toddmorey

For the curious, it looks like a PC with a RTX 5090 32GB graphics card will run you about $6,000.

I always imagine the model rolling its silicon eyes when it’s assigned a personality (“you are an expert growth hacker”) at the start of the prompt. Was that ever actually shown to be effective? Is it…

I'm SO tired of subscription services that only offer the opportunity to buy more stuff. - Doordash wants you to subscribe - AMC movies want you to subscribe - Now Waymo wants you to subs…

Anthropic seems to agree with you as more recent Claude updates have it just building task specific harnesses as needed.

I fear it's a smokescreen to manage cost and capacity.

I'm interested in how it feels to use: whether there is any context leaking, as you mentioned, if it introduces latency, and whether there are any pricing implications? I know they weighed a vari…

I don’t know. Give me a 94x multiple and I can make any financial deal look brilliant. I think a better word is just opportunistic.

Ok, not my favorite narrative, but assume asymmetric application of intellectual property rights was a big factor. Wouldn't the US exploiting asymmetric labor wages, rights, and conditions be the…

It feels like the US for years has operated under the assumption that homeostasis for the global economy would always be “designed in California, assembled in China.” Like there was something in the A…

I agree with the hard part being managing state, especially environments and ports. I've never used lsof so much in my life. Question on Remote Workspace: Can the remote machine port forward so I…

It’s my daily browser. Small glitches occasionally and can lag chrome releases, but the best absolute non-adware browser with powerful features. I have it configured to be ultra minimal with the look …

Have always said community solar programs are the way to do residential solar. In those programs, you pay for and own off-site solar panels, then the energy they produce is credited to your electric b…

Yes! My son who has autism would eat anything we put in front of him until age 3, when his weight, appetite and health suddenly and alarmingly crashed. Ever since that episode, he's had a much …

Also reads like the paid placement of some sort of mobile phone or streaming bundle.

Look I'm speaking here as a career designer: I think design as a "signaling function" for determining the quality of a thing was already broken. It was already possible to put up an imp…

I know for most people that the big surprise here is sustained search ad revenue in the face of AI. But I’m super curious on margins because I thought for sure offering so much free AI inference would…

Conjecture, but the wording "limited subset" rarely turns out to be good news. Usually a provider will say "less than 1% of our users" or some specific number when they can to ease…

I've been part of a response team on a security incident and I really feel for them. However, this initial communication is terrible. Something happened, we won't say what, but it was severe…

Given the same inputs but not provided the results (output) from our accountant, did it come to the same conclusions or have good analysis as to why it differed? Obviously, accounting is "spreads…

On the subject of metrics, better user-facing metrics to understand and debug usage patterns would be a great addition. I'd love an easier way to understand the ave cost incurred by a specific sk…

My taxes are rather complex, so I ran the same exercise to see if Claude agreed with my accountant. An automated second opinion, so to speak. Spent about 6 minutes analyzing all the PDFs and basically…

> it works by simulating a trackpad swipe with a large amount of velocity Damn, that's rather clever.

Also with this approach, you actually have a real collection and it's fun to collect things. My son has autism and viewed his Netflix homepage as his personal curated collection. But then, of cou…

There are some easy optimizations wins for this page but none of the top ones are framework related. Maybe with the faster build times they can easily optimize images and 3rd party dependencies. As so…

Question: since they've rebooted their approach to AI... have they given up on open models? There's no mention of open source or open weights or access to the models beyond their hosted serv…

You joke but as a parent, I’m so sick of the gem packs, etc. they try to push on the kids to obfuscate your actual spend on games in real world money. And now it feels like the are gamifying the compu…

wow that's fascinating

Why are all these checks still performed on an authenticated, paid user?

Paid users?

It’s interesting to remember Apple used to orient the logo so that it was upside down when opened. That looks right to you as you open the laptop, but wrong to everyone else. Now when you’re in a coff…