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New comment by loandbehold in "Some things just take time"

loandbehold — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 19:52:59 +0000

Knowledge is a distilled experience.

Buzzy UCSD Math Readiness Report Failed to Mention Calculator Ban

loandbehold — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 07:11:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/students/academics/2026/02/26/buzzy-ucsd-math-readiness-report-failed-mention-calculator-ban

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47204419

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New comment by loandbehold in "Tesla Sales Down 55% UK, 58% Spain, 59% Germany, 81% Netherlands, 93% Norway"

loandbehold — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 19:05:13 +0000

Yes I do in fact use FSD with my children in the car.

New comment by loandbehold in "Tesla Sales Down 55% UK, 58% Spain, 59% Germany, 81% Netherlands, 93% Norway"

loandbehold — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 07:17:12 +0000

Mercedes system was pretty useless because you could only use it in very limited conditions (specific freeways, only following another car). Nobody wants to pay $200/month to use it for 5% of their driving. Tesla FSD drives for you end-to-end.

New comment by loandbehold in "Tesla Sales Down 55% UK, 58% Spain, 59% Germany, 81% Netherlands, 93% Norway"

loandbehold — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 07:12:17 +0000

They are behind Waymo but they are getting there. They started giving fully autonomous drives since last month without safety driver in Austin. Tesla chose a harder camera-only approach but it's more scalable once it works.

New comment by loandbehold in "Tesla Sales Down 55% UK, 58% Spain, 59% Germany, 81% Netherlands, 93% Norway"

loandbehold — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 06:58:59 +0000

I'm using FSD for 100% of my driving and only need to intervene maybe once a week. It's usually because the car is not confident of too slow, not because it's doing something dangerous. Two years ago it was very different where almost every trip I needed to intervene to avoid crash. The progress they have made is truly amazing.

New comment by loandbehold in "I’m joining OpenAI"

loandbehold — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 07:13:06 +0000

The guy has a long history of building popular products, long before vibe coding became possible. He is certainly good at writing code manually as well.

New comment by loandbehold in "Ask HN: Are there examples of 3D printing data onto physical surfaces?"

loandbehold — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 07:33:07 +0000

I read somewhere about people using 3D printers to make vinyl records.

New comment by loandbehold in "The wonder of modern drywall"

loandbehold — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 06:56:56 +0000

I have many friends who own houses built in the last 10 to 30 years ago. None of them have any issues with mold.

New comment by loandbehold in "The wonder of modern drywall"

loandbehold — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 06:01:32 +0000

In places like Boston there are many 100+ years old stick frame houses. They hold up just fine. Properly built wooden houses don't get any mold.

New comment by loandbehold in "Floppy disks turn out to be the greatest TV remote for kids"

loandbehold — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 17:06:19 +0000

There absolutely was. "reading addiction" was a medical diagnosis in 18th/19th century Europe. And if you read some of the essays about negative effects of reading from this time, it's pretty striking how similar it is to modern views on TV. There was even a German term of that time "Leseseuche" which literally translates as "reading plague".

New comment by loandbehold in "Floppy disks turn out to be the greatest TV remote for kids"

loandbehold — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 16:00:32 +0000

There was a time people used think the same about books.

New comment by loandbehold in "Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far"

loandbehold — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 00:27:18 +0000

Coding agents as of Jan 2026 are great at what 95% of software engineers do. For remaining 5% that do really novel stuff -- the agents will get there in a few years.

New comment by loandbehold in "NYC Spends $200 Million on Cell Service for School Chromebooks"

loandbehold — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 03:14:17 +0000

>> Chicago auctioning away its parking revenue for 75 years for a mere $1.6B was a far bigger mistake and curse upon the public. At least the chromebooks have a far shorter lifetime

Given that upcoming self-driving revolution likely means those parking spaces will have very little use, it may end up to be an unintentionally wise decision.

New comment by loandbehold in "Has the cost of building software dropped 90%?"

loandbehold — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 19:58:56 +0000

If you like I can try to help you getting Claude Code to handle your incredibly poorly written program. loandbehold0 at proton.me

New comment by loandbehold in "Has the cost of building software dropped 90%?"

loandbehold — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 19:54:28 +0000

Email me loandbehold0 at proton.me with details of what you are trying to do. I don't have quantitative finance experience but I can give it a shot.

New comment by loandbehold in "Has the cost of building software dropped 90%?"

loandbehold — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 09:06:38 +0000

You can opt-out of having your code being trained on. When Claude Code first came out Anthropic wasn't using CC sessions for training. They started training on it starting from Claude Code 2 that came out with Sonnet 4.5. User is asked on first use whether to opt-in or out of training.

New comment by loandbehold in "Has the cost of building software dropped 90%?"

loandbehold — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 04:17:20 +0000

The reason is because we are a Microsoft shop and our company doesn't have Claude account. I'm using my personal Claude Max account. My manager does know that I use Claude Code and I requested the person responsible for AI tooling in our company to use Claude Code but he just said that management already decided to go with GitHub copilot. He thinks that using Claude model in Copilot is same as using Claude Code. Another issue is that we are a Microsoft shop and I use Claude Code through WSL but I'm the only person on our team with Linux skills.

New comment by loandbehold in "Has the cost of building software dropped 90%?"

loandbehold — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 02:05:13 +0000

Senior Software Engineer. The system is a niche business software software for a specific industry. It doesn't do any fancy math, all straightforward business logic.

> Trying to get clean code erases all/most of my productivity gains, and doesn't spark joy. I find having a back-end-forth with an agent exhausting, probably because I have to build and discard multiple mental models of the proposed solution, since the approach can vary wildly between prompts

You probably work on something that requires very unique and creative solutions. I work on dumb business software. Claude Code is generally good at following existing code patterns. As far as back-and-forth with Claude Code being exhausting, I have few tips how how to minimize number or shots required to get good solution from CC: 1. Start by exploring relevant code by asking CC questions. 2. Then use Plan Mode for anything more than trivial change. Using Plan Mode is essential. You need to make sure you and CC are on the same page BEFORE it starts writing code 3. If you see CC making same mistake over and over, add instructions to your CLAUDE.md to avoid it in the future. This way your CC setup improves over time, like a coworker who learns over time.

New comment by loandbehold in "Has the cost of building software dropped 90%?"

loandbehold — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 23:12:01 +0000

For me, as a remote developer, it means I'm able to finish my work in 1 hour instead of 8 hours. So I'm able to capture "extra value" in the form of time. In our team everyone uses GitHub Copilot and I use Claude Code. My teammates' productivity increased slightly but my productivity increased a lot. This is because 1. Claude Code is just a better coding agent 2. I invested time to get good at agentic coding. Eventually Copilot will catch up and management will realize that now 1 developer can do what previously would take a whole team.