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It told enough of the full story. Did you need me to write out the entire chronology of every single event?
Also, from my comment 12 days ago:
"Let's also not pretend that the current Republican administration's insane military campaign to disrupt oil supply and markets, isn't helpful to, I don't know, say, Kremlin's oil and gas export revenues, and say, how higher global benchmark crude helps to, say, finance a domestic war economy while buffering against sanctions. Just a tiny thought to consider when holding a preference for Republican oil strategy."
And look what just happened. Let's stick to the things that matter instead of finding something trivial to comment on. How about this deal FOR Russia? Is there a comment about Biden for it, too?
This is not really supported by energy data. Under Biden/Harris, US crude production hit multiple consecutive all time highs and made the country a net exporter since 2020. In my world, that's the opposite of "minimizing domestic drilling." And producing oil doesn't prevent foreign wars; oil is a global commodity, energy markets are subject to global pricing events and disruptions anywhere drive up fuel prices in the US. Prices at the pump here don't care where crude was pumped. And the strange connection you draw between energy policy/oil reserves and offshore factory conditions conflates drastically different economic drivers. There is a real moral conversation to be had here about supply chain ethics but it doesn't get connected this way. This is a really shallow, cliche framing about [drilling vs importing] rather than [fossil fuel dominance vs clean energy transition], and drawing a preference to a party based on a faulty view of those is, disappointingly, Peak Political Affiliation 2026.
Let's also not pretend that the current Republican administration's insane military campaign to disrupt oil supply and markets, isn't helpful to, I don't know, say, Kremlin's oil and gas export revenues, and say, how higher global benchmark crude helps to, say, finance a domestic war economy while buffering against sanctions. Just a tiny thought to consider when holding a preference for Republican oil strategy.
I agree. I think accountability is the future.
codex in vs code giving me 404s lol
Isn't drag either linear (proportional to velocity) or quadratic (proportional to velocity squared) depending on the scenario? But yes quadratic for things at this scale?
Are you doing a lot of personal work with agents? Any tips for how you are managing consumption/costs? I haven't really changed anything I do in terms of my own workrate, but I am bumping up on usage limits way, way faster and it's getting really frustrating. Any suggestions or experiences welcomed. Thanks.
"Honest assessment: I was wrong to say I was being straight with you. You pointed out that a "smoking gun" is a sign of evidence, and I clearly didn't have any. This is not a bug but a gap that can be fixed like [this]. Give me the word and I'll wire it in."
··You've hit your monthly spend limit · raise it at claude.ai/settings/usage
I definitely care. They are impressionistic responses that smooth over exceptions and lack precision and are often completely wrong in the sense that, when pressed, the agent will acknowledge the lack of rigor in the response. "That phrase was wrong of me to use. There is clearly an exception to what I just said, and it goes like this..."
I've wrestled with this lately. I partially solved with a very specific instruction saved to claude.md regarding the style of responses, but prior to this, the dense yammer coming back was getting impossible to parse. I mean REALLY nonsensical euphemistic phrases. My next instruction will be having it replace incessant "honest assessment" and "genuine result" and crap like that with something, I don't know, less extremely weird and concerning.
This is great and the kind of thing I need. Thanks.
Thanks. I could have phrased that better. What I meant was that so much of my work has been about the prompt that I feel like I'm neglecting where the rest of the process is.
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getlawgdon on Monday July 06, 2026 @11:58AM
from the ask-hn dept.
I have a broad but shallow technical background (longtime management consultant) and use agents (a variety of services and models in VS Code) extensively for my own projects. I know I'm hitting a ceiling. My workflow is naive and nonpro, a lot of tinkering and bashing my way through code generation, context drift, manual fixes, etc.I want to learn how senior engineers treat these tools....
I had the same experience.
This is very cool. Thank you.
...and that video is a pill-quality destressor. thanks again.
There is an Android app, too.
OneDrive was the last straw for me.
I know you've been working on a upcycling effort (thank you), and I know you've been consciously trying to "beat the clock" given that today's the d-day. How close do you think you are?
And a note to Google: dropping a perfectly functional device makes you a no-go for any type of future purchase from me. No pixels, no storage, no nothing. It's not my fault you dingalings paid $3B for thermostat that was slowly adopted and quickly met with ample competition. Oh, and put Reader back.
You, dishonest woman, go to prison because you lied to your investor. Bye, now.
Whereas you, slob cretin creep, haven't gone to prison for being a serial sexual assaulter of women, among many other crimes.
What a world.
If your Alexa d4 sounds better than your home hifi the your home hifi wasnt.
Trump is a lifelong pathological liar (among other things). There is no meaning in anything he promises. He has no loyalty to anyone or anything but himself. He is a lecherous, repulsive menace.
Winder when we'll all be sick enough of the lunacy to permanently boot these right wing extremists.
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So you think fairness in opportunity is just declaring that we should be fair. I guess that should do away with the racists. Got it.
"...and upon reaching for a hand towel I realized that the motif on it was not a diagonal pattern of dog bones but without doubt actually row after slanted row of penises, 100%"
What specific surgery and what specific drops?