joebates

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by joebates 6d ago
I actually really like this and I'm not sure why. I've been a folding phone skeptic for years but I really am intrigued.
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by joebates 16d ago
I take a small bit of joy in disabling JS for these sites. The content still loads just fine. The scroll jacking degraded quality for no reason. Why would anyone who actually wants me to read their site do this?
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by joebates 26d ago
They can absolutely keep them. Or they can just "lose" them "accidentally". Who exactly would force them to give them back? Or put another way, who exactly will punish them if they break the law?
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by joebates 1mo ago
They/the LLM made sure to replace the em dashes with semicolons
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by joebates 1mo ago
I took off work to drive from Houston to Little Rock to see the eclipse at 100% and I'm so glad I did. I can't imagine prioritizing a temporary job over a once in a lifetime event. I had a colleague who really wanted to see the ec
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by joebates 1mo ago
They don't need to reason that evidence was destroyed. They just need to reason they there was an attempt to destroy potential evidence, whether or not there was actually any evidence. Any kind of interference with an investigation in
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by joebates 2mo ago
I wonder if apps like Boostcamp implement their plans in a language like this
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by joebates 2mo ago
The ability to start a Claude Code session in a temporary "config free" mode, similar to how incognito works for chrome, would be a nice feature to make this easy to try out, especially since model releases are so frequent.
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by joebates 3mo ago
I really don't think anyone voting against Trump was doing so with the Straight of Hormuz on mind.
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by joebates 3mo ago
Ha! I'm watching the Astros game and I guess my stream is delayed because this just spoiled a home run. Great job!
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by joebates 3mo ago
Couldn't you have claude correct the CLAUDE.md?
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by joebates 4mo ago
Same. Luckily I enjoy the process of refactoring and deleting code is nearly arousing, so I get the initial dopamine rush of wow this works, followed by the dopamine rush of "wow now this is cleaner and works so much better". Keep
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by joebates 4mo ago
Of course, if we could just persecute minorities again, that would reduce the theft. Please know that I'm being sarcastic.
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by joebates 4mo ago
Same. I even convinced my mom to buy me a transfer cable so I could distribute my programs to my classmates. I was the "plug" for a brief time. Probably my closest taste of being "popular". It was nice.
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by joebates 5mo ago
Programming mine in high school is how I ended up coding for the first time and led to my current career. Honestly a pretty good investment (from my parents) I'd say.
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by joebates 5mo ago
Too many people think being good at designing a UI primarily means knowing where to put something on a page.
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by joebates 7mo ago
Probably a smart move. Writing and mailing a letter takes a lot more time and effort than a phone call or comment online. If a person took the time to write a letter, they're probably worth taking the time to respond to.
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by joebates 7mo ago
I wonder if this is a technique used by certain leaders of authoritarian regimes to take out people in power they they deem threats. Everyone in the party routinely breaks laws, knowingly or otherwise. The person in charge can decide they d
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by joebates 7mo ago
I found a similar blog post like this years ago at the start of my career and started keeping a Rhodia Webnotebook A5. I've got over a dozen now from all my years of work. Nice for nostalgia
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by joebates 7mo ago
Very interesting. Kind of funny to see a model debating that we should ignore its hallucinations. I'm interested in seeing where this goes. Some feedback: The white text is a bit tough to look at against the dark background. Darkgrey w
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by joebates 7mo ago
I tried this but didn't realize how exhausting it is to think about even 2 smaller items at once.
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by joebates 7mo ago
I've seriously wondered about merging a home office and home gym into one, and doing sets in between claude working. My usual workout has about 22-30 sets of exercises total and I probably wait on Claude that often in a day. It would b
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by joebates 8mo ago
It's still not always reliable. I have a skill in a project named "determine-feature-directory" with a short description explaining that it is meant to determine the feature directory of a current branch. The initial prompt I
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by joebates 8mo ago
Please do! This sounds way more interesting than a simple coding loop agent (not to knock the blog)