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I don't understand how you're reading my comment as passive-aggressive. Yes, I stated an opinion, but I thought it was straightforward and direct: that it's not my place to judge Japan's cultural values as an outsider. Do you think that the only acceptable opinion in a case like this is to take a side?

How is that different from referencing digital text that someone copied and pasted from Claude?

This is one of those issues that I will refrain from opining on directly, because I like living in a world where different cultures have different attitudes ways of living. Far be it from me to tell the Japanese how to handle their attitudes toward dress and body hair. They can hash it out amongst themselves.

For those who are a bit intimidated by the thought of starting running, especially if you are a bit older, you don't need to run hard or fast. Slow jogging (zone 2) results in great cardiovascular improvements. Don't be afraid to start by alternating jogging and walking.

And if you can't spare 45 minutes 5 days per week, do it 3 days a week instead. Something is better than nothing.

That's not a common refrain, that's you interpreting reasonable statements in the most extreme possible way.

In theory. In practice, dense urban neighborhoods have very low birthrates, and always have. Cities are population sinks

Unions typically fight pretty hard to keep their members from facing professional liability (see police unions), so your comment is a bit at odds with itself.

I'm fairly confident that a software engineer's union would not be lobbying to make it's members liable for things they did while legally performing their job duties at places like Meta or Google.

> Claude code does some of this by handing off the "explore" agent work to haiku

This is no longer necessarily true. As of 2.1.198 [0] (released July 1st): "The built-in Explore agent now inherits the main session’s model (capped at opus) instead of running on haiku"

[0] https://code.claude.com/docs/en/changelog#2-1-198

Pen and paper nearby might help.

Nope. I used to assist a photographer who did shoots for catalogs, and clips were used quite a bit. The same model has to wear dozens of pieces of clothing throughout the shoot, and not everything is going to fit their body well, but the clients obviously want everything to look well fitted.

Respectfully, I am not. Communication is so broad as to be meaningless in this context. Can you have a community that communicates via smoke signals alone?

If people don't talk about one other then there is no community. It's a fundamental part of human culture, which has existed in every human society ever recorded, and almost certainly every human society every to exist.

Gossip is a hugely important part of how a community constitutes itself. Without gossip, you don't even have a community. Of course, it can go in malicious and destructive directions as well

If that was the real purpose they would have priced it lower.

That doesn't seem that weird to me. Good processes lead to good artifacts.

Do you really believe that people keeping politics out of technical discussions is how we got here. I mean, do you actually believe that, or are you just using that rhetoric to bolster your argument?

Because from where I'm sitting, politics has entered almost every possible discussion since at least 2015, and it has not made things one whit better .

Sometimes called the soft bigotry of low expectations

What relationship does the death penalty and genocide have to democracy (or lack thereof)? That seems orthogonal to the definition.

I had the same experience visit Mojave National Preserve. It was very distracting while trying to stargaze. I had to stay up late to see the night sky I remember

That's not true. Even the liberal interpretation of this recognizes that some people within the geographic boundary are not subject to the jurisdiction. Diplomats and invading armies, for example.

Following the implications of this argument leads to some pretty hairy places. If a person is incapable of reasoning outside of their class/race/gender/etc position, then how is a fair law even possible? Or perhaps the argument implies that people like that constitutional scholar have reached a state of purely detached enlightenment, and thus are exempt from this logic?

Having all the world's knowledge at our fingertips didn't seem to make us any smarter (quite the contrary, from where I'm sitting), so I'm skeptical that having private tutors at our disposal is going to. Perhaps for the ever-curious few, but for most people those "tutors" will probably just end up as another form of entertainment.

Looking at some of the agentic coding benchmarks on the system card[0], pages 117-118, it seems that running it at low outperforms Sonnet 4.6 at any level, and is a good deal cheaper as well. So on low it could be a good workhorse for an Opus-planned task.

[0] https://www.anthropic.com/claude-sonnet-5-system-card

I think their last sentence is a pretty clear indicator that they were not being serious.

This doesn't seem like a dichotomy to me. Words can be a byproduct of thought and consciousness while also enabling new forms of consciousness and reasoning.

Clothing enables the human body to do things it couldn't before (staying warm, protecting the skin and feet, etc), but it also couldn't exist without the human body to create it.

I got an email from them with this information approximately six hours ago.

There is also a banner about the price change on their API platform site, at least for me

Are you only considering coding use cases?

Many enterprise use cases, such as simple data extraction, are well served by cheaper models.

My strategy has been to follow accounts that just repost reviews by well respected film critics, usually older ones like Stanley Kauffman or Pauline Kael. Typically they're well written even if I disagree with the take, and they avoid the overwriting problem that even the more thoughtful Letterboxd users are prone to (easier to write a long, rambling review than a concise one). But those accounts get taken down occasionally, usually don't have any reviews for more recent movies, and have spotty coverage even for older movies.

> On Letterboxd, the reviews can be as entertaining as the movies themselves.

Hard disagree here. There are some good reviewers on there but you have to wade through a mountain of terrible one-liners from wannabe comedians. No matter how many of these users I block there are always more of them popping up. I wish they had a character or sentence length filter for reviews that could be toggled on, for those of us who aren't looking for a "Twitter for movies" experience.

Absolutely ludicrous comparison

Reminiscent of when coding agents fail to fix a bug and keep digging themselves deeper into a hole.

> I understand the problem now, I just need to... > I was wrong before but the issue is now clear, let me... > I have complete clarity now! I'm going to...