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comradesmith··on A Markdown File Should Just Open
Just installed a markdown renderer extension to firefox, then set firefox as the default program for markdown files.

ez, wish the browsers had nice rendering out of the box and registered themselves as a handler though

comradesmith··on How the Elizabeth Holmes documentary “You Can See Everything” is deceiving
Maybe just for not spoilers?
comradesmith··on Opus 5.5 agents discover two room-temperature magnetic semiconductor candidates
I also like how they explained ferromagnetism as being arranged atomic magnets. Magnets all the way down.
comradesmith··on Plain text is still one of the best technologies we have
First we had AI psychosis, now we have AI schizophrenia
comradesmith··on Powerless F1 drivers frustrated by Bahrain F1 software glitch
They do. There are two parallel championships. The drivers and constructors championships.

That’s why when Hadjar was off with an injury the Red Bull team got a replacement driver (Liam Lawson from Racing Bulls), because they still want to get as many points for that car in the constructors championship as possible :]

comradesmith··on Getting the most out of Opus 5.5 in Claude and Claude Code
Fable came with a new set of api prices, and a special allowance for subscriptions.

If they did what you suggested either they eat a ton of additional costs, or send a signal to the market that they’re increasing costs more generally.

Also Fable and Opus have different specialties so they really are best presented as different models

comradesmith··on LLM Ass Bench
It’s only a sample of one per model
comradesmith··on LLM Ass Bench
It’s fine. You’ll be fine
comradesmith··on Show HN: Rabbit Hole – a daily Wikipedia racing game
Very fun! But I wish I could see a leaderboard so I know if 4 is good or not ;)
comradesmith··on Bonsai 2 27B: Near-Lossless Compression in a 9x Smaller Footprint
I completely agree and this is a pet peeve of mine so it's nice to be validated :]
comradesmith··on Ponytail: Lazy Senior Engineer Skill
It’s provocative, it gets the people going
comradesmith··on Whistle Synth Mac App
It seems like it will be fun but my headphones just come in under the activation threshold, but I can't see a way to add some input gain
comradesmith··on Apple reveals 'shocking evidence' from ex-employee's MacBook in OpenAI suit
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckland-police-officer-matthe...

Here’s one. There are more. Don’t be so naïve as to think any single country is free from these kinds of issues.

comradesmith··on Early 2000s were peak of humanity
I actively avoid using navigation. If I’ve already been there once I’ll just try get there without it.

Sometimes I check the route on Google maps first to get an idea, then close it.

I think navigation is like a muscle and you’ve got to train it.

Though I do like rerouting depending on traffic conditions. I guess in some cities that would basically feel mandatory to use

comradesmith··on Defrag98: Windows 98 Disk Defragmenter Simulator Online
I started the defrag on F and got about 1/4 the way, but had to stop cause my brother wanted to use the family computer.

When I changed it between drives and back I lost my progress :/

comradesmith··on Being ambitious and being a dad
good news! you can just skip it if you don't want to read it :)
comradesmith··on The Coldcard Disaster Gets Worse: The Hack May Have Reached $88.6M
Yes, using dice would have prevented this.
comradesmith··on Humanising LLM Outputs Is Dumb
That’s an interesting point too. I just don’t think I’m equipped to compartmentalise well enough.
comradesmith··on Humanising LLM Outputs Is Dumb
This is why I say please to agents, and I’ll say thank you or good job if I have a follow up.

Chatting with an agent using language feels like talking to an assistant.

I don’t think my meat brain is able to really differentiate between writing a message to an agent versus writing an agent to a human.

I’ll keep being polite and grateful to agents, so that I maintain those social habits for when I talk to humans.

comradesmith··on New cars are getting 1.2cm longer and 0.5cm taller each year
Get a Honda Civic Type R
comradesmith··on The Coldcard Disaster Gets Worse: The Hack May Have Reached $88.6M
At least my dice don’t boot up with insufficient entropy
comradesmith··on Agent Skill to Force Docs in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English
Maybe your complaining wasn’t worth a comment on Hackernews?
comradesmith··on Show HN: Brolly, a plain-text weather forecast site
My only comment is that the time of the report under the date was a little confusing, for a moment I thought that was the current time. Maybe you could add `as at` so it differentiates the time of the observation window versus the current time?

I'll try using this as my go to over the next week :) thank you for making this.

comradesmith··on Show HN: OfflineTTS — Free browser-based TTS & STT that runs locally
Malware scam advert popup :/
comradesmith··on I'm a USB-C Maximalist
> I break about 1 USB-C plug a week

I don’t believe you.

I haven’t broken a plug yet and I’ve used usb c on all my devices for years now

comradesmith··on Show HN: 18 Words
(We didn’t)
comradesmith··on Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt
You are fun.
comradesmith··on Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera
You should buy a dumber car
comradesmith··on New serious vulnerabilities spiked around release of Claude Mythos Preview
Good
comradesmith··on Japanese symbols that speak without words
The fact you’ve got to learn them doesn’t negate the statement that they communicate without words.

All language has to be learned

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