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GenerWork··on “Too dangerous to release” or just too expensive?
How would it be vaporware? It's out in the wild and has been used by individuals/corporations.
GenerWork··on The European Union backs Italy's right to make Meta pay for news
Why won't Meta just stop showing Italian news now?
GenerWork··on California leaders report four to six weeks worth of gasoline and diesel supply
Those rules around special gasoline were made when both federal and California car exhaust regulations were much looser than today, and electric cars were a complete pipe dream. I've seen estimates ranging for savings from $.25 to $1 per gallon if California dropped the requirements.

>Would you really want to hurt children for cheaper gas?

Nice appeal to emotion.

GenerWork··on Chevrolet Performance eCrate package (400v/200hp)
Interesting that it's designed to connect to a 4 speed transmission. That's incredibly ancient by gas transmission technologies, even heavy duty pickups are on 10 speeds now.
GenerWork··on Heat pump sales rise across Europe
I have a heat pump hot water heater, and it's been awesome. It's ROI has definitely improved with all the energy price spikes. It's located in my garage (I live in Florida) so there's no shortage of hot air for it to use.
GenerWork··on Rumor: Disney to Remove Star Wars Sequel Trilogy from Timeline
The article says that Disney wants to move the current sequels to a brand new timeline which implies that this new timeline is an official timeline in the sense that it's blessed by Disney, but it's not the timeline that most people would consider to be the official timeline, aka the timeline where the original and sequel trilogies happened. It's basically Disney going "Well, we can't ditch this, but it kinda sorta happened, but not in the timeline you think it did. Surprise!".

Meanwhile, anybody with 2 brain cells to rub together is going to look back at how Disney marketed this originally and think "Whatever you say, my guy".

GenerWork··on Rumor: Disney to Remove Star Wars Sequel Trilogy from Timeline
It's one thing to make a bunch of stinkers, but then to pretend that said stinkers were in a completely alternate timeline through some sleight of hand retconning is absolutely bonkers and will fool approximately zero people.

Let's hope that this is just what it claims to be: a rumor.

GenerWork··on Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons
The concentric rings remind me of atomic bomb destruction maps where they have different rings for different damage levels.
GenerWork··on HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing
This is exactly it. I feel like I see more posts bitching about Anthropic than OpenAI, yet at the same time it seems like nobody moves away from Anthropic. As long as the strategy works, why bother changing it?
GenerWork··on Claude.ai unavailable and elevated errors on the API
How would they do that? Would it be as easy as telling a model "Hey, review all this code, identify patterns, and then write in this style going forward"?

Sorry if this is a stupid question, I've never finetuned or trained a LLM.

GenerWork··on The Moat or the Commons
There's a fourth option: the frontier labs are used by businesses who require (or think they require) the very best models and want to outsource model compliance such as HIPAA to someone else, and then individuals/smaller companies use the open source models.
GenerWork··on GPT-5.5
Looking at the space/game/earthquake tracker examples makes me hopeful that OpenAI is going to focus a bit more on interface visual development/integration from tools like Figma. This is one area where Anthropic definitely reigns supreme.
GenerWork··on An update on recent Claude Code quality reports
Anthropic definitely takes the cake when it comes to UI related activities (pulling in and properly applying Figma elements, understanding UI related prompts and properly executing on it, etc), and I say this as a designer with a personal Codex subscription.
GenerWork··on Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price
They're using an absolutely ancient engine from Cummins that has probably paid off its r&d and assembly line costs at least 10x over. It has virtually no pollution controls on it like DEF or DPF. That alone is saving a fair amount of money.
GenerWork··on Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price
>An open-source ECU project, on the other hand, enabled a hacker to implement Koenigsegg's Freevalve tech on a Miata [1].

This is so cool, shame that Freevalve never seemed to go anywhere.

GenerWork··on Claude Design
You already can use Claude Code with Figma. This is looking more like a Figma competitor than just Claude Code.
GenerWork··on Claude Design
If you look at Figmas stock price, it started falling right at 11 AM as this news was released.

Anyways, this is 100% a shot at Figma, but also catching Lovable in the crossfire. If anybody from Anthropic is reading this, if you keep developing this with features in Figma and other design tools, you'll have a major hit on your hands.

GenerWork··on US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional
It's been way too long since I've taken a political science course, but does this mean that the ban is struck down for the entire country, or just the area that the 5th Court of Appeals covers?
GenerWork··on Red States Are Driving America's Solar Boom Despite Trump's Opposition
I realize Trump is being used as a hook here, but isn't the real story the fact that at this point solar is completely viable to build without federal subsidies? As the article notes, the OBBB axed a lot of solar subsidies, yet 73% of all new solar last year was installed in states that voted for Trump, which probably don't have solar friendly subsidies.
GenerWork··on Ah, peptides. where to begin?
>I imagine it's legally risky to buy a large quantity, test it, and then resell smaller quantities

It is illegal, but it doesn't stop people from doing it. In fact, if you don't have any sort of test results for your peptides people will absolutely avoid buying your wares until you have them. Purity and mg/ml are the 2 basic test results that any shop worth their stuff will have.

GenerWork··on Peptides: where to begin?
$120 for 10mg of reta is highway robbery.
GenerWork··on Peptides: where to begin?
To your first point, if you know where to look, you can get tens of vials of GLP-1s that have much higher dosing per vial for cheaper than you can get a third of the amount on the grey market. A lot of these sites even have purity testing to soothe consumers worries that they're getting garbage. For your third point, you have the FDA limiting HGH, yet you can buy the growth horomone releasing factor peptides (tesamorelin, sermorelin, ipamorelin) after doing a simple Google search.

As for broscience, moving into peptides was a logical next step after exhausting anabolic steroid "research". In fact, I'd say that biohackers are actually behind the bros when it comes to trying various peptides out and documenting experiences.

GenerWork··on I Won't Download Your App. The Web Version Is A-OK
This exact scenario happened with me in a prior job. Invoices, payments, everything could (and sometimes was) sent through WhatsApp. It was absolutely shocking to see people do this.
GenerWork··on OpenAI demand sinks on secondary market as Anthropic runs hot
It probably is unsustainable, but until they change it I'm sticking with Codex.
GenerWork··on OpenAI demand sinks on secondary market as Anthropic runs hot
I dropped Claude Code months ago. I'm just an amateur who plays around with bringing screens in from Figma and turning them into websites so I can get practice with AI tooling, but their limits were absurdly low on the $20 plan. Codex, for now, is much better in terms of daily limits.
GenerWork··on Figma's MCP Update Reflects a Larger Industry Shift
>Why bother with a drawing tool when you can literally mockup with real components and react etc.

I think that there's still value for the canvas (I'm a UX designer). I like seeing changes in the vector tool first, and then pushing out any changes to a JSON file where it can be used by the AI tool. That being said, this is just my preferred way of working, so somebody else may not even want to use Figma.

GenerWork··on Midnight train from GA: A view of America from the tracks as airports struggle
I believe Brightline in Florida has ownership of its tracks from Cocoa to Orlando.
GenerWork··on Figma's MCP Update Reflects a Larger Industry Shift
I attended a design conference last week where Figma has been basically delegated as a design library tool, and that was it. They'd use it as a source of truth for components such as buttons, colors, typography, etc, but the actual design work that was being done was done through Claude Code. Multiple designers who had this stack said that they preferred it as their designs were now closer to what the end user would experience (i.e. code). One person actually eschewed Figma completely and used Storybook as the source of UI truth. I think that Figmas moat is a lot smaller than people think and that within a year or 2 there's going to be some very solid competitors out there.
GenerWork··on Netflix raises prices for every subscription tier by up to 12.5 percent
I've been out of that scene for a long time, hasn't Netflix implemented a bunch of anti-piracy methods, or are people just recording HDMI/DisplayPort output and saving it?
GenerWork··on Netflix raises prices for every subscription tier by up to 12.5 percent
Cue up people shouting about how this is horrible and that they're totally going to cancel, only to be followed by Netflix making even more money next quarter.
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