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tylersmith

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About tylersmith

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Recent public activity

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    Comment #44649933

    Someday computers will be able to do basic arithmetic and people will learn that 95000/600 < 500.

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    Comment #44176456

    An LLM itself can't use wc. Coding agents like Claude Code or Cursor will call out to command line tools for this kind of problem when the LLM detects it.

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    Comment #44019315

    You don't need an explicit rule, you just need to be smarter than than the average mid-curve tries-too-hard-to-feel-right hn poster and realize when you're repeating a calling conv…

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    Comment #43836302

    The gamification is what made it work for me. I had 2 months to learn some Turkish before a trip and once I realized it was a game I beat everyone else in my cohort every day. When…

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    Comment #43805570

    This is right by where I grew up and the broadcast tower and turnpike sign were the first two things I noticed too, but the ability to realize it was the East side instead of the W…

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    Comment #43739388

    $200 per PR is significantly cheaper development than businesses are paying.

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    Comment #43457834

    There's nothing you can do even with an account.

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    Comment #43426467

    It's a user agent not a robot.

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    Comment #43383737

    It's not trained on "the commons", it's trained on a large number of individual products with their own ownership and licensing. If copyrights are being violated the restitution wi…

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    Comment #43352592

    I think the inline command pallete likely ran into an internal error making it be unable to generate, and then its "come up with a message telling the user we can't do this" genera…

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    Comment #43302208

    For many people, Sam is a more relevant adversary than the Department of Corrections.

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    Comment #43292791

    They've always been behind. They're closer than ever but still miles away from Claude's code abilities.

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    Comment #43292770

    No free models are even in the same class as Claude when it comes to code. Investors are clearly confident that moat won't be crossed soon.

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    Comment #43277459

    > monocultures are bad, and doesn't want to support them is just > it's popular, it must be eschewed. after a chatgpt pass

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    Comment #43061489

    Fire the bad engineer.

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    Comment #42631618

    Nobody is actually confused, it's just performative whining.

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    Comment #42580137

    Ghostty hasn't had to put out a critical update since before 1.0 launched.

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    Comment #42521469

    You have OpenGL 3.2 but need 3.3

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    Comment #42269640

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    Comment #42269323

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    Comment #42269306

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    Comment #42186650

    Yes, it's called bias.

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    Comment #41853770

    Who decided that's what they were supposed to do with it?

  24. comment
    Comment #41552443

    Why did you expect that? Why would someone reward your personal choice in dedication?

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    Comment #41439251

    The value of all human labor does not come from copyright.