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w0m commented on Claude Opus 4.1 anthropic.com/news/claude... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

ryandrake · 20 days ago

Am I the only one super confused about how to even get started trying out this stuff? Just so I wouldn't be "that critic who doesn't try the stuff he criticizes," I tried GitHub Copilot and was kind of not very impressed. Someone on HN told me Copilot sucks, use Claude. But I have no idea what the right way to do it is because there are so many paths to choose.

Let's see: we have Claude Code vs. Claude the API vs. Claude the website, and they're totally different from each other? One is command line, one integrates into your IDE (which IDE?) and one is just browser based, I guess. Then you have the different pricing plans, Free, Pro, and Max? But then there's also Claude Team and Claude Enterprise? These are monthly plans that only work with Claude the Website, but Claude Code is per-request? Or is it Claude API that's per-request? I have no idea. Then you have the models: Claude Opus and Claude Sonnet, with various version numbers for each?? Then there's Cline and Cursor and GOOD GRIEF! I just want to putz around with something in VSCode for a few hours!

w0m · 20 days ago

honestly - copilot free mode; and just play with the agentic stuff can give you a good idea. Attach it to Roo and you'll get a good idea. Realize that if you paid to use a better model; you'd get better results as free doesn't have a ton of premium tokens.

w0m commented on uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari apps.apple.com/app/ublock... · Posted by u/Jiahang

remus · 20 days ago

Not to stick up for the search in the app store, but I don't think it is necessarily that straightforward, particularly where there is money to be made by gaming the ranking.

w0m · 20 days ago

if there's a system; people will go out of their way to game it if there's potentially $$$ involved.

w0m commented on Ubiquiti launches UniFi OS Server for self-hosting lazyadmin.nl/home-network... · Posted by u/speckx

SamuelAdams · 25 days ago

What is the advantage of using this over existing OSS solutions?

w0m · 25 days ago

are there OSS solutions for controlling/configuring unify hardware?

w0m commented on Magic .env files built for sharing: Human-first, AI-friendly varlock.dev/... · Posted by u/mooreds

throw-the-towel · 2 months ago

And I don't get storing your configuration in env variables, period. They're not discoverable at all, there's no namespacing nor any other isolation, there's no structure to them, and if you want a list you'll have to come up with an ad-hoc encoding. Environment variables are a mess, you'd be better off with a config file.

w0m · 2 months ago

I assume environment variables became popular as it's an 'easy' way to inject secrets without hardcoding them in a config file.

w0m commented on Fun with uv and PEP 723 cottongeeks.com/articles/... · Posted by u/deepakjois

SmellTheGlove · 2 months ago

Would homebrew do the job?

w0m · 2 months ago

Homebrew does a great job @ initial setup; it does a poor job of keeping a system clean and updated over time.

w0m commented on Fun with uv and PEP 723 cottongeeks.com/articles/... · Posted by u/deepakjois

arcanemachiner · 2 months ago

Never say never.

Knowing the Python packaging ecosystem, uv could very well be replaced by something else. It feels different this time, but we won't know for a while yet.

w0m · 2 months ago

Agreed. I migrated ~all my personal things to Uv; but I'm sure once I start adopting widely at work I'll find edge cases you need to know the weeds to figureout/work around.

w0m commented on Fun with uv and PEP 723 cottongeeks.com/articles/... · Posted by u/deepakjois

xavdid · 2 months ago

My rule of thumb is that as soon as I write a conditional, it's time to upgrade bash to Python/Node/etc. I shouldn't have to search for the nuances of `if` statements every time I need to write them.

w0m · 2 months ago

Historically; my rule of thumb is as soon as I can't see the ~entire script without scrolling - time to rewrite in Python/ansible. I Think about the rewrite, but it usually takes awhile to do it (if ever)

w0m commented on Meta's Llama 3.1 can recall 42 percent of the first Harry Potter book understandingai.org/p/met... · Posted by u/aspenmayer

geysersam · 2 months ago

If the assertion in the parent comment is correct "nobody is using this as a substitute to buying the book" why should the rights holders get paid?

w0m · 2 months ago

The argument is whether the LLM training on the copyrighted work is Fair Use or not. Should META pay for the copyright on works it ingests for training purposes?

w0m commented on The Gutting of America's Medical Research nytimes.com/interactive/2... · Posted by u/pmags

kelseyfrog · 3 months ago

The positive side seems to be that relinquishing our position[1] as the medical research country should lower healthcare prices. For decades we've been told that our healthcare prices were due to medical research - drug discovery, device innovation, &etc. By destroying our ability to do research, we should expect to see healthcare prices equalize at a price where those costs are no longer factored in, right?

1. By way of self-inflicted damage

w0m · 3 months ago

Honestly; the exact opposite. Removing funding for research means either research is canceled, or funded private.

Funding the research privately increases costs to end user as private ensurer is directly accruing more cost. Research stopping increases costs to end user as new/novel cures/treatments aren't found.

Cost for consumer goes up because of lost opportunity cost of 1) learning to diagnose earlier 2) finding new or cheaper cures/treatments.

You can make the argument 'But other countries will pick up the slack!' - but that doesn't necessarily help either, why would they give us the results of their research cheaper? US already jacked up pricing via an executive order on drug pricing just this year to knock that.

Publicly funded medical research is an absolute positive for the US general public health and wallets. We're all losing here on both ends of the spectrum ($$ and actual general public health).

w0m commented on Typing 118 WPM broke my brain in the right ways balaji-amg.surge.sh/blog/... · Posted by u/b0a04gl

Terr_ · 3 months ago

Opposite experience: I hated the school class and I remember some frustrating tools which, if you made an error, counted any reflexive backspace and corrected letter as two additional errors...

What really turned me into a touch-typist was all the arguing I did over dial-up internet the next summer.

w0m · 3 months ago

same on both. On dial-up; I learned to touch type so I could insult my opponent after killing them, but before they re-spawned and could attack me again in a video game.