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New comment by dhc02 in "OpenAI reaches agreement to buy Windsurf for $3B"

dhc02 — Tue, 06 May 2025 23:22:57 +0000

I am constantly surprised how seldom aider is mentioned in threads like this. I understand that it's not directly integrated into the editor, but the "editor + parallel CLI tool chain" paradigm feels so natural to me because we drop to terminal for so many other parts of building software. If you haven't tried it (particularly the architect/editor modality), it's worth a couple of hours of experimenting.

New comment by dhc02 in "Try Switching to Kagi"

dhc02 — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 15:17:39 +0000

For me, YouTube Premium (for family) is so worth it because:

- It removes ads for my kids, which are going to watch YouTube no matter what I do

- It includes YouTube Music, so I don't need a separate Spotify subscription

- It sends money to creators based on what I proportionally spend time watching, rather than based on how valuable of an audience I'm deemed to be when an ad slot is auctioned

- It is a signal that I'm willing to pay for content, and I want platforms and creators to continue offering that option

New comment by dhc02 in "After 53 years, a failed Soviet Venus spacecraft is crashing back to Earth"

dhc02 — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 19:28:17 +0000

I like to imagine as if we threw something into the air so hard that it went up for 26 years, then came back down for 26 years.

New comment by dhc02 in "Try Switching to Kagi"

dhc02 — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 19:24:53 +0000

The best part about Kagi is that if the default results don't seem helpful, one click restricts results to only discussions and forums, which is usually exactly what I want to do next.

New comment by dhc02 in "Try Switching to Kagi"

dhc02 — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 19:22:50 +0000

As my income drops in slow periods, I pause subscriptions to many things. The very last two I would be willing to give up are (n-1): YouTube Premium and (n): Kagi.

New comment by dhc02 in "Try Switching to Kagi"

dhc02 — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 19:19:17 +0000

That also is a factor in why I pay for more than I need. I want them to succeed.

New comment by dhc02 in "Show HN: A Chrome extension that will auto-reject non-essential cookies"

dhc02 — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 19:14:47 +0000

Personally, I would still love a site-by-site "reject non-essential cookies" prompt from an extension that's in the same place, with the same UI, on every site. Still a click, but lots better than having to figure out how to accomplish it on each and every site.

New comment by dhc02 in "How the U.S. became a science superpower"

dhc02 — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 16:32:00 +0000

Tax wealth above $100 million at ~90% upon death.

In other words, make all the money you want, get as rich as you want, but it goes back to the commons when you die and can't use it any more.

New comment by dhc02 in "Doge Is Putting Major Government Efficiency Projects at Risk"

dhc02 — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 21:04:29 +0000

The top 50% of earners in my household pay 100% of the bills. How is this fair?!

New comment by dhc02 in "Anthropic raises $3.5B at $61.5B valuation"

dhc02 — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 20:16:20 +0000

Oh wow you owe it to yourself to try aider then. Architect mode especially, where you use one (usually reasoning) model to plan and one (usually Claude) to write code, is pretty awesome.

New comment by dhc02 in "List of DRM-Free Bookshops"

dhc02 — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 02:19:31 +0000

My approach has been to purchase books from bookshop.org (or directly from the author if that is an option), and then immediately go find a DRM-free backup copy to send to my e-ink device.

New comment by dhc02 in "List of DRM-Free Bookshops"

dhc02 — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 02:17:02 +0000

Definitely do not tell that friend to head to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-Library and use one of the URLs listed there to go to that website and find and download a DRM-free backup copy of all the books they have bought and paid for in the past.

New comment by dhc02 in "Undergraduate shows that searches within hash tables can be much faster"

dhc02 — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 23:03:15 +0000

This is elegantly stated.

New comment by dhc02 in "OpenAI O3-Mini"

dhc02 — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 23:23:49 +0000

I'm going to give you a video to watch. It's not mine, and I don't know much about this particular youtuber, but it really transformed how I think about writing and structuring the prompts I use, which solved problems similar to what you're describing here.

https://youtu.be/y_ywOVQyafE?si=IvKjy7QUYgxGPNgD

PS (I have not bought the guy's course and have no idea whether it's any good)

New comment by dhc02 in "OpenAI O3-Mini"

dhc02 — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 23:18:20 +0000

Yes! Turn off autocommit, everyone! Review and test, then git commit.

New comment by dhc02 in "OpenAI O3-Mini"

dhc02 — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 23:16:34 +0000

Efficient and effective organizations work this way, too: a CEO to plan in broad strokes, employees to implement that vision in specific ways, and managers to make sure their results match expectations.

New comment by dhc02 in "Tesla Paid Zero Federal Income Tax in 2024, Despite $2.3B in Income"

dhc02 — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 23:58:35 +0000

I may be the only one, but I was under the impression this whole time that all EV tax credits were for consumers who buy EVs, not companies who sell them.

New comment by dhc02 in "OpenAI O3-Mini"

dhc02 — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 23:55:27 +0000

Aider, with o1 or R1 as the architect and Claude 3.5 as the implementer, is so much better than anything you can accomplish with a single model. It's pretty amazing. Aider is at least one order of magnitude more effective for me than using the chat interface in Cursor. (I still use Cursor for quick edits and tab completions, to be clear).

New comment by dhc02 in "Google Pixel 4a's old firmware is gone, trapping users on buggy battery update"

dhc02 — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 22:15:01 +0000

I didn't realize there were some non-stick OSes that you could re-lock the bootloader for. Which ones?

New comment by dhc02 in "TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday"

dhc02 — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 20:10:04 +0000

I have been coming around to the idea that we should ban all* algorithmic content surfacing.

It's taken a while, but the longer we go down this path, the more clear it seems that it is impossible to design a content algorithm that does not have significant negative cultural side effects. This is not to say that content algorithms don't have benefits; they do. It's just that they can't be useful (i.e., designed to optimize for some profitable metric) without causing harm.

I think something like asbestos is a good metaphor: Extremely useful, but the long-term risks outweigh any possible gains.