chatmasta

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by chatmasta 6d ago
I’ve long wanted to take a digital inventory of my big box (boxes) of cables, with photo, connector types, etc.
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by chatmasta 18d ago
There’s probably some selection bias here if people are close to death (either by suicide or terminal diagnosis) and looking for the solution.
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by chatmasta 18d ago
Just want to let you know that I appreciated this joke even if nobody else noticed it.
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by chatmasta 18d ago
Clear the session after 300k tokens and force your workflow to adapt to it. The rabbit holes come when you’re at context rot and blindly following Claude debugging some problem that you shouldn’t even be trying to solve. Other than that, se
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by chatmasta 20d ago
Let me rephrase the question to the scope of startups. A small business is not a startup: https://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html But you’re also completely right.
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Ask HN: Which class of business model is most resilient to build in the AI era?
3 points by chatmasta 20d ago|5 comments
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by chatmasta 20d ago
Typing bash commands on a colleague’s French keyboard was one of the most frustrating experiences of my life.
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by chatmasta 1mo ago
The candidate may have had more success if he saved the honesty for after he solved the riddle he claimed he already knew how to solve.
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by chatmasta 1mo ago
I expect we can squeeze a lot more exponential out of LLMs because they’ve basically shown that human “consciousness,” insofar as it’s composed of knowledge and rules for synthesizing that knowledge, can be represented mathematically in a v
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by chatmasta 2mo ago
There have been a lot. I remember one that was essentially “send the request without an Authorization header.”
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by chatmasta 2mo ago
Is China opposition unique to the current administration? Didn’t they soften the CHIPS act put in place by the previous one?
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by chatmasta 2mo ago
Is he actually concerned about China being a geopolitical competitor or is that just the most logical position for him to take as CEO of a US corporation with national security implications?
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by chatmasta 2mo ago
True, though they could always buy one. I’m surprised this hasn’t happened yet, maybe due to anticompetitive risk? Google bought Motorola long ago which seemed to work well for their mobile device offerings at least.
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by chatmasta 2mo ago
Inevitably the CSPs will make their own hardware, especially as we start to see specialized chips for specific models or generic inference. This is already happening with Google and TPUs. It’s easier for the CSPs to move into hardware than
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by chatmasta 2mo ago
Personally I find the persistence of these models to be adorable and endearing. It’s the same feeling as watching a dog execute the task you trained it to do, no matter the barriers. And of course someone in the comments needs to link to th
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by chatmasta 2mo ago
> YouTube search is genuinely better than Google The funny part of this is that Google search is intentionally bad at returning YouTube videos, presumably because some anti-trust action scared them into artificially ranking videos from l
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by chatmasta 2mo ago
Training cost is actually not that high — it’s fixed and amortizable across the lifetime of the model. Inference is expensive, and open weights don’t solve that problem — in fact, they might even encourage it, since a high cost of entry mea
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by chatmasta 2mo ago
> Plan L, for local > Your AI is aligned with you. It never refuses a request, and it is always working on your behalf. Just like my gun, if I want my AI to help me kill my stepmother, it does. The fact that we are even discussing som
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Potential session/cache leakage between workspace instances or consumer accounts(github.com)
314 points by chatmasta 2mo ago|135 comments
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by chatmasta 3mo ago
It hits the exact same endorphin system as “one more turn” style games like Civ. You can manage a few cities and keep them healthy, but the rest of your empire eventually regresses into a set of chores. Any time you encounter one of your ze
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by chatmasta 3mo ago
This is similar to how our college CS problem sets were graded. We were given a spec, and we had to implement a program that conformed to it. We had access to 70% of the test suite during development, and another 30% was hidden and only eva
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by chatmasta 3mo ago
I’ve always liked this tool, but I’m of two minds regarding the privacy gained by sending my searches to 280 companies instead of just one.
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by chatmasta 3mo ago
Do they send them via notification infrastructure or email? Personally I almost never check the email associated with my Apple ID so I would miss those. But if all my Apple devices were notifying me and I had a badge in Settings.app, I’d no
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by chatmasta 3mo ago
I think OP is more worried about one nutjob with a lot of targets.
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by chatmasta 3mo ago
You can, and I could probably make Cowork drive the browser to do this (iirc I might have tried and it stopped cus it couldn’t access downloads pane); and I can do it manually. And aside from minor issues with fidelity loss from back and fo
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by chatmasta 3mo ago
WebAssembly doesn’t run only in the browser. WebAssembly runtimes can be effective sandboxing mechanisms for embedded plugins, serverless execution, etc.
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by chatmasta 3mo ago
Are you aware of extension_control_path? [0] Since PG18 it allows specifying multiple non-$system directories for extension control paths, which makes it easier to adopt composable patterns of extension bundling with immutable images. Cloud
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by chatmasta 3mo ago
If you can’t see the watermark (you called it “invisible”) then what’s the issue?
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by chatmasta 3mo ago
But it’s available in Claude Code. I’m hoping that’s a typo missing a word or two in the sentence.
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by chatmasta 3mo ago
Because the interface sucks. It previews in an embedded viewer, exports to pptx, imports into Google Slides, then I can edit it there but if I want to make further edits on other slides, I’m basically stuck because Claude can’t export from

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