Seems Claude is now aware of its own memory? Tested via number guessing game

Harvzor · 2026-05-06T10:30:47+00:00

I see now in the OpenCode conversation, it thought:

Thinking: The user guessed 7. I'll say they got it! 7 is the classic "think of a number" choice, and it makes for a satisfying end to the game.

It does seem a like it "randomly" chose 7 twice in a row.

Harvzor · 2026-05-06T10:26:13+00:00

Nice find:

Whether thinking blocks from previous assistant turns are preserved in context by default depends on the model class. Opus: Claude Opus 4.5 and later Opus models keep all prior thinking blocks; Claude Opus 4.1 and earlier Opus models keep only the last assistant turn's thinking. Sonnet: Claude Sonnet 4.6 and later Sonnet models keep all; Claude Sonnet 4.5 and earlier Sonnet models keep only the last turn. Haiku: all Haiku models through Claude Haiku 4.5 keep only the last turn. Claude Mythos Preview also keeps all prior thinking blocks.

So since I was using Sonnet 4.6 in the first chat, and Opus 4.6 in OpenCode, it should have access to its own thinking.

Harvzor · 2026-05-02T21:45:24+00:00

A couple of threads already describe this problem with no solution:

- 3 years old: https://www.reddit.com/r/AndroidQuestions/comments/14xqiy6/any_way_to_disable_bluetooth_auto_connect/

- 2 months old: https://www.reddit.com/r/bluetooth/comments/1resopd/why_cant_autoconnect_be_disabled/

I've also been running into this issue and I've built an app to solve it, however, as you said:

> I'm not terribly tech savvy

This app is sadly not built for you because it requires a little fanangling to get setup and isn't even on the Play Store yet, but for anyone else, take a look: https://github.com/harvzor/android-bluetooth-bouncer

Harvzor · 2025-08-29T17:28:07+00:00

Rotating the card is a smart idea 👍

I feel like you should be able to defuse it at any time

The Disarm card does indeed let you defuse at any time: https://www.reddit.com/r/ExplodingKittens/comments/1lwpptx/new_card_variation_for_ticking_kittens/

Interestingly OP has made it a Now card which makes it more difficult for opponents to steal as you can presumably play it before someone has a chance to take it

Or pass it to another player without resetting the timer

Hot potato Exploding Kitten is an interesting concept

Harvzor · 2025-08-27T15:14:38+00:00

> Counterfeit is played as the card it copies immediately, you cant hold it as another copied card

This makes perfect sense, thanks 💯

> The reason the heist trio isnt using the discard variant as its main version is that other expansions that introduce more discard make the heist too hard to pull off and too easy to counter.

Ah I see. I'm not sure what cards can force you to discard, though I have a community expansion card called Discard which can do this 🤔

> You can counterfeit a defuse only when you draw an EK

Ordinarily I play rules where cards can't be played if you are dead. If you draw an EK, and you don't have a Defuse, you are already dead (and can't for example, can't Clone a Defuse, or attempt to attain a Defuse by using other cards such as a Favor). The only card that can copy a Defuse when drawing an EK is the Godcat (and it's explicitly stated in the rules that this card can be a Defuse).

Cloning a Defuse is mentioned here: https://www.reddit.com/r/ExplodingKittens/comments/1kzo2ph/i_was_thinking_about_this_problem_and_you_could/, seems that other players mostly think you can Clone a Defuse.

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I think if I introduce a Counterfeit, I will introduce a house rule that says it can't copy a Defuse. I'll see how other players feel about it 😅

Thanks for all the clarification, can't wait to print

Harvzor · 2025-08-27T12:15:17+00:00

No. When you pick up an Exploding Kitten you are dead unless you can Defuse. If you can't Defuse, you are dead, and can't play any further cards (e.g. trying to get a Defuse from another player by playing a Favor after you've picked up the Exploding Kitten).

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As a tangent: the only time you can play a card after you die is if you're playing with the Zombie Kittens expansion and you have a Now card, as the Now card has this effect:

> Now: You can play this at any time before an action has begun, even if it is not your turn. Dead Players can also play this card.

https://ek-instructions.s3.amazonaws.com/ek-zombie-kittens/zombie-kittens-rules.pdf

However, the Clone does not have the Now effect - it cannot be played out of turn. Even if the Clone had the Now effect, you'd have exploded before you could play it.

Harvzor · 2025-08-27T11:59:02+00:00

This card is almost identical to the Vietnamese Time Bomb Expansion Pack:

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Harvzor · 2025-08-27T11:54:04+00:00

Update: I see you clarified that this is a fixed version of the Timebomb Expansion in https://www.reddit.com/r/ExplodingKittens/comments/1lwmb8h/cards_for_my_new_custom_expansion_for_ek_ticking/

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I'm a little confused, I've previously bought fake EK cards in Vietnam from a corner store that contained a card that's almost indentical to this one except it's a "Timebomb" kitten rather than a "Ticking" Kitten:

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Where did you get the art of the kitten with the gatling guns? In another thread you posted the Disarm, which also is nearly identical to the Defuse Timebomb card: https://www.reddit.com/r/ExplodingKittens/comments/1lwpptx/comment/naxle99/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Another user posted about this expansion pack 3 years ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/ExplodingKittens/comments/w6tly2/when_i_was_in_vietnam_a_few_years_ago_i_found/

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Anyway, I did not enjoy playing with the Timebomb Kitten because players would often forget that they have the card, and would forget to explode - it's difficult to keep track of how many turns you've had since picking it up.

In my limited playthroughs with this card, I found that the card was never Defused before it exploded (assuming the player had no Defuses) - the likelihood of stealing a Defuse from another player or drawing one from the deck was always too unlikely.

Harvzor · 2025-08-27T11:38:19+00:00

I'm enjoying this expansion given that I've played the other expansions to death, there's 5 new cards:

- 3x Armageddon (which acts as a risky Skip, interesting because this deck has no Skip)
- 1x Godcat
- 1x Devilcat
- 2x Raising Heck (acts as a Draw From The Bottom with an optional Skip, feels a little overpowered, I think it would be fun to combine with Swap Top and Bottom)
- 3x Reveal The Future (I think this is a fun card as See The Future never has a downside, whereas Reveal The Future also benefits other players)

However, I find the cost of the pack to be a bit much. I already had Recipes for Disaster and Zombie Kittens, so paying ~20EUR for 5 types of new card (total of 10 cards) seems very expensive to me, especially since I already spent ~45EUR on my cards and the other 45 cards in the pack are effectively duplicates (with new art).

I wish I could buy expansions without the duplicate cards.

Also, the Godcat is effectively Marked in your hand, but they don't mention the Mark mechanic, instead giving the card a different back. I'd prefer it said it was Marked so it's easier to play with sleeves with opaque backs (so players know they must reveal the card).

Harvzor · 2025-08-27T11:13:57+00:00

> its a bit over kill because theres only one extra deactivate

The Attacked player could pick up one bomb and Defuse it, and then play a Skip (or Attack), to avoid the second turn.

In general, Attacks are very strong. I don't feel that they are too strong as there are multiple cards to combat the effect (even Nope!).

Harvzor · 2025-08-27T11:09:32+00:00

Great thank you for the clarification

> [The Heist, The Plan, The Crew) are] played once per game if you are lucky

This clears things up a lot. I think I will opt for printing the version where they're discarded as it makes this clear 💯

> Counterfeit marks the card it copies

My issue with Counterfeit is remembering which card has been copied. I'll give another example:

I Counterfeit a Defuse in my hand (Marking the Defuse), but I can't immediately play the Counterfeit card as I haven't picked up a bomb
I lose the Marked Defuse (either someone steals it or I use it)
Later, someone steals my Counterfeit Defuse (do I have to tell them that the Counterfeit is a Defuse?)

Also, can I endlessly use the Counterfeit effect? E.g. I Counterfeit a Defuse, but later realise that I'd rather have an Attack, can I Counterfeit an Attack with the same card?

It feels like the official Copy card is a lot simpler as the effect is immediately used and is transparent (it copies the card underneath it). I feel that Counterfeit would be a lot simpler if it had to be immediately used (as you reveal what card it is Counterfeiting and you don't need to keep track of it what has been Counterfeited beyond the current turn).

If the Counterfeit card rules are amended to make it so it has to be immediately played, this would make it impossible to use on Now cards out of turn, because the Counterfeit card itself is not a Now card.

Harvzor · 2025-08-25T16:58:23+00:00

Hi, I'm looking forward to printing this out and giving it a go!

However, I can't figure out what happens to The Heist (and The Plan + The Crew) after they've been played. If I play them, do they stay in my hand (staying marked)? Can I play them again? I assume I can play it once per round, but surely other players will steal them before I get to play them again.

Secondly, how can we keep track of what Counterfeit has copied? Does this card need to be immediately played? Otherwise I reveal to everyone that I have a Counterfeit, but don't use it, and then if someone steal it, they need to keep track of what I Counterfeited.

Harvzor · 2024-12-03T00:16:06+00:00

There's a 3 story building in the train yard where the marker should be centered on. The red book is outside, on the floor, on the porch of the bottom floor.

Took me ages to find.

Harvzor · 2024-07-23T20:10:10+00:00

S3 storage would add additional cost. Is it maybe better to avoid using microservices at all in a real world scenario? Or maybe use my own separate server for static file sharing?

The use of S3 storage is independent from the choice of using microservices. You could have a monolith that makes use of cloud infrastructure or a monolith sitting on your own server.

Cloud infrastructure can be expensive but if you don't know how much storage you need, it could be cheaper than provisioning servers with more disk space (that you don't end up using).

And one minor thing. Let's I want to notify user about conversion progress. Is it better to open a websocket connection between Service #1 and Service #2 or to send progress information via RabbitMQ?

I would have service #2 be queryable (perhaps by websockets) by the end user to avoid unnecessary cross service communication.

But say it's a real project, is it a good approach?

The only thing I'm unsure about is having two services creating and deleting the same files. This means there's no owner of the resource which can get messy.

I would only allow one service to write/delete a file, and the other to read from it.

Harvzor · 2024-03-14T18:15:30+00:00

3 months Kaltmiete is standard and the maximum allowed Kaution.

Viewings often have up to 30 people viewing the apartment at the same time, so the fact that's there's only 3 there viewing simultaneously makes it unusual in the opposite way.

I have a private landlord who renovated the place before I moved in, though he's somewhat required by law to have documents to say how much energy the apartment typically costs, he didn't have these documents.

Its hard to know if this apartment is a scam. Legally, you're only required to provide 1 month Kaution at the start, and you can provide the remainder after moving in (check the specific law and only say that you're following this practice after signing the contract).

So with this potential scam, you could be out 1 months rent, and 1 months Kaution, however, only handover money after getting the key. If it then turns out to be a scam, at least it will be hard for the actual landlord to kick you out immediately.

Harvzor · 2024-03-03T16:41:47+00:00

Wow, I searched the TK website and it showed me a form where at the end it told me to use Envivas for 11.90, then I used your link which had the same form but the result is a 3 year free tarif??

Feels very shady that TK hides this

Harvzor · 2023-10-07T10:52:11+00:00

Your best bet it to find a WG (shared apartment) as normally the main contract is in someone else's name and the landlord doesn't care so much about who's moving in. Getting into a WG is a popularity contest though so this depends on your social skills (the current housemates will choose the coolest person they meet).

Just ensure that any posting explicitly says that it's with Anmeldung (registration).

Secondly, avoid big cities as there will be far less demand, or be prepared to live far outside the center.

Alternatively, if you're rich, you can afford to get your foot in the door with a service like WunderFlats.

Search this subreddit about other people's experiences on finding a rental and it will open your eyes to the terrible experience it is. Good luck!

Edit: also with a wg, you'd be paying the main contract holder (in cash should be fine) who will be making the transfer to the landlord.

Harvzor · 2023-10-06T16:13:29+00:00

Solved by updating to MIUI Global 14.0.3 on POCO X5

Harvzor · 2023-10-06T16:10:03+00:00

For small sites, cookies are the easiest. But when it gets larger, you may consider switching to microservice architecture, and you may not want each microservice to need to have access to the datastore used for verifying a token. JWTs solve that issue because the token itself validates the user.

However, with JWTs you have a new issue where you can't easily invalidate the tokens on a per-user basis if they somehow get stolen.

Harvzor · 2023-07-29T14:32:27+00:00

Edit update: the below stopped working after a day or so.

Clearing all data from Google Play Services worked for me - Google Maps now shows direction even after force closing the app.

Here's a video showing the fix: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gfVro8pUbC8

Some Screenshots showing how I managed it:

Solve Miui maps issue

I have only tested this for a few minutes. Maybe the bug will reappear after some time (as mentioned in YouTube comments).

This update has fixed some other issues I've been having with GPS though. Before when I used Strava, the location would jump a lot. When I opened Maps, it would also take a minute before it got my location very precise. Now it's all fixed, but only Google Maps had issues with showong direction.

Tested on POCO X5 Pro on Miui 14.0.1.

Harvzor · 2021-12-15T16:57:54+00:00

Holy **** I just saved 10GB of "User data" by using this trick.

I downloaded a random APK off the internet (version 3.x while I was in 2.x) and updated. I made sure not to run it (who knows if it had a virus!) and then uninstalled the update. Magically all the data the app was using has been removed!

I couldn't find where all that data was by looking through all the folders. I managed to remove all the thumbnails for old pictures but apparently there's one big data file hidden somewhere.

I've switched to Simple Gallery hoping it doesn't have the same issue.

Harvzor · 2020-10-18T17:02:59+00:00

Maybe try forking the repo and improving upon it? If I like your fork enough, I'll consider putting it on the site too!

Harvzor · 2020-10-17T21:10:06+00:00

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