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New comment by transitorykris in "OpenAI is well positioned to fast-follow Jev"

transitorykris — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 16:41:36 +0000

You can easily use Jev without an LLM (consider Jev used to make truthy decision branches in a script). It's not meant to replace LLMs. The tech is not a competition. But OpenAI is certainly in competition with TypeSafe, they'll want to keep people in their own ecosystem!

New comment by transitorykris in "Saving another 100TB of RAM"

transitorykris — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 22:00:07 +0000

They wanted that in the 90s, didn't work out well as a software product https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoftRAM

New comment by transitorykris in "Connecting the machines"

transitorykris — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 23:37:44 +0000

These are two different layers in the stack that do two different jobs. Agent to agent communication across remote machines is definitely lubricated with tailscale, I’m not sure what value moving up the stack would bring at this stage?

My read here isn’t about connecting to remote machines in the sense of ssh, but presenting a unified view across herdr instances running on multiple remote machines.

This stinks of the same enshittification moves Docker made 10 years ago.

New comment by transitorykris in "A bizarre Commodore 64 peripheral, a mime, and some pretty bad ads"

transitorykris — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 02:06:42 +0000

The ad in itself probably has no practical value. The surprising nature of its staying power is curious. And curiosity is a strong signal. Good luck.

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

transitorykris — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 21:19:03 +0000

100% convinced their raw output is intended as further inputs, and my workflows have been comfortable and efficient treating it as such. If you really need to read slop, you ask your agent to give it to you in a style that works for you. I can imagine a world where the slop from others doesn’t hit us directly but gets personal mediation.

New comment by transitorykris in "Mechanical Turk shutting down September 30"

transitorykris — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 03:07:57 +0000

The only time I ever used it (as a turk?) was when Jim Gray went missing at sea and satellite imagery of vast regions of the pacific were fed through Mechanical Turk. Seems a trivial problem now, but was not then, and needed humans to take a look.

New comment by transitorykris in "Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B"

transitorykris — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 03:03:23 +0000

Well, if they didn't want a dominant investor, they didn't get one, they got acquired.

New comment by transitorykris in "New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra"

transitorykris — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 17:18:28 +0000

I've been running a desktop Mac in addition to MacBook and iPad for the past decade (currently a first gen Studio still holding quite strong). It's primarily a focus thing, secondarily it's a way to keep work happening locally while I'm elsewhere, and never have the frustrations of docking and screen geometries all re-arranging, etc. The iPad is at the opposite extreme, it's for recreation, burn out management. The MacBook exists for when I actually need to do "real work" outside of the house.

New comment by transitorykris in "OpenLogi"

transitorykris — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 03:57:01 +0000

At this point we should be sharing prompts not code for solutions like OpenLogi. Reverse engineering many things can typically be one-shotted (ignoring things like.. capturing a pcap or whatever to aid the effort). Let others add their own taste to the solution.

New comment by transitorykris in "Finger: the 1971 social network that never died"

transitorykris — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:12:18 +0000

The grey beards in the mid-90s cut their teeth on much more constrained systems! The web crawling these days probably has all the ones who have passed spinning rapidly in their graves.

New comment by transitorykris in "Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?"

transitorykris — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 21:43:09 +0000

I’m either out of touch with contemporary terminology but Opus 5 dropped “pre-mortem” on me today. Figured I’d just figure it out with more context.

New comment by transitorykris in "Donkey.bas is 45 Years Old – 131 line of Glory"

transitorykris — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 21:16:35 +0000

Modifying those games were the first times I ever touched code! There was one that existed somewhere between DOS 2.0 and 3.2 that simply asked your name, then asked how the hell you got that name. It was maybe half a dozen lines, but easy enough to modify output and learn a bit about variables.

New comment by transitorykris in "Chartreuse, a case study in how scarcity and authenticity can drive desirability"

transitorykris — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 22:02:14 +0000

Wine certainly. Guinness was marketed as being good for you and not uncommon for pregnant women to drink it. Old liqueurs were often considered medicine, with Chartreuse from the article being one. Doctors used to prescribe alcohol during prohibition, but that probably doesn’t count here.

New comment by transitorykris in "Chartreuse, a case study in how scarcity and authenticity can drive desirability"

transitorykris — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 21:36:25 +0000

Jim Beam even had to halt production due to the oversupply: https://www.fooddive.com/news/jim-beam-pauses-production-ken...

We stock Chartreuse at our bar, not easy, and we occasionally have to modulate the cocktails on the menu to slow customers down a bit. The Bay Area itself gets an allocation each month, which is then further allocated to individual establishments.

New comment by transitorykris in "Ethical Cold Outreach"

transitorykris — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:31:57 +0000

System Z is vaguely the read reply cards you would find in magazines. While I enjoyed the snail mail spammed materials, my parents were terrorized through the entire 90s by my abuse of those found in professional magazines like Computer Language.

New comment by transitorykris in "Tuxedo No. 2 – Cocktail recipes"

transitorykris — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 03:38:36 +0000

To bring that full circle, Fairmont (the hotel) does their house Old Fashioned using 50/50 rum and bourbon. I believe it was Mount Gay and Woodford.

New comment by transitorykris in "Pareto Front"

transitorykris — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 14:45:32 +0000

You’d be looking at fuel level affecting choices of ride height, brake bias, etc. Possibly changes in line and distance travelled too. But, I’m curious how psychology can fit in here (or not. How do you measure it?). Driver concentration and confidence are important when trimming out aero or other adjustments for single lap flyers.

New comment by transitorykris in "RamenHaus"

transitorykris — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 01:09:41 +0000

It's a fun scene, but dear beginners, just eat the ramen. Be curious as usual about all the things. But you do not need to poke at your food and get all contemplative over fast food. I defy anyone to find a salaryman in Tokyo at 7am before work plowing a bowl of ramen (and clearly enjoying it) and also being weird about it.

New comment by transitorykris in "US DOT deleting bike lane references"

transitorykris — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 21:35:02 +0000

"Since nearly 80% of the population uses cars to get to work and their important medical appointments, we are taking a closer look at federal guidance to ensure American families have the infrastructure they need," the spokesperson said. "This is a common sense approach despite the Left's belief that everyone should ride a bike to their shoebox-sized apartment to eat crickets to achieve a phony climate agenda."

Jumping straight into the middle of the article you might believe you stumbled onto The Onion.

New comment by transitorykris in "The drivers behind software delivery inefficiency"

transitorykris — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 23:13:46 +0000

Single Piece Flow fits with other Toyota ideas of how to get high quality work done. If something is frequently blocking the line, the solution is to put resources toward the bottleneck, not spin up more work in parallel.