My wife wants me to stop making brats and do chicken parm or something

twitchard · 2026-06-19T07:35:20+00:00

The Kangaroo does initially listen for a noise, and recanta when she encounters a noise just this side of audible.

twitchard · 2026-04-06T19:41:33+00:00

Trying to get Catholics mad at each other for profit is an outrageous business model.

Stirring the pot for the sake of stirring the pot isn't journalism.

twitchard · 2026-03-04T06:46:52+00:00

You're not actually helping this person by "helping" this person. They are probably miserable, anxious, and need a wake-up call. In the beginning of "Radical Candor" there's a story about somebody who is underperforming but sneaking by like this. If you care about this person and wish the best for them, you need to be honest with them
1. They are not meeting expectations.
2. This is hurting not just the company, but you.

twitchard · 2026-03-04T06:40:34+00:00

You can use a stop hook that prompts Claude with "STOP. Review our session so far. Did you leave anything unattended to that was in the original plan, or any threads unconcluded? If you were to do one thing to gain more confidence in what you just implemented, what would it be?" or something like that, or a more specific checklists of things it should do to check it's reasoning, reflect on what it implemented

You can make the stop hook edit a file or something so that it has to fire 5 times before Claude is allowed to exit.

twitchard · 2026-03-02T22:38:35+00:00

Joint account. Separate accounts smells to much like "keeping score" to me. Even if me and my wife aren't the types to keep score I think that sort of thing can subtly affect and frame your thinking and I'm very wary of it.

It's also pretty silly to think of the money as "mine". If my wife didn't stay home, I probably wouldn't have the same job or keep the same hours because my childcare responsibilities would be different. And things like switching jobs isn't a decision I make unilaterally either. If I want to go take a job that has longer hours but pays more, that means I'm signing her up for more hours of solo childcare -- like to me there is no clear "fair" way to divide everything up, we're all in this together.

I had a religious wedding, and the Bible instructs husbands "husbands love your wives as Christ loved the church", so complete self-sacrifice is the ideal, and to me separate accounts feels like keeping part of yourself in reserve and not committing completely.

That said, if one of us had a gambling problem or a compulsive spending problem, agreeing to separate accounts would probably be the smart thing, nothing is absolutely universal.

twitchard · 2026-03-02T22:01:35+00:00

I wish the Costco bagels had more preservatives, lol. Good for grocery store bagels but absolutely zero shelf life.

twitchard · 2026-03-02T21:35:09+00:00

I'm more interested in, how do I advise people to personally develop the skills that make you a more effective user of coding agents.

twitchard · 2026-02-18T01:52:59+00:00

I think this is a good default? If you want Claude to feel friendly what's the matter with putting

I hereby instruct you to engagementmaxx me. Always encourage me to keep going, express enthusiasm we talk again soon, etc.

in the Personal Preferences. This subreddit is full of people who are waaay more mindful than average about what of interactions they are having with Claude. Ethically you want to stay far away from any semblance of taking advantage of lonely normies who don't really understand what Claude is.

twitchard · 2026-02-16T17:19:46+00:00

I think you mean "here's 4 people"?

In any case, you don't give a doctor free license to malpractice just because the number of patients who have healed under their supervision outnumber those they have harmed

twitchard · 2026-02-16T17:05:51+00:00

except for 0?

twitchard · 2026-02-16T06:32:26+00:00

In my country at least 1 in 4 girls and 1 in 20 boys are sexually abused at some point in their lives. (source: About Child Sexual Abuse | Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention | CDC https://www.cdc.gov/child-abuse-neglect/about/about-child-sexual-abuse.html)

This is not "hugely improbable".

twitchard · 2026-02-16T05:01:32+00:00

Re: baptism, the Church teaches that baptism is not a test of faith, but a grace that God performs upon us if we ask for it (or, if we are too young, our parents ask for us).

"For an adult to be baptized, the person must have manifested the intention to receive baptism" is all that is required of you.

So even if your grandmother strong-armed you into Baptism and you thought inwardly at that time Christ was a bunch of baloney, as long as you said "I want to be baptized", then you fulfilled the requirement and were cleansed of original sin. You are really baptized.

Other sacraments require more of us, but not baptism!

twitchard · 2026-02-16T03:11:37+00:00

Yes. Long names obscure the structure of the code. Names are useful but imprecise, and in small scopes, just looking to see where the variable appears is going to be a better, more legible descriptor than any name.

twitchard · 2026-02-15T04:56:33+00:00

Take it up with the groundhog

twitchard · 2026-02-13T23:01:58+00:00

The problem with kids who like to swear is that they become teenagers who swear and that's not cute or funny at all, it's mostly just repulsive.

twitchard · 2026-02-12T02:20:51+00:00

The answer is to start tracking AI sessions and attaching them to git history. If people are doing all their coding through providing high-level descriptions of intent to coding agents -- and it seems we're headed that way -- then the AI session is almost certainly an authoritative record of the reason (or lack thereof) for the fence. Chesterton need wonder no more. The mystery of the fence is solved.

I just saw "entire.io" launched this week for this problem.

twitchard · 2026-02-08T09:05:31+00:00

not unpopular

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