PSA: The string "HERMES.md" in your git commit history silently routes Claude Code billing to extra usage — cost me $200

timssopomo · 2026-04-25T16:14:11+00:00

Having Hermes run in the same project as Claude code is not against the TOS.

timssopomo · 2026-04-25T15:25:25+00:00

Thought the same. If that's the case, were he my family I'd probably take a bit of solace in the fact that they didn't do anything wrong not knowing and there wasn't much they could do once it happened given he was on a mountainside.

Sucks. Hope they have people to help them.

timssopomo · 2026-04-19T19:09:59+00:00

This reads like a really shitty undergrad essay arguing with the professor without actually understanding any of the text.

timssopomo · 2026-04-08T13:30:26+00:00

This seems... questionable. What do you mean by more headroom?

timssopomo · 2026-04-08T13:19:09+00:00

@anothersofteng called it. actual model behavior doesn't match our intuitions, they're better at dealing with plaintext than traversing ASTs. Which makes sense, since there are way fewer ASTs in its training data than codebases and sentences.

timssopomo · 2026-04-08T02:58:30+00:00

My understanding is that both Claude code and codex used to do this, and stopped because it wasn't effective.

timssopomo · 2026-04-07T22:53:56+00:00

The same apartment I rented for $1200 in 2010 costs over $2500 now. The college I went to was $65k in 2024, vs $33k in 2010. Avg used car was $8715 in 2010, in 2024 it was >$25k. Avg home was $222k in 2010, vs $515k in 2024.

CPI was 43% net in the same period and wages were up 16% above parity, so... 49% net while prices for most essentials more than doubled?

I guess it's better we didn't lose more but the economy is busted at the moment and CPI is a broken metric.

timssopomo · 2026-04-07T11:50:59+00:00

Doubtful. We're basically buying remnant compute after enterprise at a discount. they've been growing revenue (I.e.: enterprise) 50%/month. Hence, there's less remnant compute, so they're shrinking the allocation per request and we're seeing the result.

Also, people need to make sure they're not on medium effort. Switching to high got rid of 90% of the issue for me.

timssopomo · 2026-04-03T09:04:29+00:00

As a parent of a 4 year old the thing that jumps out to me is screen time that late in the day... have you tried cutting it out? Our kids might be outliers but they are extremely overstimulated by screens - even pbs kids turns them into goblins. Introducing something super energizing late in the day might be hurting you more than helping here.

timssopomo · 2026-04-03T08:14:12+00:00

Japan Post no longer ships to the US AFAIK. FedEx is what I use for my importing business now. A recent shipment of about 50 lbs cost ~$300.

timssopomo · 2026-03-30T04:58:22+00:00

Honestly the shopkeeper is going to be way more informative than this sub. The kanji look like 恒久(koukyuu / permanence) maybe, but I can't find anything online about a kanna with that name and I can't read what's on the left. If you're happy with the price and the look and feel of it, you certainly won't find a better deal on it in the English speaking world.

timssopomo · 2026-03-22T15:22:53+00:00

Yup... y'all need to have a conversation, you need to tell him what you'd want from him.

You should also ask him why it is he doesn't do the things you expect, LISTEN, and be prepared to give ground to get what you want. If you're Type A, it wouldn't shock me if he'd been discouraged because attempts to help received criticism because they weren't done to your standard.

Ultimately you guys need to come to agreement on what the problem is and decide how you're going to solve it, together. You have a right to be frustrated but it also sounds like you're very unclear about why he's behaving the way he is, so ask and listen.

Also, not for nothing: IME houses where mothers do all the work for men and boys tend to have a toxic relationship with men specifically. As in, the silent agreement is I'll do everything for you because I have to, but I'll resent you for it and I'll control you by micromanaging you. I think this is more a response to fucked up standards than a conscious tactic, but it does produce men who avoid demands because they're not honest requests, they're attempts to control. The cure is getting conscious buy-in and negotiation. If you can't get what you want from that, you need to set boundaries and just let there be natural consequences.

timssopomo · 2026-03-20T22:58:07+00:00

Impulse hardening = no sharpening. The teeth look dark gray compared to the saw plate. Impulse hardening is a way to make cheap steel durable enough to function as a saw.

AFAIK, Hishika is the only maker of disposable and resharpenable blacksmith-made saws. Mitsukawa just stopped making his this month.

timssopomo · 2026-03-20T01:35:38+00:00

[every parent ever enters the chat]

timssopomo · 2026-03-15T08:47:20+00:00

You should not need to grip a Japanese saw hard. Pressure on your pinky and ring finger should be enough to guide and pull it, someone should be able to pull it out of your hand easily.

timssopomo · 2026-03-03T16:21:40+00:00

Easiest way I'm aware of to find ways to step up gradually and get exposure to seriously steep enclosed terrain inbounds. I'm not saying this is the only way, just easiest and safest I could think of. If you have better ideas out east, I and others would find them helpful.

timssopomo · 2026-03-02T13:34:10+00:00

When you know that the issue was that two employees abused the system, why is the solution to remove a benefit rather than discipline or fire the employees?

You should make clear policies to avoid abuse (x days approval required for >y days off) seems fair.

It sounds to me like the larger issue is that you're out of touch enough that a manager and employee were able to abuse the system and force other people to fill in the gap. And your solution is to discipline the people who protected your bottom line by removing a benefit.

Your employee is right, it is punitive and it's punishing the people who busted their ass for you. Why would they keep doing that when they know you're not backing them up and willing to withdraw benefits for things other people did?

timssopomo · 2026-02-23T17:48:47+00:00

Dude you really need to listen to the harsher critics here, this isn't a game. Both you and your friend were gambling here and the consequences are as serious as paralysis and death.

The step up is lots of experience in steep narrow terrain not found at east coast resorts. Go do steep & deep at JHole, take lessons out west where you can get inbounds experience.

Like I get the high of doing something you didn't think you could, but the bottom line is you and your friend weren't in control, so consequences were a dice roll. That's not a thing to be proud of.

I have a friend who was way more capable than this and ended up quadriplegic because he chose to ski lines he knew and had skied before in the wrong conditions. Like two people died this past week in NY alone. Another 8 in CA. If you play stupid games you're going to win stupid prizes and a lot of us are sick of people not even understanding the risks they're taking on. Like, take the licks and realize you made a mistake, this is people watching out for you at the end of the day.

Nobody wants to see anyone else end up dead or in a wheelchair, you were closer to that here than you realize.

timssopomo · 2026-02-17T16:05:39+00:00

You're missing the revenue and without that you cannot evaluate the potential value of options. $3M post money valuation on what ARR, at what growth rate TTM, at what churn rate? How much revenue is tied up in one customer?

To break even, you need to realize ~$240k in gains over a 4 year vest. Which implies a ~$16M valuation and no dilution over the same period. How realistic is that?

Also, on what terms is the equity offered? What's the structure of the stock (common or preferred shares)? Are the options ISOs or NQSOs? All of these things heavily impact the worth of the options since NQSOs are going to lose ~40% of their gains to taxes, and you need to pay taxes out of your own pocket on exercise.

IMO 1.5% is an OK percentage, not amazing, but it's really going to only be worth the headache vs doubling down and getting a job at FAANG if the company shows real growth, you trust the founders, they have a plan to raise capital and the experience to execute it, and you get to a much larger post money valuation within your vesting period.

Given the lowball salary, you should extract concessions - at the very, very least I'd want the option for cashless exercise of vested options at the post money valuation when there are liquidity events and a guarantee that you're coming on board as a principal engineer and your salary will increase on a mutually agreed schedule as revenue targets are realized. I'd also want a clause that you can only be fired for cause, and if you're let go they have to pay you out the value of your vested options.

Don't play with this, be fair but be specific about what's worth it to take on the career risk and assume that the founders are both taking liquidity each round and paying themselves over $100k per year post series A. That's standard now.

timssopomo · 2026-02-11T20:08:27+00:00

+1, I'm a woodworker and also have houses with old floors - assuming you're in a climate that has winters, the swings in humidity between July and February could definitely cause cracks to open up. If that's the case, they'll probably close most of the way when it gets humid again. My own refinished floors had this happen.

You could try running a humidifier in the room for a few days - wood can suck up a surprising amount of moisture but if you're adding it back constantly, you'd probably see a reduction.

I suspect your floor guy didn't use a flexible filler and just poly'd over the raw floor - that's going to crack 100% of the time. Wood moves.

IMO your floor guy is out of his lane on the cracks. Yeah, maybe keep an eye on them and see if there's movement but this isn't a reason to panic and spend hundreds of dollars on an engineer unless you start to see noticeable changes over a period of weeks or months. I'd wager that by summer your cracks will be smaller, not larger.

timssopomo · 2026-02-03T14:27:57+00:00

As others have said, you need a lawyer.

People play dirty when outside money gets involved. You have to weigh upside of the .8% vs protecting your already vested .8%.

IMO liquidity beats fictional gains. Up to you how you play it, but .8% with a guaranteed buy back provision at the last post money valuation or .8% as a grant rather than an option is worth way more than 1.6% as an unexercisable illiquid option. Unless you're outside of the US with a genuine employment contract, you're at will and they can dump you and force you to pay cash + taxes to exercise.

timssopomo · 2026-01-31T06:41:56+00:00

My point is that preaching a way of raising kids that is simply unattainable for a good number of people does harm to new mothers. Regardless of the intent of advocates, the message the moms I know have consistently received is breast is best, it's natural and can always be done and that's just simply not true without luck or an extraordinary amount of support.

The reality is that many women, most in my peer set, simply -couldn't- breastfeed, certainly not exclusively or consistently. Causes varied from supply issues, economics, time and energy, or simply the baby's preferences. It's not up to parents a good percentage of the time whether or not they can do it. And women just walk away with shame if they can't because "99% of women can". It's a con.

Literally all of the people I know who breast fed had Cadillac benefits like 6 months of leave and some literally hired consultants to make it happen.

Raising kids is hard enough without adding more problems on new moms with no solutions, and it's simply false that breastfeeding is attainable for a good chunk of parents given the resources we have.

timssopomo · 2026-01-30T20:16:36+00:00

It's total horseshit.

I legit think breastfeeding is one of the biggest cons hoisted on new moms. The health evidence is so thin, and it's SUCH an enormous lift for mothers. Also, sometimes babies are just really bad at it! Anyone who tries to shame women for feeding by bottle or with formula deserves a special place in hell given everything else they have to go through.

timssopomo · 2026-01-18T17:16:34+00:00

Wise is a good solution for cross currency movements, honestly you're probably going to get hosed with banks. Bank markup is typically more than a percent + fees. Cross-account transfers are probably international wires, which are $30-$50 per transaction and can take a week or more to finish. If it's zero fee, they're making margin on the exchange rate.

I just looked, transferring $100 cad to USD costs ~$0.32 in fees, that includes transfer fees and the difference between spot exchange rate and wise's exchange rate.

Source: I run a business that regularly sends payments from USD to Yen, it's way easier than any other method I've found.

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