mikeocool

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by mikeocool 4d ago
JOSM is great when you get really into, but if it's really your first edit, just use the editor on openstreetmap.org. If it's something you end up enjoying, one really satisfying thing to do is pick a small rural town and improve
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by mikeocool 5d ago
Given this feature seems to be premised off guessing a user’s age based on their inputs, and a common use case for Claude it uploading personal legal and tax documents to have Claude explain them to you, I am guessing Anthropic is not hurti
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by mikeocool 7d ago
Have you never had a conversation someone you trust that you prefer there not be an automated written record of?
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by mikeocool 7d ago
It also summarizes your full conversations.
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by mikeocool 7d ago
People have plenty of conversations where if one party intentionally chose to record it, it would be big violation of trust. This is basically just "always on" recording/transcribing that people have to intentionally remember
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by mikeocool 7d ago
Yeah, even more weird was when they highlighted the privacy aspect of it. Sure, it maintains the wearer's privacy, just not that of anyone around them.
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by mikeocool 15d ago
> They're packing lots of signal into fewer words “The load-bearing seam is real” or “Autumn hits different” appear to have absolutely no signal in them.
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by mikeocool 19d ago
The President of the United Stated doesn’t actually have the authority to tell anyone besides the executive branch what to name geographic places. So the order only forces official US government maps created by USGS and the like to be updat
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by mikeocool 25d ago
Companies got to release an MCP server for their product and tell their investors they were pivoting to be AI native.
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by mikeocool 28d ago
Kinda sounds like you are finally realizing the dream of XML and DTD envisioned 25 years ago.
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by mikeocool 29d ago
Lots of standards are terrible without the actual tools on top of them (try making an HTTP request with just a network socket). But that doesn’t mean we should have single centralized tool that does everything. I’d posit there’s no big loss
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by mikeocool 29d ago
> You need centralization (or at the very least, a standard) for that. We have a standard! It’s this great decentralized VCS called git. For most of the stuff integrations do, they’re just showing code or commits — both of which are read
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by mikeocool 1mo ago
There’s still a world difference between communicating with Claude and managing humans (well). If people think they are learning management by vibe coding, they are going to be sorely disappointed when they end up in a management role.
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by mikeocool 1mo ago
If it is like management, it’s like the most low effort version of management. You just blindly tell it what to do without any regard for its motivations or morale. If it does something wrong, you just delete it and slightly rephrase your i
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by mikeocool 1mo ago
Guess it was a bad idea for everyone to switch to a browser made by one of the world’s biggest advertising companies.
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by mikeocool 1mo ago
As far as I've seen /clear is the same thing as starting a new session. If you type /resume right after clear, the first thing in the list is the session you just cleared.
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by mikeocool 1mo ago
I'm sure that's technically true -- but as long as your personal item doesn't have wheels they seem completely unconcerned with the size. I frequently travel with a duffel bag carry-on that goes in the overhead. On most flig
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by mikeocool 1mo ago
My favorite but of airport-ese that emerged post-9/11 is that on most US airlines you can now have 1 carry-on and 1 personal item. As far as I can tell the difference between them is that a personal item can't have wheels.
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by mikeocool 1mo ago
Oh, that’s good, because if you automate something then you’re automatically absolved from all responsibility for its actions. And you certainly shouldn’t bother monitoring what it’s doing.
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by mikeocool 1mo ago
> appear to be profiting from is "an invitation-only programme that lets you earn money from the performance of your eligible public reels, photos, stories and text posts." The difference between “We ask white nationalists to j
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by mikeocool 1mo ago
Yeah, by most definitions at least 50% of “40-somethings” are solidly millennial.
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by mikeocool 1mo ago
I think AI is a great learning tool - I have learned a ton from it. But when I just ask to do a thing and then read the code (typical in a professional environment when there’s pressure to get shit delivered), i have not found that be an ef
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by mikeocool 1mo ago
Pre-AI juniors were valuable because on many tasks, it was faster for me (senior eng) to write a quick spec have a conversation with a junior, and have them go off for a few hours or a few days and write the code, and then come back with it
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by mikeocool 1mo ago
> mentioned a Telegram bot idea > Fast forward: she now runs Arch Linux with Hyprland (I use Xorg/i3 though), fully riced with cats. Did she end up building the bot or did the LLM just lead her down a desktop Linux rabbit hole?
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by mikeocool 1mo ago
This can sometimes be a challenge with OSM, if the way you want to structure data doesn’t align with the way the community has decided to structure data. I was looking into building a canoeing map based on OSM data. An important thing to ma
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by mikeocool 2mo ago
One of the nice things about OSM is you can profit from it from it if you want to. I don’t think you’ll find even most the die hard OSM fan disagree with you on the POI data. On the other hand, the road network in OSM is very high quality.
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by mikeocool 2mo ago
Yeah, Claude told me what a great idea converting my LLC to an S Corp would be and how much I would save in taxes. When I asked my accountant about he told me it would actually cost me more, because of NYC taxes S Corps. I didn’t tell Claud
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by mikeocool 2mo ago
I used to quite like instagram when it was a good way to keep up with a well curated group of friends who would share occasional interesting photos (though even then it could end up being performative). But you’re right, these days I’ve lar
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by mikeocool 2mo ago
Yeah, seriously, New York just passed law that makes it illegal to show engagement-driven feeds to kids. I can’t wait to not age verify on instagram and permanently get back a feed that’s only people I follow.
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by mikeocool 2mo ago
Generally I think lifestyle business means a business that is going to make the owners a comfortable living but not likely to make anyone filthy-rich. In silicon valley/tech it's sometimes treated as a derogatory term.

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