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New comment by gentooflux in "Claude Seems Down"

gentooflux — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 22:35:48 +0000

Maybe get him something nice to cheer him up

New comment by gentooflux in "Super El Niño Keeps Growing as New Forecasts Reach Record Territory Ahead Winter"

gentooflux — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 11:12:29 +0000

Barbecue joints don't usually serve steaks. Tri tip, maybe, but if you're talking barbecue and beef then it's brisket.

New comment by gentooflux in "Less Coffee, Better Sleep"

gentooflux — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:24:39 +0000

Magnesium, L-Theanine, and vitamin d. Make a regular bed time for yourself, and stop looking at screens 30 minutes before that time. Regular is more importantly than early, I.e. 11:30 is passable but only if it's always 11:30.

New comment by gentooflux in "GitHub is the wrong shape for this new world"

gentooflux — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:33:08 +0000

> The job of a house framer didn't change, it just got faster and slightly easier.

And also quicker/easier to screw up in subtle and insidious ways!

New comment by gentooflux in "What is happening to jobs? Separating AI hype from reality"

gentooflux — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 13:27:40 +0000

And as a senior engineer, I'm not interested in cleaning up vibe code. When I review a PR for a junior dev they learn from my suggestions (or I tell their boss they're not learning). Having to correct an AI is a waste of my time.

New comment by gentooflux in "Fretboard Memorisation with Modular Arithmetic"

gentooflux — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:05:58 +0000

The notes are in a similar layout, but violin and cello strings are tuned to fifths, where guitar and bass guitar strings are tuned to fourths. The fingering patterns for scales and shapes of arpeggios/cords are going to be frustratingly close but different for anyone jumping into (or out of) the orchestra pit on a whim.

New comment by gentooflux in "When A.I. is a member of the family"

gentooflux — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 17:42:36 +0000

Rockstar interactions with young female fans are not as limited as you say. Regardless, celebrity worship is far from a new societal problem. Confiding with the toaster as though it grew up with you sure is.

New comment by gentooflux in "When A.I. is a member of the family"

gentooflux — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 16:48:53 +0000

There's meet-ups and conferences and events, being a fan of a streamer or influencer is really just the new version of being a fan of a rockstar (for better and for worse). There's no real humanity exuding from an Amazon Echo, you're just a blip in a context window.

New comment by gentooflux in "When A.I. is a member of the family"

gentooflux — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 16:35:26 +0000

The sad part is that it pretends to care about the user which creates a one-way emotional bond. We're in for some dark times

New comment by gentooflux in "Weightlifting beats running for blood sugar control, researchers find (2025)"

gentooflux — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 23:42:13 +0000

The exercise you like doing and will do beats no exercise at all for blood sugar control

New comment by gentooflux in "Building a real-time AI tutor for 5-year-olds"

gentooflux — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 01:05:00 +0000

This post is about using AI to teach 5 year olds...

New comment by gentooflux in "Building a real-time AI tutor for 5-year-olds"

gentooflux — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 09:40:30 +0000

It used the words "freeze your hands"

New comment by gentooflux in "SimPolitics: America’s quest to solve politics with computers"

gentooflux — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 09:27:26 +0000

You trailed off into a "might make right" argument at the end there

New comment by gentooflux in "Building a real-time AI tutor for 5-year-olds"

gentooflux — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 03:20:52 +0000

I was making a dessert recipe last week where everything including utensils needed to stay cold, and Gemini suggested I freeze my hands in an ice bath before getting started.

New comment by gentooflux in "A road to Lisp: Why Lisp"

gentooflux — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 17:42:20 +0000

I've found LLMs to be bad at balancing parenthesis. I've also found them to be less likely to hallucinate library types in dynamic languages, they tend to hallucinate arguments to library functions/methods instead.

New comment by gentooflux in "Maybe you should learn something"

gentooflux — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 11:27:52 +0000

Only if it's a closed loop

New comment by gentooflux in "Identity verification on Claude"

gentooflux — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 10:04:54 +0000

You might not be able to afford to put up power lines or build a road, but that doesn't mean you physically cannot. By your logic there are no natural monopolies

New comment by gentooflux in "The Doom Justifies the Valuation"

gentooflux — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 05:14:36 +0000

Hell yes. More than a third of Americans would run their two and a half ton pickup trucks on burning copies of An Inconvenient Truth if it were at all possible

New comment by gentooflux in "Identity verification on Claude"

gentooflux — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 13:44:02 +0000

The number of AI companies there can be is absolutely hard-limited by infrastructure. The ones which exist currently are racing like hell to horizontally integrate everything from network to power and water for themselves

New comment by gentooflux in "Identity verification on Claude"

gentooflux — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 13:40:11 +0000

That is an inherent and unavoidable risk regardless, as things stand if you want access to frontier models you are at the mercy of their providers.