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In practice, full access to your machine is okay as long as there are safeguards and the expected outcomes are clear with a well defined path to said outcomes that aren’t overly am…

Sounds like toolbox or distrobox for Mac!

Objectively terrible policy for ethics, public safety, and, selfishly, the American economy. Immigrants contribute to economic growth and are less likely to commit crimes are well …

A lot of comments here are about the issues with the analysis in OP’s post but much of them are “a distinction without a difference” with respect to the broader conclusion. When we…

There’s so many ways, many redundant, to set up agents for software development that beyond personal/team/org needs+tastes, I need to look into setting up some benchmarks to evalua…

> the NSF funds approximately 25% of all federally supported basic research conducted by the United States' colleges and universities.[5][6] In some fields, such as mathematics, co…

That’s awesome! Do you know how it compares to Handy? Handy is open source and local only too. It’s been around a while and what I’ve been using. https://github.com/cjpais/handy

Thanks! I want to do something similar to your LLM suggestion, the endgame is tooling for forums and individuals to improve the quality of discourse. More broadly, I think LLMs and…

In single-turn use, yeah, but across dozens of turns there's probably value in optimizing the output. Btw your point lands just as well without "Cute idea, but" https://odap.knrdd.…

> applying this compression algorithm at scale may significantly relax the memory bottleneck issue. I don’t think they’re going to downsize though, I think the big players are just…

Full quote from Fuller for others > You do not have the right to eliminate yourself, you do not belong to you. You belong to the universe. The significance of you will forever rema…

Nvm! I used an artist link but it needed a track link

> couldn't load artist — Spotify API is temporarily unavailable

How? Are there instructions?

DoD spent $1.43 trillion in FY2026 Around ~1 million homeless in US Let’s say it costs $10K/month/person so $120K/yr/person. Probably a big overestimate but gotta include healthcar…

There’s a lot to address here but in short: VFIAX is an index fund, it tracks the S&P500 index, it’s not actively managed, SpaceX will likely be in the S&P500, so my comment around…

I think it’d be a rinse and repeat of the line of thinking for VT but more exposure than VT. From VIFAX fund’s description on vanguard: > The fund offers exposure to 500 of the lar…

QQQ rebalances on a schedule. Existing holders are affected because the fund’s underlying composition will change.

My understanding: It depends on what index the fund is tracking. QQQ tracks the Nasdaq-100 so QQQ is vulnerable. VT tracks the FTSE Global All Cap Index so VT is not directly affec…

I work at aws and generally use Claude Opus 4.6 1M with Kiro (aws’s public competitor to Claude Code). My experience is positive. Kiro writes most of my code. My complaints: 1. Deg…

> We've effectively had that here with the ACA, where the government has decided that it will cover the first $800 or so dollars of your health insurance. What happened? Magically,…

I booted chromeos flex on a >12 year old laptop earlier this year and had a good experience with it. I wrote a bit about it here https://konaraddi.com/writing/2026-01-01-chromeos-f…

Speaking for myself : it's a bit creepy and unsettling. Using brain cells is probably inching closer to consciousness than today's silicon is, and consciousness isn't well understo…

https://odap.knrdd.com/ A site for anti patterns in online discourse. Example: https://odap.knrdd.com/patterns/strawman-disclaimer Need to gather more patterns then create tooling …

I think that’s an awesome idea and I like that it proactively gets ahead of the problem instead of the retroactive approach like moderation today. I’m interested in a very similar …