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New comment by joe8756438 in "Writing code is cheap now"

joe8756438 — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 18:13:43 +0000

Put another way: “reading code costs the same as it always did” arguably more when you consider that the cost of reading goes down when the ability read goes up. in other words if you wrote the thing it is likely you can read it fast. but reading someone elses stuff is harder.

New comment by joe8756438 in "The Codex App"

joe8756438 — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 18:48:09 +0000

Interesting. Has anyone found running multiple parallel agents useful in practice?

New comment by joe8756438 in "The Codex App"

joe8756438 — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 18:29:40 +0000

Is there any marked difference or benefit over Claude Code?

New comment by joe8756438 in "430k-year-old well-preserved wooden tools are the oldest ever found"

joe8756438 — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 19:43:54 +0000

Estimates will continue to go earlier, and more things that were, or are, alive will be considered exceptional. Seems to be a function of looking.

New comment by joe8756438 in "Experts explore new mushroom which causes fairytale-like hallucinations"

joe8756438 — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 18:42:32 +0000

exactly, the real question is what the elves are doing while they’re unseen.

New comment by joe8756438 in "Solar energy is now the cheapest source of power, study"

joe8756438 — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 19:36:32 +0000

i have a house in a lot of sun in mid atlantic usa. i have spent a modest amount of time casually exploring solar. the cost/benefit never seems that great. what am i missing?

New comment by joe8756438 in "Almost anything you give sustained attention to will begin to loop on itself"

joe8756438 — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 13:11:22 +0000

Go on

Ask HN: What are you doing while the AI is "thinking"?

joe8756438 — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 17:40:38 +0000

I’m considering knitting.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44827684

Points: 1

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New comment by joe8756438 in "Read your code"

joe8756438 — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 14:17:49 +0000

Currently, the only way to understand code is to read it. You no longer need to understand code to produce it (maybe in some pre-AI cases that was also true).

So no, you don’t _need_ to read code anymore. But not reading code is a risk.

That risk is proportional to characteristics that are very difficult, and in many cases impossible, to measure.

So currently best practice would be to continue reading code. Sigh.

New comment by joe8756438 in "Why Archers Didn't Volley Fire"

joe8756438 — Mon, 05 May 2025 13:27:40 +0000

It seems like the archery gets disproportionately more “hollywood doesn’t understand how it works” coverage than other things.

Is that because I’m an archer and that’s what I see?

New comment by joe8756438 in "108B Pixel Scan of Johannes Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring"

joe8756438 — Thu, 01 May 2025 12:29:40 +0000

Projects like this are fascinating for reasons, I guess, unintentional to their creators.

Is what you can see at this level of detail helping anyone understand the painting?

Someone thinks so. So what do we now know?

New comment by joe8756438 in "LLMs understand nullability"

joe8756438 — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 16:52:54 +0000

there is no such bar.

We don’t even have a good way to quantify human ability. The idea that we could suddenly develop a technique to quantify human ability because we now have a piece of technology that would benefit from that quantification is absurd.

That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try to measure the ability of an LLM. But it does mean that the techniques used to quantify an LLMs ability are not something that can be applied to humans outside of narrow focus areas.

New comment by joe8756438 in "Two Americas, one bank branch, and $50k cash"

joe8756438 — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 23:31:23 +0000

idk, i think it’s as worth mentioning as the writing style, which a lot of the comments are about. and i think they’re fair — don’t mind the style myself

New comment by joe8756438 in "My Time at MIT"

joe8756438 — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 14:32:28 +0000

What’s the saying? Twice the work, half the credit?

In all seriousness tho, I don’t buy it. It’s pretty hard to solo-achieve things in most complicated work environments. Saying you’re part of a group effort means more to those more interested in collaboration, good groups know to select on that criteria.

New comment by joe8756438 in "Eggs US – Price – Chart"

joe8756438 — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 23:06:52 +0000

yeah, on a small scale it’s actually pretty easy to make a decent dent in the feed bill. once you get over a dozen hens though it would take a few adults to make enough waste. chickens eat a lot!

New comment by joe8756438 in "Eggs US – Price – Chart"

joe8756438 — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 23:02:16 +0000

yeah that’s my point.

New comment by joe8756438 in "Eggs US – Price – Chart"

joe8756438 — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 23:01:23 +0000

im in md, and my hens have been laying all winter, no artificial light. they are a hybrid cross i bought from a local egg producing farm. i think they are called sex linked reds (not sure).

it’s crazy how many eggs they lay.

New comment by joe8756438 in "Eggs US – Price – Chart"

joe8756438 — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 22:58:07 +0000

yeah, they deter aerial predators, but you can’t have too much room for them to roam away from the geese. in my experience you need to have the geese and chickens together within about 200sq feet.

New comment by joe8756438 in "Eggs US – Price – Chart"

joe8756438 — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 17:52:43 +0000

i have a simple system for keep my birds safe from land predators.

so the birds get a point for each level of protection they receive. each group needs two points to be safe.

i mainly raise geese, which are tough, not going to be bothered by a hawk. geese (turkeys similar) start with one point. an electric fence is one point, a fully enclosed coop is one point, night light (.5?), guard animal (.5?). chickens are always inventing ways to die, so they start with 0 (should probably be -1).

fingers crossed i haven’t lost any geese to land predators in three years and only one chicken that flew the enclosure. hawks have taken a few chickens, but never when the geese are around.

New comment by joe8756438 in "Eggs US – Price – Chart"

joe8756438 — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 17:41:36 +0000

yes. i have a flock and the feed alone puts a doz at $3.

the labor is somewhat enjoyable and the chickens are incredible child-leftover disposal machines. but when you factor infrastructure and labor youll probably never recoup your “investment” in eggs.

for anyone dealing with land predators, get electric poultry net. it’s magic.