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mywittyname··on Hyper-Realistic Sand with WebGL2
Do you have shake as undo still enabled? It's one of the most annoying features in iOS.
mywittyname··on Process Explorer for macOS
The guy who wrote it is all in on AI coding (and AI hardware design).

He was the first person I saw use Opus to build a functional application. (The author has a moderately popular YouTube channel).

mywittyname··on Scion is back and is going to sell a kei truck in America
> but we don't know for sure because nobody builds the trucks we want.

Americans collectively purchase over 1 million trucks a year. They come in all kinds of different form factors from work truck with unpainted bumpers to 700HP supercharged dune runners, there are massive couches on wheels with interior made from saddle leather, to trucks pushing 1000ft-lbs to torque. There are EVs trucks with 400 miles of range and crossovers with the hatch turned into a tiny bed. There's even a Jeep Wranger with a bed (Gladiator).

If there's a significant market for a truck niche, it's covered. Trucks are far and away the most diverse segment of the US auto market. If manufactures killed of the truck you want, it's because they apparently can't find 1,999 other people to buy that trim.

mywittyname··on Scion is back and is going to sell a kei truck in America
Yeah, but actual MPG and CAFE MPG are very, very different numbers. Manufactures get a boat load of "credits" for selling hybrids, EVs, having engines that can burn ethanol, etc.

Also, it's Corporate Average Fuel Economy. Not Model Average Fuel Economy. So those 150k or so Mavericks have to offset the to the like 600k or so F-Series pickups being sold with 400+HP motors.

Ford has never paid a CAFE fine, despite selling predominantly gas guzzling pickups, SUVs, and having its only car being a sports car. This is because of the aforementioned credits they get for flex fuel support, etc.

mywittyname··on Scion is back and is going to sell a kei truck in America
> And I'm sure Toyota will design it so that hack isn't too difficult.

And that's how to get these banned.

People reflash these to remove the speed governor, then drive them on regular roads. These things hold up traffic, piss people off, who then complain to law enforcement. The police do nothing about it so the issue gets raised to state and federal legislators, who do take action.

You can get away with a lot, so long as you don't bother anyone. The EPA didn't crack down on diesel tuners until coal rolling became enough of an issue that people complained about the lack of enforcement.

mywittyname··on Palantir hires a former Democratic senator as it faces scrutiny in new Congress
They already get generous pensions.

But yes, cap their wealth, limit their stock investments to broad market ETF for stocks and bonds. Extend this to spouses and probably children (for a term). Perhaps provide them with housing in Washington DC.

And attempts to bypass the limits should have very harsh punishments.

Politics should be like teaching - no one does it for the money.

mywittyname··on Palantir hires a former Democratic senator as it faces scrutiny in new Congress
> All of them are liars and are grifting in front of you.

No, there are good people in Congress who do want to help out normal Americans.

Saying all of them are bad and corrupt is helping the bad and corrupt ones.

mywittyname··on Nasdaq Sinks 5% as Investors Retreat from AI Trade After Election
People need a reason to route.

With the housing bubble, it was because people owned multiple homes then struggled to pay two mortgages as economic conditions degraded, and banks were willing to absorb losses if the homes were sold below the cost of the mortgage.

What is encouraging people to route from the stock market? Bond yields aren't high enough yet to encourage people to retreat from stocks, and there's no other alternative investments. Plus, so much of the S&P is held in 401ks. And I agree, economic hardship is not widespread enough for people with significant investment holdings to start selling them off to live. Those who are struggling are those who used to be struggling too (thus, no extra money for investments).

mywittyname··on Nasdaq plummets 4% into correction territory
It's funny: for all the "pattern recognition" people try to apply to markets, they often miss the very basic ones. "Record highs" are incredibly common, and "corrections" also happen regularly.

June had two similar NASDAQ corrections, July had one as well. Sept was flat, but October was a straight downward trend. On the flip side, April to June was a constantly increasing.

The last time the NASDAQ was this low was all the way back in April 2026...

mywittyname··on My gym forced a social media down my throat. So I reverse-engineered its app
I spent 30 minutes trying to get my friend's "visitor pass" to work for me, before giving up.

The person at the front desk was absolutely no help and could have been replaced with a sign that said, "you can do everything in the app."

mywittyname··on My gym forced a social media down my throat. So I reverse-engineered its app
I've taken to using the dumb, low-tech option where possible to try to push back on our techno-dystopian future. Printing out boarding passes, using cash, asking for menus at places with QR codes on the napkins, etc.

Unfortunately, I think it's already impossible to attend major events without a phone, at least if it's a major event at a stadium. Smaller venues still send out emails with QR codes we can just print out.

mywittyname··on My gym forced a social media down my throat. So I reverse-engineered its app
I was going to post something positive, but it amounted to "good job, this is a clever way to use AI to improve your quality of life." But it seemed too basic and wouldn't serve as the nucleus for a discussion, so I didn't post it.

Being negative gives people something to talk about.

mywittyname··on My gym forced a social media down my throat. So I reverse-engineered its app
15 seconds... And the standard for TOTP is 30 seconds. So it's not crazy compared to the standard. Though, there's really no reason for the codes to update so fast.
mywittyname··on Nvidia RTX Spark encrypted firmware slows inference speed to 35% on Linux
> This is a linux driver problem.

Claude, make a driver that runs at full capacity on my laptop. (make no mistakes).

mywittyname··on BYD doubles its Brazil market share to 9.7% a year after opening its local plant
Hence my surprise to even see it for sale in Brazil and the reason I brought it up. After looking at their lineup, it seem like VW has moved away from their historical approach of providing cheaper, older vehicles in the Brazilian market.
mywittyname··on BYD doubles its Brazil market share to 9.7% a year after opening its local plant
How are they being received generally in Brazil?

What kind of vehicles are people replacing with BYDs? I always assumed Brazilians drove mostly "legacy" VW or Nissans, but I looked at VW's Brazilian website and you all seem to have most of the same vehicles that are available in Europe and North America, including the ID.4!

mywittyname··on Jobless tech workers are being left out of San Francisco's AI boom
> Or pivoting somehow?

Existing companies are converting their desirable staff to these titles.

Half of my team are now "AI engineers" of some sort. It's really just indicative of who uses Claude/Codex the most.

It's not that different from when "sys admins" became "devops engineers", "db administrators" became "data engineers", etc.

mywittyname··on Jobless tech workers are being left out of San Francisco's AI boom
"Blew it all on stupid things" like the insane mortgage/rent prices need to live in SF?
mywittyname··on Jobless tech workers are being left out of San Francisco's AI boom
It seems like companies are laying off en masse everywhere while also hiring en masse in low COL countries. A few of the major corps HQed in my city have announced massive layoffs at the corporate office while relocating the jobs to a new "remote" HQ in India.

I've seen this enough to know where it goes - companies will move mid level jobs offshore, then relocate their "HQ" from a cheap midwestern city to an expensive one, NYC, Austin, LA, etc. Basically, the executives want to live somewhere expensive and cosmopolitan but they don't want to pay normal workers enough to live in those locations.

I think what you're seeing is change for the sake of change. You're friends will probably find jobs as "AI Engineers" at another company who just did a massive round of layoffs.

mywittyname··on Just Noting That Your Candy Corn Is Made of Bug Secretions
Following the bugs in your candy theme: natural red 4 is carmine, which is made from crushed insects (which are gross looking, even for insects).
mywittyname··on Kentucky man becomes the first humanist granted religious exemption from AI
So the point I was trying to make is that I'm maybe in the 25th percentile of developers and am using multiple agents for a task, and Anthropic researchers are at the 99th percentile and are using thousands of agents per task.

So the median developer is probably using 5-20 agents at a time for a task. I'm not sure if that crosses the threshold of being a "fleet of agents".

mywittyname··on Kentucky man becomes the first humanist granted religious exemption from AI
I usually have a high-level agent drafting plans, then spawning sub-agents to build parts of the plan, other sub-agents to check the work of those agents. Then the PRs have different code review agents looking at the code, on top of the agents for people on my team also reviewing my code.

And I'm probably on the more amateurish end of AI development. As I learned these techniques from YouTube.

When you hear about the work Anthropic researchers are doing, they seem to be using hundreds or thousands of agents to solve problems.

mywittyname··on Evidence of a spying operation by ICE against left-wing social movements
Do you expect to be murdered? Repeatedly tortured and gang raped in custody while it's filmed? Disappeared to some other country?

Also, any of this can happen to you even if you're a lawful citizen.

The situation in the USA is dire and it's going to get, much, much worse.

mywittyname··on ICE Is Running One of the Largest Anti-Left Surveillance Ops in US History
Hedging won't help, so we might as well be blunt.
mywittyname··on New 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M6
It still sucks to need another machine to play games that a MBP should easily be able to handle.

Especially give how good recompilation projects are anymore.

mywittyname··on Where Wealth Is Moving in America (2023)
I think Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Virginia are the more interesting states. These are affordable places with solid job opportunities. So I think job migration is more complicated than just cost of living and taxes.

Also, it would be interesting to see these absolute figures as a percentage of overall income.

mywittyname··on Meta ordered to pay $25B penalty in New Mexico Cambridge Analytica case
> Our American obsession with jail is nuts.

We rarely imprison the people who actually deserve it. Even when we do, it's barely a punishment if the person is wealthy.

Our jails are full, but a lot of that is we harshly punish mundane crimes against people with no real ability to defend themselves. And that's mostly because the grift of for-profit prisons.

mywittyname··on Today's PHP security release, and how we're strengthening security
Properly implemented, it's less friction than the current model.

Just like how Apple Pay is less friction for online purchases than entering my credit card info is. Take that a step further where Apple can supply personal information JIT for shipping.

Yeah, the workflows need manual overrides for things like different billing vs shipping addresses, etc. But the happy path can be streamlined.

mywittyname··on CPI-U rises 7.2% annualized in September (3.7% YoY)
> Edit: I am wrong

To be fair, this is a really common myth. Unless you actually read the BLS methodology, you wouldn't have known. And in most places, anyone attempting to combat this myth is met with down votes.

mywittyname··on CPI-U rises 7.2% annualized in September (3.7% YoY)
My salary took the dumbwaiter to the basement :(.
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