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wamatt

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About wamatt

username at Buchheit’s beta bunker

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    For some reason, my early morning waking brain, expected the blog title to be a segue into existentialism

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    Comment #48532239

    Love love love SingleFile too. The FF extension works pretty well for a clean save. That said, Kage looks promising if OP can combine SingleFile reproduction quality with the HTTPT…

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    Comment #48528641

    One thing I'd personally like to see a little more discussion of (at least within my social circles) is.. what exactly does "using AI" mean? How does this connect to everyone's hig…

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    > In particular, the concept of the Roko's Basilisk is some rehash of the Pascal's Wager. Oh boy couldn't agree more. The whole Basilisk drama really caused me to rethink the idea …

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    Comment #47976368

    Thanks from where I'm looking Grok 4.3 and Claude 4.7 do a better job on the informal close friend/coworker vibe. ChatGPT sounds fake / formal phrasing (for the specific close frie…

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    Comment #47743625

    > Consumer purchase behavior is highly impulsive and irrational. This is correct. It’s quite possible to both satisfy more customers and work within your constraints. Eg $30 bucks …

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    Comment #47676240

    Oh boy.. this is a perfect Show HN to wake up to :) With the wild pace of everything going on right now. I can’t be alone feeling it truly captures the hacker spirit. Echoes to ear…

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    Comment #47426089

    Off the top of my head trading or realtime voice come to mind. Probably plenty other domains could benefit

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    Comment #47233004

    >I can't be the only person who reads "reaching desktop performance" and wonders "you mean comparable to the M1, or to the M3 Ultra?" You're not. IMHO it's a fairly obvious, narrow…

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    Comment #46973026

    Attention is squandered these days like free samples at a Costco run by raccoons. It's not hard to think hard. It's hard to have discipline.

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    Comment #46956396

    Fair and share same concerns The track record of the really big CEOs has been less than super good nervous sweating Maybe I’m being naive, but there a few good ones (smaller and mi…

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    Comment #46955746

    Thoroughly enjoyed reading this too! Kudos and shout out to the author Erik Kennedy. One can definitely see the care and love. We hope to see more of this style the future Kind of …

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    Annnd I’m old enough to remember last weeks Superbowl ad controversy :) It’s not like “OpenAI == AI” One could possibly make the case that currently that is the public perception (…

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    That’s a reasonable take. The never part seems strong though. If I may offer a slight consideration? “arbitrary code vs arbitrary signed code”. What’s realistically stopping Apple …

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    > that allows us to provide a solid free plan that works well for most users The fact that you offer a real (i.e. full-featured) free plan is really nice. Congrats on your success …

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