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beaugunderson

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About beaugunderson

https://beaugunderson.com/

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    Comment #49075491

    i like it in theory but there’s something in me that doesn’t want emails just discarded like that… i want to be off the list. a personal failing, i’m sure. :)

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    Comment #49075230

    ah, quarantine makes sense i handle the overload a different way... i age everything out of my inbox one day at a time, each gets a label showing the remaining days; they start at …

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    Comment #49075095

    > People shouldn't be able to send emails to you without your prior approval (which you can revoke at an instant). this sounds terrible... i've gotten so many useful random emails …

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    Comment #48779662

    the CLI is also Microsoft's preferred way to use it with agents: > playwright-cli is best for coding agents (Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, etc.) that favor token-efficient, skill-ba…

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    Comment #48779618

    sometimes i'll share prompts but but never a whole transcript (have not had a reason to) if i do want to share context i'll use something like "give me a prompt $coworker can share…

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    Comment #48778354

    totally, I see that syncing workflow come up quite a bit as well... some of this stuff is going to get sherlocked into the harness proper (probably a net benefit) though of course …

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    Comment #48778099

    semantic search has been pretty good, it usually finds what it's looking for! a couple of times I was certain that there was a session that contained some word but in reality it wa…

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    Comment #48770886

    This is rapidly becoming the "todo list demo" of the LLM era... I say this as someone who also built one because I was tired of all the others! ( https://github.com/beaugunderson/o…

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    Comment #48769464

    Ah, it's an internal tool but maybe worth open-sourcing at some point! :) re: price, definitely on the pricier side relative to our average UAT run but this one was very comprehens…

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    Comment #48758367

    > Once we trust AI to do the verification as well we'll realise the gains we feel we're getting now. I built a UAT agent on top of claude-agent-sdk, it uses Playwright and can spin…

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    Comment #48655148

    i have a claude-agent-sdk slack bot i built for work; it offers proactive interaction as well but it uses a deterministic filter and then a haiku pass for messages that pass the fi…

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    Comment #48029338

    ah, yeah, first showed up in April of 2025

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    Comment #48023633

    untrue, I’ve deleted it many times in the last year. I don’t think this is new.

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    Comment #48023612

    maybe I was on the wrong side of the early release but I’ve deleted this model many times in the last year. I’ve had it for at least 12 months.

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    Comment #47043694

    opus 4.6 extended still fails.

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    Comment #47043691

    still failed for me on opus 4.6 extended a second ago. when i prompted about how walking would mean leaving my car behind the "thinking" done before coming to the right conclusion …

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    Comment #46850340

    i agree... i play with a stylus on my iPad (the nonograms katana app) and find that phone/laptop pale in comparison.

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    Comment #46850309

    worth noting that letterboxd will track progress on these and similar lists, which is how I know I'm 43 films into the AFI100 and 210 into the 1,001: https://letterboxd.com/beaugun…

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    Comment #46592365

    30hz is so painfully slow, I can always tell when I'm in power saving mode on the iPhone by that alone. On desktop I can't even do 60hz anymore after switching to a 144hz monitor.

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    Comment #46592187

    ahh cool, that layer was hidden by default... and now I see all the data centers I mapped in OSM show up!

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    Comment #46538820

    Didn’t expect to see my town on HN! We’re about 10 miles from the Helion plant. The tax revenue from it and the Microsoft and Sabey data centers here are currently the subject of a…

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    Comment #46538029

    Exactly, they're not an alternative to a doctor, which is the point... it's nearly impossible to see a provider these days if you don't have a pre-existing relationship. I moved re…

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    Comment #46534955

    As someone who was recently injured and waited three months to see a specialist in Seattle, these lines were not helpful ("yes, you should make an appointment"). The only way I was…

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    Comment #46491334

    Seems like the author independently discovered Logtime (written ~1996): https://kafalas.com/Logtime.html

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    Comment #46417246

    I have not found one since the CA/BF voted to require hardware security modules for signing certificates. The cheapest option for an individual is via Microsoft, $10/month and a re…