cython" stuff (meaning declaring variables and other minor assists). The code is still very much python, just with a few little extras that are easy to understand.

> Inaccurate rescues - jobs that are long-running might get rescued even if the producer is still alive. Pro version uses smarter heartbeats to track producer liveness.

So the non-paid version really can't be used for production unless you know for sure you'll have very short jobs?

You may find this study useful: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09335-x

I've begun taking very small amounts of lithium orotate (5mg), among many other preventative measures.

From multiple personal experiences, including both of my parents, dementia is a slow, horrible death where you are robbed of your dignity and end up dragging all of your relatives through a very long, very torturous hell. You will be drooling, pissing, and shitting yourself, all while slowly reverting back to a low IQ childhood mentality where you're very likely to have outbursts and verbally or physically attack the people around you. Your loved ones will be tormented, and if you don't have loved ones then if you're lucky you'll be tossed into a room and forgotten about by underpaid, overworked staff at some run-down nursing home. If you're not lucky you'll be laying in a gutter on the street until you die.

Yeah they looked at 120 people age 71 and above for that study. By that point its a little late.

Taking valacyclovir should help prevent or delay as well.

That makes sense. And its even worse of a reason. At least for people living in the US.