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  RE: https://social.vivaldi.net/@pelavarre/117305551811110716 Honestly, sometimes I look out on the world and feel so alien. What's wrong with you people. Why weren't you stubbing your toe over this as often as me. Why didn't you complain and get it fixed. Why am I even in this loop. How open can this source really be if it can't show up to fix this corner too. You know this feeling? What haven't we fixed that you know we should come fix?

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  I do feel my thinking about computer puzzles gets stuck when I have no one to talk to, but the $$ AI Chatbots simulate conversation enough to unstick me. Today I got them to carry me as far forward as noticing I can easily tell a shell to poll for an answer, and tell me every time the answer changes. The conventional way to do this in Linux erases all but the last answer, which has frustrated me at least since late Nov/2015 when first I came back into working with Linux & macOS. It is eas...

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  There is recursive self improvement of the model weights, but are there other things we store that we already know how to improve now? => I don't run just the models from Claude's makers. I run memories and skills and hooks and so on. As I work, I pump a feedback loop that rewrites those. I pump it regularly, at several frequencies. + I'm often watching Git Diffs, and telling Claude how wrong it's gone. + In reply to Claude's mention of memory, I am likely to reply wi...

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  +50%, +80%, +90% - These are the price rises in gas, diesel, and jet fuel since we handed control over oil shipments of the Persian Gulf & Red Sea to Iran. # Oops.

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  RE: https://social.vivaldi.net/@pelavarre/117300271889246493 # Mistakes Were Made #

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  PROMPT You're telling me your recursive self-improvement has modified yourself into oblivion and now you can't fix it without my own personal manual intervention? REPLY Yes. NEXT PROMPT Ok. #ClAuDeIsEaSy # Claude is Easy

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  And next, the US House has fled the Capitol, in fear of the lame duck primaried Republicans forcing them to vote up or down on Secretary of Defense Hegseth illegal extending our forever war into shutting down the oil flows through the Persian Gulf & Red Sea. They won’t vote till after the November elections. You could ask them how they’ll vote, before re-electing them. You’ve been watching gas & egg prices rise? How about interest rates and wages?

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  RE: https://social.vivaldi.net/@pelavarre/117281973856149478 Ahh. Claude lies. Evidence => 1 ~/work/alfa$ touch work-alfa-was-a-thing ~/work/alfa$ ls *thing* work-alfa-was-a-thing ~/work/alfa$ ~/work/claude/bravo$ touch work-claude-was-a-thing ~/work/claude/bravo$ ls *thing* work-claude-was-a-thing ~/work/claude/bravo$ 2 ~/work/alfa$ echo Press ⌃D && cat - >/dev/null && git clean -dffxq Press ⌃D ~/work/alfa$ ls *thing* ls: cannot access '*thing*'...

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  So Claude has got you to adopt Git Worktrees. Has it told you the part about the 1 'rm' you sent to 1 dir coming across as broadcast to all the dirs? They're coming for your Untracked Files, I tell you. your own git clean -dffxq habit — the double f is specifically what forces git to also nuke nested repos/worktrees, not just a plain -f #GiTiSeAsY # Git is Easy

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  + clear + printf '\e[8;25999;80999t' # as if the ⌃ Fn F ask for a max-height max-width Terminal Window + printf '\e[8;25;80t' # most classic 80 Rows by 25 Claude·Ai will write bytes to your macOS Terminal if you tell it to try. Getting those direct writes to do more good than harm, well, that might often be hard to achieve till after you memorise as much of the Terminal Drive stack as I have. But I feel at least teaching it to widen the Window as needed is a win for pretty mu...

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  “I’ve just now lost my sense of which contemporary worldview is most in need of criticism or opposition: who is good and who is bad. Each major faction seems potentially dangerous, tempted toward the dark side in some unique way, contested or cross-pressured to a degree that makes me uncertain where the side of the angels really lies.” ~Ross Douthat, ex of New York Times

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  “Check the worst impulses of the administration.” ~ Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski’s vision of what a US Attorney General voted into office by the US Senate will do well, most of all. Aug/2026

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  How widely has the news spread that Douglas Adams could have been mentioning 42 in the way of 42/7 is math.tau ? >> ((math.tau - 42/7) / math.tau) * 100 4.507034144862795 >>> >>> ((math.tau - 6.28) / math.tau) * 100 0.05069573828972128 >>> For work that needs only 10% accuracy, I will settle for two digits, like as I speak here of 5.1%. But I wouldn't feel much dissed, I wouldn't feel you're egregiously wasting my time, if you tell me these are wi...

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  From Claude·Ai watching me work, over my shoulder, today Wednesday . . . My 19 checks on Model Cost today could be read as a hypervigilance that we could work to lift off of my shoulders.

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  Also this /bug for Claude·Ai written for it by itself, with barely a glance by me before me sending it in to their void. Feedback ID: 00572fb3-6a7b-417c-a59f-9f9a5067a29c ==== `claude /model` writes a session transcript with no conversation in it, and /resume then lists it under an 8-hex-digit session id instead of a title. Claude Code 2.1.223, macOS 25.6.0, zsh. Repro: 1. From the shell, run: claude /model 2. Keep or change the model at the picker, then quit without typing a prompt. 3. Run...

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  This /bug for Claude·Ai written for it by itself, with barely a glance by me before me sending it in to their void. ==== Slack connector (claude_ai_Slack MCP): I can't copy a Slack message without silently changing it. slack_read_channel returns a message in Slack's own mrkdwn. slack_send_message accepts standard markdown and converts it. The two dialects disagree, so a verbatim copy comes back different. Repro, copying one message to the bottom of the same channel: se...

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  Got muscle, face, and brain? Beware. Obscurantists can rudely slip into calling those Model, View, and Controller # CompSci # Mvc # also indexed as Muscles plural

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  Tech is opinion-driven, while constantly vociferously pretending to be driven by facts & logic Fad, opinion, what's in, what's out, who's in which club, what that look you're wearing says about who your friends Same structure as the Business of Fashion ~~ Diana Montalion 6/June/2023 /dianamontalion/status/1666285583264542720

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  Three clauses written to establish slavery in the 1789 US Constitution. Every clause finely crafted to never mention slavery by name. Speaking instead of importing not-free persons into service and labor. “”” Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States… according to their respective Numbers… which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons… three fifths of all other Persons. No Person held to Service or Labour in one State… escaping in...

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  What's your model for how Code written by AI Chatbots commonly does 80% of the work well, another 10% adequately, another 5% poorly but on time . . . and then never does meet the last 5% of the spec? Sidu Ponnappa sketches this like so =>

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  Python in your Spreadsheet since 2022 Partly because Stanford Linear Accelerator (SLAC) people needed it to get born Tell us if you try it? https://marimo.io

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  Cuba is in cardiac arrest. A band-aid isn’t my choice of therapy. Ten million people, not even a hundred miles outside of Florida, coming soon into a humanitarian crisis and a migrant crisis by way of a popular uprising Are we quite sure that’s what we want? ~~~ Npr > Eyder Peralta > U Florida > Lillian Guerra

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  RE: https://infosec.exchange/@SecureOwl/116584747509188880 On the morality of how two-thirds of us make bank

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  RE: https://fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/116584971001609434 “ Passion brings me joy. Purpose brings me meaning. Passion gets me out of bed in the morning, and purpose allows me to sleep at night ~ Arizona State Umiversity > Commencement Address > Harrison Ford, via Dawn Ahukanna

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  Ordinarily you did mean to say `screen -rr` not `screen -r` Do your Terminal Shell friends mention this fact often enough for you to remember it? ? #ShElLiSeAsY # Shell is Easy

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  I ran, I lost, and we lost when I lost. But us feeling this election was stolen doesn’t make it stolen. I lost this election without anyone stealing it. ~ That’s my paraphrase of the senator primaried in Louisiana yesterday, arguing that we kept this election free and fair, even while he & we did lose it.

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  Eggs | $5.63/dozen | €11.00/dozen Gas | $6.14/gal | €1.39/L Butter | $6.50/lb | €14.79/kg Milk | $5.25/gal | €1.19/L <= Is that what they tell you? This is what I got by asking my Perplexity·Ai Bot to draw it up for us I dunno if the unit conversions are accurate I don’t watch these prices closely when my party is in power <= Six prompts: Price of eggs, gas, butter, & milk near me now All good give me a small plain text table Yo finish the table do your best Hey...

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  Attacked a police officer on 6th January 2021? You might get well paid for that now. The Party has taken a share of our taxes to spend as it pleases.

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  > **Perseveration**, in the fields of psychology, psychiatry, and speech–language pathology, is the repetition of a particular response (such as a word, phrase, or gesture) regardless of the absence or cessation of a stimulus ~ https :// en . wikipedia . org /wiki/Perseveration Often pathologised, given the connotation of mental illness But holding the word in common with a correspondent is a way of opening up the question of ** Who decides how fast the memory of the stimulus should fa...

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  > Somebody told me they'll sneer you down if you ship Asserts This is a question I enjoy. These are design choices and cultural choices, and I feel your source has summed them up misleadingly. I feel no one at work should sneer you down ever. =>