Man, paying Google/Apple $5/mo is surely a much better solution for her. And are you really doing 3-2-1 on that?

Save the dicking around for your own stuff.

Especially transient dialogs, e.g. wifi/file picker. I would create rules in sway/i3 for those to keep them floating.

I've written at length about this topic on HN in the last month, so I'd hate for it to seem like my lil hobby horse, but something I've come to appreciate about the conventional "stacking" window solution of Windows/macOS is that it has a good answer for apps you briefly use.

e.g. "[They might assume] cows simply produce milk like chickens lay eggs."

It's normal to never really think about it -- our society is set up so that you never have to. The secretion comes in a jug, the meat comes in cellophane, and that's it.

Cows simply produce milk like chickens lay eggs.

Consider how imagery of a farmer inseminating a cow with his arm disappearing up some tract or fitting a spike to the baby so it can't drink its mom's milk -- or farm conditions in general -- are basically shock footage that people are insulated from until they maybe chance upon a movie like Dominion.

I'd liken it to claiming an anti-measles-vax person is aware of the risks of measles. They might not believe in the risk at all.

But I've yet to see someone show video of a prominent democrat doing the same salute as Musk. Which is probably why it's left as an exercise for the reader to find.

That said, we don't need to speculate about his salute when you can look directly at the slop he posts on Twitter.

Though I'm making a general reflection rather than trying to antagonize any individual here. I was already thinking about this when clicking into TFA to see that yes, it's another donation beg.

The answer to the person I replied to is basically: yes.

There's a nit in human psychology between mutual transactions (even lopsided against our favor) and voluntary unilateral ones (like donations) where the latter results in disproportionate scrutiny and entitlement compared to the former.

I once started accepting donations on my forum. I noticed people acted like they were about to make the grandest gesture in the world, would I be so lucky to deserve it after answering their questions despite having built a forum they spend four hours a day on. (They gave me $5)

And once they donated, they saw themselves as a boardmember-like persona with veto power and a disproportionate say on what I do, often pointing out that they're a donor. (They gave me $5)

I'm exaggerating a bit to paint a picture of what I mean. I think it's all unintentional, and they might be embarrassed if I'd told them this.

But I ended up refunding everyone after a while.

Yet when I charged $5 to let users expand their PM inbox size or max avatar resolution, nobody ever brought it up. They understood the transaction ended there. What is the $5 used for? -- What do you mean? It doubled my PM inbox size.

It's a funny quirk of our brain. I think a license purchase aligns expectations much more than groveling for donations, and it creates a natural freemium model for open source (or source-available rather?) projects.

Instead, people act like they're buying in to a 50% share with their $5 and then act like they cofounded the project forever after the donation.

He had a calm, cool, consistent, professional demeanor. Always worlds different than the people people claim him to be.

You'd have to believe these public figures were playing 4D chess where they invented a persona and spent a couple years impeccably roleplaying it with no mistakes only to abandon it.

Aside from it being incredibly difficult, unlikely, and premeditated to do that, you can read the posts of Szabo et al and see they literally don't have it in them.

Meanwhile, I'm thinking of that Show HN 10 years ago that deanonymized all of our HN alt accounts with a basic trigram comparison or whatever it was, even alt accounts with three short posts.

Plan mode gives you a plan file, then you refine that, and impl derives from it.

Also, do you know it cost $20 because you're using the Claude API? I'd definitely use a subscription for interactive/development use.

Also, my n=1 is that I told Claude to create a `make backup` task and it used .backup.

I don't understand the double standard though. Why do we pretend us humans are immaculate in these AI convos? If you had the prescience to be the guy who looked up how to properly back up an sqlite db, you'd have the prescience to get Claude to read docs. It's the same corner cut.

There's this weird contradiction where we both expect and don't expect AI to do anything well. We expect it to yolo the correct solution without docs since that's what we tried to make it do. And if it makes the error a human would make without docs, of course it did, it's just AI. Or, it shouldn't have to read docs, it's AI.

You get a better solution but also a plan file that you can review. And, also important, have another agent review. I've found that Codex is really good at reviewing plans.

I have an AGENTS.md prompt that explains that plan file review involves ranking the top findings by severity, explaining the impact, and recommending a fix to each one. And finally recommend a simpler directional pivot if one exists for the plan.

So, start the plan in Claude Code, type "Review this plan: " in Codex (or another Claude Code agent), and cycle the findings back into Claude Code to refine the plan. When the plan is updated, write "Plan updated" to the reviewer agent.

You should get much better results with this capable of much better arch-level changes rather than narrow topical solutions.

If that's still not working sufficiently for you, maybe you could use more support, like a type-system and more goals in AGENTS.md?

So it's not that they're too stupid. There are various motivations for this: clinging on to familiarity, resistance to what feels like yet another tool, anti-AI koolaid, earnestly underwhelmed but don't understand how much better it can be, reacting to what they perceive to be incessant cheerleading, etc.

It's kind of like anti-Javascript posts on HN 10+ years ago. These people weren't too stupid to understand how you could steelman Node.js, they just weren't curious enough to ask, and maybe it turned out they hadn't even used Javascript since "DHTML" was a term except to do $(".box").toggle().

I wish there were more curiosity on HN.

You take a dose every two weeks. And if you accidentally double dose because you misread 1U to mean 1 dose, it just gives you some nausea.

Are we going to pretend it's hard to take this drug now too? Or that the doctor has some magical insight into your getting-on? Remember to eat. That's it. I guess a few people might need the doctor to go "you're eating, right?" but I don't believe in infantilizing everyone over that.

Also, most doctor's visits aren't any different from getting it if you want it except it's gated on the mood/attitude of the doctor, maybe your ability to sell some sob story. And then you book a different doctor until you get it. Telemedicine just makes the process easier an arbitrary system.