cityofdelusion

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by cityofdelusion 5d ago
Any magic tool that declares a savings of over 10% can be immediately classified as snake oil. You can check yourself, load any of those projects up in GitHub and notice the math is always extremely misleading. It will be something like the
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by cityofdelusion 10d ago
A bunch of sections of the README are nonsensical as well. I'll just file this under "magical token-saving project #481 of 2026 that probably performs worse than the harness" for now.
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by cityofdelusion 18d ago
3d printed guns are just a fancier pipe gun. Physics is the real enemy here. Make thing go fast out of tube is too simple of a design.
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by cityofdelusion 22d ago
The building is cheap, the labor is expensive. I built a much larger shed in volumetric space last year for 1/4th the cost.
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by cityofdelusion 29d ago
Not frictionless, so it will also slowly degrade over time. It just has so much mass built-in that it’s not obvious.
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by cityofdelusion 1mo ago
Not really. Private health insurance would still exist alongside for the more wealthy (including nearly everyone on HN) that doesn’t want to wait a year for their public system MRI. Same thing that plays out in other countries. The U.S. alr
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by cityofdelusion 1mo ago
This is where I landed too. Basic skill for a Jira-like task board and another for keeping an orchestration ledger. Let’s me arbitrarily clear context without losing big picture knowledge.
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by cityofdelusion 1mo ago
This wording is inaccurate. It isn't about "modern" heat pumps, its about if another $2-3,000 of electronics and clever injection systems are worth letting the refrigeration cycle work at the extremes. For a lot of the U.S. t
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by cityofdelusion 2mo ago
I graduated in the housing crash which was brutal. The hard part is competing in interviews with people that have more experience when your only lever is that you are cheaper. Jobs, internships, networking, and software engineering courses
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by cityofdelusion 2mo ago
Models are not rational thinking brains, so the point is moot. Extra prompt text isn’t to make the model smarter, it’s to pull attention towards what you want. “Do code review” is far different from “Make sure changes align with existing ar
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by cityofdelusion 2mo ago
Same questions as always for the $token-saver app of the week. 1. We already know the headline cherry picked savings will not be true in real world agentic coding. Why not approach this more scientifically? The salesman/hype thing is p
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by cityofdelusion 3mo ago
My room mates all lived on slightly above minimum wage with part time hours. They were not in abject poverty. They were just plain poor. They still had cars, phones, video games, food, water, shelter. They each had an ACA plan heavily subsi
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by cityofdelusion 3mo ago
I'm not sure if the person you replied to edited their comment, but right now, yours looks totally out-of-line and ranting about nothing they brought up.
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by cityofdelusion 3mo ago
Its very interesting how people trust LLMs in domains they know little about. Instead, it is my experiences with LLMs in a domain that I know very well that makes me skeptical of their performance across the board. I find issues in code rev
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by cityofdelusion 3mo ago
HEB operates a similar model to Costco in being more expensive to the customer in a subtle way, through desirability. Their products are so interesting and appetizing that I go in with the intention of buying $30 of groceries and leave with
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by cityofdelusion 3mo ago
To be fair, the vast, vast majority of drivers will go their entire lives without hitting a pedestrian, let alone at speeds that are fatal. Where I live, pedestrians deaths seem to always be from drunk drivers, the very young or very old, a
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by cityofdelusion 3mo ago
I am glad articles like this are finally starting to get some momentum around what I call the LLM magic box industry. From caveman mode to RTK to semantic search and everything in between. Developers have become magicians that cast spells i
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by cityofdelusion 3mo ago
You won’t know they are benign unless you plan on a biopsy or surgery for every finding. It’s exactly this reason why we only regularly scan people that have say, known cancer.
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by cityofdelusion 3mo ago
I go outside daily in red rural America and this is simply not true. People voted, like they always have and always will, on their wallet and expectations on who will make it a little heavier. The exact same will happen as it swings wildly
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by cityofdelusion 3mo ago
Article is too opinionated IMO. I enforce CC on my projects because I don’t have the energy to police horrendous commit messages. It’s easy to enforce the CC format on the repo merge policy. I do it with the addition of a required issue ID
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by cityofdelusion 3mo ago
This is a nice little project but I’m weary of sensationally inaccurate titles for stuff like this and the infamous caveman mode. It doesn’t save 91% of tokens: it reduced in one user case 91% of output tokens on the raw CLI output. I am be
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by cityofdelusion 4mo ago
Why would developers stop licensing? They will just tear the middleware out and release as-is, leaving the community to fill the API gaps.
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by cityofdelusion 4mo ago
I’m eager to test this out. I have agent instructions to try to limit the worst of this already, but patterns still sneak through. I have a review agent run after every single edit looking for all of the following if you need more ideas for
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by cityofdelusion 4mo ago
The art looks very rendered, with pixel cleanup in something like photoshop. I was using 3ds Max on my norma PC circa 2001-2002. Game studios should definitely have had 3d studio in the mid to late 90s on their actual workstations if they w
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by cityofdelusion 4mo ago
History is important here. React came at a time when so many frameworks used custom template libraries for variable binding, looping, conditionals, etc. Usually it was some HTML/XML-like markup language.
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by cityofdelusion 4mo ago
None of the 5 places I have worked is this possible, but they are also all highly regulated industries. Firewalls block virtually everything by default.
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by cityofdelusion 4mo ago
No way wealth tax covers the debt. It would be more of an asset seizure and forced sale or nationalization of a bunch of businesses and illiquid asset classes. The rich don’t hold enough cash to make it happen. The other issue is the U.S. d
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by cityofdelusion 4mo ago
This should clear the path to the IPO and lead to a VERY profitable payday for those holding OpenAI equity. Millionaires and billionaires will be minted ~one year from now.
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by cityofdelusion 4mo ago
Feedback: codex-cli hangs when calling this through the MCP. The semble process even sticks around as a zombie, forever stalled out. No idea why, logs have nothing. When called through a skill via CLI style calling, GPT 5.5 loves to give a
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by cityofdelusion 4mo ago
Electrek has a long history of going between blind fanboyism and blind hate, the history is all there to peruse. They only changed their tune with the referral program debacle a few years back which was seen as a betrayal. It’s hard to trus

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