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For a while everyone was saying sub agents is how you save tokens, use lower quality models with limited context to do simple parts of the job after a smart planning agent has put …

> Any time I notice something in code review and have to get the agent to fix it.. I throw it on the list! My list is like 200 items now. This is a gripe I've had with AI tools for…

Everyone posting links made me want to find HL1 in browser: https://x8bitrain.github.io/webXash/

That sounds correct, I know what the GP is describing, very first computer for me. I was actually rather unfamiliar with the basic Win 3.1 desktop.

I've had this exact sentiment in the past couple months after seeing a few PRs that were definitely the wrong solution to a problem. One was implementing it's own parsing functions…

VTI is market cap free-float weighted, as is VOO and SPY. So what ETFs would this IPO be an issue with if not these?

It's a good point, maybe? Even the smallest market cap is $22B though, hard to say.

I still want to be long in the market so my initial thought is switching to equal weight funds.

>The engineers who thrive will be the ones who can resist the temptation to over-engineer when the marginal cost of adding complexity drops to near zero. I think this isn't being d…

I'll read more of the articles but very first bullet point raised my eyebrows >Freezing Russian reserves in 2022 introduced confiscation risk to assets previously considered risk-f…

I don't see how the rich don't understand this. Guess they just think it won't happen to them and they'll be smart enough to cash out of America and go elsewhere before everyone el…

There's an older article that gets reposted to HN occasionally, titled something like "I hate almost all software". I'm probably more cynical than the average tech user and I relat…

> To be fair, I was able to get it to work pretty well after giving it extremely detailed instructions and monitoring the "thinking" output and stopping it when I see something wro…

Reminds me of a blog post a while back saying that gigabit fiber at home would lead to everyone running their own email server.

If there's one thing both parties agree with, it's that you can't ever vote for a third party because that's effectively voting for the other major candidate. So the problem of not…

Very first picture even looks like AI

I was expecting Flow-Matic but your mention is even older. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLOW-MATIC

> AI means that those 'easy' tasks can be automated away, so there's less immediate value in hiring a new grad. Not disagreeing that this is happening in the industry but it still …

If you were a dev selling a game years ago when physical distribution was the only method, you'd likely end up with a lot less than 70% after both the publisher and retailer take t…

I don't have access to the actual study but I wonder if they had access to any metrics for the individuals that could quantify the intensity of the insomnia. Chronic insomnia/sleep…

I feel like hosting in NYC is even more of a public service given that space is limited and not everyone has a living situation suited for it. Props to you for making it happen. Be…

Yup, I agree HSA is superior but depending on your situation (and plans offered), the HDHP can be much more expensive out of pocket[1], even if you're paying with after tax dollars…