brushfoot

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by brushfoot 1mo ago
"Cold calls annoy me" is one angle, and from that perspective, sure. But "the rich get richer and the poor get poorer" is another angle. Because giant corporations may not need to make cold calls. It's the small boo
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by brushfoot 1mo ago
This was inspiring to watch. Thank you for your work.
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by brushfoot 1mo ago
"Knowledge work is mostly pointless" is the author's view, so his article (the fruit of knowledge work) should be measured by it. Amd that sentiment is hardly surprising, coming as it does from a Director of AI Operations (hi
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by brushfoot 2mo ago
One caveat worth flagging: Your AI slop garbage radar won't work on food (no em-dashes, no "it's not X, it's Y" framing, just quiche). That's a real limitation, so calling it out matters. You weren't consi
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by brushfoot 3mo ago
No more anonymous driving, thanks to Flock. Soon, no more anonymous calls, thanks to the FCC. Your bank already knows everything about you; why not your operating system, too? Soon your ISP will only let you online if your OS sends them the
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by brushfoot 5mo ago
Wonderful! There's a lot of advice online about how essentially evil it is to talk to strangers: They're busy, they have headphones in, they might think you're hitting on them (God forbid; nothing could be more evil than attr
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by brushfoot 5mo ago
Not paying per token? Not sending my code to someone else's servers for inference? That's the stuff of sweet dreams for a stingy, paranoid solopreneur like me. If I could run a local model comparable to even Sonnet 4.6 without she
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by brushfoot 5mo ago
> People living in areas with longevity (blue zones), didn't really excercise (as in sports) Not exercising as in sports and not exercising, period, are very different. If you look at the American blue zone, those people are certain
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by brushfoot 5mo ago
The Swiss Gear backpack I used daily in college in 2008 is sitting beside me right now. I've put it through its paces over the past 18 years. I jogged here in the rain this morning with it weighed down with my laptop and a water bottle
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by brushfoot 5mo ago
Longtime happy Copilot user here. It's true. The pricing is so good that it's the only way I do agentic coding now. I've never spent more than $40 in a month on Opus, and I give it large specs to work on. I usually spend $20
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by brushfoot 6mo ago
The forced age verification shocks me. It shouldn't, given how much it's been in the news, but my poor naive Millennial sensibilities still feel it's part of some dystopian nightmare that I saw in some Michael Bay sci-fi once
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by brushfoot 6mo ago
There's no need to be rude with comments like "cool story." I'm sharing my experience with you. I'm not an AI-hype influencer. I'm a SWE who runs a small SaaS business. Where it sounds like we agree is that the
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by brushfoot 6mo ago
That hasn't been my experience, as a "ship or die" solopreneur. It takes work to set up these new processes and procedures, but it's like building a factory; you're able to produce more once they're in place. A
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by brushfoot 6mo ago
> sounds like alot of work and expense for something that is meant to make programming easier and cheaper. It's not more work; it's a convergence of roles. BA/PO/QA/SWE are merging. AI has automated aspects of th
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by brushfoot 7mo ago
Sonnet is right. Your cold-outreach emails will be flagged as spam by some people, even if they comply with CAN-SPAM. And you should comply with it by having a clear opt-out mechanism and your physical address in the footer, but some people
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by brushfoot 7mo ago
What an unpleasant attitude. People have emotions. If they're apologizing, maybe they feel bad. Accept it and get on with your day. A punctilious email etiquette isn't going to improve anything.
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by brushfoot 7mo ago
> But if you haven’t used specifically Opus 4.5/4.6 with specifically Claude Code for at least an hour, then you’re in for a real shock. Because all your complaining about AI not being useful for real-world tasks is obsolete. These
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by brushfoot 7mo ago
> How do you know one party isn’t 15 when the other is 25? You don't. That's why parents need to be involved in their children's lives. CSAM is the easy excuse, anyway. That's the one lawmakers use, and most people ar
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by brushfoot 7mo ago
> Content Filters: Discord users will need to be age-assured as adults in order to unblur sensitive content or turn off the setting. [1] That presumably includes selfies? That means that to exchange racy photos on Discord, each person mu
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by brushfoot 7mo ago
It hasn't done that to me. It's worked according to their docs: > Copilot Chat uses one premium request per user prompt, multiplied by the model's rate. > Each prompt to Copilot CLI uses one premium request with the def
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by brushfoot 7mo ago
And a request can consume more than 128k tokens. A cloud agent works iteratively on your requests, making multiple commits. I put large features into my requests and the agent has no problem making hundreds of changes.
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by brushfoot 7mo ago
Even without hacks, Copilot is still a cheap way to use Claude models: - $10/month - Copilot CLI for Claude Code type CLI, VS Code for GUI - 300 requests (prompts) on Sonnet 4.5, 100 on Opus 4.6 (3x) - One prompt only ever consumes one
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by brushfoot 8mo ago
Your body converts ALA into EPA and DHA, however, so plants are fine sources of both.
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by brushfoot 8mo ago
The ratio of Omega 6 to 3 needs to be below 4:1 to be a good source of Omega 3, and hemp hearts are at 3:1, so they're listed as a good source of Omega 3. Flax seeds are even better just for Omega 3 at 1:3, but hemp hearts have other b
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by brushfoot 8mo ago
> I was a vegan for 10 years, and found out I had basically zero Omega 3 in my blood I see your disclaimer, but just for more context, vegans can get Omega 3 without taking pills per se. Flax seeds are an excellent source. I often add a
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by brushfoot 8mo ago
And better than taking pills for the former, add hemp hearts or flax seeds to your cereal. One serving of hemp hearts has 10 grams of protein and 12 grams of Omegas 3 and 6. Flax seeds are lower in protein but an even better source of Omega
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by brushfoot 8mo ago
> Beads formalizes building a DAG for a given workload > gas town is [...] an orchestrator that is native to dealing with beads Thanks - this is very helpful in deciding when and where to use them. Steve's descriptions sounded to
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by brushfoot 8mo ago
I'm not trolling. I'm just not aware of major differences between them. When I make a change with a Copilot Agent, it checks for issues, builds my project, runs tests, and iterates until things work. Multiple agents can do that in
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by brushfoot 8mo ago
Gas Town seems like a more confusing/expensive alternative to GitHub Copilot Agents. https://github.com/copilot/agents Go to the URL, type what you want done, and a cloud Claude agent creates a PR. $10/month.
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by brushfoot 8mo ago
Reader, keep in mind that OP being "a real person" has nothing to do with whether their content is appropriate for HN. Every spammer and scammer, even a bot, is ultimately controlled by a real person in some sense. That doesn&#x27

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