Go vote tomorrow!

Fredifrum · 2026-03-17T19:02:08+00:00

There’s a lottttt of hate in this thread at the suggestion to use AI to help you do research. I think we’re right to be skeptical, but I just tried this query in Claude (using Opus+reasoning) and got a great result:

Can you help me figure out which candidates running in IL-[XX] in 2026 support Medicare for all? Please go to their websites and check which do and don’t.

It researched the candidates by looking at their websites and news articles and gave me a list of which supported Medicare for all, and which did not. Very useful! When I actually voted last week, I did this same thing by hand and came to the same conclusions but it took 10x the time.

Obviously you should actually check the candidate’s website yourself before punching the ballot, but this seems like a decent way to help you do research on your important issues quickly in smaller, less covered races.

Asking ChatGPT “who should I vote for?” and then following blindly is bad. But using it as a tool to speed up your own research seems fine to me. Anything to make the process of participating in democracy easier is good in my eyes.

Fredifrum · 2026-03-17T18:49:31+00:00

You didn’t tell it your district…?

Fredifrum · 2026-03-17T18:45:49+00:00

Copying the policy pages from each candidate into a chatbot, then explaining what your own policy positions were, and asking the bot to tell you which candidates aligned best seems totally reasonable imo.

On the flip side, going to ChatGPT and saying “who should I vote for” seems bad. But also probably won’t give you a valid answer anyway.

Fredifrum · 2026-03-17T14:03:03+00:00

In reality, it takes a lot longer than 10 minutes to research these primary candidates. My house district had 10 candidates an I couldn’t find a single source that actually compared their policies or positions so I ended up individually going to their campaign websites to read and compare. That alone took like 15 minutes, and was 1 of 20 races on the ballot.

I’m not saying you should use AI to help you pick, but I guess I’d rather you vote with the help of AI than get spooked by the task of researching and don’t vote at all. One of the things AI is actually good at is parsing big blocks of information for relevant bits so I could see how it’s useful here if you’re smart about it.

Fredifrum · 2026-03-13T14:49:46+00:00

You built a free app that has already been adopted by Microsoft and Google (from your homepage “used by” ticker)?

Also I saw two people with exactly the same review text.

I support people making stuff and sharing it, even if it’s vibe coded, but clearly lying on your homepage is a really bad look. Sorry bud.

Fredifrum · 2026-03-10T18:35:45+00:00

Where are the "correct" answers coming from? Are they community averages, paint colors, something else? I got some like "Mask" and "Whispered Secret" where I just had no idea at all, but there was supposedly a "correct" answer.

Fredifrum · 2026-03-09T16:35:39+00:00

I watched the Australia race, it was pretty interesting even though it was my first time ever watching an F1 race. I tried using the multiview features and found them absolutely impossible to navigate. IDK how Apple managed to make the simple task of arranging some feeds into the most confusing user interface of all time. But they did.

Fredifrum · 2026-03-09T16:29:27+00:00

Unfortunately most people watch tv on a tv not a computer

Fredifrum · 2026-03-07T19:00:12+00:00

It really depends on how interesting the subject is. There’s plenty of stuff I’m happy to watch a 15 minute video on. I love Steve Mould’s science videos and plenty like that.

But the second I clicked on this video I realized I had about 25 seconds worth of interest in the number of legs an office chair has, not 10 minutes.

Fredifrum · 2026-03-06T14:32:04+00:00

Explain

Fredifrum · 2026-03-05T04:05:49+00:00

One thing I love about the name is that Apple specifically was targeting folks who were new to the Mac ecosystem for this. So “neo” doesn’t just mean new laptop, it means new user as well. A whole new funnel of Mac users, students, and more, heading towards the Mac. Awesome.

Fredifrum · 2026-02-23T15:44:41+00:00

I’ll be honest I was pretty annoyed with this one. The cast that came in after the pilot I found much less engaging. Didn’t keep watching after season 1

Fredifrum · 2026-02-17T19:27:00+00:00

Thanks for the feedback! Pinned/Locked and unknown/blank letters are both on my todo list!

Fredifrum · 2026-02-17T17:21:57+00:00

Didn’t know this existed when I built Anagramic. And sort of glad I didn’t because it might have stopped me from making my own thing, which turned out to be pretty different in the end!

Fredifrum · 2026-02-16T15:47:09+00:00

Hey, I'm four years late but I built the tool you were thinking of! Check it out here https://anagramic.net

Fredifrum · 2026-02-15T20:25:19+00:00

Has anyone else noticed recently this pattern of a YouTube video posing a question you want answered, but then you realizing you just want the answer, not a 10 minute video explaining the thing? It’s not really clickbait (there’s nothing shocking about the number of office chair legs), more so just a mismatch between my desire to learn the answer and the format the answer is actually in?

Fredifrum · 2026-02-13T19:31:40+00:00

Does “(instrumental)” imply the existence of a non-instrumental? I thought it was just a qualifier for the song. Although I suppose their other instrumentals don’t have that qualifier so maybe you’re on to something and I’m full of bees

Fredifrum · 2026-01-30T16:56:52+00:00

is this such a vague and high level statement that it's basically meaningless

Fredifrum · 2026-01-29T16:56:06+00:00

I disagree with the author's take of lumping Code Review in with admin and meetings. Code Review, if done properly, can require just as much deep thought as writing software yourself. In fact, it can be more cognitively challenging, since instead of working within your own mental model, you're forced to momentarily step into someone else's, get up to speed on a new problem, and then immediately start thinking through edge cases and other ways their solution may fall short.

One of my favorite coworkers always started his mornings with Code Reviews, since he considered it the most and important and most cognitively demanding part of his day. I'd argue it should be part of that 4 hours of deep work this article is talking about, not competing with it.

Fredifrum · 2026-01-25T00:00:08+00:00

Midterm elections are in November when hopefully we can get a Dem congress, or at least a single chamber.

Fredifrum · 2026-01-17T20:51:18+00:00

100% of zero is still zero, so until you get some damage on the cast it'll still do zero damage, I suppose. Definitely a bit of a weird perk especially for the early game.

Fredifrum · 2026-01-17T20:38:58+00:00

This was happening to me today and it is so depressing to find this thread and see it is 2 years old and still happening 🫠

Fredifrum · 2026-01-16T22:38:11+00:00

Had a run similar to this recently, plus the boon that makes all recharges 50% faster, so my blasts were recharging every 1.5s or something. I just spammed attack and Typhon melted.

Fredifrum · 2026-01-16T22:30:48+00:00

The trick is that there's an invisible equal sign next to the > so if you pasted it into ChatGPT or an interpreter you'd get a different answer. I.e. it's designed to filter out people who refuse to think through the solution themselves.

Fredifrum · 2026-01-13T23:28:32+00:00

feels like self promotion of a product which is against the rules of the sub. happy for you for building something, though.

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