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New comment by richjdsmith in "Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1"

richjdsmith — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 18:10:06 +0000

Same. Both times I tried it was adamant that I can only use opus. I was reworking my company content (financial services) and it was not helpful.

New comment by richjdsmith in "Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work"

richjdsmith — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 16:42:06 +0000

It certainly feels like the copywriters at cloudflare received marching orders to write for a broader audience, which means, write for no one. I miss their more technical writing style.

New comment by richjdsmith in "Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence"

richjdsmith — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:38:57 +0000

I was just looking at the same thing and how flawed it is that we tie parameter count with "intelligence". GLM-5.2 is my go to day to day model because of how darn good it is. I had no idea it had a substantially lower parameter count over deepseek v4.

New comment by richjdsmith in "Rails on SQLite: new ways to cause outages"

richjdsmith — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 22:40:37 +0000

Switching all my projects from psql to SQLite was a bit of a PITA but has absolutely been worth it. Keeping with the “do it the rails way” has kept mental overhead low, and seems to jive well with using LLMs.

New comment by richjdsmith in "Don't give children under age 13 smartphones"

richjdsmith — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 21:19:17 +0000

Related to this is WaitUntil8th, a movement encouraging parents to sign up in groups/regional block (think a PAC) so there is less pressure on individual kids if their peers are also banned.

For what it is worth, after speaking with a friend of mine that teaches 8th grade, I think this movement should be expanded to social media in addition to cell phones.

https://www.waituntil8th.org/

New comment by richjdsmith in "Paprika 53 Gravel Bike"

richjdsmith — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 16:30:23 +0000

A different new website. Abosloutely loved it and I'm sure will be appreciated by others.

Paprika 53 Gravel Bike

richjdsmith — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 16:30:23 +0000

Article URL: https://www.paprika53.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43655667

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by richjdsmith in "RubyLLM: A delightful Ruby way to work with AI"

richjdsmith — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 18:12:17 +0000

… I’ve been using Ruby for years and never thought to use show_source like this in a debugger. Thanks kind stranger, you just made my day!

New comment by richjdsmith in "The Enshittification of Everything [2024-07-25]"

richjdsmith — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 18:43:15 +0000

Agreed. I think the article does a great job going into exactly that definition.

The Enshittification of Everything [2024-07-25]

richjdsmith — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 17:55:48 +0000

Article URL: https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2024/07/15/Enshittification-Everything/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43257938

Points: 5

# Comments: 2

New comment by richjdsmith in "Show HN: Recommendarr – AI Driven Recommendations Based on Sonarr/Radarr Media"

richjdsmith — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 17:27:51 +0000

This is really cool, and very well done! Would love to see it more on a per-user basis, as I share access with my family and do not have similar tastes at all. Perhaps tied in with Overseer API and Tautulli to see what users are requesting, then actually watching?

New comment by richjdsmith in "Cheap solar power is sending electrical grids into a death spiral"

richjdsmith — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 21:08:23 +0000

There is a finish company working on something that might fit this need: domestic sand batteries.

https://polarnightenergy.fi/sand-battery/

New comment by richjdsmith in "Fake VS Code Extension on NPM Spreads Multi-Stage Malware"

richjdsmith — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 14:58:26 +0000

I recently tried RubyMine IDE by jetbrains after having jumped on the VS Code bandwagon since its first beta release. It has been incredible. Instead of monkeying around for 3 hours once a month because some plugin broke, or some dependency updated and a vscode plugin wasn’t expecting this, I just code.

Back in the Sublime text days, it was easy. I think I had forgotten how complex I had made VS Code. Turns out, paying someone else $120/year to deal with that complexity in an IDE is a helluva good deal at your average developers hourly pay.

New comment by richjdsmith in "We're bringing Pebble back"

richjdsmith — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 17:32:48 +0000

It certainly does sound like Canada. I am one of the lucky ones and do have a family doctor and it is still a minimum of 6 weeks for me to book an appointment to see him.

If I am really in trouble, I can go to his clinic as a drop-in (along with dozens of others) and wait, hoping somebody doesn't show for their appointment.

The state of healthcare in Canada is...bad. really bad. Canada's healthcare system is effectively using long wait times as a form of passive rationing, where delays lead to natural attrition of patients. This is a poor solution to address the per-capita physician shortages by decreasing demand rather than increasing access to care.

New comment by richjdsmith in "Is Iceland getting ready to join the EU?"

richjdsmith — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 02:43:39 +0000

Couldn't agree more. Greece is a great example of what happens to a country when they have a sovereign debt crisis and no control over the value of their currency.

The ability to control your overnight bank rates, and your monetary supply is important. I don't think the convenience of easy travel or easy(ier) trading of goods outweighs it at all.

New comment by richjdsmith in "Microsoft Confirms Password Deletion for 1B Users"

richjdsmith — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 18:14:52 +0000

My mother has been using it because "now [she] only needs to enter her 4 digit computer pin instead of her long Bitwarden password"

Unfortunately she is unwilling to change her Windows pin to anything other than the PIN she uses everywhere else.

This has not improved her security at all. Before she switched it from what I assume was a Microsoft prompt, she had (through a bit of coaching from me) been fine with Bitwarden + TOTP

New comment by richjdsmith in "No GPS required: our app can now locate underground trains"

richjdsmith — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 18:19:45 +0000

That's actually a really cool idea. I am not sure what variance there would be on a light sensor though.

New comment by richjdsmith in "SQLite on Rails: The how and why of optimal performance"

richjdsmith — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 21:38:39 +0000

Anyone who is looking at using SQLIte + Rails should check out the work done by Oldmoe (X/Github) on his Litestack project.

Here's the intro paragraph: "Litestack is a Ruby gem that provides both Ruby and Ruby on Rails applications an all-in-one solution for web application data infrastructure. It exploits the power and embeddedness of SQLite to deliver a full-fledged SQL database, a fast cache , a robust job queue, a reliable message broker, a full text search engine and a metrics platform all in a single package."

I'm currently using it on a project and can't say enough good things about it!

https://github.com/oldmoe/litestack

New comment by richjdsmith in "Carmakers Will Give Your Location to Police Without a Warrant, Senators Say"

richjdsmith — Wed, 22 May 2024 21:16:24 +0000

Or even a phone that is "off". Newer iphones (11+) can be found through the FindMy network, even when the device is off.

https://9to5mac.com/2021/07/21/ios-15-here-are-the-devices-t...

New comment by richjdsmith in "Boeing 737-900ER: Second model to be inspected after 737 MAX 9 blowout"

richjdsmith — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 16:42:42 +0000

I said the same to my fiancée. We have gold status on Westjet (Canada’s second largest carrier and it has a hub airport close by) and I just put in the cancellation on my westjet credit card and will use up the rest of my credit. They use predominantly 737-800s and 787s in their fleet. AirCanada, their direct competitor, has a significantly larger airbus fleet. I’ll start using them from here on out just to decrease my odds of flying on a 737MAX