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New comment by hhmc in "Unrolling the Codex agent loop"

hhmc — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 00:29:05 +0000

git worktrees are the canonical solution

New comment by hhmc in "No management needed: anti-patterns in early-stage engineering teams"

hhmc — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 13:06:49 +0000

What is a ‘wicked’ problem?

New comment by hhmc in "Gaming on Linux has never been more approachable"

hhmc — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 11:42:29 +0000

> For 99% of users, we gladly accept these more "invasive" anti-cheats because it means less cheating in the games we enjoy.

The modal user likely doesn’t even know anti-cheat exists, and if they did, wouldn’t care at all. They just want to play the game.

New comment by hhmc in "Counter-Strike's player economy is in a freefall"

hhmc — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 17:13:03 +0000

> Most of us were able to earn money to buy a pizza or some additional snack betting on teams, or trading keys.

Unless I'm missing something, this is zero sum -- so it follows that a bunch of people mostly lost money (perhaps also during their childhoods)

New comment by hhmc in "Meta-analysis of 2.2M people: Loneliness increases mortality risk by 32%"

hhmc — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 17:05:18 +0000

Sure theoretically. Outcomes are dramatically better if someone else is around

New comment by hhmc in "Meta-analysis of 2.2M people: Loneliness increases mortality risk by 32%"

hhmc — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 15:54:03 +0000

I once did a course with a paramedic on basic aid. We were discussing choking, which is a condition that really needs a 2nd party to intervene. Someone asked what to do if you live alone (with no close neighbours) - the answer was essentially ‘good luck’

New comment by hhmc in "Choose Your Own Adventure"

hhmc — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 08:28:02 +0000

Thanks, this is a fascinating note.

You’re right that really it’s collaborative production that’s the heart, and there’s no real benefit to LLMs.

It does feel like some classical explore/exploit algorithms could be interesting, but I imagine the challenge to any effort is really just getting enough high quality contributors

New comment by hhmc in "Choose Your Own Adventure"

hhmc — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 23:41:47 +0000

I always thought there was decent promise in gwerns (gpt-3 era) proposal of a meta-llm CYOA: https://gwern.net/cyoa

Wonder if anyone ever took a crack at this

New comment by hhmc in "Randomly selecting points inside a triangle"

hhmc — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 20:45:02 +0000

Because the numbers are less than 1 sqrt pulls them towards 1 (the edge)

New comment by hhmc in "I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file"

hhmc — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 23:00:54 +0000

There’s a now quite dated comment from Merlin Mann: "Joining a Facebook group about productivity is like buying a chair about jogging.”

It’s fuzzy - but my recollection was Mann was a fairly renown productivity influencer (although I guess we wouldn’t have called it that then), who had an apostasy about it all.

New comment by hhmc in "Who has the fastest F1 website (2021)"

hhmc — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 14:19:41 +0000

Given this is 4 years old; did any sites take on the feedback?

New comment by hhmc in "Revisiting Moneyball"

hhmc — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 01:37:54 +0000

> Home runs, walks, and strikeouts now dominate baseball, with 35% of plate appearances ending without involving seven defensive players. This has reduced balls in play by 20% since 1980, creating longer games with less action

Do baseball fans ever discuss potentially changing the rules or game setup to mitigate this?

New comment by hhmc in "Felix Baumgartner, who jumped from stratosphere, dies in Italy"

hhmc — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 14:49:59 +0000

I feel like you want some higher moments on these. At least the standard deviation would be useful on top of the expectation.

New comment by hhmc in "The patterns of elites who conceal their assets offshore"

hhmc — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 11:46:50 +0000

The share value is price x shares, so there’s an effective dollar numeraire.

It’s easy to imagine a well performing stock that neverless loses due to a currency shock. Indeed this is why one would typically hedge currency risk if trading a name outside of accounting currency

New comment by hhmc in "The patterns of elites who conceal their assets offshore"

hhmc — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 21:02:32 +0000

This is heterodox opinion to modern financial theory. You’re welcome to hold it, I’m not interested in trying to convince you otherwise — I think it undermines the larger point I’m trying to make in an unhelpful way.

New comment by hhmc in "The patterns of elites who conceal their assets offshore"

hhmc — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 20:23:26 +0000

For all practical purposes you can - and the world broadly does - consider e.g. TBills to be risk free (or take your favourite interbank lending rate etc etc).

New comment by hhmc in "The patterns of elites who conceal their assets offshore"

hhmc — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 19:32:14 +0000

There is no risk free investment that will return you 12%. In a year where you are down 30% are you still contributing 5% on initial capital? If not, you are just constructing an instrument where you only pass through downside risk

New comment by hhmc in "Can an email go 500 miles in 2025?"

hhmc — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 16:23:44 +0000

I don't think the switches connecting to any real exchanges support this

New comment by hhmc in "Can an email go 500 miles in 2025?"

hhmc — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 15:38:19 +0000

There's no competition that's running on copper -- even competitors without latency sensitivity with still be running over fibre because that's just the baseline infrastructure in datacentres, transatlantic etc.

Of course, yes, the HFT firms will be using also the standard tricks of microwave towers, shortwave radio, weather balloon etc, to beat the fibre route.

New comment by hhmc in "Road signs to help people limit radiation exposure in contaminated areas"

hhmc — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 10:39:12 +0000

Right the energy is exponentially, but I’d claim that fatalities are saturating.