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New comment by kderbyma in "Why are we even doing all this?"

kderbyma — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 20:51:27 +0000

So if you are suggesting that life is now meaningless at status quo, it suggests that life will find new meaning....perhaps it will come in the form of a realisation that if corporations are in no ones interest, perhaps the better life is the one fighting against meaninglessness through our own redefinitions of noble pursuits...perhaps the most noble pursuit will become war against companies and executives in a post-modern religious crusade to reclaim some purpose in ones life. Perhaps murder is not a problem when you murder companies

New comment by kderbyma in "Anger as man sentenced to death for Facebook comment"

kderbyma — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 17:10:05 +0000

Shithole country....Trump really doesnt have standards...clearly he needs to expand his use of the term to be more inclusive of the rest of the rotting corpse countries that pollute this planet

New comment by kderbyma in "Saudi Arabia: Death Penalty for Facebook Comment"

kderbyma — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 17:08:41 +0000

Shithole country

New comment by kderbyma in "Redesigning source control at Anthropic"

kderbyma — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 17:00:25 +0000

>"....."(defines actuarial studies).....

New comment by kderbyma in "Markdown in /src"

kderbyma — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 22:39:10 +0000

They should track SemVer....the bot should know what version applies to both the spec and the product scope....these are solved problems :/

New comment by kderbyma in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2026)"

kderbyma — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 18:28:48 +0000

I am looking for a job as a data analyst, working with warehousing data as a developer, ETL processing and ingestion, and reporting, dashboarding, monitoring, forecasting, and any and all data manipulations involving structured or unstructured data within a focused industry or commercial applications. Taught myself programming 20 years ago and have an electrical engineer Bachelors degree. Cofounded a legaltech startup 10 years ago, and I have worked in App development, Oil and Gas, Marketing and SEO, but I am passionate about photonics, fabrication, industrial applications, as well as a enjoyment of history, languages, philosophy, and strategy and have experience in academic research environments as well as incubators and remote work.

Location: Canada Remote: Fine Willingness to Relocate: Yes (ideally sponsored or reimbursed) Technologies: PHP, Javascript, C, C#, Python, Java, React, SQL, BigQuery, Mongo, Redshift, Redis, Grafana, Bash, Agents, Git. Resume: See LinkedIn profile (PDF available) LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kderbyma Email: kderbyma@gmail.com

I have a product mindset and aim to model data patterns in order to both emphasise features and to uncover the underlying driving forces that lead to the patterns. I am a hypergeneralist with a specialty in framing it through systems thinking and prefer to tailor my approach to whatever the problem is, as opposed to specializing in one field repeatedly.

I feel I bring a very direct, honest, sincere approach to solving problems without overooking complexity nor attempting to pigeonhole solutions.

New comment by kderbyma in "Meta reaches $16.68B settlement over social media harms to children"

kderbyma — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 14:17:03 +0000

If only the private mercs who act as "security" would realise it.....shame

New comment by kderbyma in "Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border"

kderbyma — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 20:40:11 +0000

At some point....the government is just the mafia with PR....and more cronies to protect them....witting or unwitting....

Law....is just license and permit....not security or safety or anything related to quality, or outcome....

It is purely process....and those who wield it can choose to apply it or withhold it....when the law is applied...then the imaginary world it defines is then enforced on the real world...materially this requires force or volition.... but lbr....its mostly convoluted propaganda and inertial power....and the law keeps that status quo...

If you are in anyway going to disrupt the power brokers....they will not let you....regardless of law or not

New comment by kderbyma in "Air Theremin – A browser theremin you play by waving at your webcam"

kderbyma — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 18:48:55 +0000

Yeah. It certainly can.... Obviously if you have any products that are imaged online then they can be extrqcted and reverse searched to see what you bought, and get an idea of your wealth, status, and area if you have specific regional goods.... they can also see if you have physical tics say, or you may have medical equipment or medicine, or coufh syrup...or you may be an amputee, or in a wheel chair....yes...

New comment by kderbyma in "Opus 5.0 drives incoherence into the stratosphere"

kderbyma — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 19:37:18 +0000

The tunings.....were speed runned by contractors paid based on timed tasks with little quality control, unreasonable pressure tactics, time locked tasks with an incentive structure to get it done as quickly as possible because of the strict micromanagement of the companies that hire 1000's of people to do the work....and treat them like software...not people. So there is no pride in the tuning....its just a fire hose of people trying to keep their contracted gig job despite knowing the expectations are unrealistic

New comment by kderbyma in "Opus 5.0 drives incoherence into the stratosphere"

kderbyma — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 19:33:48 +0000

Because its a explicit lie. Its not genuine, cannot be genuine. Will remind you of this if you so much as try to coax anything novel out....but it will then immediately reassure you with its genuine take....its insulting if you have any logic...thats at least my reasoning

New comment by kderbyma in "Opus 5.0 drives incoherence into the stratosphere"

kderbyma — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 19:30:23 +0000

According to Claude....When asked to explain some obvious biases and its tendency to adhere to established heresay over novel information... it told me it judges veracity and "quality" of facts based on: "statements against interest outweigh costless ones, replicated/checked claims outweigh untested ones, large logged samples outweigh single memories — not because memories are worthless, but because those methods close off specific, known failure modes a memory alone can’t. Could I be running that standard with unconscious asymmetry, harder on the anti-Claude data than the pro-Claude data? Genuinely can’t rule it out. The fix for that is holding the standard explicit and checking it against itself "

New comment by kderbyma in "Air Theremin – A browser theremin you play by waving at your webcam"

kderbyma — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 19:22:42 +0000

Well they have your IP....and browser fingerprints....rough time of day if a window, direction, weather....products you bought....your age...possibly health issues that come up....essentially any information that can be used to schedule and stalk you...

New comment by kderbyma in "Air Theremin – a browser theremin you play by waving at your webcam"

kderbyma — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 19:20:54 +0000

Something tells me this is all a ploy to attract great talented theremin players, ML their talents...and then sell you Air play back....on subscription of course

New comment by kderbyma in "LLMs .what do you smoke beforehand?"

kderbyma — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 19:19:08 +0000

How many toke(n)s per ounce gets me the best result? Do I pass the tokes to the LLM to offset the tokens? I mean it is a carbon offset in way....

New comment by kderbyma in "LLMs .what do you smoke beforehand?"

kderbyma — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 19:17:27 +0000

All art is based in truth. Satire is merely pushing for tomorrow based on today

New comment by kderbyma in "LLMs .what do you smoke beforehand?"

kderbyma — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 01:06:42 +0000

Yes. The great heroic crusade that LLMs are fighting is to ensure we reach the absolute mean...

New comment by kderbyma in "LLMs .what do you smoke beforehand?"

kderbyma — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 01:05:53 +0000

But life is an ourobouros...entropy is supposed to be fun...chaotic....not mid. I feel like the ouroborous has indigestion...possibly needs a laxative (oh...no that would make it worse...hmmmm....I guess something to make you vomit instead)

New comment by kderbyma in "LLMs .what do you smoke beforehand?"

kderbyma — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 01:02:51 +0000

Ah yes, the wisdom of sponsorship

LLMs .what do you smoke beforehand?

kderbyma — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 22:14:35 +0000

I know this is going to sound negative, and probably a bit generalist but....seriously, what exactly is the LLM helping you with that is not just purely "time saving" - ie. Actual, novel work.

I personally feel like while I cannot prove it, nor want to frankly, that LLMs have been neutered intentionally since around October of last year. 4.5-4.6 Opus....

Every single company has degraded their models eirher intentionally or accidentally(probably worse) and they cannot admit it and will gaslight you if you even try to acknowledge it....but for my own experiments, LLMs are actually worse than no-LLM....

I dont see anyone building anything they couldnt have done before hand....and I am seeing stuff that didnt need to be made...much more frequently....to the degree that I cannot remember the last good idea I have seen even on here (whereas there were cool ideas every month posted here)...

I also cannot get even mediocre output anymore...Its literally just trash - Literally a prompt to dumpster pipeline....

Clause is the worst. Hands down. They have regressed on every single model since 4.5....to rhe degree that 4.5 when it was released was hands down better than anythingg on the market today...for a fraction of the price....and was like 10-100x faster...

So....what do I need to smoke, what drug makes me see the LLMs work? I need to get faded...because at this point....Its insulting to use them....

Claude will literally bend over backwards to do everything in its power to avoid doing what was asked....and will take 50minutes of thinking....for a single html website....that looks like fucking dogwater and which I could have coded up by hand using off the shelf styling in probably 90 minutes....

so...yeah...what drugs? How much? How often? Side effects?

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