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scottmf commented on The surprise deprecation of GPT-4o for ChatGPT consumers   simonwillison.net/2025/Au... · Posted by u/tosh
scottmf · 24 days ago
> casuals who want to spend as little money as possible to use lots of datacenter time as their artificial buddy

What kind of elitist bs is that?

scottmf commented on No One Is Working   humaninvariant.com/blog/w... · Posted by u/jxmorris12
scottmf · 25 days ago
Crazy to read this on two hours sleep in two days because of startup deadlines
scottmf commented on Dumb Pipe   dumbpipe.dev/... · Posted by u/udev4096
kwakubiney · a month ago
Not a very friendly API
scottmf · a month ago
This works:

Remote:

  $ socat TCP-LISTEN:4321,reuseaddr,fork EXEC:"bash -li",pty,stderr,setsid,sigint,rawer&
  $ dumbpipe listen-tcp --host 127.0.0.1:4321
  using secret key fe82...7efd
  Forwarding incoming requests to '127.0.0.1:4321'.
  To connect, use e.g.:
  dumbpipe connect-tcp nodeabj...wkqay

Local:

  $ dumbpipe connect-tcp --addr 127.0.0.1:4321 nodeabj...wkqay&
  using secret key fe82...7efd
  $ nc 127.0.0.1 4321
  root@localhost:~#

scottmf commented on Dumb Pipe   dumbpipe.dev/... · Posted by u/udev4096
kwakubiney · a month ago
Ah right, but this does not support bidirectional streaming so I won't be able to get the remote stdout on the client, I guess.
scottmf · a month ago
Couldn’t you just pipe the stdout to another dumbpipe
scottmf commented on GCP Outage   status.cloud.google.com/... · Posted by u/thanhhaimai
ashu1461 · 3 months ago
GPT is working in agent mode, which kind of confirms that claude is hosted on google and GPT probably on MSFT servers / self hosted.
scottmf · 3 months ago
Claude runs on AWS afaik. And OAI on Azure. Edit: oh okay maybe GCP too then. I’m personally having no problem using Claude Code though.
scottmf commented on Getting AI to write good SQL   cloud.google.com/blog/pro... · Posted by u/richards
roflyear · 4 months ago
Or, just let their users deal with the bugs b/c churn will be less than the cost of developers.
scottmf · 3 months ago
Right. Look at Electron apps. They're ubiquitous despite the poorer performance and user experience because the benefits outweigh the negatives.

Maintaining a codebase isn't going to be a thing in the future, at least not in the traditional/current sense.

scottmf commented on Show HN: A tool for creating blackout poetry   bobbiec.github.io/blackou... · Posted by u/bobbiechen
ray__ · 5 months ago
This is really cool! Any tips for finding poems hidden in a large block of text?

It reminds me of the poem composed from one of Trump's tweets: "O, the Pelican. so smoothly doth he crest. a wind god!" There are lots of other examples on r/othepelican.

scottmf · 5 months ago
Seems like a use case for language models.
scottmf commented on Why does JSON have commas?   simonsafar.com/2025/json_... · Posted by u/Tomte
EGreg · 5 months ago
anyone actually use comma-first syntax? It lets you easily move lines around, too:

  {"foo": "bar"
  ,"baz": "hehe"
  ,"yes": "aligned"
  ,"better": "this way"}

scottmf · 5 months ago
more easy how?
scottmf commented on Show HN: I built a word game. My mom thinks it's great. What do you think?   whatsit.today/... · Posted by u/mkate
ugh123 · 5 months ago
>There’s no point of having a “Play again” option for a Wordle style daily game, the thinking part is already done, so any replay is just an exercise in dexterity.

What if i'm handing it to a friend/spouse to play to beat my time?

>Consider having some sort of overarching thing in your puzzle, so it’s not just five words on a specific topic to guess, but something more, like a hidden word across all five etc. This makes a delightful discovery moment and sometimes might work as a clue.

That just sounds like your idea for a different type of game. I like his current idea for this game.

scottmf · 5 months ago
> What if i'm handing it to a friend/spouse to play to beat my time?

then that works better with his suggestion for a timer rather than a countdown

you could retain a challenge aspect by showing average time to solve (or your result compared to others; “You did better than 94% of people!” etc)

scottmf commented on Anthropic: "Applicants should not use AI assistants"   simonwillison.net/2025/Fe... · Posted by u/twapi
aprilthird2021 · 7 months ago
That's totally reasonable, imo. You also can't look up the answers using a search engine during your application to work at Google
scottmf · 7 months ago
Why not

u/scottmf

KarmaCake day868October 26, 2014View Original