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New comment by novaleaf in "Union types in C# 15"

novaleaf — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:33:51 +0000

I think it would be a considerable improvement to allow duck-typing over the top. implicitly defined interface that includes exact member matches, something like that.

New comment by novaleaf in "Claude mixes up who said what"

novaleaf — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 14:28:07 +0000

in Claude Code's conversation transcripts it stores messages from subagents as type="user". I always thought this was odd, and I guess this is the consequence of going all-in on vibing.

There are some other metafields like isSidechain=true and/or type="tool_result" that are technically enough to distinguish actual user vs subagent messages, though evidently not enough of a hint for claude itself.

Source: I'm writing a wrapper for Claude Code so am dealing with this stuff directly.

New comment by novaleaf in "Are We Idiocracy Yet?"

novaleaf — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:49:35 +0000

yes, I think his book "Reamde" had the concept of "Ameristan" which was the redneck-Idaho equivalent of many racial/religious/socioecon tropes.

New comment by novaleaf in "The FAA’s flight restriction for drones is an attempt to criminalize filming ICE"

novaleaf — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 20:45:35 +0000

> A prosecutor would have to prove that you have knowingly and wilfully committed the crime in order to be convicted

IANAL also, but counterpoint: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6611240-three-felonies-a...

New comment by novaleaf in "Claude Code users hitting usage limits 'way faster than expected'"

novaleaf — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 14:59:40 +0000

your linked bug is a cherry pick of the worst case scenario for the first request after a resume.

While it should be fixed, this isn't the same usage issue everyone is complaining about.

New comment by novaleaf in "Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry"

novaleaf — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 13:35:05 +0000

I'm sure this is no surprise to anyone who has used CC for a while. This is the source of so many bugs. I would say "open bugs" but Anthropic auto-closes bugs that don't have movement on them in like 60 days.

New comment by novaleaf in "PC Gamer recommends RSS readers in a 37mb article that just keeps downloading"

novaleaf — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 23:45:37 +0000

crazy solution that might work for you: open an incognito browser and check for deals for new customers. "someone" I know was able to switch from a $50/1.2TB limited 300mbit plan to a $45/unlimited 1Gbit plan doing this.

if they have a better deal for new users: sign up for a new account under someone else in your household, and cancel your old account after you get your new account hardware setup and working.

New comment by novaleaf in "Lego's 0.002mm specification and its implications for manufacturing (2025)"

novaleaf — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 20:14:14 +0000

> The 66-year-old brick will have the exact same interference fit, the same clutch power, the same 4.8mm stud diameter.

Pretty sure this is false. Old bricks had way higher clutch power, so high that it was deemed too difficult to separate. Sometime in the 90's the grip strength was reduced.

This false claim is underpins the entire article :(

New comment by novaleaf in "Agents that run while I sleep"

novaleaf — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 04:09:32 +0000

you are replying to a bot, that's why.

New comment by novaleaf in "When does MCP make sense vs CLI?"

novaleaf — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 21:09:50 +0000

genuine question: how would you turn a debugger-mcp into a CLI? do CLI tools used in agents have the concept of persistence?

New comment by novaleaf in "Microsoft guide to pirating Harry Potter for LLM training (2024) [removed]"

novaleaf — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 16:17:52 +0000

Sure I suppose on the face of it the two are not necessarily related, but it seems likely to be highly correlated?

New comment by novaleaf in "Google restricting Google AI Pro/Ultra subscribers for using OpenClaw"

novaleaf — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 15:29:09 +0000

Arn't they yoinking an OAuth token for replay in the Claw app?

If so, I don't think anybody who knows how auth works could feign complete innocence.

New comment by novaleaf in "Microsoft guide to pirating Harry Potter for LLM training (2024) [removed]"

novaleaf — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 01:45:53 +0000

I don't know if you are just playing devil's advocate, but there's plenty of examples of code quality issues coming out of msft these days too.

New comment by novaleaf in "Warcraft III Peon Voice Notifications for Claude Code"

novaleaf — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 16:31:59 +0000

I'm building an agent wrapper over Claude Code, and use the "Jobs done" peon voice for notification (there are two variants).

For when user attention is needed, I play a few seconds of Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up". =D

New comment by novaleaf in "Claude Opus 4.6 extra usage promo"

novaleaf — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 14:47:10 +0000

if you enable verbose mode, it does.

However I run like 3x concurrent sessions that do multiple compacts throughout, for like 8hrs/day, and I go through a 20x subscription in about 1/2 week. So I'm extremely skeptical of these negative claims.

Edit: However I stay on top of my prompting efficiency, maybe doing some incredibly wasteful task is... wasteful?

New comment by novaleaf in "Claude Code daily benchmarks for degradation tracking"

novaleaf — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 17:41:10 +0000

this is about variance of daily statistics, so I think the suggestions are entirely appropriate in this context.

New comment by novaleaf in "We put Claude Code in Rollercoaster Tycoon"

novaleaf — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 23:56:01 +0000

their c# LSP theoretically worked for a week or so (I never saw it in action though), but now it always errors on launch :(

New comment by novaleaf in "Dell UltraSharp 52 Thunderbolt Hub Monitor"

novaleaf — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 01:00:51 +0000

what's the make/model for the monitors? my setup is getting long in the tooth.

New comment by novaleaf in "Microsoft May Have Created the Slowest Windows in 25 Years with Windows 11"

novaleaf — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 00:51:30 +0000

pretty weird, i have a few moderately high-end pc's and cheap laptops and they all have the same issues. Maybe me disabling a bunch of telemetry stuff screws up the caching.

New comment by novaleaf in "Microsoft May Have Created the Slowest Windows in 25 Years with Windows 11"

novaleaf — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 18:19:10 +0000

if you are searching for something for the first time (or after caching invalidates), it seems like it prioritizes search sources that have already completed.

on my computer, that means web-search almost always completes first. So most of the time if I type in something "new" and don't wait, it'll bring up Bing.

Sometimes it looks like "downloads folder" file search completes before Installed app search completes, because on one occasion I typed in an app's name and it launched the INSTALLER for the app.

once all the searchs resolve it behaves "as expected". I am very surprised if you don't have the same symptoms I'm describing. Why is your computer behaving different from every Win11 install I ever interact with?