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The hacky string matching is what I started with, but there was always new ghost text. I turned suggested prompts off which helped, but idle hooks plus ensuring the terminal doesn't change over a half second has done the trick so far, and I don't have to keep chasing new ghost text.

I have a more primitive setup where I use Gemini, Claude, and Codex at the same time and cultivate expert contexts. Each of them lives in their own tmux session so they can read each other's terminals and prompt each other. One issue that I keep stamping out is that another instance will paste a prompt and hit enter in the middle of my typing.

I have an optane and lots of ram, so I tried full-fat models for writing some function overnight, as I get about 0.7 t/s. My current go-to test is to update a scalar function to transpose a bit-matrix to one using avx512. the cloud models all play with that like its nothing. Kimi 2.6 and GLM 5.1 both failed miserably.

I think its common to develop an adversarial-collaborative approach to getting some semblance of quality out of AI. I personally favour using multiple models for different roles, having a bunch of continuity documentation maintained, and having the plan surface human-verifiable deliverables as soon as feasible. It does involve more attention than most people would tolerate probably.

Code review is the main thing I use LLMs for. I have found it to be remarkably candid when you tell it the code came from another LLM (even name it). I was running Kimi K2.6 Q4 locally, seeing if it could SIMD a bit-matrix transpose function, and it was slow enough that I would paste its thinking into Gemini every few minutes. Gemini was savage.

In the sense that you can sue to have the order challenged?

That's a good question. The article doesn't say and I haven't read the bill.

Were the bank accounts seized before or after the conviction?

Before, of course. That was one of the justifications for invoking the emergency powers, and it wouldn't have been controversial otherwise. This is a digression, though, as there is no mention of any legislative changes to bank account seizures in the article.

While I agree with most of this and oppose this bill, your last two lines are a mischaracterization. There is judicial oversight, but only after the order is implemented. Second, the bank accounts seized did not belong to protestors, as the leaders of that siege were convicted of mischief, two of which are being sentenced today. In general, protests do not engage in torturing the local populace with 95db of air horn for 16 to 20 hours a day. The account seizure also required emergency powers.

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Headline buries the lede, which is that the DOJ shut it down for being a "deep state" probe. Basically, officials working for this administration can now legally receive bribes.

I bought one of the Iocrest ones from Aliexpress so I didn't block my gpu's intake, with the AQC113 chip, and it worked perfectly right out of the box - much better than the Asus XG-C100C which made me configure it to get max 2.5gbps. I thought it was windows. Note it gets super hot (like 90°C even with the heatsink).