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Claude is quite good at searching both its own and codex session transcripts, and if asked, can spawn tmux/konsole/whatever to resume those sessions to be interactive if needed. My…

"Wdyt" is a prompt I've used for ages (originally to get around Claude "ultrathink"-related parsing bugs), and it's helpful alongside replan https://photostructure.com/coding/claud…

Please don't conflate a volunteer effort with no expected economic gain with a very well funded company (or fleet of companies). With the CCP's highly successful track record with …

All of those phrases I've heard actively used even a decade (or two) ago. (I actually had to read your comment twice because I thought you were saying always, not never!) "Critical…

I don't know if it's universal, but your non-dominant hand may form reflected letters delightfully easily if you air-write simultaneously with your dominant hand.

If you're really wanting to do perceptual hash based deduplication, use multiple, heterogeneous hash algorithms (phash, dct hash, mean hash, ...) as it is likely that a given hash …

More than 3 channel displays have been attempted by several companies, but I suspect they fail due to: 1) trying to convince content makers to use new custom high-gamut hardware to…

Here's how to do it with more recent versions of Hugo: https://photostructure.com/coding/hugo-markdown-output/ (It includes the grandparent's head link suggestion, but it's not jus…

It's worse: Google added and then dropped even experimental support of jxl in 2021-2022. Several years later they adopted the rust jxl library, but have kept it behind experimental…

"No nukes" was Sun Microsystems lawyers' liability reduction, not a political statement. See https://www.lawinsider.com/clause/note-on-java-support/_2 for the specific verbiage and…

If your engineer tells you that, you're going to have a bad time. I think you're thinking this: > If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched t…

Nope, current flagship models are very happy to make huge missteps across the whole development stack of design, planning, implementation, and testing -- but playing different mode…

This is a very recent model behavior change: for me, Opus 4.6, Gemini 3.1 Pro, and ChatGPT 5.4(ish) -- prior models and harnesses suffered much more from sycophancy. (I still promp…

I've found this surprisingly effective. Higher "thinking levels" may result in more than one approach being considered, but you can also tell your LLM to do brainstorming explicitl…

I applied it to PhotoStructure more than a year ago—I think it was when I first saw this on HN? My point is that there *is* such a thing as software that tries to respect their use…

Random crowd anecdata is still anecdata.

Since when did corporations care? Most seem to just pay their insurance premium for cyber liability and call it a day.

Yup. No noxious fumes.

Roughly: `ssh remote "cd $src/repo ; git diff" | git apply` (You'll need to season to taste: what to do with staged changes, how to make sure both trees are in the same HEAD, etc)

12 year old me would have sold their skateboard AND their bike to have a magic Patiently Explain Anything And Everything To Me robot instead of the mostly-impenetrable-to-my-tween-…

He discusses this and his sixpence wager here: https://youtu.be/pJgKYn0lcno (Source: TFA)

No mention of auto renewal is made as far as I (and Claude) could determine. Their OSS offer is first-hit-is-free.