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headcanon

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    Comment #49172584

    These artists are pretty cool: - https://andreaciulu.com/ - https://www.rooperainisto.com/ You might feel differently, but I feel intention and effort being communicated here.

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    Comment #49155761

    I will frequently post the output of a computer to slack as a part of an engineering discussion. For Claude output I'll treat it the same, wrap it in code blocks, and say something…

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    Comment #48847699

    agreed, but IMO thats been true for most off-the-shelf skills I've seen. Instead I built my own "/meta" skill to improve my workflows, which I can use in targeted ways across my pr…

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    Comment #48673337

    I think AI optimism is an easier jump for those already immersed in computer culture, or at least the subset of that culture who view automation as a virtue. For those either outsi…

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    Comment #48586152

    I see you haven't tried a modular synthesizer yet :) Getting back to the same "place" in a patch can sometimes be impossible, and it does feel "random" until you get the hang of it…

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    Comment #48430989

    Two years ago (Dec 2023), I visited Japan and try to use ChatGPT (GPT-3 era) to translate Kanji signs, it was OK but not great. A little over a year later (late April 2025, o1 era …

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    Comment #48373127

    I would definitely agree that data center investments would need to be coupled with energy investments. If this could act as a catalyst for more (sustainable) energy production tha…

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    Comment #48372464

    Do you feel poison fountain is actually effective? To me it seems like free chaos engineering for ingestion platforms. Wouldn't it paradoxically harden data ingestion?

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    Comment #48301720

    I've been trying to solve a lot of the issues brought up here, like personal automation, note taking, article summarizing/indexing, etc. What I've learned so far is that no level o…

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    Comment #48223360

    Came here to say this as well. I've written and read full human-written essays on slack before AI. With that said, I don't disagree with the article. Don't use more word when few w…

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    Comment #48223295

    To use your analogy, I would say the "blanket ban" attitude would be more like wishing all viruses would just go away, or have never existed in the first place, which: 1) is an imp…

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    Comment #48126859

    My wife bought a Neo and has been very happy with it. I was wary of the 8gb memory limit but she is running claude code doing web development with a reasonable number of tabs open …

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    Comment #48102758

    As others have said, the main benefit with Python over Rust is library support especially with ML features. The other gap as I see it with Rust is the lack of native flexible UI su…

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    Comment #48038912

    same, I struggle to use more than half of my weekly, even if I max out my 5-hour windows regularly during the day.

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    Comment #47938390

    I've been seeing much higher session limits late at night (US time). Workday usage struggles though. I'm looking into how to structure my work to run some autonomous-safe jobs over…

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    Comment #47850445

    I've been trying to toe the line here myself, here's how I've been doing it. For context, I pay for a Max 5x subscription. My main goal is to maximize my subscription token usage w…

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    Comment #47787829

    I tried openclaw when it was released, but I preferred the minimalism of nanoclaw and replaced it. I have it on a mac mini now For context: I have additional automation with script…

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    Comment #47767790

    > Early career folk join some toxic startup and stay because the internet told them all CEOs are like this. I literally did this 12 years ago based on this reasoning, its good you'…

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    Comment #47754545

    This is a big part of why I'm looking to develop a local LLM capability: having the hardware is a good start, but also developing the understanding on what the SoTA of local edge m…

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    Comment #47503668

    Kind of. I'm finding that my terminal window in VSCode went from being at the bottom 1/3rd of my screen to filling the whole screen a lot of the time, replacing the code editor win…

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    Comment #47503614

    I've been getting close to that myself, I've been using VSCode + Claude Code as my "control plane" for a bunch of projects but the current interface is getting unwieldly. I've trie…

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    Comment #47392943

    Most knowledge worker use computers today to do their work, but we don't necessarily call them computer or software engineers. I think it will be something like that, but the econo…

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    Comment #47391843

    I agree with most of the other comments so far, the "magic" of the show is going to be hard to replicate. My bull case for this is that Nathan Fillion and crew have had 20 years of…

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    Comment #47391802

    Thats exactly what we as software engineers do. We are constantly automating ourselves out of a job. The trick is that we never actually accomplish that, there will always be thing…

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    Comment #47276588

    If anyone wants a chuckle, I vibe-coded an endless supply of "synergizing paradigm" terms as a slideshow for a fake corporation. It's fun to put on in the background on a tv somewh…