The author describes a lot of directives they found useful. Be aware Claude has the concept of `slash commands` https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code/slash-command...
Readit Newscampbel commented on Linda Yaccarino is leaving X nytimes.com/2025/07/09/te... · Posted by u/donohoe
Sorry, maybe i wasn't clear.
I posted on the ReformUK subreddit in opposition to something that was being touted there. The context of the post doesn't matter, posting on that sub is enough to get you blanked banned from many other placed.
Getting banned from a default sub you've never posted in because you told a racist boomer somewhere else they might be falling for propaganda is bloody weird.
I think the intention of it, as weird as it may seem, is to punish people for engaging with content the other subreddit mods feel is distasteful enough to warrant the effort.
I can't speak to whether this is a useful tactic on their part, or whether its fair to you, but IMO this is just another kind of "free speech" that exists.
campbel commented on Self-Adapting Language Models arxiv.org/abs/2506.10943... · Posted by u/archon1410
It seems to me that "forgetting correctly" is rapidly becoming a more pertinent problem in this field than "learning correctly." We're making great strides in getting models to teach themselves new facts, but the state of the art in jettisoning the least relevant information given new knowledge and finite capacity is lagging far behind.
"Forgetting correctly" is something most human brains are exceptionally good at, too. I wonder how that works...
Is it some form of least-recently-used approach? I'm running tests on my own mind trying to figure it out now :D part of what I love about this area of computer science.
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From the linked Programmer blog [1]:
> It might seem lowly to be a Programmer, but in a world where so much is driven by computers there's nothing shameful in being the person who makes them go.
I find it interesting that in 2012 he thought the title of "Programmer" was shameful. In 2012 I was a somewhat recent grad and definitely more junior, at that time I thought programmers were the smartest folks at my company, exactly because they were "the [people] who make [computers] go".
The US is so weird right now.
You have a President who is ordering the defunding of tons of groups (universities, media, aid, institutes) while not clearly having that authority and often doing so for what he views as ideological crimes.
Also arresting and trying to deport people for things that are not clearly crimes (newspaper op-eds, etc) and without due process.
Very strange times.
Right now I have some faith the courts in the US will stand up to this and get the US back on track but I worry that dam may not hold forever.
Saving grace is that his is not widely popular, although that is more for his tariff moves than for the others.
"Strange" times is a bit of an understatement.
campbel commented on Tilt: dev environment as code github.com/tilt-dev/tilt... · Posted by u/saikatsg
I'm using Pulumi for this right now (with a dev setup and a prod setup), what would be the benefit for me to use Tilt over this?
Tilt is useful for local-dev where you are going to be modifying code / k8s configs and want live reload when you make changes. That is almost the entire appeal.
campbel commented on Tilt: dev environment as code github.com/tilt-dev/tilt... · Posted by u/saikatsg
I did a blog post for Linkerd showing some of the benefits of using Tilt https://linkerd.io/2024/12/02/tilt-linkerd-nginx-part-1/.
TL;DR you can run some of your infra in local-dev that provide parity with your production environment.
campbel commented on OpenVSX, which VSCode forks rely on for extensions, down for 24 hours status.open-vsx.org/... · Posted by u/aaronvg
Open Source projects used to all be hosted on hundreds of random mirrors. The hosting of which was free and donated, because it was just an HTTP/FTP/RSYNC directory on a file server in a closet in some corporation or university. Didn't even need to be reliable, as there were hundreds of mirrors. Linux distributions, and some very old projects, are still maintained this way.
Nowadays you must have a flashy website. You must host everything on a single managed VCS provider, or a programming package ecosystem hoster. You must depend on corporations to give you free things, in exchange for you giving them everything about you (otherwise you must pay out of pocket for everything). You must do what everyone else does.
Maybe it's impossible to go back to a simpler time. But it's not impossible to change the state of things today.
This is the difference between open source to share useful code and open source to build leverage for a business.
Here's one of dozens of results I got for "Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle". For this one it decided to write a poem:
There are a bunch more attempts in this Gist, some of which do at least include an SVG tag albeit one that doesn't render anything: https://gist.github.com/simonw/25e7b7afd6a63a2f15db48b3a51ec...I'm looking forward to seeing people fine-tune this in a way that produces useful output for selected tasks, which should absolutely be feasible.