matltc

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by matltc 8d ago
> enough ... to intervene over Taiwan Probably not. My guess is the Pentagon's calculation would be that the cost to intervene would be unacceptable and could not be sustained anyway; many reports say the US would deplete their ammo
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by matltc 8d ago
What makes you say that? The cost to China to invade will still be incredible with zero US intervention. Wsj had an article last December < https://www.wsj.com/world/china/how-china-chinese-invasion-t... > on
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by matltc 8d ago
So like a month of food and water? If the big electrical grid pop happens < https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/magazine/national-blackou... >, we're looking at years, which no storage solution c
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by matltc 11d ago
This is one thing that has really hit me: I have a question and I always default to Gemini flash or haiku instead of finding quality writing on a subject. So I get the same tinned bullet-point format every time, and my knowledge has become
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by matltc 11d ago
I love goooooold
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by matltc 15d ago
Appalachian dialect
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by matltc 17d ago
Amazing what one can learn from rtfm
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by matltc 17d ago
What is up with the README?
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by matltc 21d ago
Love how Gates and Nadella had nothing to say until this year, after they clearly lost any hope of building a moat around it
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by matltc 23d ago
Selling your soul for a discount. I almost never download native apps. If they go to the lengths shown in this article to side-channel fingerprinting, imagine what they do when they have native privs.
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by matltc 24d ago
git worktree add -b some-branch ../wts/repo-some-branch origin/main git worktree list git worktree remove All you need
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by matltc 25d ago
I got into this stuff super late. Have kids and a job. Would love nothing more than to go get a proper cs degree. Would probably go for computer engineering. Alas, my undergrad GPA was poor, so grad school is out. Can't picture droppin
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by matltc 25d ago
Well said. I get the sense that C is kind of ossified today, and that the whole point is its compatibility benefit. I wonder what even makes it into the next C standard? I think c99 was the last meaningful one. Everything else is offloaded
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by matltc 25d ago
Don't know anything about clojure, but isnt this true with any language or library that implements schema validation? I'm thinking zod, for instance. Does clojure make it trivial?
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by matltc 25d ago
Saw this in npx ccusage@latest claude output. Had only used opus but showed sonnet. Can't remember if the jsonl retains which model is doing what, but meh
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by matltc 25d ago
Wouldn't be surprised if there are knobs that get turned as a function of the revenue they might expect you to generate. I was a 4.6 acolyte from April til the fable drop, lost that quick, cancelled and took a break, came back a month
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by matltc 28d ago
Dropping this all-timer: http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/text/rms-vs-doctor.html
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by matltc 1mo ago
Now it's back to reality Feeling the finality Of his greatest achievement He couldn't believe it But it's true, now he's feelin' blue So between me and you: Think twice before you do
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by matltc 1mo ago
Ironically: Claude Code docs Tends to latch onto whatever was true at the time of its training run unless you point it to the llm.txt.
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by matltc 2mo ago
Yep! Only (potential) downside to --bare is it runs in print mode; can't kick off an interactive session with it. The flags I listed above are a close approximation. Anthropic had something about API-only in the description a couple mo
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by matltc 2mo ago
You can do this but you have to pass a million long options like --disable-system-prompt --allowed-tools "" etc I have some wrappers but the only one I really use is a variant of that pinned to haiku for quick questions.
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by matltc 2mo ago
Totally. Ralph wiggum was added to every big shop's stdlib (harness?) just a couple weeks after it dropped. That simple iterative workflow basically underpins all of the notable/novel achievements of agentic coding or whatever. I&
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by matltc 2mo ago
Prompt engineering was deprecated around the time Opus-/Codex-class models dropped imo. Replaced by skills up until about opus 4.5/6 dropped. Pinned model to Opus 4.6 slug in ENV.ANTHROPIC_MODEL, disabled the adaptive thinking thi
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by matltc 2mo ago
Can you explain how you piped recent agent actions/turns/outputs? I was looking into this yesterday and tried playing around with streaming json, including hooks, but i (really Claude) would need to write a parser (prob with jq) t
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by matltc 2mo ago
One of those programs that shoulda been in coreutils
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by matltc 2mo ago
Thanks for the references, especially FMD tip; have the Google version disabled due to lack of trust.
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by matltc 2mo ago
Wow, straight from the source! Heartfelt thanks for maintaining this project; it becomes more pertinent by the day as we slide ever deeper into living into this dystopian surveillance state.
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by matltc 2mo ago
Thanks for the info! Might take the dive.
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by matltc 2mo ago
Curious to hear: how much effort did it take to migrate to GrapheneOS? I own a pixel, grabbed it in anticipation of unlocking, but the effort it seems it would take from reading GrapheneOS docs has stopped me from committing to it on my dai
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by matltc 2mo ago
I am with you but I inevitably think it's a skill issue. Some devs put a lot of work into the harness. I tried doing this, felt like running in place to me. the lack of RFC-tier standardization and ever-shifting api is demotivating as

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