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New comment by cnity in "Vomit: Clean up Claude 5's token output with a separate LLM"

cnity — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 18:33:28 +0000

I'm going to argue to my boss that our KPI for the next quarter should be the number of load bearing seams discovered. I'll await the promotion.

New comment by cnity in "When the shortage is the strategy"

cnity — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 18:28:31 +0000

The article contains 31 references. Of course, no report on the _general_ market trends are going to cover every anecdote in the US. It could be that the staples you mentioned aren't affected to the same degree. How about your non-staples? How about cars? Houses? Vacation expenses?

In fact, your comment could be read as the exception that proves the rule: you haven't been affected by rising costs because you stick to staples and avoid "frivolous" purchases (that is, you live frugally, as suggested by the article).

New comment by cnity in "Vomit: Clean up Claude 5's token output with a separate LLM"

cnity — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 00:34:58 +0000

I've noticed that most people seem to consider the core problem of Claude's output as "too verbose" but I don't think this actually cuts to the heart of the matter at all. It's almost, in some weird way, the opposite: like the text is far too _dense_. It tries too hard to invent odd terminology to try to condense stuff, but it doesn't tell you up front that it is going to call your company wide error-handling mechanism a "flare" (or some other such strange term).

New comment by cnity in "Colorado River plummets as lakes Powell and Mead drop to record lows"

cnity — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 22:51:09 +0000

I recommend folks here read "The Dreamt Land" by Mark Arax. I just started it so it might be a premature recommendation, but it has been doing a great job for me as a new California resident of explaining the interaction between business/agriculture and the desert landscape.

New comment by cnity in "Show HN: Ember – Redshift safe color palettes"

cnity — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 20:43:21 +0000

I love this, and the example images are really beautiful. It feels sci-fi, but is actually practical too. Nice job and thank you for sharing.

New comment by cnity in "US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks"

cnity — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 23:46:47 +0000

It's a slow motion motorcycle crash[0].

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Target_fixation

New comment by cnity in "Estimates are difficult for developers and product owners"

cnity — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 21:48:53 +0000

If you pretend not to use time, everyone will do an implicit time mapping in their head anyway. I've never seen it go any other way.

New comment by cnity in "No Competition? That's Usually a Red Flag for Solopreneurs"

cnity — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 15:32:14 +0000

I think you sort of have to learn things this way. What else are you going to do? Trust random blogs and comments online so much that you'll ignore your inner compass, which drives you to build a product?

New comment by cnity in "Vibe Code Warning – A personal casestudy"

cnity — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 20:34:24 +0000

Sometimes I read something on the internet and I think: finally someone has articulated something the way that I think about it. And it is very validating. And it cuts through a bunch of noise about how "oh you should be tuning and tweaking this prompt and that" and really speaks to the human experience. Thanks for this.

New comment by cnity in "How the cochlea computes (2024)"

cnity — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 18:29:22 +0000

Thanks for giving your two bits on the matter.

New comment by cnity in "Pyrex catalog from from 1938 with hand-drawn lab glassware [pdf]"

cnity — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 16:59:02 +0000

At 250ml it's not far off a half pint.

New comment by cnity in "Pyrex catalog from from 1938 with hand-drawn lab glassware [pdf]"

cnity — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 16:57:14 +0000

Totally agreed. And as the sibling comment points out, it started before AI slop became a thing. I think it's because technological progress in typesetting means you don't have to "care" as much (it is automatic). Of course as a result, this means modern typesetting is "careless".

Extend this metaphor however you please.

New comment by cnity in "Intercellular communication in the brain through a dendritic nanotubular network"

cnity — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 19:59:34 +0000

> There's no non-physical "ghost in the machine"

But of course there is a physical one, that at some point appears. Or, it is a kind of gradation that at its highest peak is a human, and at its deepest depths is...

New comment by cnity in "Intercellular communication in the brain through a dendritic nanotubular network"

cnity — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 19:57:53 +0000

I didn't say I wasn't a materialist :). It's important for consciousness philosophers to have a sense of humour, I think (and remember the shortcomings of their own arguments).

New comment by cnity in "Intercellular communication in the brain through a dendritic nanotubular network"

cnity — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 18:38:38 +0000

Materialists always seem to forget that they're kicking the can down the road.

New comment by cnity in "Android's sideloading limits are its most anti-consumer move"

cnity — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 20:21:45 +0000

"The perfect should not be the enemy of the good" is the wrong analogy here. It's more like "death by a thousand cuts". Limitations on free computer usage are like a ratcheting mechanism: they mostly go in one direction.

New comment by cnity in "The React Foundation"

cnity — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 15:36:23 +0000

You don't even need to "host" it per se, just include the icon source in the webpage. It's 315B.

New comment by cnity in "Microsoft is about to launch free Xbox Cloud Gaming with ads"

cnity — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 15:47:38 +0000

Just drink a verification can before the boss fight to freeze ads for 30 minutes.

New comment by cnity in "Credit markets look increasingly dangerous"

cnity — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 20:50:21 +0000

See: Most of What You Read on the Internet is Written by Insane People

https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/9rvroo/most...

New comment by cnity in "The Beer Can (2023)"

cnity — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 15:42:26 +0000

When I moved to London I used to love listening to ambient electronic music and taking the tube at night, and many of the quieter lines and back routes up emergency staircases and so on evoke what I suspect is a similar feeling (at least I think it's similar because it too reminds me of the HL aesthetic).

I wonder if growing up with particular kinds of video game experiences produces a particular affinity with certain situations in real life.