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Anthropic's constant changing of its mind leads to instability which leads to unhappy customers

> Basic bootstrap means 'the developer did not care much about design'. It could also reasonably mean that they consider a generic design fine. Design has many aspects, and brandin…

I disagree because they communicate different things (to me). Seeing Bootsrap for some custom software at my university pre-llm: "I think that a programmer made this and didn't hav…

I did exactly that! 2000 Toyota with dents, a little surface rust, and a good engine and transmission

Gemini has been perfectly willing to write such things for me

Are you sure that it doesn't just crash in that case? Also, we have such a huge virtual memory space on 64 bit architectures that I can imagine that being involved somehow, but I d…

There are other reasonable interpretations of such things. More precisely, one may simply care in different ratios about various things than is typical. For example, one may be fas…

Being rational about this (i.e., buying a dirty or otherwise manageably flawed house) is a great way to save or make money in markets where the majority of the cost is the building…

That's false. It's evidence, but it isn't conclusive. Someone thought that the law suit was worth filing, and that could be because the law suit has a chance of succeeding. It coul…

Softbuffer? (I originally wrote this a few years ago but other people maintain it now)

Kagi's business model also aligns incentives better than an ad and/or data mining fueled business model. Of course, this isn't proof, but it is evidence. One can also try the searc…

They may have a bespoke deal with someone. They may be losing money. They may have believed a claim from Deepseek about not storing things more than they should. It may be somethin…

The Chinese api prices are already so cheap that that is arguably not needed. You can also get $10/month opencode go (which officially can be used with any harness) with basically …

This is a terrible way to learn. Lecture halls are uncomfortable and synchronous, which are objectively less convenient than reading or watching videos at home. If someone wants th…

> Honestly it’s hard to refute the fact that we need roads and houses more than we need cat videos. Software does more than cat videos. Examples that may be relevant: - CAD and sim…

They're running code on users' computers that it would not be reasonable to think that the user consented to running on their computer. This is CFAA-violation-shaped. Of course, th…

They claim that they can automate development, so their backlog should really be ~0. /hj

> you will use for a very long time. Very non repairable tho This seems moderately contradictory, because as the time that you use something increases the chance of some physical d…

There are other reasons that an employee may comply with a leader's instructions than some highly subjective and deeply irrational notion of social status. For example, they might …

> Why a TUI is the best thing we pipe through ssh? `ssh -XC` (look up SSH X forwarding). You can also easily tunnel remote desktop over ssh. > Why I cannot watch a 4k movie in the …

> Too much work? Tough... Making justice available only to people with monetary (and in US courts at least, wealth is a strong predictor of outcome) and other relevant resources is…

One option is to get home prices to stop rising faster than wages by having wage growth speed up while real estate value growth slows down (not necessarily becoming negative). Then…

While this is true, for many customers who aren't technical (in a computer sense, since they may have significant highly technical expertise in another field, such as agriculture),…

Why isn't self hosting (even just renting a GPU server, not necessarily on premise) at large companies or hosting via something like together AI to run the open weight models not m…

What's the purpose of using EC2 over something much cheaper, like OVH, digitalocean, or Hetnzer? Usually the argument is for scalability, but a single VM for personal use doesn't n…