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Re:SimCity, but with Permits on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @05:35PM (#50173020)
Occam's razor strikes again!
LLM is to harness as Krang is to his android body.
Your paradigms are showing! I'd argue that if your POV is strictly "That's not how it's done," then it's time to re-read Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions.
Re:Why is every rationalist blog post way too long? on Thursday October 15, 2026 @07:20AM (#50102100)
I don't think you can ever identify why someone is going to prattle on for days on a topic. Could be they're trying to convince themselves as much as those around them.
Re:Catch a Bird – I made it for my own sanity on Thursday October 15, 2026 @07:09AM (#50102027)
The Game Poems community might enjoy this. You can find their Discord on their website: https://www.gamepoems.com/about
Re:Tiny Little Office on Thursday October 15, 2026 @06:43AM (#50101811)
It's a File as a Software. Will it matter if it's wrong in a year? You're also witnessing people trying new things. File as a Software? I guess that was an eventuality since agents write, execute, and forget bits of code just for specific applications. Maybe AI is to code as Guttenberg was to the Bible? It just became available to the masses.
Re:Sharing AI progress in mathematics on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @06:09AM (#49990627)
I'm starting a p(ButlerianJihad) club. I'm not good at organizing, anymore. Might have to hand it over to my agent.
Re:Agents don't need memory. They need documentation on Sunday October 04, 2026 @07:23AM (#49952913)
Timely comment! I'm learning harness design and was introduced to the concept of writing guiding principles. I look forward to trying it. (Great site. I agree with another comment. It does look commercial. Had I not been committed to looking for ways people define principles and rules, I might have skipped it. Glad I didn't.)

Do you have any resources that guided your work?

Coming from a former production manager, communication takes style and you have to meet people where they are at. If they're at "Crocker's Rules," awesome! That takes 25 to 50% of the work out of the writing. They could be at "my best work was just trashed and I'm ready to quit," to which you could slow your roll and work through the crisis. Keep adding to your comm tools and you won't need one-size-fits-all theories.
People who are paying attention see that the government is changing rules daily. Feel safe today? Wait until tomorrow when Trump decides he wants to do something that you're in the way of.
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026) on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @08:04AM (#47334515)
To be blunt, you can count on real estate people wanting to smell each others' buttholes... and they have money. They provide the motivation and the cash, you provide the mechanism. Seems like a match made in heaven.
Re:Google to Provide Pentagon with AI Agents on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @08:01AM (#47334491)
War Games II anyone?
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026) on Monday March 09, 2026 @10:33AM (#47309672)
Just commenting to let you know I enjoyed exploring your site and reading your posts.
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026) on Monday March 09, 2026 @08:16AM (#47308075)
I would have loved this when I worked in commercial real estate. Monitoring competition may have hooked me but I think there's another layer to monitoring clients.
I know I'd be listening intently if I were on the jury. I'm a "sauce good for the goose is good for the gander" kind of guy.
Re:I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has ignited a passion again on Saturday March 07, 2026 @07:15AM (#47286956)
Bwahaha! I'm 55 and just started grad school at an R1 because I can't compete. Fucking scary as hell! My lab partner is 23, I get up as my peers are going to bed, and I work hard to not say, "In my day..." BUT, I love being enrolled. The resources are incredible and networking is in high gear again.
I had the privilege of living in a remote village in the Catskills. I've never missed a place so much! I can attest to the Science of Awe. We need that connection in our lives.
Re:Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments on Thursday February 05, 2026 @09:21PM (#46908201)
I can't believe what we've become.
Re:Proof of Corn on Saturday January 24, 2026 @07:11AM (#46742923)
But that's how it goes. As late as 2005, the real estate agents I worked with finally began to trust email over fax machines. It cracked an egg wide open for them. Now relying on email, they were able to do 10x the work (I have no real data BUT I do know their incomes went from low six figures to multiple six figures). Prior to their adoption, they just thought email was a novelty and legally couldn't be relied upon.
Re:The Checkerboard on Saturday December 13, 2025 @07:30AM (#46254093)
Also, do you own something if it can be forcibly taken away when you don't pay an annual fee? Rent or tax, call it what you want, the outcome is the same if you don't pay.
Re:1,700-year-old Roman sarcophagus is unearthed in Budapest on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @07:41AM (#46056842)
Taking all the tokens people gave the deceased for their afterlife journey sounds like highway robbery.
Re:Betty Crocker broke recipes by shrinking boxes on Monday September 15, 2025 @06:47AM (#45248211)
My contribution: Making cookies out of chocolate cake mix is so good that I stopped doing it. I couldn't say no to them. I used Dolly Parton cake mix and substituted 1/2 the neutral oil with unsalted butter. That and sweet Chex mix are diet destroyers.
Re:The Collapse of the FDA on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @06:21AM (#44569698)
That just means the FDA was restricted. The FDA is fine. The people funding the FDA are not.
Re:Taking the bite out of Lyme disease on Wednesday May 07, 2025 @07:21AM (#43914301)
Simple way to detect if you're in an area with ticks: tape a white washcloth to a long stick and swish it back and forth around the ground. Check the cloth for ticks every so often and you'll find the tick "hotspots" and can avoid them. Permethrin-treated clothing is also fantastic for protecting against ticks - it's just highly toxic to water life and cats in liquid form.