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thedebuglife··on Claude Code Hints at Fable Return
Have you found GLM-5.2 to be similar to Fable? I’ve mostly seen it compared to opus 4.8. But then again fable may just be 4.8 with some un-nerfed guardrails. I didn’t get much chance to test it myself.
thedebuglife··on Claude Code Hints at Fable Return
https://xcancel.com/synthwavedd/status/2069813760622043483
thedebuglife··on SQL patterns I use to catch transaction fraud
They can tell based on transaction metadata. Source: I worked at a cc company
thedebuglife··on The biggest advance since the LLM was neurosymbolic
https://xcancel.com/GaryMarcus/status/2042987819333738929
thedebuglife··on Is Claude Mythos "Terrifying" or Just Hype?
in a perfect world... all of this "hype marketing" really exposes the bubble for what it is
thedebuglife··on ADHD: Breaking the Red-to-Blue Loop
I read all of them (lol hyperfocus) and got to 57 asking myself the same thing.

I believe the thread is still being updated. There’s a time difference of 6 hours between the initial and last tweet.

thedebuglife··on New study: 70% of type 2 diabetes cases linked to food choices
I don’t know if this helps at all but there’s some ways to get a GCM from the private industry without needing a prescription, such as Nutrisense. I paid about $150 a month for it though.
thedebuglife··on Show HN: IPython-GPT, a Jupyter/IPython Interface to Chat GPT
This looks promising! I’m following.
thedebuglife··on Show HN: Get conversational practice in over 20 languages by talking to an AI
It works quite well for Dutch (a relatively small language) both in speech recognition and responses. Well done! It’s a cool project. Lots of people here like to nitpick but I’m sure this wasn’t easy.
thedebuglife··on One year on, El Salvador’s Bitcoin experiment has proven a failure
I value the insight of many that post here, so I would like to ask: isn't there any valuable application for blockchain tech? I realize BTC is imperfect, but blockchain itself is just a technology.

Being pretty young, everyone I know is involved in crypto in one way or another. I'm personally waiting on the sidelines, but there should be some beneficial middle ground between going all-in and completely discarding the tech.

thedebuglife··on The B-52 was designed in a hotel room over one weekend
> Is it really a better alternative to putting some bomb bay doors on a modern Boeing?

From what I've been told, the B52 has relatively low operating cost and can stay up in the air pretty much indefinitely by being refueled in air by KC-135s.

source: I was an air traffic controller in the US Air Force

thedebuglife··on “Secrets” about the consumer audio business you may find interesting
From my own reading and experience, paying salaries still has less overhead.
thedebuglife··on Increase: Banking API
I always wondered why my bank completely blocks any kind of scraping with puppeteer or cheerios. This explains a lot :)
thedebuglife··on Ask HN: How do you deploy your weekend project in 2022?
If I want to focus on development without being bogged down in tooling I’ll go for Gatsby with Netlify.
thedebuglife··on Dear Oracle, Please Release the JavaScript Trademark
I believe ECMAScript is the specification of which JavaScript is an implementation.
thedebuglife··on Robert's Rules of Order (1876)
This is amazing. I wonder if something like this wools fly in the US.
thedebuglife··on Creativity requires solitude
This resonates with me so much to the point where I’ve started publishing blogs about my own struggles and resolutions. It sounds like you have a lot of awareness.
thedebuglife··on To Hell with Facebook (2021)
May the next time you quit be successful :)
thedebuglife··on To Hell with Facebook (2021)
I couldn’t agree more. Facebook is toxic and preys on the weak. Thank God its usage among young people is downtrending so fast. I didn’t have any social media for three years, and I loved it.
thedebuglife··on Unofficial Spotify Client for the Nintendo Switch (PoC)
Projects like these are why I love HN. What kind of issues did you run into developing this client?
thedebuglife··on Bumblebees kept in isolation make up for it by being more social later
This is the reason I love opening HN in the morning. I very much have lived experience with this as well. Thanks for sharing.
thedebuglife··on Ask HN: How do you cultivate social skills?
I couldn’t modify my original comment but becoming a people person is just a skill. It’s simple but not easy. It takes repetition and courage. Start by asking yourself what the smallest step you can manage is. Just keep doing that and you will become more comfortable around others.

I know this to be true because I had no friends growing up. Now I’m a “social butterfly”.

thedebuglife··on Ask HN: How do you cultivate social skills?
Serendipitously, I went through a very similar process. My intent is to document and share that process so others can apply it too.

It would be great to connect, you can send me a message at mitchhankins AT icloud DOT com