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hotpotat

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    Comment #47827930

    Unfortunately we’re in the phase where even if you write things yourself, be it prose with em dashes or code with velocity, you’re given a demerit. And, if you are using AI, the wo…

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    Comment #47224356

    @dang can we prune some of these search and aggregator tools? Some are clearly not being kept up to date.

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    Comment #46724889

    I understand where you’re coming from, but anecdotally the same thing happened to me except I have less clarity on why and no refund. I got an email back saying my appeal was rejec…

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    Comment #46671513

    I experienced this with lobsters and deleted my account there. They describe it as a garden party, which is accurate. And it’s very easy to ruffle the feathers of those at the gard…

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    Comment #46646187

    Given one’s ability to trade in-game assets for real world ones, it’s not very different from any other virtual assets and so I agree with the appeal decision to treat it as someth…

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    Comment #46579823

    What’s needed to make it at least 121x productivity?

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    Comment #46571044

    I upvoted you because I would like to know the response to these approaches

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    Comment #46570312

    That’s reasonable, thanks!

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    Comment #46570291

    speaking of claude code in Ghostty, I’ve noticed I can’t drag and drop images into the prompt when the session is within a tmux pane. I miss that, coming from the mac terminal app,…

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    Comment #46570249

    @mitchellh what did you use for the memory visualizations? Looks nice, and the website plays well with mobile. Whats the stack?

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    Comment #46528713

    > my gut reaction is to see if there’s a way to pay to upgrade to a bigger model, only to remember that there’s no upgrading of the human brain this might be one of the most sociop…

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    Comment #45830764

    Trading uncrontrolled population growth for TikTok sounds like a deal with the devil.

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    Comment #45772269

    With regard to AI, why not throw this whole article in an .md file and point CLAUDE.md to it? Codex is better at following rules so maybe you’d have more luck with that. But yeah, …

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    Comment #45748563

    I have an out-there hypothesis I’d want to test. Much of the population has one or more MTHFR mutations, which can increase homocysteine if left untreated and that’s been linked to…

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    Comment #45746317

    Interesting to see all the people in this thread who had a stroke. I had a mild and then moderate cerebellar stroke within a 7 day span about two years ago. I remember being on the…

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    Comment #45526129

    It started as a mix of self-imposed pressure and actually enjoying marking tasks as complete. Now I feel resistant to relaxing things. And no, I definitely don’t get paid more.

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    Comment #45525937

    Lol this person talks about easing into LLMs again two weeks after quitting cold turkey. The addiction is real. I laugh because I’m in the same situation, and see no way out other …

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    Comment #45424390

    Are you open to code contributions? I’d like to see this sooner than later and would be willing to help.

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    Comment #45102025

    This is a fantastic writeup with great visuals

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    Comment #45087453

    Claude writes 99% of my code, I’m just a manager and architect and QC now.

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    Comment #44933591

    > ChatGPT and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race Replace ChatGPT with ‘knives’ or ‘nuclear technology’ and you will see this is blaming the tool and not the h…

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    Comment #44701827

    In my experience limiting myself to two projects in parallel is most productive, with a clear primary project whose agent’s completion take precedence over the other’s. It lets me …

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    Comment #44701804

    The physical performance kind. Conversely beet root, L-Citruline, and supplemental NO are commonly used for ED. That’s why medications like tadalafil and sildenafil work. NO relaxe…

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    Comment #44701649

    > You must carefully not leaving any recursive functions not annotated with #[recursive] Isn’t the same true of forgetting #[stacksafe]? This reminds me of certain Haskell patterns…