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New comment by 1123581321 in "A desktop made for one"

1123581321 — Mon, 04 May 2026 03:16:09 +0000

We should expect the same automated personalization to be used offensively and for that personalization to be packaged into tools anyone can run (natural language interface, likely.)

(Appreciate your counterpoint for its own sake. It’s an interesting idea.)

New comment by 1123581321 in "Why TUIs are back"

1123581321 — Sun, 03 May 2026 23:31:17 +0000

That's why I started creating TUI apps. The cli was increasingly becoming a main view for daily work. I was using shortcuts to put the terminal side by side with other desktop apps or browser windows for context, but it was nicer to just write something that could sit in a tmux or zellij session next to claude or opencode.

It's also nice to have a little less to worry about as a desktop application developer, to be honest. The display is less nice (low text density especially) in exchange.

New comment by 1123581321 in "Grok 4.3"

1123581321 — Fri, 01 May 2026 13:37:57 +0000

What are the leading uncensored models? How well do they perform for you?

New comment by 1123581321 in "HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing"

1123581321 — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 20:29:26 +0000

Thanks. That makes sense, and the thread reads differently to me now. I’m not hopeful the guy will see any refund.

New comment by 1123581321 in "HERMES.md: Anthropic bug causes $200 extra charge, refuses refund"

1123581321 — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 20:27:45 +0000

Thank you, and agree with hirako2000 that I was primed to believe they would actually reply like that, so found it harder to follow for that reason.

New comment by 1123581321 in "HERMES.md: Anthropic bug causes $200 extra charge, refuses refund"

1123581321 — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 20:26:45 +0000

Totally missed that, and it was obvious in retrospect, haha. Thank you.

New comment by 1123581321 in "HERMES.md: Anthropic bug causes $200 extra charge, refuses refund"

1123581321 — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 20:26:05 +0000

Ah, totally missed that! Thank you.

New comment by 1123581321 in "HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing"

1123581321 — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 19:14:02 +0000

Is sasha-id an Anthropic employee or official bot, or a prank? The structure of its response is strange, plus that gif. Cherny's response seems like the only legitimate one. My question is serious; apologies if the answer is obvious to you.

New comment by 1123581321 in "I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it"

1123581321 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 21:37:32 +0000

Ah, in that case, unlisted release or through business manager, if you don't want to risk TestFlight (I'd personally do and have done TestFlight with internal sites where we uploaded OTA installs.)

New comment by 1123581321 in "I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it"

1123581321 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 04:51:05 +0000

You should be using an enterprise cert for this. You won’t have any issues with enrollment or distribution that way.

New comment by 1123581321 in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

1123581321 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 04:02:12 +0000

Hah, had a funny moment along these lines. SD vs MicroSD came up as a topic. I glanced down at my M3 MBP and said, “looks like MacBook Pros use the regular SD slot.” The guy solemnly informed me that actually, Apple had removed the SD card slot from my laptop. His face turned red when I turned it to show him.

New comment by 1123581321 in "Why don't we just ask AI to write assembler?"

1123581321 — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 21:33:29 +0000

That would be quite expensive in terms of time and token use. It would need to be tested, and you’d have so many repetitive tests you might as well encode the behavior they expect in generators of blocks of assembly, i.e. higher level languages and compilers.

New comment by 1123581321 in "Trying for 1 month but can't learn pixel art still"

1123581321 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 14:34:32 +0000

I’m not good at it, but, I got better by making small enough pixel images that I could try different colors for individual pixels to match the feel of a reference images. 8x8 and then 16x16. With larger images, there is too much work to keep changing the pixels while you are still understanding the color theory.

The big insights came from how, in pixel art, a single high contrast pixel can give the impression of color or shade in a whole area of the image. For example, on a ladybug’s back, a few metallic blue pixels make it look more reflective than white, and doesn’t clash with the predominant red.

I used Resprite for iPad which is similar to Aesprite, for my Godot game.

New comment by 1123581321 in "My son pleasured himself on Gemini Live. Entire family's Google accounts banned"

1123581321 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 03:04:13 +0000

It sounds like the son was desperately using the linked family accounts he had access to as the previously used accounts became banned. But he only admitted to doing it on his own account.

That would account for the time it took for the bans to spread, and for why the son came clean a few days later instead of right away or never.

Brutal situation; hope the can restore access.

New comment by 1123581321 in "Claude Code runs Git reset –hard origin/main against project repo every 10 mins"

1123581321 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 03:26:02 +0000

This looks similar to a bug report Claude Code offered to file for me after it became confused about my shell environment. The author is probably running something (maybe /loop as suggested in the comment.) In my case, a restart fixed the envs.

New comment by 1123581321 in "Apple discontinues the Mac Pro"

1123581321 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 17:21:40 +0000

It’s a midrange to upper expense in the US if it’s your hobby. Most people don’t have a serious computer hobby but they golf, trade ATVs, travel, drink, etc.

New comment by 1123581321 in "$500 GPU outperforms Claude Sonnet on coding benchmarks"

1123581321 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 16:19:48 +0000

It’s a good reminder. Claude Max costs about as much as the global poverty line ($3/day.) I think it’s okay to invest in it, but we should try to make sure it’s worthwhile, and also invest in charity.

New comment by 1123581321 in "A Faster Alternative to Jq"

1123581321 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 12:53:40 +0000

It’s a heuristic to approach a program a bit warily as the length of the documentation likely outpaces how thoroughly it was designed and tested.

New comment by 1123581321 in "Claude-Code Automode"

1123581321 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 11:24:47 +0000

I have it on Github. https://github.com/michaeldhopkins/safe-chains

All of the commands and flags are listed here. https://github.com/michaeldhopkins/safe-chains/blob/main/COM...

New comment by 1123581321 in "Claude-Code Automode"

1123581321 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 02:06:05 +0000

A classifier is probably nice for those who currently allow --dangerously-skip-permissions, but it's not for those who have been trying to only allow the right commands to always run. It only lowers the odds of something bad happening. Maintaining a massive allowlist that parses nested bash commands is safer. (I do this. It fits in a 2MB binary that runs on a hook, and it includes what I've put in Claude's allowlist after parsing and tokenizing nested bash.)