<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: anuramat</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=anuramat</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 02:48:20 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=anuramat" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by anuramat in "Show HN: Home Maker: Declare Your Dev Tools in a Makefile"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>novel syntax concepts? like semicolons and lambda functions?<p>> know what Nix will do<p>you would also need a lot of time to understand what exactly happens in uv/cargo/npm/apt under the hood. if this is all that matters, you should just carry binaries on a thumb drive</p>
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<p>from what they wrote, they're just changing how they measure the usage; might even be a good thing if you manage your context right:<p>> This format replaces average per-message estimates for your plan with a direct mapping between token usage and credits. It is most useful when you want a clearer view of how input, cached input, and output affect credit consumption.</p>
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<p>idgi, shitting on the maintainer takes 10x more time than forking the repo<p>I guess he really needed the latest ci/chore commits</p>
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<p>the door wasn't even locked</p>
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<p>it's literally just a list</p>
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<p>this looks like weeks to you?<p><pre><code>  { pkgs, ...}: {
    home.packages = with pkgs; [ neovim lazygit ];
  }</code></pre></p>
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<p>sometimes they randomly choose the ugliest possible way to do pattern matching, eg multiple blocks of nested "if let" instead of a "match", or a "match" instead of a single "if let"<p>otherwise, works great; much easier to un-vibe the code compared to eg python<p>(gpt 5.* in codex/sonnet 4.5 in cc/glm 4.6)</p>
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<p>I believe ADHD might be neutral/beneficial in some environments, and I also am not a big fan of labels; if it has a non-negative impact on your life -- sure, you don't need the meds<p><i>but</i><p>Until I started doing stims, I was regularly forgetting about food/water until I could barely move, and at one occasion I procrastinated from replying to an email with the offer of my life until the deadline was over. There's a lot that you can explain with "not motivated enough", but these just don't make any sense, right?<p>You do need some sort of a label to prescribe controlled substances. Even if you forget about the meds, just knowing that it's a pretty common thing and you're not alone is pretty helpful.</p>
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<p>Are you taking something for ADHD?<p>I think I had a somewhat similar experience: before antidepressants, I was
practically non-verbal; later, I had the typical brain fog/emotional blunting --
still unable to communicate with the therapist; after adjusting to meds, by the
time that I can put the problem into a coherent sentence, I can usually fix it
anyway, so what is the therapist for? Is it really just rubber duck debugging,
where the duck has a medical degree?<p>One thing I wasn't able to figure out was ADHD -- I didn't really believe I had
it, as my psychiatrist was sure it's not the problem -- everything was explained
with depression/anxiety/geniune lack of motivation. Now that I finally have a
prescription for stims, seems like it was the other way around: most of the time
I would have a feedback loop where my typical fuckups would trigger a downward
spiral, and it's almost not a thing anymore; being able to get shit done is just
generally such a pleasant experience!<p>TLDR My depression also wasn't a "true depression" in a sense, but you still
need to fix some underlying issue, which is much easier when your thoughts are
not all "I'm a failure" shaped</p>
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<p>for me, medication was closer to therapy than what I imagined (magic chemical that makes depression disappear) -- a drug changing my thought process (long term and on a deep level, unlike recreational drugs) helped me see myself as something malleable, instead of the idea of somewhat rigid "true self" I had before; from there it was much easier to start doing the DIY equivalent of CBT, as I stopped considering some of the feelings/ideas to be somehow inherent to my personality</p>
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<p>but if they're stacked horizontally, buttons don't fit</p>
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<p>I mean, it does take less space (compared to having one per window)</p>
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<p>I really like how Kagi does it - summary only appears if you finish your query with a question mark, or if you press "q" after loading the results</p>
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<p>> Are they "decisively" choosing it<p>I'm pretty sure chatgpt and perplexity are "opt-in" in this sense<p>> nothing to do with language models<p>how do you think translation works?</p>
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<p>reminded me of "tensor is a bunch of numbers that transform in a certain way"; this should be illegal to teach, especially in physics</p>
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<p>> not some true disorder<p>there's a tool on your desk that might help you solve your problem; what does it matter if the problem is an "appropriate response of your body"? so is pain/anxiety/diarrhea</p>
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<p>> so much slower<p>unless you're working on 10 features in parallel with smaller models in best-of-4 groups</p>
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<p>1. my point is that "thinking" is easier to say than "composition of parameterized nonlinear functions trained by stochastic gradient descent with reinforcement learning on top". misnomer or not, it's not even ambiguous here (unless we're talking CoT vs arbitrary single token)<p>2. OR they meant that it's violating Gricean maxims; why are you assuming everyone is stupid?</p>
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<p>I thought you still need to implement the patching on your side? judging by <<a href="https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/tools-apply-patch" rel="nofollow">https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/tools-apply-patch</a>></p>
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<p>so why not give mozilla the benefit of the doubt? why assume that it's necessarily gonna be a slopfest? I'm not exactly optimistic, but it <i>could</i> be good, I do want those features, and I'm not gonna switch to something like chrome</p>
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