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New comment by stevenpetryk in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

stevenpetryk — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 04:01:01 +0000

worth noting that silver macbooks are also anodized aluminum, so you'll also be filing off anodization

New comment by stevenpetryk in "Mouser: An open source alternative to Logi-Plus mouse software"

stevenpetryk — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 22:18:03 +0000

I'm always afraid of the day Logitech takes this away. Somebody should try to make an open source deploy of this too.

New comment by stevenpetryk in "Apple Studio Display and Studio Display XDR"

stevenpetryk — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 14:41:53 +0000

I've been pretty happy with my ASUS ProArt PA32QCV (32", 6k, but only 60Hz). Kinda infuriating that Apple doesn't let you adjust third-party monitor brightness though (and my work disallows apps like BetterDisplay).

New comment by stevenpetryk in "Google workers seek 'red lines' on military A.I., echoing Anthropic"

stevenpetryk — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 04:44:19 +0000

It's not black and white. There is an entire spectrum of completely justifiable and extremely questionable uses of military power by the US.

New comment by stevenpetryk in "Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War"

stevenpetryk — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 04:39:16 +0000

Being labeled a supply chain risk means that companies with government contracts cannot use Anthropic products _for those government contracts_, not that they have to cease all usage of Anthropic products. Reporters seem to be reporting on this incorrectly.

New comment by stevenpetryk in "Anthropic is Down"

stevenpetryk — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 16:40:56 +0000

This sounds like a case of a bias called availability heuristic. It'd be worth remembering that you often don't notice people who are polite and normal nearly as much as people who are rude and obnoxious.

New comment by stevenpetryk in "Python is not a great language for data science"

stevenpetryk — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 18:21:29 +0000

Totally agree. The author's most significant example is two code snippets that are quite similar and both pretty nice.

New comment by stevenpetryk in "The next chapter of the Microsoft–OpenAI partnership"

stevenpetryk — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 16:00:02 +0000

I agree with your points in general but also, when I plugged in the parent comment's nonsense question, both Claude 4.5 Sonnet and GPT-5 asked me what I meant, and pointed out that it made no sense but might be some kind of metaphor, poem, or dream.

New comment by stevenpetryk in "Claude Skills"

stevenpetryk — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 02:11:57 +0000

This is referred to as “online reinforcement learning” and is already something done by, for example Cursor for their tab prediction model.

https://cursor.com/blog/tab-rl

New comment by stevenpetryk in "NPM debug and chalk packages compromised"

stevenpetryk — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 22:33:22 +0000

I'm a little confused, is this rage bait or what?

> Things were fine before they became mainstream

As in, things were fine before we had commonplace tooling to fetch third party software?

> package files that are set to grab the latest version

The three primary Node.js package managers all create a lockfile by default.

New comment by stevenpetryk in "Claudia – Desktop companion for Claude code"

stevenpetryk — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 02:04:53 +0000

Wow, I really miss Apollo. I haven’t used Reddit since it got priced out.

New comment by stevenpetryk in "Anthropic signs a $200M deal with the Department of Defense"

stevenpetryk — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 20:53:56 +0000

No, it’s 200 millimeter-dollars. Much different unit.

New comment by stevenpetryk in "Gridfinity: The modular, open-source grid storage system"

stevenpetryk — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 05:02:58 +0000

It’s such a nice project. But boy do I think it would benefit from mass production. People spend a lot of time printing generic bins and baseplates that would be better spent just printing custom bins.

New comment by stevenpetryk in "Display any CSV file as a searchable, filterable, pretty HTML table"

stevenpetryk — Thu, 22 May 2025 06:22:03 +0000

Could be easy enough to make a CLI tool that opens a browser to an HTML file in /tmp

New comment by stevenpetryk in "Intuit, Owner of TurboTax, Wins Battle Against America's Taxpayers"

stevenpetryk — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 02:47:07 +0000

FreeTaxUSA only cost me like… $20? in California this year and had very little upsells. Highly recommend!

New comment by stevenpetryk in "Introducing command And commandfor In HTML"

stevenpetryk — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 23:18:10 +0000

I’d much prefer el[‘show-popover’]()

New comment by stevenpetryk in "Are LLMs able to notice the “gorilla in the data”?"

stevenpetryk — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 18:46:31 +0000

Obviously you need to place a fiducial mark on your cat.

New comment by stevenpetryk in "Grammarly acquires Coda"

stevenpetryk — Sun, 22 Dec 2024 00:43:42 +0000

It’s a glorified autocorrect. It is not useful for people who are already decent at writing.

New comment by stevenpetryk in "I Want an Honest Office"

stevenpetryk — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 16:32:53 +0000

Same. I want an office that feels safe, clean, and comfortable. I don’t think blood stains from a dead body motivate me to do anything other than look elsewhere.

New comment by stevenpetryk in "Show HN: Open-source private home security camera system (end-to-end encryption)"

stevenpetryk — Sun, 01 Dec 2024 03:35:31 +0000

Have you found cameras you’re happy with? That’s the main thing holding me back is not knowing a good PoE camera to use.