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tiberriver256

122 karma · joined November 21, 2021

Software developer. I enjoy learning new things.

I write about software development on my blog: https://tiberriver256.github.io

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tiberriver256··on ChatGPT Desktop (Codex Desktop) for Linux
This is how I get ChatGPT on Windows to not absolutely suck.

Can just install it in WSL now and it's got buttery smooth performance vs. the Windows version

I blame AV hooks

tiberriver256··on How I use LLMs to learn complex topics
You should read this article sir! Just scroll to the top of all these comments and check the title!
tiberriver256··on VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage
Poor Courtney
tiberriver256··on GPT 5.5 biosafety bounty
Codex desktop app is barely usable... The perf issues are left to languish in their backlog
tiberriver256··on Tesla concealed fatal accidents to continue testing autonomous driving
Thanks
tiberriver256··on Claude Design
This thing is... not great...
tiberriver256··on Claude Code's new hidden feature: Swarms
We call it Shawarma where I come from
tiberriver256··on How I estimate work
How do people get to "staff" without reading industry core reading?

Software Estimation: Demystifying the black art by Steve McConnell should be 1st year reading in any software development major in college...

We've largely "solved" this problem in the industry we just have a problem of getting people to read and read the right things

tiberriver256··on I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too
https://frame.work/
tiberriver256··on Researchers discover molecular difference in autistic brains
So glad to hear research is being done in that area.

I'm a dad of two autistic boys who I think would be very different categories. I have friends whose child isn't really autistic, they have a much more rare and specific diagnosis but it's so rare it's hard to get supports so they got him diagnosed as autistic because that criteria is so broad almost anyone can qualify.

Thank you for your work!

tiberriver256··on Researchers discover molecular difference in autistic brains
The full paper isn't open so I can only read the abstract, method and results.

The part I take issue with: "lower brain-wide mGlu5 availability may represent a molecular mechanism underlying altered excitatory neurotransmission that has the potential to stratify the heterogeneous autism phenotype."

Seems like the very premise is flawed, though. Searching for a single global identifier for autism would be like if we spent research time trying to find a single global identifier for cancer. Noble effort... Way harder than spending effort on subcategorization into "lung" and "heart" cancers and working on research for detection of those subtypes.

The only good categorization we have in autism now is severity.

The anecdote I always like to share is Temple Grandin.

She was hyper-sensitive to auditory and tactile senses. The cause for this hypersensitivity was cerebellar abnormalities in her brain. Right now, someone who is hypo-sensitive to sound and touch because of different cerebellar development will also be put in the same bucket diagnostically speaking. There's not gonna be any universal way to detect that though...

To quote her directly:

"It would be my number one research priority, but one of the problems we’ve got on studying this, is that one person may have visual sensitivity, another one touch sensitivities, another one, auditory sensitivities. And when you study these, you got to separate them out. You can’t just mix them all together." https://www.sensoryfriendly.net/podcast/understanding-my-aut...

tiberriver256··on Researchers discover molecular difference in autistic brains
Maybe they meant neurodivergent as a broader category? Like "some people are neurodivergent but don't have autism"

That would be a bit weird though...

EDIT: Neurodivergent is very much a broader category. What I meant would be weird is to state the obvious... Very much sounded like they were trying to say some people with autism may not want to get "cured" but using the wrong words

tiberriver256··on Researchers discover molecular difference in autistic brains
16 "autistic brains" were scanned and they are thinking this applies generally to all people with autism?

Shows how shockingly unaware even researchers are on how broad and nonspecific the diagnosis of autism is...

Were these 16 people hypo or hyper sensitive? Which of their five senses were involved? All? Some? Were some senses hyper and others hypo?

Need to start with categorization and specificity before we can make meaningful progress in research

tiberriver256··on Autism should not be treated as a single condition
YES PLEASE.

This actively harms diagnostics and encourages cure-all peddlers.

Definitely has been good for financial benefits and such but... Once someone gets the "autistic" diagnosis all further research stops.

tiberriver256··on Claude Haiku 4.5
VSCode + the new "Auto" model probably worth a shot for this
tiberriver256··on Handy – Free open-source speech-to-text app written in Rust
It's targeting a very specific group of devs who like to follow trendy stuff..

To that group saying something is "made in rust" is equivalent to saying "it's modern, fast, secure, and made by an expert programmer not some plebe who can't keep up with the times"

tiberriver256··on Microsoft keeps adding stuff into Windows we don't need
Maybe this'll be the year everyone moves to Linux!
tiberriver256··on Claude Integrations
3.7 did score higher in coding benchmarks but in practice 3.5 is much better at coding. 3.7 ignores instructions and does things you didn't ask it to do.
tiberriver256··on The Insanity of Being a Software Engineer
Thank you. If I complained for one second about my short houred, high paying, long vacationing, low-education requiring job around any of my family I'd get laughed out of the house.
tiberriver256··on Hallucinations in code are the least dangerous form of LLM mistakes
Wait until he hears about yolo mode and 'vibe' coding.

Then the biggest mistake it could make is running `gh repo delete`

tiberriver256··on OpenAI Researchers Find That AI Is Unable to Solve Most Coding Problems
... And then they tried sonnet 3.7
tiberriver256··on Using uv as your shebang line
uv makes Python actually usable. Freaking love that tool.
tiberriver256··on Ask HN: If you were rewriting Emacs from scratch, what would you do differently?
Build it with emacs
tiberriver256··on Show HN: Magic-cli – A copilot for your command line
I'll bet this was a lot of fun to make. Very cool project.

Was there any particular motive for building your own over using something that's been around a bit longer like aichat?

https://github.com/sigoden/aichat

tiberriver256··on Building a self-contained game in C# under 2 kilobytes
He makes this look easy! Surprising how far you can take things with OOTB .NET.
tiberriver256··on Not a real engineer (2019)
You're describing a genius level engineer. At least in today's world of SPAs and microservices.
tiberriver256··on Shopify live dashboard
Amazing how concentrated the wealth of the world is.
tiberriver256··on Ask HN: How to manage autistic developer?
Props to you for wanting to learn and putting the question out there. No easy way out here, unfortunately.

I'm a father of two severely autistic boys. Check out my blog post on what I wish people knew about autism: https://tiberriver256.github.io/autism/as-a-father-what-i-wi...

TL;DR

Every autistic person is unique and different. Just like every other person you meet.

I highly recommend you:

- Take the time to get to know them

- Communicate your expectations clearly "I expected you to communicate in x fashion, because of y. You recently communicated in z way. That didn't work for me because of abc"

- Ask them what their preferred methods of communication are and have them explain why

- See if you can come together to find a communication style that works for the both of you.

The most rewarding aspect of having a direct report is seeing them grow. The most beneficial part of having multiple direct reports is the growth potential it gives you in learning from a diverse set of humans.

Don't miss the opportunity here. Good luck!

tiberriver256··on Self-Checkout Is a Failed Experiment
Joining in the mix here. I literally take such great pains to avoid having to use anything OTHER than self-checkout. They are a god-send to mankind.
tiberriver256··on Sprite Lightning in High Definition
Same lol
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