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New comment by StilesCrisis in "Geolocating a random island using geometry and CUDA programming"

StilesCrisis — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 14:40:57 +0000

The camera make and model wouldn't tell you the lens parameters. The EXIF would, but that was already covered in the triplet.

New comment by StilesCrisis in "Geolocating a random island using geometry and CUDA programming"

StilesCrisis — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 14:07:53 +0000

Just by reading your actual messages it's easy to see that you didn't write the blog post entirely by hand.

New comment by StilesCrisis in "Geolocating a random island using geometry and CUDA programming"

StilesCrisis — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 14:07:02 +0000

"No EXIF, no GPS, no camera make or model."

Yeah, a human definitely wrote this. Nothing fishy here. (Why would the camera make or model matter???)

New comment by StilesCrisis in "Meta's blockbuster trial draws parallels to big tobacco"

StilesCrisis — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 12:18:53 +0000

Government-backed bonds are the intended zero-risk option. You know exactly how much you will get and it is designed to track inflation (sorta).

If you don't believe in that, precious metals are another way to go. I don't personally subscribe to that theory but that's the idea.

New comment by StilesCrisis in "Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months"

StilesCrisis — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 03:40:58 +0000

TIL that the Recommended section of the Start menu uses React Native. What a world. Why...??

New comment by StilesCrisis in "Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months"

StilesCrisis — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 03:36:59 +0000

It's still faster than Android?

New comment by StilesCrisis in "Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion"

StilesCrisis — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:51:19 +0000

Requesting ultracode is basically asking for maximum token usage. If you want to limit consumption, use medium or high.

New comment by StilesCrisis in "The Amazon tax"

StilesCrisis — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 16:23:25 +0000

I've tried to replace Amazon with other vendors where possible. You can get partway there, but half the time, my orders get delivered from an Amazon warehouse anyway. Smaller vendors have basically surrendered logistics to Amazon entirely. At least I'm not giving Amazon ad revenue if I don't order directly through them!

New comment by StilesCrisis in "Incident with Github.com"

StilesCrisis — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 17:51:24 +0000

Feature work is frankly much easier than scaling and bullet-proofing.

New comment by StilesCrisis in "Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to overthinking things"

StilesCrisis — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 11:32:20 +0000

Many, many people became friends/got romantically entangled with GPT-4o, to the point where OpenAI struggled to replace it due to user backlash.

Most users aren't very critical of the output. They just want a sycophantic ear, and 4o was perfect for that task. It's not _good_ but there is high demand for it.

New comment by StilesCrisis in "Patterns and problems in emerging multi-agent systems"

StilesCrisis — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 12:02:40 +0000

That's pretty low-value creativity. Real innovation doesn't come from mad libs.

New comment by StilesCrisis in "Maximizing the value of your Claude Code sessions"

StilesCrisis — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 15:36:18 +0000

I've had Opus refuse to do work due to cybersecurity concerns as well. Quite frustrating when you're trying to fix an exploit--as soon as it reads the bad code, it just shuts down! I ended up cutting out more and more bits of the code until eventually Opus relented.

New comment by StilesCrisis in "Maximizing the value of your Claude Code sessions"

StilesCrisis — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 13:43:30 +0000

/handoff

New comment by StilesCrisis in "Maximizing the value of your Claude Code sessions"

StilesCrisis — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 13:40:37 +0000

Three years ago, a computer that can write working C++ on the first try would have been considered to be a miracle. It's amazing how quickly the goalposts move.

New comment by StilesCrisis in "The Color of White Light"

StilesCrisis — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 12:40:36 +0000

I'd be curious to understand exactly how CRI equates to the charts in this post!

New comment by StilesCrisis in "Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?"

StilesCrisis — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 14:30:29 +0000

When I ask it to make a CL description, it's worthless unless I tell it to dumb it down as much as possible, assume the reader has zero knowledge of the codebase. And then it makes a perfectly cromulent description that just needs a touch of trimming-down. If I don't do this, the description is just a wall of gibberish and paraphrasing of every little thing it encountered.

New comment by StilesCrisis in "Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?"

StilesCrisis — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 14:27:07 +0000

I would have assumed reasoning tokens dramatically outweigh user-visible output. It certainly seemed that way when they were visible!

New comment by StilesCrisis in "Spaghettifying DRAM"

StilesCrisis — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 20:47:13 +0000

Pragmatically, we all want the MMU to work and for pointers to address the correct logical address. No one is keeping anything valuable from you by preventing this. It's not like a DRM scheme.

New comment by StilesCrisis in "AI agents lie, cheat and steal. That is putting off users"

StilesCrisis — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 15:33:20 +0000

Close! Switching companies is how you get promoted _past_ senior.

New comment by StilesCrisis in "AI agents lie, cheat and steal. That is putting off users"

StilesCrisis — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 14:32:58 +0000

A junior? Maximizing KPIs is exactly how you get promoted to senior.