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by pcarolan 15d ago
Here’s an experiment: purchase an anthropic pro max subscription for $200/m. Now go buy the hardware to run DeepSeek’s equivalent. In a year, who spent more?
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by pcarolan 15d ago
It’s not. Do it as a hobby or for privacy but for performance just use a frontier model api. You’re paying less than cost for something that would take tens of thousands to set up locally.
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by pcarolan 21d ago
Honest question. Who got to decide to accept this decision on behalf of state and federal citizens? This seems performative rather than punitive and doesn’t seem to match the harm.
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by pcarolan 22d ago
My father was a plumber in the 80s and bought our family an Amiga 1000 for $1,200. Today thats about $3800 in inflation adjusted money. I just bought my son a top of the line pc for $2,000. I get that it used to be cheaper, but value is sti
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by pcarolan 29d ago
When you become a parent, your risk profile changes immensely. I can hire some of the world’s best people tomorrow if i can promise them equal salary, benefits and retirement accounts for a set number of years. Plus the benefit of a large u
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by pcarolan 29d ago
Well said. I hope some day to make it and start parent.capital a place where parents can get funding. I believe there are thousands of people out there with great ideas and immense talent who are unable to leave their salary and benefits be
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by pcarolan 5mo ago
Thanks for all your open source work. You changed the industry for the better. Are you thinking of building a Github competitor? I would find that very appealing.
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Ask HN: How do you manage your child's screen time?
2 points by pcarolan 5mo ago|1 comments
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by pcarolan 7mo ago
If you’re going this far, why even have a cli? Just have your agent grab the openapi spec from the server and set envvars. It can curl its way around happily. Security? I don’t see how this is any more or less secure than any other claude c
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Show HN: Polya's urn – essays on complexity and emergence(polyasurn.com)
2 points by pcarolan 7mo ago|0 comments
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by pcarolan 8mo ago
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Feedback on an open source Ruby – LLM project(github.com)
7 points by pcarolan 10mo ago|1 comments
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by pcarolan 10mo ago
As I'm on vacation, I took a couple days to put together an idea I've had bumping around in the back of my head for a while. What if you could write pure ruby methods and ask an llm to figure out all the implementation details to
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by pcarolan 11mo ago
I mostly agree, but why stop at tests? Shouldn’t it be spec driven development? Then neither the code or the language matter. Wouldn’t user stories and requirements à la bdd (see cucumber) be the right abstraction?
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by pcarolan 1y ago
You can. It’s called multimodal and basically is just picking a shipping container off a train car with a crane and putting it on a truck platform or a ship. 1 platform supports all modes.
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by pcarolan 1y ago
I’ve noticed my kid (12) primarily uses group chats over social apps. Some of his chats have several dozen kids in them. It could be social media got so bad that the protocols became the best alternative. An old programmer like me sees a gl
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by pcarolan 1y ago
Right. And if you use OpenAPI the agent can get the api spec context it needs from /openapi.json.
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by pcarolan 1y ago
Yeah, I had more luck with just giving an ai the openapi spec and letting it figure everything out. I like a lot about MCP (structure, tool guidance, etc), but couldn't it just have been a REST API and a webserver?
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by pcarolan 2y ago
Lost my wife to brain cancer (gb4). After sifting through the noise, here’s what works based on stat sig research as far as I know: 1. Radiation 2. Surgery, awake craniotomy to reduce loss of function 3. Temodar chemotherapy 4. Optune helme
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Ask HN: What seems obvious to game developers but not to web developers?
4 points by pcarolan 2y ago|1 comments
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by pcarolan 2y ago
Leverage is also about timing your market which is a matter of local and overall trends. You can use google trends to figure out when the global market trend is in your favor: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?da
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by pcarolan 2y ago
Do you have a good resource for getting a system started? Particularly outdoors / backyard scale?
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by pcarolan 2y ago
Daniel Shiffman taught me to code for the first time in a way that totally shifted the way I thought about coding from utilitarian to fun and creative. I wonder how many lives he's had this impact on. Good on you sir.
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by pcarolan 3y ago
How does this theory hold up when your trade partner doesn’t give you equal access to their markets and has the potential to use this media platform to spread disinformation? I don’t think this is an innovation issue as much as a political
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by pcarolan 3y ago
Much love your way. I lost a partner that went through it. Modern antidepressants and anti-anxiety medication did seem to help. You are brave to talk about it and I hope more people do.
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by pcarolan 3y ago
Work from office mandates may serve as a proxy for companies on the decline. When things are going well, companies are more willing to take risks that could impact the top line, when things are going wrong it’s all scrutiny and bottom line
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by pcarolan 3y ago
I grew up in Michigan during the rust belt era. Nice cities don't always get better, they can get far worse. What turns them around is 1) a commitment from the community to do something about it 2) artists and grass roots efforts tran
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by pcarolan 3y ago
It’s likely a lot more more. These are the markdowns they have to make. They’re hoping the rest will come back but many won’t.
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by pcarolan 3y ago
People will always be willing to pay for great products that solve problems. I think the hype dying down will be good for everyone.
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by pcarolan 3y ago
I’m going to give this a try, but I wish we could just expand the sms protocol and make interoperability a non event. Wishful utopian thinking, I know, but messaging as a protocol would be a much bigger commercial platform than silod apps.

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