SwissMicros calculators are absolute gem. Thanks.

They even have printed manual for DM32. https://www.swissmicros.com/product/user-manual-dm32

I have switched to lamotrigin, it helps to balance mood as I had bad mood in months with less sunshine. Lamotrigin is not an antidepressant, previously it was used for epilepsy stabilisation but now it is prescribed for mood swings. (This is not a medical advice.)

It is still prescribed for epilepsy. I am actually hoping for some medication stories if anyone/someone they know has ADHD and epilepsy. It's for a juvenile, but your stories can be for any age. Or pointers to any resources about the combo.

Or counted for later concentration.

Similarly, Nazis did this with census machines so they knew how to scale concentration camps.

In 2001, Edwin Black published a book about strategic partnership of IBM with Nazis since 1933 til end of WWII.

I have checked right now that Multi-User Dungeons we played in the 90s, still exist and are played. 35 years later!

Telnet or Mudnet client needed :)

I’ve just poked my schoolmate - he almost didn’t graduate because of MUD.

During the Summer of 1997, I stayed at my university and had a job at the computer lab in the basement of the library. We had four Windows 95 PCs, four Mac Quadras, and then tons of VT terminals. I specifically remember the one at the lab assistants desk being a VT-320. Anyway, it was enough for me to telnet to BatMUD. I got all the way up to level 32 or so (and made some friends!) before I stopped playing. Man, that was a great Summer. Well ... it was great until I got cheated on but that's a whole other story. :-p

MUDding both taught me programming and pretty well wrecked my schooling, although in fairness, I didn't take college very seriously. Never finished my degree, which I now regret.

But you know TCL :)

Why do you regret it? People 40+ and juniors can't get jobs now anyways. Even with proper degrees.

These were lpmuds, so I know object-oriented C.

I know things are brutal out there, but if I find myself unemployed, I’ll need every possible edge I can find. Homelessness is decidedly suboptimal.

Some people don’t like to be pushed. They want their own rhythm.

But when you stop trying new stuff (“because you don’t want to”), it is a sign that your inner child got lost. (Or you have a depression or burnout.)

Lol. Surely this depends on what the new stuff is? Looks like all nuance goes out of the window when agents are involved.

Paper maps (or printed) is mandatory when you are on track in mountains. Offline digital maps are useless in -30 when phone battery and powerbank are dead.

They whistleblowed themselves that Claude Cowork was coded by Claude Code… :)

You can tell they’re all vibe coded.

Claude iOS app, Claude on the web (including Claude Code on the web) and Claude Code are some of the buggiest tools I have ever had to use on a daily basis. I’m including monstrosities like Altium and Solidworks and Vivado in the mix - software that actually does real shit constrained by the laws of physics rather than slinging basic JSON and strings around over HTTP.

It’s an utter embarrassment to the field of software engineering that they can’t even beat a single nine of reliability in their consumer facing products and if it wasn’t for the advantage Opus has over other models, they’d be dead in the water.

You're right.

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues

Codex has less but they also had quite a few outages in December. And I don't think Codex is as popular as Claude Code but that could change.

Don't bother filing issues there. Their issue tracker is a galaxy-sized joke. They automatically close issues after 30 days of inactivity even if they weren't fixed, just to keep the issue count low.

The Reasonable Man might think that an AI company OF ALL COMPANIES would be able to use AI to triage bug tickets and reproduce them, but no! They expect humans to keep wasting their own time reproducing, pinging tickets and correcting Claude when it makes mistakes.

Random example: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/12358

First reply from Anthropic: "Found 3 possible duplicate issues: This issue will be automatically closed as a duplicate in 3 days."

User replies, two of the tickets are irrelevant, one didn't help.

Second reply: "This issue has been inactive for 30 days. If the issue is still occurring, please comment to let us know. Otherwise, this issue will be automatically closed in 30 days for housekeeping purposes."

Every ticket I ever filed was auto-closed for inactivity. Complete waste of time. I won't bother filing bugs again.

> Every ticket I ever filed was auto-closed for inactivity. Complete waste of time. I won't bother filing bugs again.

Upcoming Anthropic Press Release: By using Claude to direct users to existing bugs reports, we have reduced tickets requiring direct action by xx% and even reduced the rate of incoming tickets

Single nine reliability would be 90% uptime lol. For 99.9% we call it triple 9 reliability.

Single 9 would be 90%, which is roughly what I’m experiencing between CC for Web and the Claude iOS app. About 1 in 10 messages fail because of an unknown error and 1 in 10 CC for web sessions die irrecoverably. It’d probably be worse except for the fact that CC’s bugs in the terminal aren’t show stoppers like they are on web/mobile.

The only way Anthropic has two or three nines is in read only mode, but that’s be like measuring AWS using the console uptime while ignoring the actual control plane.

Single nine could be just 9% :D

Even their status page (which are usually gamed) shows two 9s over the past 90 days.

hey, they have 9 8's

Whistleblowed dog food.

normally you don't share your dog food when you find out it actually sucks.

The last paragraph is so accurate. Thanks. Just a small note: Developers, add your photo (mug shot) to your code, you receive more money. People do business with people.

In some book about behavioral economy there was a test with people in company kitchenette.

Above the coffee machine, there was a sign asking people who drink coffee at work to contribute to a jar for the next cpurchase. One sign was just text, while the other was also made with eyes. The one with eyes raised more money.

That is a legit way of working on contribution. You fork, you work on the fork - if it's not junk then you issue a pull request. What's the deal with belittling and holier-than-thou moralizing?

I have nothing against forking ofc. I like it. But I really don’t like laziness when there is no contribution to original project - instead those codies make the project as their, in fact it is just a (poor) fork. The result is the mess. My first comment was about this behaviour.

Forking is nice when it’s nice.

Well I wanted to implement light transport papers without having to deal with cpp. I think tinygrad, and more specifically tinyJIT are super useful abstractions. This is def not available in ts

My question was more why a fork instead of doing the conventional "import tinygrad" into your own project.

I don't think there is anywhere you are modifying tinygrad itself is there?

No, you have similar experience as a lot of people have.

LLMs just fail (hallucinate) in less known fields of expertise.

Funny: Today I have asked Claude to give me syntax how to run Claude Code. And its answer was totally wrong :) So you go to documentation… and its parts are obsolete as well.

LLM development is in style “move fast and break things”.

So in few years there will be so many repos with gibberish code because “everybody is coder now” even basketball players or taxi drivers (no offense, ofc, just an example).

It is like giving F1 car to me :)