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New comment by danmaz74 in "Claude Fable 5: mid-tier results on coding tasks"

danmaz74 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 12:54:59 +0000

So I guess that a lot of those 80 hours were spent running the test suite between changes?

New comment by danmaz74 in "American capitalism has taken an apocalyptic turn"

danmaz74 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 04:53:43 +0000

Creating wealth doesn't hurt others. Removing wealth from most people to put it all in a few people's hands DOES hurt most people though.

New comment by danmaz74 in "Cloudflare Flagship"

danmaz74 — Wed, 27 May 2026 06:43:13 +0000

The main thing about feature flags is discipline: create them purposefully, remove them as soon as they don't add value any more. KISS applies.

New comment by danmaz74 in "Why Japanese companies do so many different things"

danmaz74 — Sat, 23 May 2026 08:36:47 +0000

Correct, and specifically, it was the total focus on "shareholder value" which caused this, as most often splitting the company and selling its parts brought more immediate value to shareholders. If that also brings more long-term value could be more difficult to assess.

New comment by danmaz74 in "Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants"

danmaz74 — Fri, 01 May 2026 07:24:21 +0000

Funnily (or tragically?) enough, lots of environmentalists here in Italy are opposing solar and wind projects too. I find that crazy.

New comment by danmaz74 in "The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code"

danmaz74 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 06:01:14 +0000

Human societies aren't governed by simple, divine Laws. "Free market economy", based on rational actors, is an abstraction, an idealized model which is useful to understand some mechanisms, but it's far - VERY far - from being a complete model of any real society. At some point, trying to explain everything with the simple rules of that abstraction becomes an ideology just like Communism, which tries to do the same with different abstractions/simplifications.

New comment by danmaz74 in "The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code"

danmaz74 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 18:35:21 +0000

Sure, productivity increase is hugely important, but if you only pursue profit maximization, then all the productivity increase goes into profits, which means that the general population doesn't increase their well being much if at all.

The 40hr work week didn't come by as a consequence of the profit maximization mentality, but as a consequence of hard fought battles by the workers/employees against that mentality. And when I say "hard fought" I mean in the literal sense, with at least 1,000 workers killed just in the US in those days. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_worker_deaths_in_Unite...

New comment by danmaz74 in "The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code"

danmaz74 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 17:26:13 +0000

"The world and business environment are changing too rapidly to make longtermist thinking practical." Tell that to the Chinese...

New comment by danmaz74 in "The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code"

danmaz74 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 17:23:25 +0000

"Profit maximization" on its own would have left most people working 12+ hours a day 6 days a week, like it was very common in the 19th century. Luckily, it's never been the only force shaping our societies.

New comment by danmaz74 in "Norway Set to Become Latest Country to Ban Social Media for Under 16s"

danmaz74 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 15:47:56 +0000

As the father of a girl, having struggled a lot to stop her from TikTok and similar when she was just 9, it would have been so much easier to enforce that if it had been forbidden by law. It's too late for us, but I'm happy that these measures are coming - it would have been good even without age checks.

New comment by danmaz74 in "Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate usage"

danmaz74 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 05:42:44 +0000

Thank you, will definitely try that!

New comment by danmaz74 in "Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate usage"

danmaz74 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:31:17 +0000

> This is the most frustrating thing because Anthropic forced the 1M model on everyone.

This is spot on. It would be great (and very easy for them) to have a setting where you can force compaction at a much lower value, eg 300k tokens.

New comment by danmaz74 in "Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate usage"

danmaz74 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:27:25 +0000

Could we get an option to use Opus with a smaller context window? I noticed that results get much worse way earlier than when you reach 1M tokens, and I would love to have a setting so that I could force a compaction at eg 300k tokens.

New comment by danmaz74 in "Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th"

danmaz74 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 13:11:43 +0000

Was something using that been banned?

New comment by danmaz74 in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"

danmaz74 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 04:44:41 +0000

The chances of a ballistic missile hitting a ship - a small, moving target in the middle of the sea - are negligible. And a 4kg bomblet wouldn't do much damage anyway.

New comment by danmaz74 in "Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry"

danmaz74 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 16:51:24 +0000

I guess that the most important potential "secret sauce" for a coding agent would be its prompts, but that's also one of the easiest things to find out by simply intercepting its messages.

New comment by danmaz74 in "Oracle slashes 30k jobs"

danmaz74 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 16:42:34 +0000

For the morale of remaining employees?

New comment by danmaz74 in "Microservices and the First Law of Distributed Objects (2014)"

danmaz74 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 13:56:32 +0000

Distributed systems are always more complex than equivalent monolithic ones. Luckily, it looks like most engineers now understand that microservices mostly make sense for big companies where the biggest issue is distributing work between lots and lots of developers in a sensible way.

New comment by danmaz74 in "A Japanese glossary of chopsticks faux pas (2022)"

danmaz74 — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 09:43:01 +0000

Fascinating. The difference of the American style where you switch the fork between the left and right hands reminded me of a similar difference in fishing gear - where Americans (to my understanding) mostly cast with their right hand and then switch the rod to their left hand when retrieving, while in Europe (or at least in Italy) you usually just keep the rod in the right hand instead of switching.

New comment by danmaz74 in "$96 3D-printed rocket that recalculates its mid-air trajectory using a $5 sensor"

danmaz74 — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 13:43:13 +0000

More than the electronics, I would be curious about the performance of 3d-printed plastic parts on a rocket. Are they strong enough?