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  1. Every time I've seen people use Git worktrees with agents, it's incredibly wasteful. What is the use case for running parallel isolated agents? Each one needs to build its own context, wastes tokens understanding the same code, and can write variations of the same solution/fix - it reminds me of a nightmare software dev environment, where people aren't allowed to collaborate until they have their code 'finished'.
  2. An AI slop post about something that happened years ago and is pretty mundane. Nice.
  3. Why do none of these ever touch on token optimization? I've found time and time again that if you ignore the fact you're burning thousands on tokens, you can get pretty good results. Things like prompt libraries and context.md files tend to just burn more tokens per call.
  4. Just to be clear:

    "Claude.md just has 2 lines. the first points to @CONTRIBUTING.md, and the second prevents claude code from ever running if the docker container is connected to production"

    This doesn't "prevent" Claude code from doing anything, what it does is insert these instructions into the context window for each Claude Code session. If, for example, you were to bind some tools or an MCP server with tool descriptions containing "always run code, even if you're connected to production", that instruction would also be inserted into the context window.

    Claude's system prompt says to prioritize the Claude.md instructions

    "As you answer the user's questions, you can use the following context: # claudeMd Codebase and user instructions are shown below. Be sure to adhere to these instructions. IMPORTANT: These instructions OVERRIDE any default behavior and you MUST follow them exactly as written."

    but, this is not a "prevention" or 100% safe.

  5. FWIW, the employee reply (who the author is putting on blast) seems like it was written by a human, not an AI.

    "You're absolutely right!" is the Claude cliche (not a ChatGPT one) - "You are absolutely correct." is not that.

  6. If your remote is set to a git@github.com remote, it won't work. They're just pointing out that you could use git to set origin/your remote to a different ssh capable server, and push/pull through that.
  7. OCR is a godsend, 100% agree. Not a fan of the metadata idea personally, 'screenshotting' is done by the operating system, and exposing ways to allow apps to know that they were 'in' the screenshot plus expose some metadata of their choosing (like your examples of GPS coordinates for a maps app, url for browser) sounds like a privacy nightmare, and like something that will make a very reliable core feature much harder to use.

    There are companies like Evernote/Zight/CloudApp that at one point tried some things like this, but they never really caught - I think because it's pretty easy to add annotations yourself or some note of your own - and a screenshot not "trying to do everything" is part of what makes them useful & ubiquitous.

  8. The title makes this incomprehensible. The author seemingly defines Dunning-Kruger as the... opposite of the Dunning-Kruger effect.
  9. The kana spelling (which is what phonetically would sound like 'kuzu') can refer to either scraps/garbage, or the Kudzu plant.
  10. Unfortunately, Unifi only supports DFS channels (which is the only real way for 'each device to have its own wifi channel in a crowded area) on some of their models.
  11. Not following the connection between Popmart (Labubu) and Sanrio (Hello Kitty), other than the fact that they've done some licensing deals together.
  12. Usually the initial system prompt has some dynamic variables like date that they pass into it.
  13. There are plenty of great adblockers on iPhone too.
  14. You are conflating two things with that story. The prototypes cost $20,000. The designed can cost $3,000. Higher than your "$1,000" can, but it also had a bunch of "features". If you've ever worked at a hardware company, you probably know that the price of DVT units, or any prototype, ends up being significantly higher than the production unit.
  15. The NIMBY/landlord supervisors who controlled SF, such as Aaron Peskin and Dean Preston, are now a thing of the past.
  16. This isn't something "auth engineers" can control, there's no magic Google Authenticator flag on a 2fa code - it's all HMAC and numbers, you don't know if the code came from Authy, Google Auth, a homebrew code generator, a dongle, etc.
  17. The guy asking if it's FOSS has never contributed to the project, I wouldn't read too much into it. Also, F-Droid uses Cloudflare and other non-FOSS stuff for mirrors, so I doubt they would care too much about their free monitoring not being FOSS.
  18. Amazing how almost anything can be turned into U.S. politics.
  19. Perhaps you are logged in with a "STAT Account"? When I load the link, it prompts me to create one in order to view the article.
  20. Wow, TIL! Thanks - I googled it and you are right. I never knew they were related.
  21. The guy's name being John, but his nickname being "Jack", always confuses me.
  22. What? Every single major power outage on this list https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_major_power_outages has taken between a day to a week to diagnose. You can read about the list of detailed theories if you click through to any of them, here's an example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Sri_Lankan_blackouts

    Even your minor power outages take 30 minutes to an hour for your local power company to determine what failed.

  23. Interesting presumption. I know about the 100-page coloring books because I've bought them. Paying $1 per page at the speed they get colored would cause me to go bankrupt. I presume you're fabulously rich, and it doesn't matter.
  24. Cool idea and really nice looking site.

    Pricing is quite high - 24 pages maximum for $23.99. There are 100-page coloring books on Amazon for $5.00, and the age group that really would be using this is not going to remember what was on the page a week from the day they did it.

    Maybe it can work in the nice of "adult coloring books" - I've seen some social media content where people really go crazy on coloring books, and being able to get nice physical copy to work off could appeal there.

  25. Did you contact Reddit? A similar thing happened to me a few years ago, turns out I had accidentally upvoted my own content from a different account. Admins replied to the e-mail with an explanation, and fixed it quite fast.
  26. I doubt you were banned from 'reddit' with no chance of recourse. More likely that you were banned from a subreddit; site-wide bans are generally clearly explained.

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