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maskull··on 1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6
After running a context window up high, probably near 70% on opus 4.6 High and watching it take 20% bites out of my 5hr quota per prompt I've been experimenting with dumping context after completing a task. Seems to be working ok. I wonder if I was running into the long context premium. Would that apply to Pro subs or is just relevant to api pricing?
maskull··on Twitch: "Hey, come back! This commercial break can't play while you're away."
I noticed during the olympics that they would hide the in-page volume controls during commercials. I hadn't seen that before. Fortunately it's still possible to mute via the tab control.
maskull··on High-Severity Vulnerability in Notepad++
This is something that wouldn't be covered by registration free COM?
maskull··on Garmin's –$40B Pivot
I'm amazed apple has got by with a 3/4 day charge for 10 generations while garmin has had products with a 7+ day charge for years.
maskull··on U.S. Air Force Evaluating Pivotal's Blackfly Ultralight EVTOL Aircraft
Neither the Cessna nor many helicopters (autorotation) need power to land. I wouldn't want to get into one of these e-bricks!
maskull··on Inside Windows Product Activation (2001)
Windows 11 has a fun feature where it will potentially deactivate if you update your bios.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/15/23958751/microsoft-windo...

maskull··on Falls are a leading cause of bone breaks, brain injuries for U.S. seniors
This guy started at 89!

https://barbend.com/john-claassen-235-pound-raw-deadlift-92-...

maskull··on Everything Is a Practice
My library has a Great Courses piano course available through hoopla/kanopy. It's really well done!
maskull··on Eggs are 60% more expensive than last year in the US
Yea, I noticed this same thing a couple weeks ago in a relatively small Michigan college town. Used to buy eggs at Aldis for 65 cents not that long ago.
maskull··on Ask HN: What is the best thing you read in 2022?
That Hideous Strength
maskull··on Ask HN: Skeptical about my company going “full serverless”. What am I missing?
One of my main concerns is how easily and quickly can issues be debugged? Can you attach a debugger in production if necessary? I've seen people experiment with serverless and it seems like they were back to print statements for debugging.
maskull··on Ask HN: Best book to learn C in 2022?
I'm a C++ programmer that's not done anything directly in C. I stumbled by this book Fluent C By Christopher Preschern just published this month and I thought the organization looked rather interesting. It covers many programming concerns and details several patterns for dealing with them. One thing that's neat is it often refers to open source projects where the pattern is applied so one could go take a more detailed look.
maskull··on The History of Microsoft Flight Simulator
Is there any way to import Meigs? I'm surprised they never brought it back for fun!
maskull··on Ask HN: Are Cybersecurity Workers Ok?
What do you do now?
maskull··on Man dies from eating more than a bag of liquorice a day
"Of all the compounds, glycyrrhizin was the most active in inhibiting replication of the SARS-associated virus."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7112442/

maskull··on Ohio Was Set to Purge 235,000 Voters. It Was Wrong About 20%
It would also be important to remove people that have registered to vote elsewhere.
maskull··on The CIA's Secret Quest For Mind Control
I imagine there is still a lot of action based on rumors. Absolute truth is hard to come by.
maskull··on EventStore: Open-Source, Functional Database with Complex Event Processing in JS
Is it being rebuilt as pure CRUD? I've been working on an app lately where the major entities in the relational db won't be updated. They'll will just be superseded by the next record.
maskull··on Microsoft’s problem isn’t how often it updates Windows, it’s how it develops it
Yea, a fan in my laptop was failing and I mostly noticed it on Patch Tuesday.
maskull··on The Pentagon’s U.F.O. Program
could be this ATFLIR pod, same reticle seen here: https://theaviationist.com/2017/09/21/heres-the-video-of-the...
maskull··on The hunger mood
I feel if I eat lunch before the gherlin hits hard my mood is much better in the afternoon.
maskull··on Eggs Don’t Cause Heart Attacks – Sugar Does
If I eat a bowl of cereal, even unsweetened, I am ravenous and unproductive 2 hours later. On the other hand if I have 4-5 eggs or tin of sardines I'm good for 4-5 hours.
maskull··on Why Most Unit Testing is Waste (2014) [pdf]
If the code is decoupled it's easier to reason about. The tricky part is breaking things down to the right level of granularity.
maskull··on Twilio ramps up mobile play with programmable SIMs for IoT, handsets with T-Mo
I think it's if you opt out of the unlimited music streaming + data bank.
maskull··on The Sugar Conspiracy
Vegetable oils, having vegetable in the name, sound healthy but are like the HFCS of the oil world. They are cheap, heavily processed, and prone to rancidification.
maskull··on The Teflon Toxin
America's Test Kitchen had a nice roundup review of these the other day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-suTmUX4Vbk They also have some tips for seasoning them.
maskull··on Fish oils don't slow mental decline
So you take it in the morning?