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timcobb··on What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers
not all crime is illegal, unfortunately.
timcobb··on Another Corner of the Internet Has Been Ruined
Pangram is just some BS man can you please stop
timcobb··on Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines for a Pretextual Weed Search
It's just the ol', "I don't need privacy because I have nothing to hide" routine, which is, in fact, the naive perspective.
timcobb··on Kimi K3-256k
Codex turns over 256k windows for *days/weeks on end* without seemingly much fidelity loss, especially with a goal that anchors it to a durable plan/ledger.
timcobb··on Google fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI
Did you give it access to a planner/analyzer?
timcobb··on Kimi K3-256k
Codex uses 256k masterfully, 1M is luxurious but still quite expensive and seems not necessary as a default.
timcobb··on AI companies are shredding rare books
This kind of reads like a blood libel. My guess is they're buying all those books that University libraries are throwing away these days (to see other HM threads for that), kinda sad but probably aren't "rare books" in the way people are thinking
timcobb··on Scriptc by Vercel: TypeScript-to-Native compiler, no JavaScript engine in binary
For some new custom small thing you'd be better off using not this though, right?
timcobb··on Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team
What's the related stack
timcobb··on Agent swarms and the new model economics
> One reading is that it was more productive. Another is that most of those commits were busywork (thrash, contention, churn).

Kudos

timcobb··on Jelly UI: Soft-body physics for native HTML form controls
> It leads to an awful experience for a large fraction of users.

can you give an example of why/how? I thought it was well done and enjoyable. Regular fast scroll was still as expected, and then the slower interactions felt like slide changes.

timcobb··on Hacker wipes Romania's land registry database
And this is why we need title insurance :(
timcobb··on What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph
The worst stack overflow in this regard was meta. Most pathological corner of the internet I've ever encountered, up there with 4chan if you ask me.
timcobb··on GPT-5.6 used a prompt to close a 30-year gap in convex optimization
Humans aren't sheep but in the broad average it seems like we have a strong tendency to fall inline.

Fwiw I was mostly joking. I agree that the techno overlords have no reason to keep us, unlike in Roman times.

timcobb··on GPT-5.6 used a prompt to close a 30-year gap in convex optimization
I can't stop wondering myself.... I'm writing some software with AI and wondering, why am I doing this? Will anyone need this? Will anyone have money to buy this?

Best I've come up with is we'll need to be adopted by technofeudlaist overlords to be our patrons like in the roman days

timcobb··on Ente – Opening Our Books
What do you like about AGPL in this context? Building a similar product and curious! Thanks
timcobb··on British Steel taken into public ownership to protect 'vital' UK supply
Drones are only part of the equation you need to be able to forge things
timcobb··on British Steel taken into public ownership to protect 'vital' UK supply
When there's a war and you need sovereignty how would open mining be unthinkable
timcobb··on Briar is in maintenance mode
I meant working around the big tech hegemony, working around code just takes patience and is nice.
timcobb··on Briar is in maintenance mode
Well, no. If the project is being shut down because its target(s) went away, then that seems unavoidable.

It would be good, IMO, if people could come together and build out an open mobile platform not subject to SV hegemony, so I think what you're saying is the way to go, actually. Because building out AOSP and or just something forked/from scratch is... actually... accessible now in my opinion. I think it doesn't make sense _not_ to be oriented in this direction anymore. There's no reason to remain cautious because, well, right now we have _nothing_ :(. We are subject to the fancies of the behemoths that exist to self perpetuate. Working around them and depending on them is demoralizing and not fun.

timcobb··on Briar is in maintenance mode
From the minimal context I got, it seems like there are underlying platform access problems in the way. In my experience, attempting to work around these issues is demoralizing.
timcobb··on Briar Is in Maintenance Mode
Thank you! So in your mind, it would be a big investment of human time/tokens and the big obstacle, ultimately, is Big Tech?
timcobb··on Briar is in maintenance mode
So what's the point of spending months and months and months of your time just to shut down your project when it could possibly be worked out for several $100? Is the situation that the authors have a lot of time and no money? Could we get the project some money if that's the case? Apps like this are so important. Every year they become more critical.

And I would like if someone could please confirm is this related to literal code problems or systemic problems with Apple and Google?

timcobb··on Briar Is in Maintenance Mode
To me I seems like it was an attempt at a privacy focused application for communication, but it's now in maintenance mode.
timcobb··on Briar is in maintenance mode
I would imagine pretty good if it's actually just a code issue
timcobb··on Briar is in maintenance mode
Who spent the time to make this? If those people spent countless hours doing it by hand, maybe they would be willing to spend an analogous resource? It seems reasonable to me if you've already invested so much and paid in time.

But yeah that's why I was asking if this was a non-code issue? Because they're presenting it as hey, we couldn't figure out the battery life in this post.

timcobb··on Briar is in maintenance mode
> Last year, we decided that we wouldn’t realistically be able to solve these issues and so we reluctantly decided to shut down the project.

If these are actually the problems, then why not throw 200 dollars of GPT 5.6 at these instead of shutting it down? Were these systematic problems (Apple/Google hegemony, for example) that couldn't be beat with code?

timcobb··on How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing
The first week I encountered this "substrate" I asked it to justify the usage and IIRC it claimed the word is used in some infra/systems lexicons... I wonder...
timcobb··on How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing
Does anyone have a theory for what causes Claude to speak this way? A few months ago OpenAI came out with a bit on "gremlins". It's strange IMO that Anthropic hasn't addressed how irritating, dare I say oppressive, Claude can be. Codex is a breath of fresh air. I hope they fix it soon. If product folks at Anthropic think it's charming, it's not, it's terrible.
timcobb··on Building and shipping Mac and iOS apps without opening Xcode
Woah thanks for sharing will have to check this out.
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