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New comment by bobbylarrybobby in "Siri AI"

bobbylarrybobby — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 21:23:41 +0000

The original MCP!

New comment by bobbylarrybobby in "Dopamine Fracking"

bobbylarrybobby — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 21:13:39 +0000

I was very dismayed to find that the single serve maple syrup packets that I thought existed are instead just more corn syrup, which cost 21¢ per 1.4oz packet, or 15¢/oz. Meanwhile a jug of maple syrup is 56¢/oz and single serve packets seem to be a bit more than a dollar per ounce.

New comment by bobbylarrybobby in "Entanglement Builds Space-Time. Now "Magic" Gives It Gravity"

bobbylarrybobby — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:34:09 +0000

How does this cause a point particle to accelerate towards the sun? Must be something about the gradient, but how does the gradient of time cause you to curve towards the sun?

New comment by bobbylarrybobby in "Minnesota becomes first state to ban prediction markets"

bobbylarrybobby — Wed, 20 May 2026 01:43:11 +0000

Getting inside traders to publicize their knowledge for a price is like half of the point of prediction markets

New comment by bobbylarrybobby in "Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app"

bobbylarrybobby — Fri, 15 May 2026 01:24:27 +0000

5.5 is absolutely comparable to opus 4.7 (both on highest effort), maybe even better. It generally seems less lazy, faster, and writes code closer to what I'd write. The only downside is that for very very long tasks, it can kind of lose track of the goal. For tasks under ten minutes I'll go with codex every time.

New comment by bobbylarrybobby in "Nanobrew: The fastest macOS package manager compatible with brew"

bobbylarrybobby — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 16:40:43 +0000

I have definitely wished that Homebrew would not wait for all packages to be downloaded before pouring them. It's nice that downloads happen in parallel (didn't always used to be the case iirc), but it feels like the pouring could also be done in the same parallel workflow.

New comment by bobbylarrybobby in "Claude's Cycles [pdf]"

bobbylarrybobby — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 16:15:25 +0000

Did you read the linked paper? Claude out-reasoned humans on a challenging (or at least, unsolved) math problem.

New comment by bobbylarrybobby in "MacBook Air with M5"

bobbylarrybobby — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 15:38:52 +0000

And new wifi and bluetooth chips

New comment by bobbylarrybobby in "Apple AI servers unused in warehouses due to low Apple Intelligence usage"

bobbylarrybobby — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 19:03:22 +0000

Can't, the RAM is soldered to the motherboard

New comment by bobbylarrybobby in "Farewell, Rust for web"

bobbylarrybobby — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 21:09:10 +0000

I think “the fifth revision of that URL routing library that everyone uses” is a much less common case than “crate tried to explore a problem space, five years later a new crate thinks it can improve upon the solution”, which is what Rust’s conservatism really helps prevent. When you bake a particular crate into std, competitor crates now have a lot of inertia to overcome; when they're all third-party, the decision is not “add a crate?” but “replace a crate?” which is more palatable.

Letting an API evolve in a third-party crate also provides more accurate data on its utility; you get a lot of eyes on the problem space and can try different (potentially breaking) solutions before landing on consensus. Feedback during a Rust RFC is solicited from a much smaller group of people with less real-world usage.

New comment by bobbylarrybobby in "Claude Sonnet 4.6"

bobbylarrybobby — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 19:48:37 +0000

Interesting, my sonnet 4.6 starts with the following:

The classic puzzle actually uses *eight 8s*, not nine. The unique solution is: 888+88+8+8+8=1000. Count: 3+2+1+1+1=8 eights.

It then proves that there is no solution for nine 8s.

https://claude.ai/share/9a6ee7cb-bcd6-4a09-9dc6-efcf0df6096b (for whatever reason the LaTeX rendering is messed up in the shared chat, but it looks fine for me).

New comment by bobbylarrybobby in "Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android"

bobbylarrybobby — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 17:14:50 +0000

Select all always appears if you have no text selected and never appears if you have some text selected. Insane UI decision by apple but that's how it is.

New comment by bobbylarrybobby in "Apple patches decade-old iOS zero-day, possibly exploited by commercial spyware"

bobbylarrybobby — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 16:51:05 +0000

You can just type the text to find in the address bar — “find on page” will be the at the very bottom of the list of suggestions.

New comment by bobbylarrybobby in "LiftKit – UI where "everything derives from the golden ratio""

bobbylarrybobby — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 02:26:15 +0000

I agree, the x-axis labels are not helpful! Thankfully, the first example is “buttons with corrected icon spacing”, and the image on the right looks much better than the one on the left (a bigger difference in quality than in the other two examples), which is visible when the slider is on the left.

Suggestion to devs: put the label “material-style” in the lower left of its image and “liftkit” in the lower right of its image, and cover them appropriately as the slider moves, and then it'll be clear which framework the current image (or portion of it) belongs to.

New comment by bobbylarrybobby in "AirPods Pro 4 Could Feature Cameras to 'See Around You'"

bobbylarrybobby — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 17:26:27 +0000

Are accelerometers not sufficient for pose determination? I would assume they'd work as well as cameras if not better.

New comment by bobbylarrybobby in "Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)"

bobbylarrybobby — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 21:05:08 +0000

Why would this own a server? ls lists itself, but listing itself shouldn't cause it to run again? Where's the infinite loop that brings the server down?

New comment by bobbylarrybobby in "Claude Opus 4.6"

bobbylarrybobby — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 05:18:13 +0000

I really like that Claude feels transactional. It answers my question quickly and concisely and then shuts up. I don't need the LLM I use to act like my best friend.

New comment by bobbylarrybobby in "CIA to Sunset the World Factbook"

bobbylarrybobby — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 16:28:58 +0000

They do understand, that's why they're doing this. This is a fundamentally anti-fact administration — when facts aren't known, you can fabricate reality for the masses, which is what they want.

New comment by bobbylarrybobby in "Xcode 26.3 – Developers can leverage coding agents directly in Xcode"

bobbylarrybobby — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 16:18:45 +0000

For “looking at a text file with pretty print”, try CotEditor. https://coteditor.com

New comment by bobbylarrybobby in "Drug trio found to block tumour resistance in pancreatic cancer in mouse models"

bobbylarrybobby — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 20:45:01 +0000

That's not what the prisoner’s dilemma is.