user_of_the_wek's comments

On: Agents don't need memory, they need documentation

[user_of_the_wek]

I mean you don’t _have_ to make python available to the agent. Nor bash.

On: Kolibri: A Sovereign Open-Weight Model

[user_of_the_wek]

I also read about Canada maybe joining the EU in some capacity, although I'm not sure if that was a joke. Eurovision could be a start.

[mkesper → user_of_the_wek]

Ursula von der Leyen (president of european commission) propsed an "associated membership" with EU. Such an association is not defined anywhere in EU contracts yet. https://www.iss.europa.eu/publications/commentary/eus-first-...

On: Flock is rolling out a voluntary severance program

[user_of_the_wek]

I’d just suggest skipping the references and going directly to EvilCorp.

On: Two and a half years without a gallbladder

[user_of_the_wek]

Similar here, I had stones, they took it out, like 10 years ago. I don’t think about at all, I do have some digestive issues from time to time but I can’t even really correlate it to what I eat.

Btw. - worst pain ever. Allegedly worse than giving birth, although I don’t have a way to confirm.

[EvanAnderson → user_of_the_wek]

> Btw. - worst pain ever. Allegedly worse than giving birth, although I don’t have a way to confirm.

I haven't given birth, but I've had both gallstones and kidney stones. I'll easily take 100 gallstones to 1 kidney stone. I could think and speak while suffering with a gallstone. Kidney stones reduced me to an unthinking, quivering shambles.

[NBJack → user_of_the_wek]

Honestly felt like something trying to rip through my chest at one point. I don't recommend it.

I was quite in touch with my God during my attempt to drive myself to the ER. Looking back, I was probably in danger of meeting Him had I driven for more than a few minutes. Grateful I wasn't far.

[joinHNtheysaid → NBJack]

This is the only universe where you still make that comment.

[NBJack → joinHNtheysaid]

You may be exactly right about that. All the more reason for all of us to take care of ourselves.

On: Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin

[user_of_the_wek]

Slopify

On: Don't let anyone take away your big box of cables

[user_of_the_wek]

You could even do combinations of colors like on resistors.

On: The Lost Treasure of Sid Meier's Pirates

[user_of_the_wek]

And Rollercoaster Tycoon. But I‘ll never forget how awesome the original Theme Park felt. I even had the SNES version.

On: Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full

[user_of_the_wek]

> like Mark Hamill

I just wanted to add, it also had John Rhys-Davies and Malcom McDowell! Crazy cast for a video game, especially back then. And these were not „just“ voice roles.

[MBCook → user_of_the_wek]

I hated Malcom McDowell for years because of the game. Probably one of the first celebrities I had a strong opinion about.

On: Migrating a production AI agent to GPT-5.6: 2.2x faster, 27% cheaper

[user_of_the_wek]

Unironically, I think in the future we will have the option to run filters in our browsers that can reword articles to your preferred writing style. Like user stylesheets for text. I also assume it already exists out there, I've just been to lazy so far to look for it. It's a relatively obvious application of LLMs.

[vasco → user_of_the_wek]

I've used that for about 15 years because I live abroad, it's called Google translate.

[user_of_the_wek → vasco]

Google Translate can change the writing style of a text? I thought it would just translate between different languages.

[vasco → user_of_the_wek]

Great gotcha

On: GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra will be in Codex

[user_of_the_wek]

> In the beginning, the Universe was created. This had made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.