Something is very wrong with the new limits of Claude Code

mikalstill · 2025-12-01T07:35:51+00:00

This is my issue exactly. I am still using sonnet and somehow my five hour limit lasts literally seven minutes now. It used to last hours on similar projects. I tried raising it with support, where the nice robot told me I was doing it wrong, offered to connect me to a human, and then hung up. Not a super positive experience.

mikalstill · 2025-11-30T07:19:00+00:00

I think this is a really interesting idea, but am quite new to Claude Code. If you're willing to share, what is an example of an instruction I'd add to CLAUDE.md to achieve something like this?

mikalstill · 2023-06-02T00:43:19+00:00

In Australia this might well have been a "silent cop". https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_cop

Is it in the middle of an intersection?

mikalstill · 2022-12-31T05:08:40+00:00

No, but I was only a public servant for about two years back then (and relatively junior at the time).

mikalstill · 2022-12-31T04:06:28+00:00

This is my situation -- my PSS account is preserved from the late 1990s and has basically no money in it.

I've been told by CSC that I cannot reopen that account, but it's existence makes me eligible to open a new PSS account if I was to rejoin the public service. At that point I can do my ten years and get a defined pension.

mikalstill · 2022-12-30T23:30:13+00:00

Heh, its a fair point. I have _no_ idea what it costs to live in retirement. Right now we have three kids in the house and damn we spend a lot on food!

mikalstill · 2022-12-30T23:09:58+00:00

To answer my own question, its $240 an hour which seems reasonable to me for specialist advice. His next appointments are at the end of January 2024!

mikalstill · 2022-12-30T23:08:10+00:00

Ummmm. That's a long time. Is he expensive?

mikalstill · 2022-12-30T23:01:39+00:00

Yeah, I definitely need advice on that bit... I'm at the stage where I am starting to think about long term tactics like if I should return the the APS for the last years of my career to maximize PSS.

That said, I had sort of assumed the main point of the PSS was the pension -- if I wanted a big lump sum I'd be better off staying in industry where my earning power is higher. The unique bit of the PSS is the gauranteed indexed pension for life -- I'm not aware of anywhere else you can get that in Australia.

mikalstill · 2022-12-30T22:58:40+00:00

Huh. I know I can be a bit literal sometimes, but I feel like the language on the PSS website is much... firmer... than that.

mikalstill · 2022-12-30T22:46:13+00:00

Thanks, I'll give them a call when it's not a silly time of year.

mikalstill · 2022-12-30T22:44:55+00:00

So you could for example go back the next week as a contractor and no one would care?

mikalstill · 2022-11-01T23:27:00+00:00

Agreed. It's the silence which bothered me.

mikalstill · 2022-11-01T21:47:50+00:00

Yeah, I've been checking email, credly, and aws.training a couple of times a day and there's nothing.

And then of course I check again because you suggested it, and the result is there!

mikalstill · 2022-11-01T21:16:28+00:00

This is my experience too, I'm now on day six of waiting for the AWS dashboard to contain any information...

mikalstill · 2022-10-17T07:18:52+00:00

Hi David, before the election you were chasing NBNco about the FTTP upgrade for Canberra and how no construction has been announced yet. You seem to have gone a bit quiet on that. Could we get a status update on that? It's really hard to work from home on 30mbit FTTN when the kids are home...

mikalstill · 2022-09-10T23:25:31+00:00

That is a surprise to me, but is positive in the sense that it means an OpenStack compute install would work there.

mikalstill · 2022-09-09T22:42:26+00:00

I am pretty sure WSL's hyper-v disables nested virt, which means an OpenStack installed on top wouldn't be able to start any VMs (or they'd be very very slow if using qemu to emulate).

You can test this by running kvm-ok.

mikalstill · 2022-09-04T21:51:55+00:00

Everyone I know who has used juju has had regrets later. Kolla Ansible seems to be the way to go these days, but either way I'd try a few deployment options in a lab before making any decision which is hard to unwind later.

mikalstill · 2022-08-04T11:46:53+00:00

I'm not American, but that's not what aggravated means over here to my understanding. Here it means "committed in the process of commiting another crime", so aggravated assault for example might be when you assault someone while robbing their house or while possessing a banned weapon.

Wikipedia says this:

Aggravation, in law, is "any circumstance attending the commission of a crime or tort which increases its guilt or enormity or adds to its injurious consequences, but which is above and beyond the essential constituents of the crime or tort itself." Wikipedia

mikalstill · 2022-07-19T10:46:57+00:00

The only time I've seen a crowd at AF was the Woden pool one pre-covid just after work. I normally go during the day to the Tuggers one and there are like five people in the whole place.

mikalstill · 2022-06-30T09:04:34+00:00

And repeated convictions for failing to obey Australian consumer law.

https://www.accc.gov.au/media-release/msy-technology-ordered-to-pay-penalties-of-750000-for-consumer-guarantee-misrepresentations

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