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GroksBarnacles··on "I'm on a war footing": Terry Tao and the crisis in math
It's great there's an exception, but that isn't the point, they're talking about people who get paychecks as mathematicians. BTW what did Grigori do for a paycheck?
GroksBarnacles··on Android apps running native on macOS
You probably won't see this, but yes they would - that is why they're grating, the syntax is just awful
GroksBarnacles··on Android apps running native on macOS
"Why does it matter to you?" Many Claudisms are grating to many people. Annoying is enough of a justification.
GroksBarnacles··on "I'm on a war footing": Terry Tao and the crisis in math
But you did something else for a paycheck in the meantime, right? They're talking about what mathematicians do for their meager paycheck.
GroksBarnacles··on Getting the most out of Opus 5.5 in Claude and Claude Code
Is "wall-clock" an actual term you used before Claude? I had never heard it before the model used it and I can't stand it.
GroksBarnacles··on Saving another 100TB of RAM
Do you feel like this is a very meaningful comment? Will someone go "mm yes, actually it's spaghetti, I didn't think of that.."

Are you trying to succinctly say AL'S spaghetti code outweighs the benefits of what it produces quickly?

If you're not saying it outweighs it, what are you saying?

GroksBarnacles··on Carmack: Has early Scratch experience led to fulfilling careers?
I still see mashed peas as an introductory path to solid food for kids, but unlike attending Montessori schools, I have never seen a "success story", where someone credits their early experience with avant-garde curriculum as a key to a fulfilling career. Anyone?

Same distance, from A to B to C. Thanks for wasting all of our time with you comment.

GroksBarnacles··on A particle made of force: physicists say they've found mysterious 'glueball'
Plasma is matter, not a force
GroksBarnacles··on Amazonian civilization had estimated 3M people in 3% of forest area
Shouldn't you consider individual populations, cultures separately, and not be lumping all native people's together? One can do something another didn't.
GroksBarnacles··on Amazonian civilization had estimated 3M people in 3% of forest area
You know "wilderness" serves functions too, right?
GroksBarnacles··on An introduction to formal proof verification and the Curry-Howard Correspondence
Anyone else having the text squeezed to only ~1/3 the page width? On mobile

Edit: Switched to desktop site, and.. that's just how it is

GroksBarnacles··on Claude is just Mr. Meeseeks
It can use a lot of tokens in the background or tooling without being too verbose with the user
GroksBarnacles··on The Annotated JEPA
"To keep the discussion concrete,"
GroksBarnacles··on I've been building this alone for months. Roast it before I lose any more time
Remove the emdash from the front page
GroksBarnacles··on "Software Engineering" Is Not Engineering (2005)
It many countries it actually is, if you call yourself an engineer professionally without a license you can be heavily fined. Canada, Germany, France..
GroksBarnacles··on Australian influencer Lily Jay's tangled web of AI manipulation
Grug find rock. Krunk slug Durg with rock. Grug, you do this.
GroksBarnacles··on As downtown Seattle offices empty, city facing years of 'zombie' towers
I'll only disagree that it's not large swaths. I've never met my coworkers in person and we're doing immensely interesting things, anecdotally. And we're moving so much faster than my last in-person workplace. But my perspective isn't just based on that.

Or maybe "large swaths" is too imprecise to quibble over. Certainly some industries are better in person, but who can say how many? I think my precise point is that I don't think the industries that have gone remote are worse for it and don't need to to back, and many more can afford to go remote.

GroksBarnacles··on As downtown Seattle offices empty, city facing years of 'zombie' towers
Are you saying we need to be in the office and not remote to do interesting things?

Or are you misunderstanding the context and talking about employment or something?

GroksBarnacles··on Giant trees have no trouble pumping water to top branches: new research
This is such a useless comment. What even is your point?
GroksBarnacles··on Better Images of AI
This guy is the opposite of the fear mongers, don't listen to "everything is fine and normal!"
GroksBarnacles··on Why does kinetic energy increase quadratically, not linearly, with speed? (2011)
Friction. Work isn't just about height.
GroksBarnacles··on How Many Elementary Particles Are There, Really?
Do you have a meaningful quantitative explanation with some math we can start building tech on, or will that require some... experiments?
GroksBarnacles··on How Many Elementary Particles Are There, Really?
A wave is already what we call a manifestation of a field, maybe I skimmed too quickly but I don't get the author's breakthrough point.
GroksBarnacles··on Show HN: Oak – Git alternative designed for agents
No, if a name gives some hint as to what the product does, it isn't random.
GroksBarnacles··on Show HN: Oak – Git alternative designed for agents
I'd suggest a descriptive name. Baking what makes it unique in the name would be ideal, but even narrowing it down to a category, like your version of my message had, would be an improvement. Knowing what class of thing the noun is would be an improvement over a tree or a or a sound effect or an obscure foreign concept being equally interchangeable as titles.

Further, while your version wven presupposes that the name is useful enough to narrow it down to a category, if the name was specific enough it would avoid the confusion of your example. "Which program of this category? Oh, the one with that unique feature."

GroksBarnacles··on You all think it's normal to sit behind a laptop all day
This is such a weird post. Nobody thinks thats normal for primates.
GroksBarnacles··on Show HN: Oak – Git alternative designed for agents
I wish we as a society would stop using random words for products. "Slacked about Oak, but they need in Fizzle. The deck's in Slate, the assets are in Vault, the timeline's in Pulse, the copy's in Quill, the build's in Forge, and the launch party's already in Ember."
GroksBarnacles··on When I reject AI code even if it works
Are you questioning how LLMs work? It's not a mystery up for debate, it's an open, well known system, you can go learn it for yourself and see.
GroksBarnacles··on The Wholesale Plagiarism of Obscure Sorrows
Losing*
GroksBarnacles··on Anthropic requires 30 day data retention for Fable and Mythos
All models are wrong, but some are useful
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