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squeaky-clean

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About squeaky-clean

Brooklyn NY USA

I used to work on airline ticketing systems and advertising. Now I work on security cameras and whatever the heck AI means these days. Hobby Unity and VST dev.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #48605655

    You're still hung up on this idea that violating boundaries and being a man are synonymous, and that what makes it creepy is how attractive you are. Whether someone is attractive o…

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    Comment #48605642

    It's very telling that you think creepy and ugly are you synonyms and non-creepy and attractive are synonyms. Those guys are creepy too. If they're a non-creepy guy, it's because t…

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    Comment #48579301

    > FFS, git is a tool for programmers. We already said it has a garbage UI, you don't need to repeat it But jokes aside, usually the reason something is considered a "tool for progr…

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    Comment #48454230

    If you look at any other details of this it is very clearly vibecoded.

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    Comment #48339657

    > Long-running tasks like batch mode completions and agent sessions may incur overages beyond your project spend cap. > Billing data processing times can be delayed in AI Studio, u…

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    Comment #48259365

    I'm reading a book by Asimov at the moment, printed 1989. The first page is an ad for a Robert Silverberg book adaptation of the Nightfall short story. Pages 2-3 are ads for other …

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    Comment #48229597

    "My AI writing isn't slop. It's just as good as buzzfeed lists or celebrity gossip articles."

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    Comment #48190448

    Those are just awful compared to the side view of a pelican on a bike.

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    Comment #48045905

    Which of these programs is easier to review {x{x,sum -2#x}/0 1} or def f(n): if n They're both the same program

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    Comment #48045605

    There's already feedback in the gitlab issue that the top commenter linked. Their HN comment isn't really adding anything Hit me with the downvotes, but the only thing their commen…

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    Comment #48030249

    Just today I asked Claude Code to generate migrations for a change, and instead of running the createMigration script it generated the file itself, including the header that says /…

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    Comment #48028399

    If they're shuttering this farm because peaches are no longer profitable, why would someone else pay for these trees?

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    Comment #47982683

    I like Codea for iOS, though the free version has a soft-limit at 500 lines. If a project gets bigger than 500 lines you can still run code but it'll nag you to upgrade.

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    Comment #47944526

    That doesn't get you any Claude usage. Claude models obviously aren't open, but equivalent models to Opus take about 400GB of memory to run. You can run the versions with fewer par…

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    Comment #47944481

    I've had Opus 4.6 1M and Sonnet 4.6 1M for months now on Bedrock.

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    Comment #47840254

    Basically any cloud connection to Amazon will be closed on these devices. The only way to add books will be USB.

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    Comment #47840195

    Ctrl+F. Highlighting, notes, and bookmarks with the ability to hide them. Reading in a dark room. Adjustable font size. Slim size (that's related to portability but I can also read…

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    Comment #47839967

    I have a Kindle that took a fall about 8 years ago and the wifi has never worked since then. I've been able to load books onto it using USB with no issues.

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    Comment #47821552

    This comment is tangential to their point that a transformer architecture can or cannot be functionally equivalent to a human brain. Practicality of those limitations is a differen…

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    Comment #47821537

    This is false. You can ask it to spell out strawberry and count the letters and it will still say 2 (it's unable to actually count the letters by the way). The only way to get a mo…

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    Comment #47821462

    Are you aware that a lot of model tool calls are useless and a smarter model could avoid those? Are you aware that output tokens are priced 5x higher than input tokens?

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    Comment #47784157

    If you and I both pay $10/mo to listen to Spotify, and we are the only subscribers. If I listen to 1 song by Sabrina Carpenter, and you listen to 99 songs by Taylor Swift. Then of …

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    Comment #47718196

    Those are for devices not in lockdown mode.