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nozzlegear

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About nozzlegear

Tastemaker, gadabout, puckish rogue, unqualified ideologue. I built and maintain ShopifySharp, the open-source .NET package for Shopify's GraphQL and REST APIs.

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My website: https://nozzlegear.com

My Github: https://github.com/nozzlegear

My SaaS product: https://getstages.com

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49226009

    I think the ancient Greek philosophers already studied this thousands of years ago, they even came up with a term for it: "debate." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debate > In a deba…

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    Comment #49225909

    > Yeah, the models aren't improving because Reddit told you so Is that the most charitable interpretation of my comment you could come up with? I don't think you're engaging in goo…

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    Comment #49224677

    Goomba fallacy

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    Comment #49224419

    I was going to say that I'm using Apple's iCloud VPN, but I don't think Chrome actually uses that on Mac. I think you're right, it's probably my residential IP.

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    Comment #49224409

    I don't use Claude, but isn't the consensus right now that Opus 5 is worse than previous generations? I suppose you could just commit to always using Fable and never use Opus, but …

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    Comment #49218693

    Link without the dickover: https://xcancel.com/Kurz_Gesagt/status/2083191397981561232

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    Comment #49218661

    > And the models of the future will surely be better than they are today. This stuff is still a very long way from maturity. Since this is Claude, the models of the future might be…

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    Comment #49214920

    Yeah, they're excellent. I use a small Qwen3-4B-Instruct as the "actor" agent which goes out to the website, searches for a batch of items, decides which best matches the criteria,…

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    Comment #49214687

    Nope! Not even once, which surprised me. We've done about 6 grocery runs with it now, and it's never been blocked by any anti-bot detection. Maybe it's because I'm signed into my W…

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    Comment #49211949

    > I’ve heard executive leaders tout that “people use agents to buy things for them” but I haven’t actually seen that. My wife really dislikes building up the shopping cart for our …

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    Comment #49211605

    Ah gotcha, now that I reread your comment it's obvious what you meant. My bad!

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    Comment #49211079

    People didn't vote against Biden/Harris, they voted against incumbents in almost every major election across the world. They were unhappy with the economic situation after Covid – …

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    Comment #49210871

    Can't help but roll my eyes every time an election between a guy who campaigned on locking up his political enemies and throwing out all the Mexicans, and an awkward black woman, i…

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    Comment #49210796

    What Would Reagan Do?

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    Comment #49200304

    > What frustrates me about the new political valence of data centers is that there are reasons to be optimistic about data centers in blue states, which could move the market towar…

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    Comment #49199576

    It would indeed be better to have them search the internet for an answer, but the issue (as I see it) is overconfident models don't know when they should search the internet becaus…

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    Comment #49198217

    That's reasonable, I agree there.

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    Comment #49197822

    Perhaps more revealing would be this: how many nominees weren't nominated at all because they didn't deny the election? The world may never know.

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    Comment #49197778

    Which state would sponsor hype for vegan diets?

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    Comment #49197710

    They won't stop, that's literally why they're confirming them

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    Comment #49190071

    I wouldn't ever use the word satanic due to the cultural implications, but I've long felt that there's a certain type of person – they walk among us here on HN – who speak about AI…

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    Comment #49185128

    > or the AG is really bad at their job. It's Brenna Bird, so.

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    Comment #49185113

    Yeah, irrespective of her politics (which make up a disproportionate amount of her cases), Bird spends more time chasing the most polarizing issues she can find than actually helpi…

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    Comment #49184975

    > I keep complaining about the fact Mac OS asks me whether I want to allow chrome to access the local network with every update. I tried to dig deeper and discovered a privacy sett…

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    Comment #49184822

    There's no need to use slurs.