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New comment by ctkhn in "Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent"

ctkhn — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:52:47 +0000

Even Shingy called chatgpt "chat" when he went on Ed Zitron's show. It was very weird to hear from a guy who has been around tech world for such a long time even if he's non technical.

New comment by ctkhn in "Corporate America is getting hooked on open-source AI"

ctkhn — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 22:28:18 +0000

Been wishing my company was doing this. We are locked in with chatgpt for chat and claude for coding. I have a 36gb m4 max laptop but I'm not allowed to run anything on it even though it would be totally free. Absolute pain.

New comment by ctkhn in "One Oakland police officer made $490k in overtime"

ctkhn — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 15:40:31 +0000

This is ridiculous. These guys need a body cam and GPS on them even for desk work.

New comment by ctkhn in "OpenAI's new device will be hockey puck-sized and cost over $300"

ctkhn — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 21:47:54 +0000

Siri has a chatgpt link currently and is being connected to Gemini next month. What is the value of an extra piece of hardware on top of that?

New comment by ctkhn in "OpenAI's new device will be hockey puck-sized and cost over $300"

ctkhn — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 18:09:35 +0000

I'm sorry but that is just not correct. Androids and iPhones both have a way to start chats with their ai assistant from a hardware button or even always-on listening. My airpods, sony, and even my cheapest amazon bluetooth headphones all have a button to tap or hold that allows ai voice conversation to start. Even my Sonos and not very smart JBL speakers for beach days have the option to start an ai voice conversation and most home-based smart speakers include a listen word that doesn't even require a button.

New comment by ctkhn in "OpenAI's new device will be hockey puck-sized and cost over $300"

ctkhn — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 16:03:47 +0000

This seems like a more expensive version of the rabbit or friend ai pins. What is going to differentiate this above any of (1) my phone that can use any AI provider and I can already carry around the home, (2) a set of smart speakers that can talk to an AI provider like google home/homepod/alexa, or (3) my computer?

New comment by ctkhn in "US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects"

ctkhn — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 14:01:46 +0000

Some of them are right next to housing. Huntington beach has wells adjoining homes near the beach. Look up the prices of the houses if you want to really go crazy

New comment by ctkhn in "My phone detects going on a run as “someone snatching my phone and running off”"

ctkhn — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 13:57:03 +0000

Does your garmin watch not charge? If you call them and are nice they'll probably give you a heavily discounted replacement. Mine died on me randomly and they gave me a new 900 series forerunner for $125

New comment by ctkhn in "The development pipeline is a production system"

ctkhn — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 03:41:51 +0000

I worked at a startup that was briefly a unicorn and ended up burning cash because they did exactly what you said of focusing a lot on tooling and dev environment. It was great but way over the top for what we needed. I learned a lot of good practices for myself but they've been limping along for a while and most of my former team was laid off or saw what was coming and left before it hit them.

New comment by ctkhn in "The development pipeline is a production system"

ctkhn — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 03:37:54 +0000

I think our QAs do pay attention a bit more than that, but some of the things they do flag as issues show (to me) that they don't pay a lot of attention until after we've merged and released or we'd get some of their bugs as requirements on tickets instead of as bugs to resolve between QA deploy and before we go to prod.

New comment by ctkhn in "The development pipeline is a production system"

ctkhn — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 03:35:17 +0000

I'm in legacy/finance right now and we have a QA team that we share with maybe 2 or 3 other dev teams. I think our integration testing systems could be a lot more efficient but I think if we had a proper pipeline that truly guaranteed integration testing (right now it feels like a shrug) we would lose the QA team like you did.

New comment by ctkhn in "AI financial advice is surprisingly good, especially if you ask right questions"

ctkhn — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 23:12:07 +0000

The average index fund may not even be the best idea anymore - look at how most of the index providers except S&P caved on including an enormous but barely-tested IPO that has now dropped almost 20% since it launched barely 45 days ago.

New comment by ctkhn in "NYC Apartment Aquaponics"

ctkhn — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 15:06:04 +0000

It's very fun as a process and it's cool to be surrounded by things you made. We're so disconnected with where things come from (food, clothes, etc) that for me and people I know it's interesting to be involved and see how the process goes even to produce a token amount of whatever it is. I grow my own herbs and cherry tomatoes in homemade cedar planter boxes, sewed my own kindle cover, am sewing replacement covers for my very old patio furniture cushions that I got used, my fiancee knit me some socks and has made sweaters for herself and a few family members, another of our friends sewed an outfit for herself, etc and it really is just fun to do. It also is nice to be a little more self sufficient, not just in a prepper way, but in the sense of not having to get ripped off by some corporation or feeling bad having to buy something new (ie replacing my cushion covers myself instead of buying fully new cushions)

New comment by ctkhn in "The Zen of Parallel Programming"

ctkhn — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:19:07 +0000

I wonder how much a good process of meetings, tickets or whatever sort of documents etc for handling new ideas and features would speed this up or bring it back to linear. I've been in some orgs where good organization at the level above me can make the required communication between me and other dev teams lower and let us live in "good" silos

New comment by ctkhn in "The state of open source AI"

ctkhn — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 12:44:45 +0000

There are corporations like Blackwater and CoreCivic that subcontract both of these for the US government today or Wagner (RIP) in Russia. The pinkertons and the US state have also both taken on the role of corporate muscle in the past when workers went on strike

New comment by ctkhn in "The state of open source AI"

ctkhn — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 12:39:37 +0000

Source: I imagined it

New comment by ctkhn in "NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook"

ctkhn — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 13:21:19 +0000

I never got into the podcasts side but it was good for synthesizing multiple documents in a way chatgpt or google's ai overview couldn't, but now I will just dump a couple PDFs into a new chat in Ollama and then ask it questions about the content. Is there another killer app for notebookLM out there?

New comment by ctkhn in "After wearing the Pebble Time 2 for two weeks, I'll never buy another smartwatch"

ctkhn — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 13:11:33 +0000

Yeah I love my forerunner 945. Got it used in 2020 and when it died in 2023 Garmin replaced it for $150 including tax and shipping. Couple friends have got the new fancier touchscreen models but I like the simplicity of my watch. I blocked most texts from coming through as a buzz except immediate family or 2FA but it would be nice if Apple's focus modes worked better with it automatically. Been wondering if Pebble would be a good move to get even further away from proprietary software though as someone who runs or hits the gym monday through saturday

New comment by ctkhn in "The LLM Critics Are Right. I Use LLMs Anyway"

ctkhn — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 12:02:33 +0000

Coming from legacy enterprise I am using claude to do exactly this for some of my team's more bizarre and poorly documented "inventions" that started out as their pet project and then became part of our official workflow.

New comment by ctkhn in "The LLM Critics Are Right. I Use LLMs Anyway"

ctkhn — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 12:00:52 +0000

> You also have to consider the Amdahl's law: a 10x speedup on 10% of the project is just a 9% speedup overall.

This is totally true for me. I'm working on more features/bugs at work and getting the coding done faster with claude but the coding part is at maximum half of the process and usually less. The rest of it is clarifying the requirements from our product team or given that we're a very legacy place, what the existing state of our infrastructure and other systems are for the new changes to fit in to, etc.