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New comment by sidpatil in "Exploiting the most prominent AI agent benchmarks"

sidpatil — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 21:01:03 +0000

Someone here mentioned a whole ago that the labs deliberately haven't tried to train these characteristics out of their models, because leaving them in makes it easier to identify, and therefore exclude, LLM-generated text from their training corpus.

New comment by sidpatil in "A truck driver spent 20 years making a scale model of every building in NYC"

sidpatil — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 10:18:22 +0000

Why?

New comment by sidpatil in "Thoughts on slowing the fuck down"

sidpatil — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:48:41 +0000

Construction and home contracting follow building codes.

New comment by sidpatil in "Bumblebee queens breathe underwater to survive drowning"

sidpatil — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 13:04:59 +0000

Only if it's decomposing aerobically.

Anaerobic decomposition, like what you find in a septic tank, doesn't produce any heat.

New comment by sidpatil in "I beg you to follow Crocker's Rules, even if you will be rude to me"

sidpatil — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 16:59:47 +0000

> I don’t care if you make an honest mistake. Hell, I don’t even care if you make a careless mistake, as long as you fix yourself. Everyone messes up - it’s how you act afterwards that matters.

You're not the one in control of their employment status and workplace reputation.

New comment by sidpatil in "Germany's Solar Boom Eases Power Costs as Gas Price Jumps"

sidpatil — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 15:01:12 +0000

Is nuclear energy considered renewable?

New comment by sidpatil in "How I use Claude Code: Separation of planning and execution"

sidpatil — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 17:44:01 +0000

It looks like Slidev is designed for presentations about software development, judging from its feature set. Quarto is more general-purpose. (That's not to say Quarto can't support the same features, but currently it doesn't.)

I'm not affiliated with Slidev. I was just curious.

New comment by sidpatil in "How I use Claude Code: Separation of planning and execution"

sidpatil — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 17:21:10 +0000

It's not, to be fair.

> I use my own `.md` plan files rather than Claude Code’s built-in plan mode. The built-in plan mode sucks.

New comment by sidpatil in "Babylon 5 is now free to watch on YouTube"

sidpatil — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 14:27:10 +0000

> smaller scale stories are replaced with moving the big plot forward

This is pretty common in TV shows, from what I've noticed. It takes a few seasons for a show to find its footing.

New comment by sidpatil in "GitHub Agentic Workflows"

sidpatil — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 16:08:05 +0000

Does this products directly compete with GitHub Models [1]?

[1] https://github.com/marketplace?type=models

New comment by sidpatil in "Waiting for Postgres 19: Better planner hints with path generation strategies [video]"

sidpatil — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 03:01:18 +0000

You might be interested in Substrait (https://substrait.io/).

New comment by sidpatil in "AI will not replace software engineers (hopefully)"

sidpatil — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 15:41:57 +0000

> It may be that like clothes, there's only so much need for software.

Clothing demand has increased greatly in the past decade due to fast fashion. Much of this clothing is designed to cost a few bucks, last a few wears, then get thrown out. It's an ecological disaster.

Maybe we'll see something similar happen with software — as production costs fall, trends will shift toward few-use throwaway software. I highly suspect this is already happening.

New comment by sidpatil in "Progress on TypeScript 7 – December 2025"

sidpatil — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 02:13:03 +0000

I'm unfamiliar with all the changes coming soon. What would you need to refactor?

New comment by sidpatil in "Spec-Driven Development: The Waterfall Strikes Back"

sidpatil — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 14:11:30 +0000

You would need to rerun the LLM, but you wouldn't necessarily need to rebuild the codebase from scratch.

You can provide the existing spec, the new spec, and the existing codebase all as context, then have the LLM modify the codebase according to the updates to the spec.

New comment by sidpatil in "Europe to decide if 6 GHz is shared between Wi-Fi and cellular networks"

sidpatil — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 14:05:55 +0000

Perhaps not for much longer:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45785987

New comment by sidpatil in "Hackers leak Qantas data on 5M customers after ransom deadline passes"

sidpatil — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 14:01:57 +0000

Japan Post is rolling out such a system: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44117779

New comment by sidpatil in "Walmart says tariff costs are rising 'each week' and will continue"

sidpatil — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 12:50:29 +0000

The Wal-Mart near me uses e-ink price tags for many (but not all) of their items.

New comment by sidpatil in "Instant SQL for results as you type in DuckDB UI"

sidpatil — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 13:39:13 +0000

What do you dislike about that style?

New comment by sidpatil in "Pipelining might be my favorite programming language feature"

sidpatil — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 14:01:24 +0000

PRQL [1] is a pipeline-based query language that compiles to SQL.

[1] https://prql-lang.org/

New comment by sidpatil in "Global coffee trade grinding to a halt, hit hard by brutal price hikes"

sidpatil — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 13:32:21 +0000

Green beans are unroasted, yes. They can last for a long time in storage.