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by gdudeman 25d ago
There is so obviously competition in this market it’s astounding to me that people attribute all this malicious behavior to the model companies. They’re growing over 10x a year. They want users and revenue. In order to get users and revenue
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by gdudeman 1mo ago
In my experience starting with Gemini 2.5 Pro, moving to 3 and 3.1, 3.5 Flash, 3.6 Flash, and finally 3.7 Flash, 3.7 Flash is just as good if not better than 3 especially on high resolution mode (same token count per page as 3.1). I run com
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by gdudeman 2mo ago
Yes. I have Claude route to codex all the time as part of a dev process where fable is manager and it oversees the work of sidekicks and subagents. It’s happy to comply.
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by gdudeman 2mo ago
Sorry - the older group has higher rates of dementia than the younger group when they reach the same age - so when they reach 75, they're more likely to have dementia.
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by gdudeman 2mo ago
I believe that there are studies that show that merely getting very sick increases your chance of dementia - essentially it ages you faster or brings chronic disease forward. If that's the case, vaccines for things like the flu - a dis
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by gdudeman 2mo ago
If you haven't seen the chart from the UK study, I highly recommend checking it out: https://erictopol.substack.com/p/the-shingles-vaccine-and-re... When the vaccine came out in the UK, they included a hard age cu
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by gdudeman 2mo ago
People who are immune compromised qualify for this. I'm not sure how much your insurance company would push back on that though.
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by gdudeman 2mo ago
This really isn't the case in the Shingles vaccine unless the UK study is flawed a way that isn't clear to me. The study looked at the effect of being eligible for a vaccine and the results were clear. (see chart below the fold
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by gdudeman 3mo ago
Computer use is a great idea. It gets the job done when nothing else will. If you're a person trying to get their job done at a big company, but half your job is in 1-2 proprietary tools or is stuck behind an API you can't program
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by gdudeman 4mo ago
For anyone trying to figure out how to build a society where no one wants to be a criminal, I highly recommend When Brute Force Fails: How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment by Mark Kleiman. There are evidence-backed ways of reducing cr
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by gdudeman 4mo ago
Curious how you tested this - did you do repeated home tests to figure this out?
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by gdudeman 4mo ago
I think it does. Crops pull up a set amount of water. If it's concentrated, then they'll pull up a lot of heavy metals. If it's at very low levels, then they won't.
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by gdudeman 4mo ago
Is there an alternative? We live in a much, much cleaner world than we did 50 years ago. Legislation and environmental rules have worked. There are some areas where it could obviously be better, but also some areas where regulation is too s
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by gdudeman 4mo ago
Then we should work together as a society to fix the law and make sure it's applied evenly. Hard to do, but necessary. Is there an alternative?
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I Used Claude to File My Taxes for Free(kachess.dev)
32 points by gdudeman 7mo ago|32 comments
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Economist get cold feet about high minimum wages(economist.com)
3 points by gdudeman 10mo ago|2 comments
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by gdudeman 11mo ago
This is written for the 3 models (Sonnet, Haiku, Opus 3). While some lessons will be relevant today, others will not be useful or necessary on smarter, RL’d models like Sonnet 4.5. > Note: This tutorial uses our smallest, fastest, and ch
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Compounding Engineering for Claude Code(github.com)
2 points by gdudeman 11mo ago|0 comments
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by gdudeman 1y ago
Ooo - good question. I'm unsure on this one.
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by gdudeman 1y ago
This enables the /resume command that lets you start mid-conversation again. Storing the data is not the same as stealing. It's helpful for many use cases. I suppose they should have a way to delete conversations though.
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by gdudeman 1y ago
Resume is now a drop down menu at the top in the new VS Code plugin and it's much easier to read.
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by gdudeman 1y ago
> New native VS Code extension Looks great, but it's kind of buggy: - I can't figure out how to toggle thinking - Have to click in the text box to write, not just anywhere in the Claude panel - Have to click to reject edits
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by gdudeman 1y ago
I was burned by this for a while because I assumed structured output ordering would be preserved. You can specify ordering in the Gemini API with propertyOrdering: "propertyOrdering": ["recipeName", "ingredients&quo
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by gdudeman 1y ago
Even farther off topic, but this reminds me of the time my friends and I recorded a 3 minute long wav file that ended with a quiet “this is god. Can you hear me? I’d like to talk with you,” and set it to be the error sound on a friend’s PC.
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by gdudeman 1y ago
You don't say that - you instruct the LLM to read files about X, Y, and Z. Putting the context in helps the agent plan better (next step) and write correct code (final step). If you're asking the agent to do chunks of work, this w
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by gdudeman 1y ago
Warning: A natural response to this is to instruct Claude not to do this in the CLAUDE.md file, but you’re then polluting the context and distracting it from its primary job. If you watch its thinking, you will see references to these instr
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by gdudeman 1y ago
I'll note this saves a lot of wait time as well! No sitting there while a new Claude builds context from scratch.
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by gdudeman 1y ago
Claude is very agreeable and is an eager helper. It gives you the benefit of the doubt if you're coding. It also gives you the benefit of the doubt if you're looking for feedback on your developers work. If you give it a hint of d
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by gdudeman 1y ago
With an empty text box, double escape shows you a list of previous inputs from you. You can go back and fork at any one of those.
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by gdudeman 1y ago
Git or my favorite "Undo all of those changes."

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