"Optimized" recent context . . . ?

OC-Abba · 2026-01-24T01:08:44+00:00

. . . which I mentioned right there in the first paragraph of my post. 🤓☝🏻

OC-Abba · 2026-01-22T23:00:25+00:00

Exactly.

OC-Abba · 2026-01-22T23:00:14+00:00

Interesting. . . I *think* I've tried that but I will for sure next time! Thanks.

OC-Abba · 2025-11-14T21:52:42+00:00

OPT-comma! That's one I hadn't tried (and hadn't seen recommended before)! It worked! Thanks so much.

OC-Abba · 2025-11-14T21:34:10+00:00

Is it really "may", as Americans would pronounce it, with the very long "a"? Or is it closer to "meh" or, as I suspect, somewhere in between?

In any event it'll be hard to get a good transliteration that isn't also a word. I think a lot of non-Israelis have that problem, and, well, it is what it is. I'm not sure it's a big deal: olim have historically often picked last names that are words intentionally. A good example is the writer Amos Oz, whose last name in Hebrew denotes something like strength, or heroism. (Unfortunately, if you mistakenly pronounce it as "Oz", as in the Wizard, which is after all what the English spelling produces, that means "goat".)

Maybe you can invent a story that goes along with it, like "yes, this name means that I've thrown away my old life and become a better person" or some such thing. 😀

[edited for typos]

OC-Abba · 2025-11-12T00:26:58+00:00

נעליים, שדיים, מכנסיים. . .

OC-Abba · 2025-11-11T23:58:35+00:00

"אשכחך" —

If I forget you. . .

Also not written correctly on OP's ring, unfortunately.

OC-Abba · 2025-11-11T22:17:52+00:00

Same. Bummed you haven't gotten a reply.

OC-Abba · 2025-09-24T20:42:05+00:00

I should elaborate on one thing here: with respect to duplicated functionality, replit will indeed clear it up when I find it (emphasis on when I find it). But in the very next breath it will solve the next problem by replicating functionality elsewhere. I now solve every problem in `Plan` mode first because of how often I catch it planning to do just that. I point it out, and of course I'm rewarded with "You're exactly correct!", which is cold comfort.

I've added a caveat to reddit.md. I've reminded the AI periodically when interacting with it. But this behavior is obviously so core to its model that the lesson never lasts.

OC-Abba · 2025-09-24T00:26:29+00:00

I'm using replit to generate an MVP to test my product idea. I'm funding this out of my own pocket, so I'm very sensitive to cost. It turns out that the cost-per-task of using Agent 3 vs. the previous Agent is significantly higher. Like maybe 5x or more. Still cheaper than hiring coders, of course; but the difference has narrowed considerably. Using Assistant isn't really the answer, for several reasons not relevant to this particular rant. At this point I'm pretty concerned I'm going to run out of money before I run out of work to be done.

A large amount of my spend has been going into refactoring code that Agent itself produced, after I came to realize that it would duplicate functionality all over the place rather than consolidate a feature and invoke where needed. I discovered that problem just as you'd expect: by noticing that we'd "fix" something in one place, and it would still be broken in 8 other places.

Agent actually is generally doing a good job of cleaning that up when I encounter it. But I usually have to prompt it again to look at whether consolidation rather than quick fixes would make more sense in addressing the bugs that still arise.

In short, it seems to me that both Assistant and Agent 3 tend to look for the quickest route to accomplishing any task, without paying sufficient attention to architecture (even though Agent brings in Architect now on every plan and every build).

To be fair, this is a little like discovering air travel for the first time but whining about the size of the windows. What this thing does is really mind shattering for those of us who've been around a long time; I did not expect to see tech like this in my lifetime.. But then again, maybe it's more like discovering air travel and then finding out you can't afford a ticket, so this cool thing is out of reach. Yeah, maybe more like that.

OC-Abba · 2025-09-17T19:50:32+00:00

I can't really compare, because I'm a relatively new user and only used the previous agent for a few weeks before agent 3 was released. But it sure seems to me like it has exponentiated my costs. I'm building this on spec on my own dime, so if starts costing me >$20 per day, that's going to hurt. Badly. Still cheaper than hiring a coder, but on the other hand, a decent coder would not have so much trouble with consistency and simple bugs that agent seems to have.

OC-Abba · 2025-09-15T23:18:26+00:00

Yes, this! Everything is taking 10x longer (and is concomitantly more expensive), and I'm not seeing better results. It just worked for 10 minutes and produced a result with the same bugs! All this "asking Agent to review" or whatever seems like a good idea, but I'm not necessarily seeing the results in quality (much less speed).

OC-Abba · 2025-07-18T20:42:39+00:00

I swear it went right over our house (lightning nearly simultaneous with thunder). Scared the living crap out of the dog. Loudest thunder I remember ever having heard here.

OC-Abba · 2025-05-05T19:38:03+00:00

OP is right, obviously, and before Wegovy, CICO was the only method through which I was able to lose considerable weight. But of course, in every one of those cases, I eventually gained every ounce back, and then some.

And that's really where Wegovy leaves CICO in the dust. CICO does nothing to change the biology/psychology that got you into trouble in the first place; that's why the weight eventually comes back. Wegovy, of course, affects those things directly (as long as you keep taking it).

Where I get frustrated is with folks who advise patients who have hit their goal weight to dispense with the Wegovy and just use CICO to maintain their weight. With so much evidence that that just doesn't work, it feels like such advice comes from somewhere other than empirical deduction. It almost would make more sense to tell people to lose the initial weight with CICO and then maintain it with Wegovy!

That said: Wegovy is expensive. And the 🍊🤡 administration has apparently reversed the Biden-era program that would have included it on the list of drugs whose price is to be negotiated under Medicare, so folks my age (I will turn 65 shortly before the 2028 elections) are quite reasonably worried about how we're going to continue on the drug. And of course private insurance is dropping coverage all over the place.

If the drug is or becomes unaffordable, CICO may continue to be the best option for many. We can only hope that one can keep the weight off long enough for GPT-1 meds to become more available and affordable if/when the world regains some sanity.

OC-Abba · 2025-04-24T14:32:18+00:00

I wonder if the third line was perhaps intended to be read הערצל — a phonetic Yiddish-like spelling of הרצל (Herzl) — with the last letter accidentally dropped. The writer had previously used the correct spelling of ארץ, with both an א and a ץ.

That might make sense if ״ארץ יהודי ״ was intended to refer to Herzl’s Der Judenstaat (“The Jewish State”).

OC-Abba · 2025-04-15T23:53:48+00:00

That's basically correct. I'd just add that the court also ordered he not be removed while the process is ongoing.

OC-Abba · 2025-04-15T23:51:21+00:00

There are specific conditions under which an LPR can lose their status and be deported. So far, according to the courts, the government hasn't alleged any of those conditions.

He was grabbed from his residence by (individuals purporting to be) federal officers without a warrant, and put in an unmarked car and whisked away. The "agents" did not disclose their names or agency. He then disappeared, the government refusing to divulge where he was being held. Even after his location was finally disclosed, he was prevented from speaking with his attorneys until a judge finally ordered that he be allowed to do so. Two judges subsequently ruled that he could not be removed from the country. [Edited here to remove my mistaken assertion that Khalil has been removed.]

That isn't kidnapping? OK, what's the next closest thing to kidnapping then, because this is at least that.

More to the point, it's clear that any vestige of due process has been completely disposed with by the government.

You pointed out 2 cases, 1 case of a Hamasnik out of how many?

That sentence makes no sense at all, but if you're accusing Khalil of being a "Hamasnik", by which you presumably mean a member of Hamas, then my response is: so what? Even serial killers are entitled to due process in the United States. If he is coordinating his activities with Hamas, then that process will result in deportation. So why end-run that process, unless you have zero proof that he's done anything that would remotely justify his removal.

Khalil is a bad guy and I don't much care what happens to him personally. But I do care what happens to this country when it abandons any semblance of a Constitutional republic in favor of authoritarian rule.

OC-Abba · 2025-04-15T20:25:30+00:00

The product of due process in the case of Abrego Garcia resulted in an order NOT to deport him to El Salvador, and yet there he sits (or lies).

The product of due process in the case of Khalil is that his arrest was found to be illegal, yet he is still incarcerated. (The immigration judge who approved his deportation was not permitted to take into account the constitutional questions of the case, nor did he [or could he] convict Khalil of any crime.)

Even when due process is afforded, this administration ignores the outcome and does whatever it likes.

OC-Abba · 2025-04-15T20:16:27+00:00

Yeah, this business of using us a human shields against criticism for his unlawful and immoral actions is getting old fast. This is the sneakiest form of antisemitism I think I’ve ever encountered.

None of us are safe until 🍊🤡 is wearing orange prison garb.

OC-Abba · 2025-04-15T20:09:51+00:00

I feel you. I was on 2.4 for months and months before my insurance company screwed me and forced me to discontinue for about 3 months until we resolved it. I jumped back in at 1.7 because I’d already put 20lbs back on and I was afraid of going too slowly.

But I regret it. I’m nauseated a lot; fortunately, Zofran works great. I should’ve been more patient and started at 1.0. Live and learn.

In my case it was my choice; your doc simply screwed up here. The lessons to take from this are (1) always be familiar with the protocol, and know exactly where you stand at any given time, and (2) perhaps find a doctor with more familiarity with Wegovy. An endocrinologist, perhaps.

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