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laksjhdlka··on Eliza a Play by Tom Holloway
It _is_ performative (not sure it's nonsense) because it doesn't actually do or intend to do anything. It's cheap.

(I personally think it's also _disingenous_, because you can't undo things done 100+ years ago -- not because they are no longer "bad" but because you can't figure out how or who to undo it to, and you should instead focus on "who needs help today", because they are alive).

laksjhdlka··on Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate usage
> Also, optimizing your setup for working with agents can easily make a 5x difference.

Any highlights you can share here? I'm always looking to improve me setup.

laksjhdlka··on 1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6
Where do you live? I'm in the midwest, US, and theoretical savings between 2x and 5x amounts to a single full bag of groceries. Literally.

How can this possibly be a concern?

laksjhdlka··on Games with loot boxes to get minimum 16 age rating across Europe
Exactly. Somehow the internet has lead to the death of nuance, too many loud voices?
laksjhdlka··on Segagaga Has Been Translated into English
> And the consensus among professional translators is that MTPE only saves time if you're willing to accept a half-assed result.

I have no particular interest in translation, but clearly when the person saying X is bad depends financially on you not buying X, you must take their word with a grain of salt.

laksjhdlka··on Relicensing with AI-Assisted Rewrite
They say "if" it's a new work, then it might not be copyrightable, I guess. You suppose that it's still the original work, and hence it's still got that copyright.

I think they are rhetorically asking if your position is correct.

laksjhdlka··on Intent-Based Commits
Definitely, in this kind of a scenario the agent is probably best positioned to slog through all that nonsense.
laksjhdlka··on Intent-Based Commits
It is not clear to me that keeping prompts/conversations at something like this level of granularity is a _bad_ idea, nor that it's a good one. My initial response is that, while it seems cute, I can't really imagine myself reading it in most cases. Perhaps though you'd end up using it exactly when you're struggling to understand some code, the blame is unclear, the commit message is garbage, and no one remembers which ticket spawned it.
laksjhdlka··on λProlog: Logic programming in higher-order logic
With λProlog in particular I think it probably finds most of its use in specifying and reasoning about systems/languages/logics, e.g. with Abella. I don't think many people are running it in production as an implementation language.
laksjhdlka··on Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras
I can't tell which element(s) of the previous post you are criticizing.
laksjhdlka··on How to choose between Hindley-Milner and bidirectional typing
I once studied proof theory for a summer at a school in Paris and we talked about type inference and theorem proving all the time in casual conversation, over beers, in the park. It was glorious.

Being a student is so much fun, and we often waste it, or at least don't value it as much as we ought. 20 years later I'd love to go back.

laksjhdlka··on Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use
Anthropic has published a very clear statement. It's "no".
laksjhdlka··on Sizing chaos
And you buy the same brand and model of pants from the same retailer and they still fit completely differently due to variation in the product. Pretty annoying, I just want to buy my Levi's 510s every couple years and get the same thing each time.
laksjhdlka··on Show HN: Echo, an iOS SSH+mosh client built on Ghostty
How do I add other keys to the little virtual keyboard? Inability to easily type ` is pretty tough. Looks beautiful though.
laksjhdlka··on Building a model that visualizes strategic golf
https://golfcourse.wiki/ is down / degraded FYI (frequent 500/503). What is the best way to contact you? I have a related project you might enjoy.
laksjhdlka··on Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuation
To be fair, Facebook was at the time viewed by many as crazily overvalued.
laksjhdlka··on Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun
Exactly, now that the internet is ubiquitous, none of the problems with replacing credit card companies like VISA are really technical. They are regulatory, they are political, they are social.
laksjhdlka··on LiftKit – UI where "everything derives from the golden ratio"
This line alone made me want to read the rest of the page, so good work! Hilarious and self-deprecating is how I took it.
laksjhdlka··on Xcode 26.3 – Developers can leverage coding agents directly in Xcode
I'm sitting here wondering why you'd run anything not full-screened, save for some rare situation where you are comparing multiple windows line by line (and don't have a short term memory).
laksjhdlka··on Show HN: NanoClaw – “Clawdbot” in 500 lines of TS with Apple container isolation
The README is for your agent to read. Shrug.