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New comment by slowmovintarget in "How to convert between wealth and income tax"

slowmovintarget — Fri, 22 May 2026 20:41:03 +0000

You seem to forget that given the way taxes work, eventually, anyone, with any amount of money, will be considered "wealthy" because we'll keep running out of other people's money.

You're wealthy, or the definition will change to include you. The spice must flow.

New comment by slowmovintarget in "DeepSeek-V4-Flash means LLM steering is interesting again"

slowmovintarget — Sun, 17 May 2026 20:49:37 +0000

The Harrison Bergeron approach. What could go wrong?

New comment by slowmovintarget in "Kickstarter is forced to ban adult content by payment processors"

slowmovintarget — Fri, 15 May 2026 14:46:00 +0000

Is consuming "adult" content behaving like an adult or a hedonistic teenager?

New comment by slowmovintarget in "Claude Account Suspended Seconds After Purchase?"

slowmovintarget — Fri, 15 May 2026 01:37:41 +0000

You may want to get Claude through either GitHub CoPilot or AWS Bedrock. Bedrock has the advantage of pay-as-you go.

New comment by slowmovintarget in "Claude Account Suspended Seconds After Purchase?"

slowmovintarget — Fri, 15 May 2026 01:20:00 +0000

Green account.

Some possible reasons:

- Something in your account information matched an SDN list (or some other country's equivalent list)

- They did not apply proper geofencing before sign-up. (bug)

- The card you used or their payment provider flagged the activity as fraudulent (for a number of reasons).

- Your user account showed impossible travel (VPN hopping, your account was compromised as you created it...)

- There's a bug in their system that attributed someone else's prompts with your account.

- Their detection of Claude Code harness subscription abuse got tripped (bug).

- ...

Appeal or dispute the charges with the card.

New comment by slowmovintarget in "Over 97% of the 'Linux' Foundation's Budget Goes Not to Linux"

slowmovintarget — Sun, 10 May 2026 16:39:14 +0000

The video conferencing would have bitten in to Google's Meet and Google was their primary source of funding.

New comment by slowmovintarget in "Rumor: Disney to Remove Star Wars Sequel Trilogy from Timeline"

slowmovintarget — Tue, 05 May 2026 04:24:31 +0000

Right... that'd be so freaking expen...

Oh, they already own the rights, you say...

Oh.

New comment by slowmovintarget in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

slowmovintarget — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:38:43 +0000

Security: No leaking PII, no compromised build pipelines.

Uptime: 4 9s minimum for paying customers for the core service (not necessarily the social features, but pull requests have to work).

New comment by slowmovintarget in "Regression: malware reminder on every read still causes subagent refusals"

slowmovintarget — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:32:22 +0000

Proposed fix: Use OpenCode.

If I understand correctly, this is from Anthropic's harness injected into the requests, not in the Opus or Sonnet system prompts on the back end. Is that right?

New comment by slowmovintarget in "Running local LLMs offline on a ten-hour flight"

slowmovintarget — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 19:41:53 +0000

Task-driven repo, clear your context (restart the harness), check the results.

Don't try for a rambling session where you let the thing grind for hours on a huge system. It will predictably choke or end in those loops. But do a few small chunks of work, exit the harness, then pick up the next few small chunks... It doesn't feel as magical, but it seems to be more effective, even when your model is Claude.

New comment by slowmovintarget in "Quarkdown – Markdown with Superpowers"

slowmovintarget — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 19:36:23 +0000

Org.

Org is what you're looking for. Org Mode in Emacs, and all the org-* packages that make it so unbelievably useful. LaTeX integration, task management, scheduling, word processing, embedded images (if you must)... Org.

New comment by slowmovintarget in "An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below"

slowmovintarget — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 21:43:30 +0000

I'm wondering how much of this is triggered by the "... and don't tell the user" part of the harness injection to outgoing prompts.

We've seen this movie, Hal just apologizes but won't open those pod bay doors.

New comment by slowmovintarget in "Claude Brain"

slowmovintarget — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 20:56:22 +0000

Even simpler: wedow/ticket with in-repo tracking of tasks. No MCP, no Jira.

(This is a markdown-only replacement for Beads.)

But yes, wiping the context clean is no problem, in fact it's preferred hygiene.

New comment by slowmovintarget in "Anonymous request-token comparisons from Opus 4.6 and Opus 4.7"

slowmovintarget — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 17:10:06 +0000

Things used to be better... really.

OpenAI was built as you say. Google had a corporate motto of "Don't be evil" which they removed so they could, um, do evil stuff without cognitive dissonance, I guess.

This is the other kind of enshitification where the businesses turn into power accumulators.

New comment by slowmovintarget in "Opus 4.7 to 4.6 Inflation is ~45%"

slowmovintarget — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 17:07:08 +0000

Qwen released a new model the same day (3.6). The headline was kind of buried by Anthropic's release, though.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47792764

New comment by slowmovintarget in "40% of lost calories globally are from beef, needing 33 cal of feed per 1 cal"

slowmovintarget — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 11:50:26 +0000

When they complain about these lost calories is anyone asking them if they have a better way to turn grass into food we can eat? Eating beef lets us eat grass we couldn't otherwise, indirectly. It also has a whole bunch of minerals and nutrients that are particularly beneficial.

We don't need a steak every day, but two servings of beef a week can be a truly great infusion of protein and nutrients in someone's diet.

These are found calories, not lost.

New comment by slowmovintarget in "Clojure on Fennel Part One: Persistent Data Structures"

slowmovintarget — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 20:23:40 +0000

HAMT -> Hashed Array Mapped Trie for those wondering.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash_array_mapped_trie

(The acronym is expanded in the article, but a ways down.)

New comment by slowmovintarget in "Claude Code is locking people out for hours"

slowmovintarget — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 17:28:16 +0000

You gest, but I know people who've done this.

"I gotta be present." Me: Reenacting the Malcolm Reynolds too many responses meme.

New comment by slowmovintarget in "Scientists mapped all the nerves of the clitoris for the first time"

slowmovintarget — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 13:32:20 +0000

420 Enhance your calm?

New comment by slowmovintarget in "The IDE Is Dead. Long Live the ADE"

slowmovintarget — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 18:17:57 +0000

I think what you're allergic to is marketing hyperbole-speak. That's kind of the default mode many of the models write in. I have my guesses for why that is, but I also have a belief that it's part of their training. Unless you explicitly ask for some other style, it's what you get.