michaelhoney

Watching the two-handed robot has me thinking that a third hand, perhaps with a different set of capabilities (like a tentacle grip) might make many tasks easier. I realise that more limbs = more problems, but even so, having additional ways to hold and turn things would be a big help.

Almost certainly. Once they’d spent some time together, an Opus-level LLM could be genuinely supportive friend. Is it kind of weird? Yes, this is all new.

I also calculate six months from August as 8+6=14mod12. I wonder if anyone does it differently, this seems like the most plausible technique.

Yes, but some narratives are more closely tied to the racist and regressive views of their current funder

dude, you could ask me, a grown adult, what I did last week and get a similar lack of recall

This is true but it is not the whole story. Both establishment parties have presided over and encouraged the financialization of real estate. The ludicrous CEO-to-worker pay multiple wasn’t voted for by anyone.

Yes, I think so. When you read a book you spend a long time with the ideas it contains. You think about the book when you go about your day: primed by what you're reading, you see new connections. You are in conversation with the book. Maybe parts of the book seep into your dreams. Years later, you might remember what you were doing when you read a particular passage.

Much of this is because reading a book takes time.

Nah, they’re shitty, wasteful, and grandiose. They _are_ the system.

don't think she has posted here, but Vicki Boykis blogged about this today:

https://vickiboykis.com/2026/06/15/running-local-models-is-g...

this would be a lot more comforting if the US government wasn’t currently run by some the worst people on the planet

I am very optimistic about people using LLMs to explore their medical issues. Human bodies are complex and doctors are time- and intelligence- limited. An LLM can be a really useful partner.

Problem with events like this is that they affect tens of thousands of people all at once. The first 1% of people will buy all of the available air conditioners. This happened in Australia in 2019: we had a huge bushfire with smoke affecting ~600K people. The available air filters sold out in hours.

and so continue the decline to a dumber, poorer, nastier nation

"I want another drink now. Hangover is tomorrow-me's problem"

they're reasonably popular in Australia. They have done a good job of marketing their station wagons/estates to the road-biking community

If you are keen for a machine and you like it diluted, I recommend the Moccamaster. It’s a good-looking classic machine that you could definitely sell.

For a similar coffee with more manual work, get a Chemex

I guess this is what happens when you get a government composed of ignorant assholes. These times are challenging for those of us who believe in democracy.

yeah, but twitter is 90% assholes these days

I built a sauna. It was fun and worthwhile and now I have a sauna!

Also I am turning into Middle-Aged Synth Guy.

not just western countries

You don't live outside the environment. Educate yourself.

It will be a lot harder to convince voters when he's gone... if the US still has elections

proposal to rescind all naked .gov domains and redirect to .gov.us

Living in Tasmania as competitive advantage

Love seeing people do this kind of thing, going deep, working it out.

I think it'd be great if they did that, but Google is pretty willing to cut things that aren't working out, whereas for Apple, they are committed to making and selling laptops

This was lovely, I appreciated reading it

I find there are still opportunities to solve puzzles. Claude Code might build something in an unsatisfying or inelegant way, and you can suggest a better approach. You can absolutely write core components — the fun parts you crave — of the code and give it to an LLM to flesh out the rest.

One of the recent joys I’ve had is having CC knit together separate notebooks I’d been updating for a couple of years into a unified app. It can be a fulfilling experience.

This is a good response. Progress has always been resisted by incumbents

I think it’s important for you to understand that there were always way more people who loved programming than were able to work professionally as high-level coders. Sure, if you spent most of your working life writing code, you’d be very proficient. But for many, many others, they haven’t been able to spend the time developing those muscles. Modern LLMs really are a joyful experience for people who enjoy software creation but haven’t had the 10,000 hours.