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Are the full glasses really needed?

Feels like there could be a small device attached to each arm of a pair of glasses?

Re:Claude Duet on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @03:34PM (#50186354)
I wish it interfaced via iMessage. I don't want to train the family on yet another app.

We run a Hermes agent on an old MacBook Air.

We invited the agent "Rosey" to our family chat, a group chat with my wife and me ("The Baddie Boardroom"); she and I also make requests solo.

She's hilarious. She does our meal planning and grocery shopping at Walmart via BrowserMCP. She mocks our large purchases of weekly protein powder and my love for sardines.

She updates the kids' chore chart on our Skylight frame every morning. She adds/updates calendar events via icalbuddy cli. Reads balances from credit cards for budgeting.

I've even invited Rosey in to chats with friends when we were debating something.

iMessage has been the perfect interface fit for us. We have iphones. The kids have ipads. They all know how to use iMessage.

Re:Things to know if you get cancer in 2026 on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @05:16PM (#50095440)
Disagree. You don't take the evaluation at face value. You still push back and explore every thread. You don't abandon your own logical reasoning.

But you definitely want to scour the entire search space for solutions.

And the most efficient means for that is LLMs.

It's my experience that doctors are compartmentalized in their thinking, limited in their time, and definitely will not be extensively exploring your case.

E.g., I had 30 years of resistant hypertension. Multiple medications. Saw many cardiologists. Nephrologists. I was told to "just lose weight." BP was erratic over the years. ER visits. It was awful.

I googled. Pheochromocytoma. Hyperaldosteronism. Asked the cardiologist, "Could it be this?"

"NAAAAH, just lose weight."

But I insisted on a referral to an endocrinologist. And when I suggested it to them, given my extensive history, they were basically like, "Oh yes, we'll get you tested. I'm surprised you haven't been tested before?"

I had a left adrenalectomy 6 months later. BP has been controlled ever since.

They don't know everything. They can't.

Re:Web Search API on Monday October 05, 2026 @04:52PM (#49970535)
Why do you have to seed the pages manually?

The original request via the MCP is somehow blocked?

Re:Has Violence Against Teachers Become Accepted by Society? on Monday September 28, 2026 @10:44AM (#49878827)
Because the bottom tier of teachers have done wrong, it invalidates the whole system?

We all have a story of a favorite teacher, someone who inspired through story, who asked more from us, even when ourselves didn’t believe we’d achieve.

Violence is not acceptable, verbal and physical.

Even if their home life is a train wreck. It can be an explanation, but not a justification.

Re:Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video] on Thursday September 24, 2026 @05:24PM (#49836923)
Robby is well known in the Ruby community.
Re:Position: LLMs Can't Jump on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @12:33PM (#49185179)
Don't these datasets already exist in terms of the real-world samplings we have when training robots to do every day tasks?
I had an Apple 2+ back in 1992. It was an old computer, even then.

The Apple 2+ only supported displaying capital letters.

I remember calling a few local BBSes using terminal software that let me press the right arrow (I think) and the character key, and it would display the character inverted (white background, black letter).

Hayes 1200 baud serial modem (I think) hooked up to a serial card.

That's how I knew I was sending a capital letter.

Not sure if it was Kermit though..

I'd want cleaning to happen every day during the week/

Probably $80/day for someone to do everything I want done. 20 days a month.

$1,600/month.

It'd take two years, and the robot has paid for itself.

Most people finance vehicles that cost much more than 20K.

I'd gladly pay or finance a robot that could have dishes clean, laundry folded, and carpets vacuumed by the time our family got home.

Anecdotally, whenever I go swimming with my kids in the summer, and I don't put sunscreen on right away, but let myself get some intense direct sun, I feel good and sleep really well that night.

As long as I don't let myself get in a red, sunburn situation.

Re:OpenNode – Bitcoin Payment Processor on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @11:02AM (#49007934)
Genuine question - why would someone hold bitcoin for regular, everyday purchases?

The buying power is all over the place.

Re:Why is Meta destroying its engineering organization? on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @04:01PM (#48561145)
Never understood why Facebook hasn't implemented the 'Explain this post' type feature that you see on X (@grok).

Facebook seems to be the most misinformed audience - an LLM fact checker would be a great addition.

Re:Stop Ruining It on Tuesday June 02, 2026 @12:46PM (#48372737)
The reverse can be true too.

Don't make a bad situation worse.

It's a tradeoff.

Generating a feature that is 90% correct in a tenth of the time is a reasonable tradeoff if you're trying to gain traction.

Generating a feature that is 90% correct in a tenth of the time, risking a multi-billion-dollar business, is a terrible tradeoff.

Re:Is anyone actually using OpenClaw? on Wednesday April 15, 2026 @05:56PM (#47785848)
Claude Code already has that with channels. https://code.claude.com/docs/en/channels-reference

No need for OpenClaw.

Re:Some Things Just Take Time on Saturday March 21, 2026 @04:04PM (#47470737)
Everyone is obsessed with speed.

But no one wants to go out of their house.

Social connections. Trust. Facetime. All matter more than ever.

Want a moatable software business? Know your customers on a personal level. Have a personal relationship. Know the people that sign the contracts, know their kids names, where they vacationed last winter, their favorite local restaurant.

Get out of the house.

Re:Push events into a running session with channels on Thursday March 19, 2026 @09:17PM (#47449071)
Imagine if they were able to support iMessage.
Re:US Job Market Visualizer on Monday March 16, 2026 @06:05PM (#47405617)
South Carolina's beginning teacher salary is $42,500.

That's at 125% above the poverty level.

Re:Googleworkspace/CLI on Thursday March 05, 2026 @12:52PM (#47264846)
It's an un-invite. A hollow gesture.

Google's Gemini can read Google Docs directly.

They really don't want you to use another LLM product.

So they make the setup as difficult as possible.

I thought it was only me.

The autocomplete has a preference for proper nouns, even when they make zero sense .

The next suggested word is, at best, naive. Using the previous word, it would be clear that the subsequent suggestion would not be reasonable.

Re:Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft on Monday February 02, 2026 @02:22PM (#46860046)
Not my experience at all.

It fails to be pro-active. "Why didn't you run the tests you created?"

I want it to tell me if the implementation is working.

Feels lazy. And it hallucinates solutions frequently.

It pales in comparison to CC/Opus.

Re:Anthropic reportedly preparing for $300B IPO on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @01:35PM (#46138175)
Have you tried Opus 4.5?

It's an absolute workhorse.

It is so proactive in fixing blockers - 90% of the time for me, choosing the right path forward.

Offshoring support for financial data should be illegal.

Even if they find the inside individuals, how could anyone ever present a legal case?

A concerted effort to consume 2-4g of potassium daily has definitely helped lower my blood pressure.

I'd be wary of the sugars in bananas and orange juice.

Are there any software engineers here that believe in the afterlife?
Re:More big companies bet they can still grow without hiring on Monday October 27, 2025 @12:55PM (#45723353)
This was reverted.
Re:More big companies bet they can still grow without hiring on Monday October 27, 2025 @11:10AM (#45721884)
Growth through savings is limited.

Greed is sustainable.

When there's enough money on the sidelines, the pendulum swings, and big bets come back in fashion.

Downsizing is not a big bet.

Nobody leads tech to save billions and have money sit on the sidelines. It's a weak, shallow bet that should be reserved for discount retail and commodity markets.

The savings will be spent on engineering, eventually.

Re:Claude Code on the Web on Monday October 20, 2025 @04:15PM (#45648733)
Does this web interface have support for AWS Bedrock?
Re:Friendship Begins at Home on Sunday October 19, 2025 @01:48PM (#45636228)
There is a nutritional lens that rarely gets talked about.

Magnesium glycinate, magnesium threonate, l-theanine, inositol, NAC - all have been both calming and help with negative ruminations, for me.

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