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New comment by onceonceonce in "Bttf is a command line datetime Swiss army knife"

onceonceonce — Thu, 28 May 2026 14:41:53 +0000

been hand-rolling date -d plus a wrapper script for newsletter scheduling for years. Stuff like "next second Tuesday after a holiday" and "convert these timestamps to a reader's local time before send". biff time seq monthly -w 2-tue would have replaced about 40 lines of bash for me.

New comment by onceonceonce in "Disagreement Among Frontier LLMs on Real-World Fact-Checks"

onceonceonce — Thu, 28 May 2026 14:34:35 +0000

Teams I work with use the abstain rate to flag what goes to a human. Disagreement between models is the same idea. Your 67% is what makes "two cheap models, escalate when they fight" actually work. Without abstain it mostly looks like noise.

New comment by onceonceonce in "I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit"

onceonceonce — Thu, 28 May 2026 14:30:26 +0000

The "+20% velocity" framing misses what's actually shifting.